Suggestions Please (again)

LinesMachine · Posted: Tue Nov 22, 2011 10:58 am Post subject: Suggestions Please (again)

So, every now and then, when I have some time free, I fix my sights on a game and play it through. Usually it's an Adventure/RPG type affair, I've done EOB1&2, Captive, Dungeon Master (several times), Monkey Island, Indiana Jones and the Last Crusade.

I sometimes ask for suggestions, so that's what I'm doing this time round. Can anyone recommend anything? I'm looking for something that I can get really stuck into My current options are below...

Black Crypt
Future Wars
Shadow Lands/Worlds
Loom

Any ideas?

lifeschool · Posted: Tue Nov 22, 2011 12:12 pm Post subject:

I'd recommend:

.Beneath a Steel Sky
.Flight of the African Queen
.Future Wars
.Shadowlands

I found loom a bit confusing to play, and I've never seen Black Crypt
Another crazy hidden gem for 030+ amigas may be:

.Legends of Valour

This is a very deep medieval RPG with a small 'doom' type view screen; where you explore a massive city, take on missions, run errands, earn skills from the many guilds, eat, rest and sleep, and even rampage at night as a werewolf. However, I don't think the amiga version was ultimately completable...

LinesMachine · Posted: Tue Nov 22, 2011 12:35 pm Post subject:

Beneath a Steel Sky is a classic amiga game that I've never tried so that's a good shout.

Legends of Valour is a blast from the past! Remember reading about this back in the day.

Amazon Queen was a million-disk point and click that I might invest some time in...Is it any good?

TurricanX · Posted: Tue Nov 22, 2011 12:39 pm Post subject:

Loom is good but I had to use a walkthrough at several points.

I'd highly recommend Lure of the Temptress and Cruise for a Corpse if you want a couple of games to really get your teeth into.
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LinesMachine · Posted: Tue Nov 22, 2011 1:03 pm Post subject:

lifeschool · Posted: Tue Nov 22, 2011 1:49 pm Post subject:

Steel Sky is a very good game - logical puzzles - and very funny too with the little robot Joey.

Amazon Queen is great looking, but it is a very easy game - and you'll hardly need to cheat to play that one. Much easier than Monkey 1 or 2.

Cruise for a corpse has an amazing intro but after wandering the deck of the ship for a while I became totally lost. The disk save didn't seem to work in my version of the game (whdload) either. Walkthru defo required for this one.

Elvia - there are at least three Elvia games - the 'Arcade' version is a platformer, pretty mediocre in my book. I've never played the adventures but they rate highly in the votes I notice...

MIK UK · Posted: Tue Nov 22, 2011 3:46 pm Post subject:

Crystal Dragon.

I still have not finished this game over the many years an many restarts but it's awesome. Very Happy

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LinesMachine · Posted: Wed Nov 23, 2011 9:43 am Post subject:

Bloody hell, never even heard of Crystal Dragon. I'm gonna boot up a few of these games over the weekend and see which I'm going to continue with.

I should have finished Deus Ex: HR by then as well.

Fiery Phoenix · Posted: Wed Nov 23, 2011 11:26 am Post subject:

Cruise for a Corpse is very frustrating - one of those games where you have to be in a certain location at a certain time, if not you can forget about completing the game. Was spoiled for me by this.

Flight of the Amazon Queen is great - forget all abbout the disk swapping and get the game playing via the SCUMM engine - plays brilliantly on there (as do most of the old skool adventure games)

I would recommend Leisure Suit Larry series - especially the remake of the first one (can be completed in a pretty short time though) number 3 is also very good.

There is also Les Manley in Search for the King on the Amiga.

Beneath a Steel Sky is a classic - was great to complete.

Would recommend Operation Stealth and Dark Seed too.

On an added note - one of the mnost enjoyable games I have ever played were the adventure games Syberia and Syberia 2. Jaw droppingly brilliant. Great puzzles and storyline. Pick these up if you can. Along with my other all time faves Under a Killing Moon, Overseer and The Pandora Directive (all in the Tex Murphy series)

Many of the great adventure games were released on the PC after the Amiga had died. I have only re-discovered them in the last few years. You can play many under the SCUMM engine (mentioned above ) and DosBox.

Any help with either of these or for any game recommendations on these systems, feel free to PM me. Will be glad to help.

You can even play some of these classics on your mobile phone or if you have a Wii via SCUMM VM.
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MIK UK · Posted: Wed Nov 23, 2011 1:54 pm Post subject:

Shodan · Posted: Wed Nov 23, 2011 3:08 pm Post subject:

Maybe Uninvited or one of the two DeJaVu games?

If it is a RPG game you would want to play i can recommend Crystal Dragon to you.
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Fiery Phoenix · Posted: Wed Nov 23, 2011 3:49 pm Post subject:

I recently complated Uninvited for the C64 and was underwhelmed by the story. Started with promise then was bogged down with a messy storyline.
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LinesMachine · Posted: Tue Nov 29, 2011 9:55 am Post subject:

@fiery Phoenix: I'm actually playing Siberia 2 at the moment on onlive. Totally brilliant, stunning environments ands stories.

Fiery Phoenix · Posted: Tue Nov 29, 2011 11:26 am Post subject:

LinesMachine · Posted: Tue Nov 29, 2011 10:57 pm Post subject: