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Point&Click humorous adventures for Windows XP?

Battle BunnyBattle Bunny
edited April 2008 in Chit chat
Any recommendations for new(ish) Point&Click adventures for Windows XP in a cartoon or comedy style? I'm thinking of updated variations of games in the style of The Secret of Monkey Island or Simon the Sorcerer. There doesn't seem to be much to choose from of that sort at present. I've got Discworld Noir but it says on the box that it doesn't work with WinXP. I've been thinking of getting Journey to the Moon as well.
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  • BruceNortonBruceNorton
    edited April 2008
    Broken sword 1 and 2. they work fine on XP and they cost under a fiver to boot
  • chop983chop983
    edited April 2008
    They come with Scummvm on the disk as they don't work under XP

    Why not download scummvm as you can get a few games as freeware from the site
  • DunnyDunny
    edited April 2008
    Grim Fandango. You just don't get any more fun, or funny, than that unless you head back to the mid nineties for some Monkey Island. Seriously, it's a fantastic game.

    D.
  • festershinetopfestershinetop
    edited April 2008
    Theres a whole ton of freeware point and clicks all made using the great freeware engine AGS its worth having a look as theres quite a few games on there that could easily have past for commercial.

    The engine

    http://www.adventuregamestudio.co.uk/

    The games

    http://new.bigbluecup.com/games.php

    also id recommend the commercial games sam and max and maniac mansion / day of the tentacle though youll probably need to use scummvm to get them running properly on xp but its very easy to do
  • VanTammenVanTammen
    edited April 2008
    sounds like a cool site! like all this sort of engine I will now say to my self "uhmm let's download it, cause I just might do a game like that this week end!"

    and then I will never do!
  • ArjunArjun
    edited April 2008
    Long time ago I remember playing a game called "Normality". Was quite fun. Dunno if it will work under XP though.
    Zero - A modern Spectrum emulator for Windows.
    Bytes:Chuntey - Spectrum tech blog.
  • milemile
    edited April 2008
    i found some great flash games with point and click style, try a search for them. i cant remember any of their names.
  • Battle BunnyBattle Bunny
    edited April 2008
    I know the Broken Sword games are popular, but I don't think they're quite in the comedy genre that I was investigating (unless my memory's confused). I did buy Broken Sword: Shadow of the Templars a while ago (I'm not sure where that fits in the series) but got hopelessly stuck in it quite early on in the game. I can't remember what it was now, but on looking up a player's guide it was one of those "How the flipping heck was I supposed to know that?!" sort of problems which are the kiss of death for a game as far as I'm concerned, because it means that either the game designer's thought processes are on an entirely different wavelength from mine, or else they're being gratuitously perverse in their plotting; either way I'd be doomed to frustration and failure.

    I see that Normality is available as a re-release on WinXP, so I might try that. It seems that my best bet is the Lucas Classic Line of re-releases, such as Grim Fandango. I've still got a Win98 PC so they'll run on that if not on my WinXP PC. But these are all old games. Is humour not fashionable any longer? Thanks for the suggestions, anyway.
  • ArjunArjun
    edited April 2008
    Battle Bunny wrote: »
    But these are all old games. Is humour not fashionable any longer?

    I think humour is very much fashionable (see Portal from Valve for example) but point-and-click adventures are not. :(
    Zero - A modern Spectrum emulator for Windows.
    Bytes:Chuntey - Spectrum tech blog.
  • VertigoVertigo
    edited April 2008
    You may also want to get hold of DOSbox (and a GUI if you don't like command lines) if you want to run older DOS-based stuff :)
    Also Daemon Tools if you want to run CD stuff quicker and better and without the spinning drive noise.
    I know it's a shit game, but you wouldn't believe how fast and smooth and good-looking The 7th Guest is running from a disc image.
  • Battle BunnyBattle Bunny
    edited April 2008
    Vertigo wrote: »
    You may also want to get hold of DOSbox (and a GUI if you don't like command lines) if you want to run older DOS-based stuff.

    I still have a real working "DOS box" - a 15 year old 486 DX/33 PC - so I can play old games released on floppy disc on that. Unfortunately the CD drive doesn't work, and I've tried two replacement drives which won't work either, which tells me it's something other than the drive itself which is at fault, but what, I don't know. The odd thing is that it will play music CDs via the Media Player, but if I put in a CD with a DOS file system and try to read something I always get a "Disk not ready" error.

    Anyhoo, as regards the DOSbox which you mentioned ... Some time ago I installed all my old DOS games (apart from three which had developed media errors) and backed up the directories to my Win98 PC. Would this DOSbox be able to run these games from their installed directories on Win98 (or WinXP)? Also, I have a few DOS-based CD games which I never got very far with (Ecstatica, Eye of the Beholder, Return to Zork) - these I could presumably install & run on Win98/XP with this DOSbox program?

    Daemon Tools sounds like it would be useful for playing something like Ultima Underworld (I've got 1 & 2 on CD, but never even managed to finish the first one). I've found that Win3/95 CD games aren't a problem, as (apart from Lands of Lore 2, which uses a stupid non-standard screen resolution) all the ones I've tried will run under Win98.

    Talking about drive noise, there's a number of modern games (well, less than 10 years old, anyway) which I've quickly given up on playing because they're constantly accessing the CD - even if I select the "maximum install" option and turn off all the audio features - so it never spins down. Apart from the noise, the disc itself gets really hot, which can't do it any good. This is another "kiss of death" game design flaw for me - but not something usually mentioned in reviews, so I end up buying some "brilliant" game before I discover how much it annoys me. Still, I usually wait at least 18 months - 2 years post-release before buying games, so I always get them cheap.

    By the way, if you didn't like The 7th Guest, did you ever try The Legacy, which is another spooky mansion game? I thought that was a good game, but way too hard for me.
  • natxcrossnatxcross
    edited April 2008
    The new Sam and Max games are really, really good.
  • VampyreVampyre
    edited April 2008
    Battle Bunny wrote: »
    I can't remember what it was now, but on looking up a player's guide it was one of those "How the flipping heck was I supposed to know that?!" sort of problems which are the kiss of death for a game as far as I'm concerned, because it means that either the game designer's thought processes are on an entirely different wavelength from mine, or else they're being gratuitously perverse in their plotting; either way I'd be doomed to frustration and failure.

    It wasn't the bit with the goat by any chance? Fiendishly difficult puzzle, but the clues are there.
    ZXSR - Speccy Mags Reviews
  • Battle BunnyBattle Bunny
    edited April 2008
    Vampyre wrote: »
    It wasn't the bit with the goat by any chance? Fiendishly difficult puzzle, but the clues are there.

    I can no longer recall the specific problem. It was early in the game (which is why I was so particularly annoyed at getting stuck, and at the obscurity of the solution), so if I re-installed it and tried again I'd soon be stuck at the same place.

    I've been reading some of the reviews on Amazon again for the Broken Sword games, and they all heap them with praise. I'm tempted to give the first one another go now, as the box is just under my desk here.
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