What’s that one adventure game you can just boot up and have a great chill time with? Mine would probably be Day of the Tentacle. It’s such a wonderful, colorful world to inhabit, and all the characters are lively and oozing with personality (no Sludge-o-Matic pun intended). I could spend hours just walking around talking to characters and not even think about solving any puzzles.

What’s the one game you’d boot up to just relax with?

  • RandomChain@lemm.ee
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    1 year ago

    Probably the Quest for Glory series for me. Played them so many times that I can just pick up any one them with any character and get sucked right back in to the game. I’ve had an itch lately to do a full playthrough of all 5 games after not touching them for a long time but I have little free time and too much backlog…

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    1 year ago

    I sometimes boot up Curse of Monkey Island. It was my first proper adventure game. The voice acting, dialogue, music and art is still charming to this day.

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      1 year ago

      they could just republish it as is for modern platforms like the ipad, it doesn’t even really need remastering

  • Michael@lemm.ee
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    1 year ago

    Yep, that’s my choice as well.

    To make this reply more interesting, I guess I will also add Hypnospace Outlaw. There’s so many bonus pages that aren’t required for completing the game that I can just spend plenty of time hopping around an alternate 90s internet and having fun

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    I spent a lot of time in my childhood with no money for games. I had a computer that could play older games, which is how I played Deus Ex around 2010. But when I wasn’t playing Half-Life, or emulating ps1 or n64 games, I played those point-and-click escape-the-room puzzle flash games. My favorites are the ones by Neutral. I replay them all every year at Christmas, now with Flashpoint. 10/10, would recommend. I also like the Homestar Runner flash adventure games. Finally, those crappy find the hidden object games with names like Amazing Tales 2: the Secrets of Stony Brook, or Ghost Story 8: This One’s the Same as the Previous 7. Whenever I’ve had a bad day, I make myself a drink and bust one of those out, put on a podcast, and enjoy the awful story, art, and voice acting while I solve really simple puzzles.