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fan_eunice) wrote2011-11-08 09:31 am
fan_eunice) wrote2011-11-08 09:31 am
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I feel like I should post but I'm not sure about what, since I don't actually have much to say about this season's television that I'm watching. I'm vidding like a madwoman, but that's mostly for festivids so what I could say about that is limited.
Oh! I can tell you that I am currently renewing my love of 3d person point and click adventure games! You know, the ones where you wander around talking to people and gathering shit that you put together with other shit you found to form an improbably useful gadget which you then spend hours and hours poking at every conceivable thing in sight until you break in frustration and hunt down a walkthrough, because oh my god it's 3:30 am and you can't sleep until you figure out just how in the hell a rubber duck that's wrapped in twine and dipped in vinegar is supposed to get you out of a locked room.
It's kind of difficult to really wallow, though, on account of point and click adventure is nearly a dead genre in computer games. Which makes me sad, y'all. Almost all the adventure type games I can find these days involve, like, fighting and shooting and running and stressful stuff like that. And I really do have a sort of unholy love for the improbable gadget formation puzzles. It seems mostly the genre can be found on the detective/mystery side these days, which is cool...but you have to be careful to read the game description closely or you're just going to end up with a hidden object game. I hate hidden object games. If I just wanted to find a list of things randomly hidden in a pile of clutter, I'd clean my living room.
Right now I'm playing Black Mirror II, which is only a few years old, I think? And is straight up classic point and click. The main character is a bit of a whiny dick, but it affords me the opportunity to do things like use this syringe I found to get some of this random bottle of liquid laxative I found and inject it into a bottle of soda pop I found and then use it to distract a guard. So! Ridiculous and improbably useful gadgets? CHECK. I'm golden.
So, HI! What are y'all up to? And do you have any suggestions for more recent games of this type? So far my favorites have been the Art of Murder series, but I have played all three over the last year and now there are no more :(
Oh! I can tell you that I am currently renewing my love of 3d person point and click adventure games! You know, the ones where you wander around talking to people and gathering shit that you put together with other shit you found to form an improbably useful gadget which you then spend hours and hours poking at every conceivable thing in sight until you break in frustration and hunt down a walkthrough, because oh my god it's 3:30 am and you can't sleep until you figure out just how in the hell a rubber duck that's wrapped in twine and dipped in vinegar is supposed to get you out of a locked room.
It's kind of difficult to really wallow, though, on account of point and click adventure is nearly a dead genre in computer games. Which makes me sad, y'all. Almost all the adventure type games I can find these days involve, like, fighting and shooting and running and stressful stuff like that. And I really do have a sort of unholy love for the improbable gadget formation puzzles. It seems mostly the genre can be found on the detective/mystery side these days, which is cool...but you have to be careful to read the game description closely or you're just going to end up with a hidden object game. I hate hidden object games. If I just wanted to find a list of things randomly hidden in a pile of clutter, I'd clean my living room.
Right now I'm playing Black Mirror II, which is only a few years old, I think? And is straight up classic point and click. The main character is a bit of a whiny dick, but it affords me the opportunity to do things like use this syringe I found to get some of this random bottle of liquid laxative I found and inject it into a bottle of soda pop I found and then use it to distract a guard. So! Ridiculous and improbably useful gadgets? CHECK. I'm golden.
So, HI! What are y'all up to? And do you have any suggestions for more recent games of this type? So far my favorites have been the Art of Murder series, but I have played all three over the last year and now there are no more :(
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Also, there's no shame in walkthroughs. I have yet to get through a single adventure game yet without using them at least once (though I am a masochist and will bash my head against a puzzle for HOURS trying to solve it myself before finally giving in). And there's always, ALWAYS at least one 'use this shit with that shit to make this thing and use it in this way' puzzle in adventure games which MAKE NO SENSE AT ALL. And you either figure out the answer through blind flailing luck or by looking it up :)
OMG I loved Syberia. And, heh, yeah I played Longest Journey when it came out (SO MUCH FUN, OMG). I have never played Sanitarium though, I shall have to check it out!
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Sanitarium is just--so smart, and has a remarkable amount of psychological depth--psychological complexity is basically the game itself, actually--and a great sense of humor, and I just love it. I should play it again sometime.