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| 9 FEB 2008 at 12:14am |
RetrogamerIntergalactic Janitor
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Status : Online | Originally Posted By firstpersononly (7 FEB 2008 7:00pm)
A game I would highly recomend is Obsidian from Rocket Science Games. It's considered a Myst clone but it’s much more. Anyone that claims to be an adventure game player should play Obsidian. It may not be so easy but the experience is worth the effort.
I’d also place a vote for Amber if you can find a way to run it. It’s a really good game. It was the first adventure game I played and from then on I was hooked on 1st person adventure games.
I agree on both accounts here. Obsidian was beautifully made and certainly shouldn't be missed by anyone who loves puzzles. It was, if I recall correctly, Rocket Science Games' second to last product before they closed. Their final game was The Space Bar, which I'd also recommend, but only if you like dialog and time limits.
Amber is unlike Obsidian in that it's pretty nonlinear. Amber may be a little short, but it's still a masterpiece.
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| 9 FEB 2008 at 12:57am |
Jenny100Guild Master
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Status : Offline | How in blazes do games like RHEM and Obsidian find their way into an EASY 1st person adventure thread?
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| 9 FEB 2008 at 1:27am |
InlandAZGuild Master
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Status : Offline | Originally Posted By Jenny100 (9 FEB 2008 12:57am)
How in blazes do games like RHEM and Obsidian find their way into an EASY 1st person adventure thread?
Walkthroughs?
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| 9 FEB 2008 at 11:20pm |
RetrogamerIntergalactic Janitor
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Status : Online | In the puzzling sense, I guess Rhem and Obsidian are both pretty challenging. As far as "adventure" goes, though, they're quite easy. You never wander around wondering what you need to do next, you certainly never get lost, and you don't have several million items in your inventory at any point.
Plus, I was just trying to think of GOOD first person adventures other than the ones already mentioned.
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| 10 FEB 2008 at 2:02am |
JanPeterIntergalactic Janitor
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Status : Online | Originally Posted By Retrogamer (9 FEB 2008 11:20pm)
...you certainly never get lost...
You certainly never get lost in Rhem...??
You've got to be joking!
I liked Rhem, but I got lost a lot.
A lot. It's one big maze. Rhem 2 was not so hard in that regard.
Terramax, I highly recommend Zork Grand Inquisitor, it's really great fun, even if you get to carry around a few items.
And The Last Express. Wonderful, wonderful game.
And the one and only Neverhood. Which nobody mentioned.
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| 10 FEB 2008 at 2:47am |
RetrogamerIntergalactic Janitor
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Status : Online | Originally Posted By JanPeter (10 FEB 2008 2:02am)
Originally Posted By Retrogamer (9 FEB 2008 11:20pm)
...you certainly never get lost...
You certainly never get lost in Rhem...??
You've got to be joking!
I liked Rhem, but I got lost a lot.
A lot. It's one big maze. Rhem 2 was not so hard in that regard.
I don't recall getting lost much at all, and I thought it was because I was screwing up. Weird. The world is HUGE, so I can imagine getting "lost," but I think the exploration aspect was still on the easy side.
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| 10 FEB 2008 at 2:55am |
SalviaIntergalactic Janitor
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Status : Online | I would definately recommend Morpheus.It s the game that made me stuck with this genre..Its not easy i have to say but since this topic has turned to a "first person game" convo i thought my recommendation would stand.Its simply magic,and although its kinda old the graphics are amazing.You make a journey through some people's dreams and every dream is unique full of pictures and stories that could stand as separate games.When i finished this game i felt like i played 4 games all in one.It was a great experience with challenging riddles and characters.
My all time favorite,what can i say!
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| 10 FEB 2008 at 5:06am |
CarolineJA+ Overseer
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Status : Offline | For me, Obsidian is the game by which all the others are measured. It is quite simply sublime. The puzzles are exquisitely logical but not easy. The graphics are delightful and the entire premise of the game is wickedly entertaining.
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| 11 FEB 2008 at 5:58pm |
CulturaJourneyman
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Status : Offline | Obsidian is indeed quite difficult, more so if your native languange is not english.
morpheus is indeed a great game. Shortish, but great.
pilgrim is another nice little game.
