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I played and still love many of the LucasArts adventure games: Sam & Max Hit the Road, Day of the Tentacle, Full Throttle, Indiana Jones and the Fate of Atlanti
by AndrewBissell 6y ago
I played and still love many of the LucasArts adventure games: Sam & Max Hit the Road, Day of the Tentacle, Full Throttle, Indiana Jones and the Fate of Atlantis, Grim Fandango. But the game which still holds the biggest emotional resonance for me all these years later is Gabriel Knight II: The Beast Within. Maybe there's just something about the full motion video format that allowed me to identify more with the characters or something, but I still find myself replaying scenes from it in my head every now and then. Robert Holmes's score added so much to it (and even the non-FMV predecessor) as well.
The X-Wing series were definitely hands down the best arcade flight sims though.
- cpard 6y agoThe biggest emotional resonance for me was the first Gabriel Knight - Sins of the Fathers. I still have memories of the scene where Wolfgang dies. Amazing game and I feel blessed that I had the opportunity to play games like these as a child.
- AndrewBissell 6y agoSins of the Fathers was great too! I even read Jane Jensen's novelizations of both games in the 90s.
- cpard 6y agoyou just made my day! I didn't know that these books existed. Now I have to find them and read them. Thank you so much.
- AndrewBissell 6y agoBest of luck finding them! I think they're long out of print but maybe there are copies on eBay or electronic versions.
- cpard 6y agoYeah, that's what I quickly realized by searching around. Best bet is to try and find used copies on eBay or something.
- AndrewBissell 6y agoThese games would be such good material for feature films. With Hollywood so completely out of ideas and the huge popularity of occult horror I'm surprised it hasn't been done yet.