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In your opinion, what is the best written Point and Click Adventure Game?
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Yep, NORCO gets ny vote, excellent writing and worldbuilding - one of my all time faves.
I cannot reconcile Disco Elysium as a point and click, to me it's a straight up CRPG
I don't know if it's a point and click adventure but it's probably my favorite game of all time. I just sat absolutely astounded after I finished it and didn't even want to pick up a controller to play anything for a couple weeks. I know it won't hit everyone the same but it absolutely pressed every button for me.
it's Day of the Tentacle.
the fact it's an absurdist comedy with cartoon logic takes away none of the sheer brilliance and genius of its writing.
the fact it's an absurdist comedy with cartoon logic takes away none of the sheer brilliance and genius of its writing.
I think one thing against it is that it's a bit less accessible then the post-SOMI lucas games as first timers can easily get dead ended. So more people don't get to experience the full game.
I'd love remakes of the pre-SOMI P&C games (except Loom which doesn't need it) that take out the dead ends (although MM should keep the humorous deaths and perhaps let you dead end certain paths as long as you have at least one path to success left). Should still be pixel art style of course!
I'm very
VERY
Sad about the lack of Broken Sword in this thread.
One if the best plots in all point and click games, filled with constantly memorable characters and quotes.
VERY
Sad about the lack of Broken Sword in this thread.
One if the best plots in all point and click games, filled with constantly memorable characters and quotes.
Best written is Norco, even if it's not the best "puzzel-y" P&C adventure game.
Other great ones, imho are Unavowed, Dreamfall and The Longest Journey
idk if Pentiment counts but that one too
Other great ones, imho are Unavowed, Dreamfall and The Longest Journey
idk if Pentiment counts but that one too
I always thought Dreamfall is underrated. Sure the switch from point and click controls to an actual controller is a bit wonky, and it leans more into visual novel territory compared to adventure games. I still think it's fascinating and it has excellent dialogue, music, and voice acting (better than TLJ even).
I was surprised to see it not mentioned (I think) as it is an amazing game and definitely up there for me
I know I mentioned it lol.
In your opinion, what is the best written Point and Click Adventure Game?
probably DOTT or Broken Sword.
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Dreamfall Chapters has great dialog. Honestly I think it might be my favorite of the trilogy.
But story wise it's kinda weak, though I think wraps up well. And it does have some amazing moments and characters.
Defensively feels they bit off more than they could chew.
Dreamfall Chapters is worth playing just to experience Shitbot.
Broken Sword loses points for the incredibly rushed romance between George and Nico.
and the sexual assault George does when he kisses Nico and her hands are tied
Fantastic dialog though.
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Zork Nemesis is extremely underrated for its writing. It's an unusually somber and dark tale for the otherwise cheerily deranged Zork series. The quality of the acting in the cutscenes is also way above what was common for FMV at the time. Make sure to use ScummVM to play the game, the Steam release is barely working on modern computers.
View: https://store.steampowered.com/app/571060/Zork_Nemesis_The_Forbidden_Lands/
Since people are mentioning RPGs in a thread about PnC Adventure games I thought I would mention one of my favorite games in terms of writing: Realms of the Haunting. It's a fairly unique mix of PnC Adventure and... a FPS. IMHO it leans more towards adventure, though, since the combat is fairly trivial and kinda boring.
There is an absolute shitton of writing in this game. Not only are there numerous and long cutscenes with lots of dialogue, you can also look at most items in the game world and get some snarky description or even more little dialogues.
But most of the great writing in this game is unfortunately optional, as there are numerous long and detailed conversations you can have with your companion as they speculate about each and every new piece of information you gather, and they are fully voiced. More and more of these dialogues are unlocked in the menu as you go through the story and it's IMHO one of the best features of this game.
View: https://store.steampowered.com/app/292390/Realms_of_the_Haunting/
View: https://store.steampowered.com/app/571060/Zork_Nemesis_The_Forbidden_Lands/
Since people are mentioning RPGs in a thread about PnC Adventure games I thought I would mention one of my favorite games in terms of writing: Realms of the Haunting. It's a fairly unique mix of PnC Adventure and... a FPS. IMHO it leans more towards adventure, though, since the combat is fairly trivial and kinda boring.
There is an absolute shitton of writing in this game. Not only are there numerous and long cutscenes with lots of dialogue, you can also look at most items in the game world and get some snarky description or even more little dialogues.
But most of the great writing in this game is unfortunately optional, as there are numerous long and detailed conversations you can have with your companion as they speculate about each and every new piece of information you gather, and they are fully voiced. More and more of these dialogues are unlocked in the menu as you go through the story and it's IMHO one of the best features of this game.
View: https://store.steampowered.com/app/292390/Realms_of_the_Haunting/
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Gabriel Knight 1 or 2 for me. In addition to Disco Elysium being a crpg, it comes across as so pretentious to me. The 4 times I've attempted to play through it, I always drop it as soon as I get past the gate neat the beginning. It's so dull if you aren't into pseudo-intellectualism and the conversations drag on forever.