Chiming in to say that I, too, loved The Dig when it came out. At the time, I read the lukewarm reviews, and it wasn't hard to see that The Dig had suffered a

Chiming in to say that I, too, loved The Dig when it came out. At the time, I read the lukewarm reviews, and it wasn't hard to see that The Dig had suffered a bit from being so long in production. That said, while technology-wise it was perhaps a bit behind some other games at the time, as a LucasArts game, it definitely felt state of the art, from the lush music to the high-quality voice acting and the gorgeous pixel art. Only Full Throttle came close. And while it wasn't a perfect game, its sense of place was superb. To a young adventure gamer seeking fantastic, alien worlds, it did feel immersive. There was another adventure game that came out around the same time that's now largely forgotten: Heart of Darkness [1], by Éric Chahi, notable for making Another World (aka Out of This World). It had a similar troubled development process, and had a similarly pretentious marketing boasting of music performed by a real symphonic orchestra (the Sinfonia of London), and it met similarly lukewarm reviews. The game is actually beautiful (except for the horrifically outdated 3D cut scenes), but it's also not quite the classic that Another World was. (Coincidentally, Chahi also worked on a sci-fi point-and-click for Delphine back in 1989 called Future Wars [2]. It's a beautiful game that has some parallels with The Dig, though modern players are going to be really put off by the horrible user interface.) [1] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Heart_of_Darkness_(video_game) https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Heart_of_Darkness_(video_game) [2] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Future_Wars https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Future_Wars