By the way, Neverhood (a classic in its genre) is available as a free download (along with a multitude of other games) at ---. Be sure to read up first on how to use files with (amongst others) an ISO extension
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| 13 FEB 2008 at 3:46am |
JanPeterIntergalactic Janitor
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Status : Online | Originally Posted By Cultura (11 FEB 2008 5:57pm)
By the way, Neverhood (a classic in its genre) is available as a free download (along with a multitude of other games) at ..................... Be sure to read up first on how to use files with (amongst others) an ISO extension
Hello mods 1 2 and 3 ? Helloooooo!!
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| 13 FEB 2008 at 6:19am |
MikekellyPrivate Detective
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I found 'The Messenger' to be quite easy. Fun game as well.
Vista compatable too.
8-)
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| 13 FEB 2008 at 6:01pm |
CulturaJourneyman
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Status : Offline | What's up JanPeter? It's abandonware, quite legal.
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| 14 FEB 2008 at 4:44pm |
RetrogamerIntergalactic Janitor
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Status : Online | I don't know if "quite legal" is the correct term for abandonware. Unless the copyright holder has explicitly released the software into the public domain, it's a little hard to tell how "abandoned" the software really is. In the US, there's no mention of "abandonware" in our copyright laws, so the whole thing toes the line of legality.
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| 14 FEB 2008 at 4:58pm |
CulturaJourneyman
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Status : Offline | True. In The Netherlands we tend to be more accommodating regarding this issue.
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| 15 FEB 2008 at 5:14am |
JanPeterIntergalactic Janitor
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Status : Online | Originally Posted By Cultura (14 FEB 2008 4:58pm)
True. In The Netherlands we tend to be more accommodating regarding this issue.
We are?? Speak for yourself.
And the Neverhood is not abandonware.
Not a mod in sight. Strange.
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| 17 FEB 2008 at 2:40pm |
TerramaxIntergalactic Janitor
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Status : Online | Indeed, I'm not looking for hard games, so Obsedian is out of the question.
I'm not wanting to play games just for puzzles. I don't like arbetrary puzzle games, so Rhem is pretty much my ultimate nemesis. I wouldn't mind if these games looked great or at least had 360 pan, but if a 1st person doesn't have 360 panning, it's pretty much gonna getter wiped off of my radar. I severely dislike static pictures. I might as well play a crossword and look at a postcard every so often if that's the case.
I don't know if I said this before, but I would be very interested in the later Zork games if it weren't for the fact that they're so temperamental with windows XP. I couldn't find my way around that zork library site very well, but if there are programs, or easy steps to get them working using dosbox, I'll try them out.
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| 17 FEB 2008 at 5:07pm |
JanPeterIntergalactic Janitor
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Status : Online | Originally Posted By Terramax (17 FEB 2008 2:40pm)
I don't know if I said this before, but I would be very interested in the later Zork games if it weren't for the fact that they're so temperamental with windows XP.
Have you tried Inferno's solutions for both games? The disc-swapping is a problem for Zork GF (freezing!) when played on XP, but she has a way around that.
http://home.earthlink.net/~angeldancer27/XpGameList.htm
I couldn't find my way around that zork library site very well, but if there are programs, or easy steps to get them working using dosbox, I'll try them out.
I don't know what zork library site you're talking about, but Zork Grand Inquisitor is win95, not DOS.
Another great site with lots of good info on adventure games is:
http://www.pagodagamedatabase.com/
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| 17 FEB 2008 at 6:59pm |
Agent BreaPrivate Detective
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Status : Online | @Cultura (and everyone else): Abandonware is not officially legal, so links to abandonware sites are not allowed to be posted on the JA forum. Please refrain from doing so in the future. The post has been edited.
@JanPeter: When you want to attract a mod's attention it's preferable that you send the mod a PM
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| 18 FEB 2008 at 2:42pm |
CulturaJourneyman
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Status : Offline | No offense intended.
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| 18 FEB 2008 at 6:50pm |
AyaGrand Inquisitor
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Status : Offline | Originally Posted By Cultura (18 FEB 2008 2:42pm)
No offense intended.
don't worry about it... i know that abandonware is a grey area among gamers... i personally believe in the term and i consider them more legal than used games! (big discussion about this in the past - the thread is probably buried here somewhere) but ja as a website and forum has to follow the word of the law regardless
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