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General => Video Game Bored => Topic started by: rodi on February 05, 2008, 07:40:01 AM

Title: The Adventure Company
Post by: rodi on February 05, 2008, 07:40:01 AM: Does anyone else worship them as much as me? I constantly day dream about being one of their employee's making random games about fabulous exciting adventures. (Such as the great Oregon Trail series and so on so on so on you know) :)
Title: Re: The Adventure Company
Post by: ToxicAdam on February 05, 2008, 08:15:11 AM: Maybe you can fix the action elements in their games. They always seem broken.
Title: Re: The Adventure Company
Post by: demi on February 05, 2008, 01:06:55 PM: Adventure Gaming is down the shitter
Title: Re: The Adventure Company
Post by: HyperZoneWasAwesome on February 05, 2008, 01:44:50 PM: I respect them greatly for keeping a small but wonderful genre alive.
Since you like them so much, what are the best games they've published? I've only got a few of them, but I very much do like the Adventure genre.
And demi is just joking, I know you recommended Scratches in another thread.
Title: Re: The Adventure Company
Post by: Joe Molotov on February 05, 2008, 01:57:25 PM: The Adventure Company is cool in my book for keeping adventure gaming alive, but their output is pretty hit or miss since they'll apparently release anything they can get their hands on.
Title: Re: The Adventure Company
Post by: demi on February 05, 2008, 01:58:25 PM: Quote from: HyperZoneWasAwesome on February 05, 2008, 01:44:50 PM
And demi is just joking, I know you recommended Scratches in another thread.

Scratches has nothing to do with The Adventure Company - surprised that it's actually a GOOD game? I am.

I played "Keepsake" from them and it was one of the worst games I had ever played.
Title: Re: The Adventure Company
Post by: rodi on February 05, 2008, 05:07:58 PM: Honestly, pretty much the only game I really really love is Oregon Trail. I've played Next Life by them and it has a lot of flaws control wise. But plot wise its still pretty cool.
Title: Re: The Adventure Company
Post by: demi on February 05, 2008, 05:09:44 PM: Please go play Scratches

http://www.gotgameentertainment.com/scratchesdc/

Also Oregon Trail is like... not an adventure game
Title: Re: The Adventure Company
Post by: rodi on February 05, 2008, 05:41:25 PM: It so is. You lie!

I will try this...this Scratches.
Title: Re: The Adventure Company
Post by: Joe Molotov on February 05, 2008, 07:28:13 PM: Demi's right, Scratches is awesome. It's one of the better adventure games I've played in years, if not the best.
Title: Re: The Adventure Company
Post by: T234 on February 05, 2008, 07:45:59 PM: I have a big huge stack of adventure games I'm never gonna play, if you you want 'em.
Title: Re: The Adventure Company
Post by: Joe Molotov on February 05, 2008, 08:01:26 PM: Ooo, what are they? I might want them. :hyper
Title: Re: The Adventure Company
Post by: T234 on February 05, 2008, 08:03:31 PM: Ladies first, sooner.

I'll make a list when I get home.
Title: Re: The Adventure Company
Post by: rodi on February 05, 2008, 09:13:22 PM: Yes yes please do.
Title: Re: The Adventure Company
Post by: The Fake Shemp on February 05, 2008, 09:26:09 PM: stfu rodi
Title: Re: The Adventure Company
Post by: T234 on February 06, 2008, 12:23:26 AM: The List:
The Mystery of the Nautilus
Voyage (Inspired by Jules Verne)
Traitor's Gate 2
Atlantis Evolution
Crystal Key 2
Curse of Atlantis
Dracula the Last Cronicles
Wanted: a Wild Western Adventure
Title: Re: The Adventure Company
Post by: demi on February 06, 2008, 12:39:09 AM: All shit

Go get Shivers, rodi

(http://i22.ebayimg.com/05/c/07/be/63/b6_7.JPG)
Title: Re: The Adventure Company
Post by: Howard Alan Treesong on February 06, 2008, 12:44:37 AM: I got the Sherlock Holmes Cthuluhu game (The Awakening)
Title: Re: The Adventure Company
Post by: demi on February 06, 2008, 12:51:25 AM: Another game I thought was cool was AMBER: Journey's Beyond

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/AMBER:_Journeys_Beyond

BONUS: One of the characters is named Roxy
Title: Re: The Adventure Company
Post by: The Fake Shemp on February 06, 2008, 01:18:51 AM: Quote from: Synthesizer Patel on February 06, 2008, 12:44:37 AM
I got the Sherlock Holmes Cthuluhu game (The Awakening)

:o

I did not know such a thing existed! On a scale of Great Old Ones, how does it rank?
Title: Re: The Adventure Company
Post by: Joe Molotov on February 06, 2008, 02:19:39 AM: Quote from: Willco on February 06, 2008, 01:18:51 AM
Quote from: Synthesizer Patel on February 06, 2008, 12:44:37 AM
I got the Sherlock Holmes Cthuluhu game (The Awakening)

:o

I did not know such a thing existed! On a scale of Great Old Ones, how does it rank?

I still haven't beaten it yet, but what I played of it was decent but not great. Good atmosphere, decent story. Puzzles are hit and miss. A lot of pixel hunting, and you're occasionally required to make leaps of logic that would impress Holmes himself. Too much empty space. Some lame-o stealth sequences.

