Old games

I've been re-playing black and white 2, while I love the amount of quality content, I'd forgot how annoying your good and bad consciences are. They help make the longest tutorial ever, and you can't skip it. I see where Godus's tutorial style came from.

I also actually dislike babysitting the creature. Telling it how to behave  , that being said it has a whopping 3 resources which works well! The people also get additional job skills to that of godus (refiner/forester/worshipper) and the additional buildings are really nice, earn those doing side missions for tribute is OK.

it just makes me think, why didn't PM just use b&w2 as a mechanics base. They worked! Add in the sculpting from godus and a timeline progression and you'd have a good game (I know there may of been comments that this was b&w3, but hey it would be better than what we got and different enough not to land 22can in court for IP infringements).

And today I played through "Space Quest II: Vohaul's Revenge" for the first time. Not a bad game.

I'm going to post this here:

Tons of Star Wars Games Are on Sale for Star Wars Day
www.ign.com/articles/2015/04/29/tons-of-star-wars-games-are-on-sale-for-star-wars-day

I've mentioned Star Wars rebellion which is $3 in the past. It's obviously an old game, like 1990s old but I remember it fondly. Full disclosure it's probably incredibly crap by modern standard.

How old are those?

cloud smoke?

Ah, Space Quest was great! Ever dabble with King's Quest or Police Quest? Laura Bow is also a really fantastic Agatha Christie style murder mystery that came out in 1989 from Roberta Williams (creator of King's Quest who's regularly heralded as the mother of the adventure game, if you subscribe to such hyperbole). The sequel to Laura Bow is pretty fantastic too, but came out during a time when Sierra had stopped using the text parser as the primary interface.

My personal favorite from that era of Sierra games was Hero's Quest (which was later renamed Quest for Glory because Sierra actually forgot to trademark the name and lost the rights to their own title). I may have talked it about it on here before, but it's a really fun blend of RPG and adventure and even lets you import your character to the later sequels, something pretty unique for that time. Be sure to play the original, not the VGA remake (which just doesn't have the same flavor in my opinion).

It is and it isn't. It's a bit of an odd hybrid but it balances the two well enough. Basically, just imagine an old school text parser adventure game but now your main character has skills that he can improve over time. There's three primary classes to determine which skills you get and thus certain classes solve certain adventure game puzzles in ways specific to their class. For example, early on in the game you need to climb a tree. The fighter can just climb the tree fine. The magic user isn't skilled in climbing so they have to figure out another way to get up the tree. The game leans heavily towards adventure game style play, but it does have RPG elements to add some complexity to the way puzzles can be solved. Even if you don't typically enjoy RPG-esque stuff, it's definitely worth a try if only to see how innovative the game was to try and fuse different genres together back in the late 80's.

All this talk just reminds me that there still needs to be another Gabriel Knight game to tie up all the loose ends left at the end of the last one... grrrrrrrrr.....

How old are those? Are they old enough to be mentioned in this thread?