![]() The majority of the other games here are games I quite like, but I’m not sure I’d recommend them without knowing more about your tastes.įlourish in Progress: (T)hug Life: Part hood. ![]() I’d also recommend Portal and/or Portal 2 with the caveat that it’s a first-person game where you use the mouse to look and the keyboard to move, and I know that some people never quite get the knack of those. I’d strongly recommend Gone Home, Dear Esther, and Professor Layton. Resonance, Gemini Rue and The Shivah (the first and possibly game where you play as a rabbi) are particularly good. Here is Sony’s trailer for it: įor those recommending adventure games like Broken Age, Nancy Drew and The Longest Journey, Wadjet Eye’s games are very good games in that mould. It will come out later this year for PS4 and PC and I am comfortable recommending it now because the guy who is making it is a friggin’ genius. Basically it’s Myst, in 2014, with a beautiful island and puzzles, but instead of the insane troll logic of Myst, each puzzle builds on the logic of the previous one. We are nearly 200 comments in and none of you have mentioned The Witness, so I guess it falls to me. And of course I’ll throw it up here if and when the name comes to me.Īnd as to Skyrim….it is REALLY violent, but so much fun because you are wielding hand weapons and using magic and going through caves and finding treasure and amassing wealth and…like another funny one said “you can be a human sized cat” or a lizard I might add.Īsk and you shall receive, your fans adore you. Sadly, I can’t for the life of me remember the name of this forthcoming awesomeness but you can probably find it based on that simple description. There is also a new XBox game coming out this year that sounded great with each character in the game having a similar but different adventure due to their specific set of skills etc. Those damn Pokemon take for fucking ever to train and be worth something! LOLīeautiful iPad game I didn’t see mentioned is LostWinds 2 Winter of the Melodias by Frontier. Several comments caught my attention, but this is my favorite “Pokemon Pearl ate my life” Sad but true. Syberia has this amazing steampunk-automata vibe to it. Longest Journey shuttles you between a slightly futuristic (but not gross and gritty) city and an awesome LotR High Fantasy styled world but with less slaying, more puzzles. We still pick up the new ones though I am “Grown Up”. I played the Myst games with my Da when I was a small child and the Longest Journey and Syberia (both are pc games) with my stepdad as a preteen. Very beautiful, involving, Myst-like games and they’re all point and click adventures (I get anxious with timed reaction things, even Portal). The Longest Journey series and Syberia are a bit old but they have newer iterations and are so pretty. If you get totally stuck on a puzzle (it happens to my supergenius astrophysicist doctoral candidate baby bro sometimes, so don’t feel bad) there are answers online, and all the games are casual enough to play a few puzzles and then put down, but engrossing enough that you can spend an entire day playing (I think). These have probably been mentioned already, but I’m really digging Professor Layton on the DS (or 3DS)- very cute and quirky and makes you go slightly insane only if you’re a completionist like me. Open anything that can be opened, look under anything that can be looked under, dig anywhere you pause. They tell you things you will be glad to know. You learn to talk to anything that has a mouth. You run into all sorts of interesting characters, like Binky the Devil Dog (a small mean chihuahua). You unplug it, fulfilling your first quest. Success! Those magic squash seeds grew fast and strong–now you can scale the tower. When you find yourself near the tower again, you have another try. You move on through the world, accumulating objects and information as you go. You try using all the items at your disposal, but nothing works. It seems that all the fairies are flying to a light in a distant tower, and they never return. When you make your way there, a fairy queen begs for your help. In the distance, you can see the ruins of a castle. The first quest I completed: You find yourself in the middle of a dark plain. I often found myself propping my eyelids open with my fingers at 3 AM, just to find out what was around the next corner. My son, five at the time, taught himself to type playing that game. Not pretty like Myst, but funny, addictive, and appropriate for all ages.
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