I'd give it a Yog-Sothoth out a Nyarlathotep.
Title: Re: The Adventure Company
Post by: HyperZoneWasAwesome on February 06, 2008, 02:20:06 AM: Quote from: Willco on February 06, 2008, 01:18:51 AM
I did not know such a thing existed! On a scale of Great Old Ones, how does it rank?
Gamespot really liked it, but that may have been because the publisher dangled a fiver in front the reviewer.
Title: Re: The Adventure Company
Post by: rodi on February 06, 2008, 05:18:46 PM: Quote from: Willco on February 05, 2008, 09:26:09 PM
stfu rodi

You can't order me around.

I haven't heard a lot about Myst. Isn't that an adventure genre game? And how's that wild western game on T234's list?
Title: Re: The Adventure Company
Post by: Joe Molotov on February 06, 2008, 05:25:16 PM: Quote from: rodi on February 06, 2008, 05:18:46 PM
I haven't heard a lot about Myst. Isn't that an adventure genre game?

wat
Title: Re: The Adventure Company
Post by: rodi on February 06, 2008, 09:33:04 PM: Let me rephrase: Is it a good game?
Title: Re: The Adventure Company
Post by: demi on February 06, 2008, 09:38:09 PM: By today's standards not really. You can beat Myst (get the best ending) the minute you start it, no joke.
Title: Re: The Adventure Company
Post by: rodi on February 06, 2008, 09:42:42 PM: Holy crap.
Title: Re: The Adventure Company
Post by: HyperZoneWasAwesome on February 07, 2008, 06:04:31 PM: Quote from: demi on February 06, 2008, 09:38:09 PM
By today's standards not really. You can beat Myst (get the best ending) the minute you start it, no joke.
huh? How's that work? Don't you need to...
spoiler (click to show/hide)
go to the other worlds and bring back teh pages?
[close]
And one of my greatest gaming accomplishments was beating Myst and seeing all four endings without looking up a single answer to any of the puzzles. I was so proud of myself that well over a decade later I felt the need to boast about on a message board.
Title: Re: The Adventure Company
Post by: Howard Alan Treesong on February 07, 2008, 06:06:02 PM: Quote from: Willco on February 06, 2008, 01:18:51 AM
Quote from: Synthesizer Patel on February 06, 2008, 12:44:37 AM
I got the Sherlock Holmes Cthuluhu game (The Awakening)

:o

I did not know such a thing existed! On a scale of Great Old Ones, how does it rank?

I heard a lot of great buzz before playing it but I'm not really seeing it. Like Joe said, kind of clunky and illogical at times, and while the atmosphere is good the writing is somewhat lacking.
Title: Re: The Adventure Company
Post by: TVC15 on February 07, 2008, 06:29:27 PM: Quote from: Synthesizer Patel on February 07, 2008, 06:06:02 PM
Quote from: Willco on February 06, 2008, 01:18:51 AM
Quote from: Synthesizer Patel on February 06, 2008, 12:44:37 AM
I got the Sherlock Holmes Cthuluhu game (The Awakening)

:o

I did not know such a thing existed! On a scale of Great Old Ones, how does it rank?

I heard a lot of great buzz before playing it but I'm not really seeing it. Like Joe said, kind of clunky and illogical at times, and while the atmosphere is good the writing is somewhat lacking.

It's clunky for sure, but you're writing barometer has been spoiled by too much IF!
Title: Re: The Adventure Company
Post by: demi on February 07, 2008, 06:51:22 PM: Quote from: HyperZoneWasAwesome on February 07, 2008, 06:04:31 PM
Quote from: demi on February 06, 2008, 09:38:09 PM
By today's standards not really. You can beat Myst (get the best ending) the minute you start it, no joke.
huh? How's that work? Don't you need to...
spoiler (click to show/hide)
go to the other worlds and bring back teh pages?
[close]
And one of my greatest gaming accomplishments was beating Myst and seeing all four endings without looking up a single answer to any of the puzzles. I was so proud of myself that well over a decade later I felt the need to boast about on a message board.

Just pull out the book that reveals Atrus' area, then solve the "square" puzzle and voila, the Atrus white page and book
Title: Re: The Adventure Company
Post by: Joe Molotov on February 07, 2008, 08:31:16 PM: If you really want to play Myst, at least the first three are on GameTap including Uru and RealMyst, the 3D remake of Myst that sells for like a freaking HUNDRED DOLLARS on Ebay (or at least it used it). You get all of that plus Sam & Max Season 1 & 2, Lost Express, Zork: Grand Inquisitor, and probably some more adventure games that I can't think of.
Title: Re: The Adventure Company
Post by: The Sceneman on February 07, 2008, 09:00:26 PM: my favourites were the 'funny' Lucasarts games:

Day of the Tentacle
Sam & Max
Full Throttle

and The Dig was cool too

and I freaking love the Space Quest series, finished them all (I completed 2,3,4 and 6 with absolutely no help from faqs ;))
Title: Re: The Adventure Company
Post by: rodi on February 07, 2008, 10:10:55 PM: Wow, so is this game tap website awesome or what?
Title: Re: The Adventure Company
Post by: Joe Molotov on February 07, 2008, 10:27:51 PM: Quote from: rodi on February 07, 2008, 10:10:55 PM
Wow, so is this game tap website awesome or what?

It's pretty cool, but you have to pay a monthly fee to get access to all of their games (there are some that you can play for free). I paid for it for several months, but I wasn't using it too much, so I eventually canceled it.