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Depends on what you mean by "moved you."
If you mean it in the
"Wow, that was so touching! :'(" sense than I doubt there was one for me.
If you mean by the most important one for me than it was Quest for Glory 5 the first one to get me and my brother into video games. And WC3, because it gave him the knowledge of editing games with the World Editor.
Does "minesweeper" count?? I did cry once!! >:(
I remember one AGS game I played that was very melancholic, especially the ending. I don't remember what it was called though, it was about a very sick kid who wanted to go see the ocean before he died.
Quote from: King_Nipper on Fri 23/09/2005 17:49:05
Depends on what you mean by "moved you."
If you mean it in the
"Wow, that was so touching! :'(" sense than I doubt there was one for me.
If you mean by the most important one for me than it was Quest for Glory 5 the first one to get me and my brother into video games. And WC3, because it gave him the knowledge of editing games with the World Editor.
Would you agree that the AGS Interaction Editor looks suspiciously a lot like the WC3 world editor? ¬¬
Gabriel Knight 2 and 3 are certainly among the contenders, as well as the ending of Last Express. For games that just plain shook me up, Dreamweb and Harvester probably take the cake.
Yes... I would agree. In fact, working with the early version of AGS probably made WC3 WE easier to use... but I still don't know. Right now he's waiting for Realm Crafter to come out... so he's moved past 2d adventure games. (In the programming sense, of course... AGS was made fairly easy to use)
Trinity, by Infocom. See post in Best Adventure Games thread in Popular Topics. Better than almost any book I've read or movie I've seen, it captures the fragility of peace, the terror of nuclear war, and the inevitability of the death of innocents. It's the Grave of the Fireflies of adventure games.
It did not sell well in 1986, and probably wouldn't even get made now.
Photopia, by Adam Cadre, is another moving one.
For graphical adventures, I'd say that The Last Express had some moving moments, but the most affecting might not have been the so-called winning ending, but one that can occur earlier in the game, and involves a heavy briefcase, a cup of coffee, and a quiet sense of melancholy.
Quote from: Guybrush Peepwood on Fri 23/09/2005 19:51:20
I remember one AGS game I played that was very melancholic, especially the ending. I don't remember what it was called though, it was about a very sick kid who wanted to go see the ocean before he died.
I think it was called "moulin en mer" or something that sounds a bit like that. I've played it too. Was very moving and sad. Can't remember it's real name.
It was 'Mourir en Mer' by Dorcan: http://www.adventuregamestudio.co.uk/games.php?action=detail&id=140
I think 'Moulin en Mer' (Windmill at Sea) would have been less melancholy and more jaunty.
I'd side with GG and pick Gabriel Knight 3, and I also found Black Dahlia quite moving. Though I never completed Trinity I did find it had an atmosphere unlike any other game. Plus it tought me what a Klein bottle is.
Naturally the most moving game for me is the sometimes-non-too-popular-round-these-parts Riven.
When I was young, Loom was a game that I really loved and one of the reasons I got into adventure games.
Monkey Island is the other reason.
Betrayal at Krondor was a game I loved which introduced me to the RPG genre that I still love today (Baldur's gate and currently Neverwinter Nights).
When we talk AGS, Larry Vales got me high on AGS, and Pleurghburgh was intense.
If we're talking first big emotional reaction, Castle Adventure (Extended ASCII graphics).
If we're talking general mood, Space Quest 4 was probably the first that gave me an ominous feeling. When you start out at Vohaul's turf, it's got a nice bio-mechanical feel mixed with lightning strikes moody pseudo-music and a sense of impending doom. I hadn't thought about it before, but the EGA Sierra games just didn't provide the same suspension of disbelief, the CGA/EGA graphics (for me, at least) made me realize I was playing a game (rather than experiencing a story) more than text adventures did and I didn't get a cinematic vibe until VGA.
I'm trying to think of one that gave me a feeling of sadness or despair, but can't quite come up with one. Looking forward to reading others' responses to jump my memory.
Fahrenheit has moved me for the past 2 days.
Hard question. I find that a good game moves me anyway. I think my favourite is The Longest Journey, but such gems as Gabriel Knight (all 3, but the first 2 particularly), Loom, Ceremony of Innocence... they'll stay in my heart (even if not on my hard disk - I need the space for game I have NOT completed ;D ).
EDIT - Oh, how could I forget Blade Runner. None of the endings are really in the level of the film's, but they're still wonderful in their own way.
The Gabriel Knight games, as well as the ending of The Last Express. Pure Genious.
Well... KGB (which almost meets all the highest scores in my list of "good things about a video/adventure game")...
Manhunt striked with its brute, uncensored violence at beginning...
Dreamweb, of course (most atmospherical thing ever, and also that's exactly how I imagine a good cyberpunk).
To name more... maybe the intro music/demo part of Robocop 3 on NES?
It would be also unthankful to forget Gabriel Knight here.
YakSpit: SQIV was, I think, atmospheric from beginning to end. Atmospheric is often used as a synonym for creepy, and the opening definitely had that sort of atmosphere, but the Galleria sequence also was striking that way. Everything was plastic and glowy and tacky, and the shoppers bizarre, and the whole place gave a sense of cheerful, mindless consumption. And the SQI segment nailed down the nostalgic mood nicely, too, and the inside of the supercomputer was gargantuan and a little ominous...
I'll be the bitten dog and say Space Quest 5 had a big influence on me as a kid. Loom was probably the most moving though - while Gabriel Knight 1 will forever hold a special place in my gaming history due to the "play the game, read the book, replay the game, re-read the book" pattern :P
Quote from: YakSpit on Sat 24/09/2005 08:29:23
If we're talking first big emotional reaction, Castle Adventure (Extended ASCII graphics).
Hehe, I used to play that a lot! I never got very far, partly because the game bugged when I saved and loaded. It was really intense when your were attacked by all these plus-fairies, dollar-monsters and other interpunctionesque creatures.
I'd have to agree with voh ...
Loom was definitely the most moving adventure game I played. The environment of the game created such a ... feeling ... I don't know, it's hard to describe. It was just a "moving" game for me.
I liked Space Quest III the most, but it didn't have quite as strong of a "feeling" as I got from Loom.
Both games, when I think back on playing them, have strong memory tied to them.
DOTT had me in tears.
A game that moved me was Unreal. Man, you had to walk alot.
Seriously. You sometimes found datapads with logs next to dead humans.
You could find one of those dead body's with a log hidden next to a gigantic fortres. The log told about the guy escaping the fortres, and he just needed some rest to get his strengt back. He never woke up. And you had to go into that fortres!
Or the soldiers that crashed on the planet as well and tried to travel to a safe place. You tried to catch up. You never did, of course, because there were no safe places any more. It made me feel angry and lonely.
This and the torturing of the passive Nali really motivated me to kill the Skaaj. Unreal 2 and other shooters failed to show motivation.
This must have been the 4th time I wrote on these forums that I like Unreal.
Neither adventure games, but Breath of Fire II and Terranigma both moved me. Particularly Breath of Fire II has moments that bring me to tears every time. It's one thing for a game these days with orchestral music and gorgeous graphics to do that but quite another for a very early tile-based RPG to do so.
Specifically in BoFII, there's a scene where an older sister has to turn permanently into a bird to aid the quest, but during the night before the ceremony, her little sister locks herself in a room and becomes a bird instead, with the older sister screaming at the door. Another scene has a seemingly heartless, cruel mother sacrifice herself to save her son who nearly dies being crushed by a huge stone block. His mother shoves him out of the way and get splattered right before his eyes. That one always gets me.
I'm trying to think of other games that make me cry... hmm, can't think of any others specifically.