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Website · PostPoint and Click by **Tragic Magic** » Sun Apr 29, 2012 2:28 am

Apart from the obvious TellTale games, are there any great point and click games worth picking up on PC?

Thanks

PostRe: Point and Click by **PCCD** » Sun Apr 29, 2012 3:52 am

Broken Sword Directors Cut, The Longest Journey, Police Quest 1-4.

PostRe: Point and Click by **TheTurnipKing** » Sun Apr 29, 2012 4:57 am

Ben & Dan, Machinarium.

Oh, GOG has Sanitarium, too.

Just about anything that plays under ScummVM.

PostRe: Point and Click by **Lagamorph** » Sun Apr 29, 2012 8:23 am

Beneath a Steel Sky :wub:

PostRe: Point and Click by **TheTurnipKing** » Sun Apr 29, 2012 9:12 am

They tend towards the short, but I really enjoyed the Blackwell games. Emerald City Confidental is great too.

PostRe: Point and Click by **Fatal Exception** » Sun Apr 29, 2012 11:06 am

+1 for Blackwell and The Longest Journey (NOT Dreamfall).

PostRe: Point and Click by **Qikz** » Sun Apr 29, 2012 9:11 pm

Pretty much all the old Lucas Arts Games.

PostRe: Point and Click by **$ilva $hadow** » Sun Apr 29, 2012 9:57 pm

The d3100

PostRe: Point and Click by **Slartibartfast** » Sun Apr 29, 2012 10:18 pm

Minesweeper.

PostRe: Point and Click by **Alpha eX** » Mon Apr 30, 2012 12:51 pm

PCCD wrote:Broken Sword Directors Cut, The Longest Journey, Police Quest 1-4.

Do NOT get the Directors Cut unless you want a really nice intro to an amazing game ruined and some great dialogue cut. The worst thing about the DC is how the opening of the game is moved to after their new opening, it just ruins it for new players as you miss the whole tone of the game and have to wait for an hour or so before you meet the main character / villain. It's pointless and the fact that they put two of the same gooseberry fool sliding puzzle right at the start... yeah, I hate it. Get the originals off eBay or Amazon, MUCH better.

Broken Sword is my favourite game, the Directors Cut made me angry and the new art looks crap.

Slartibartfast wrote:Minesweeper.

Funny you say that...

Minesweeper is currently in development at Revolution Software by adventure mastermind Charles Cecil, who previously developed the Broken Sword series and collaborated with Watchmen artist Dave Gibbons on Beneath A Steel Sky (recently released on iPhone).
"He's [Cecil] come up with a back story for as to why the mines are there, he's come up with characters," laughed de Ronde. "It's turning out to be a really, really cool game in terms of mechanics and also in terms of the setting and the universe..."

EDIT:

Why are there no mentions of Monkey Island, Grim Fandango and Day of the Tentacle? Glad so see some love for Beneath a Steel Sky, great game.

PostRe: Point and Click by **Mafro** » Mon Apr 30, 2012 1:12 pm

There's nothing wrong with the Broken Sword Directors cut, so give it a try.

Superbrothers: Sword & Sworcery EP which just came out on Steam the other week is very good, as is Gemini Rue.

Time Gentleman, Please! and Ben There, Dan That are also pretty decent (double pack is on Steam)

PostRe: Point and Click by **TheTurnipKing** » Mon Apr 30, 2012 2:59 pm

Alpha eX wrote:Why are there no mentions of Monkey Island, Grim Fandango and Day of the Tentacle? Glad so see some love for Beneath a Steel Sky, great game.

I kind of assumed that they all ran under ScummVM.

Grim Fandango is the only one I'm dubious about, really.

edit: Probably because it's not supported. Though technically, I suppose it's not a point and click adventure. I mean, it clearly IS. it just doesn't use the classic point and clicking mechanic. Though I tend to think it probably would have been siightly more fun if it had.

PostRe: Point and Click by **Qikz** » Mon Apr 30, 2012 3:18 pm

Alpha eX wrote:
EDIT:

Why are there no mentions of Monkey Island, Grim Fandango and Day of the Tentacle? Glad so see some love for Beneath a Steel Sky, great game.

StayDead wrote:Pretty much all the old Lucas Arts Games.

That was two/three posts before your one.

PostRe: Point and Click by **Alpha eX** » Mon Apr 30, 2012 4:31 pm

StayDead wrote:
Alpha eX wrote:
EDIT:

Why are there no mentions of Monkey Island, Grim Fandango and Day of the Tentacle? Glad so see some love for Beneath a Steel Sky, great game.

StayDead wrote:Pretty much all the old Lucas Arts Games.

That was two/three posts before your one.

I saw that, but I don't think saying "all the games x company made" is the best choice for someone to go from, better to suggest the single ones rather than everything, could be a little daunting if we were to suggest someone go play "pretty much all the old Nintendo games".

TheTurnipKing wrote:
Alpha eX wrote:Why are there no mentions of Monkey Island, Grim Fandango and Day of the Tentacle? Glad so see some love for Beneath a Steel Sky, great game.

I kind of assumed that they all ran under ScummVM.

Grim Fandango is the only one I'm dubious about, really.

edit: Probably because it's not supported. Though technically, I suppose it's not a point and click adventure. I mean, it clearly IS. it just doesn't use the classic point and clicking mechanic. Though I tend to think it probably would have been siightly more fun if it had.

Grim Fandango has to run under Windows backwards compatibility mode, whatever it is called. I agree, it's not technically point and click but it is the same sort of game, just a different and less preferred input method. Still, I had a blast sitting back in my sofa playing it with an xbox pad recently on the TV.

Website · PostRe: Point and Click by **Tragic Magic** » Mon Apr 30, 2012 8:54 pm

Thanks guys, I've added a few to my Steam wishlist. Wish Day of the Tentacle and a couple others were on Steam though.

PostRe: Point and Click by **SEP** » Mon Apr 30, 2012 9:53 pm

Tragic Magic wrote:Wish Day of the Tentacle and a couple others were on Steam though.

I long for the day they do to DOTT what they did with the Monkey Island games. DOTT is one of my favourite games ever.

PostRe: Point and Click by **Lagamorph** » Mon Apr 30, 2012 10:10 pm

Think I still have the Sam & Max Freelance Police and Day of the Tentacle CD-ROM double pack somewhere at my parents house... :wub:

PostRe: Point and Click by **Alpha eX** » Tue May 01, 2012 3:14 am

Seriously, while the Broken Sword DC is a great game, it ruins the feel of the original, which was so much better. Play the original, then go back and start the DC and see how different the opening is. It just destroys the tone with such a slow boring intro, then an hour later, the proper intro to a huge adventure.

Either way, you'll enjoy Broken Sword but the set up in the original is much better, it throws you straight into this gripping story that you want to progress, not a strawberry floating slidey puzzle that you want to skip only to do the same puzzle again right after.

End of rant, make your own choice, just play Broken Sword.

PostRe: Point and Click by **irishguy2008** » Tue May 08, 2012 12:09 pm

Runaway series? A Vampyre Story, a few of those mentioned as well.

PostRe: Point and Click by **JiggerJay** » Tue May 08, 2012 5:22 pm

Somebody Else's Problem wrote:
Tragic Magic wrote:Wish Day of the Tentacle and a couple others were on Steam though.

I long for the day they do to DOTT what they did with the Monkey Island games. DOTT is one of my favourite games ever.

DOTT was just amazing, it's a little short, but it just oozes with pure class.

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