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Retrogaming
Jul. 11th, 2014 11:49 amI rediscovered Good Old Games a while ago. I had a hankering for original Tomb Raider having been playing TR2 a lot. Also felt I should have a go at Myst.
Turns out that they also offer Beneath a Steel Sky for free.
Have to say I was a little disappointed with Beneath a Steel Sky. It's a point and click very much in the same vein as Lucasarts games, but it has some serious gameplay flaws that arent in the lucasarts games.
Firstly, the nature of puzzles; There desn't seem to be a good reason to want to do things. I need to get past a guard to get inti a chapel. Why? Because he's in the way. No actual reason to go into the church. In fact, the only gameplay result of going in there is that it triggers the next plot occurance. A lot of problems can only be solved by talking to the right person and asking the right question. No indication of why we need to do this. Finally, if you miss a key part of dialogue, there's no way of going back to it. Really annoying if it's been a few days since last played. In Monkey Island, there's always a dialogue tree entry along the lines of "tell me again about XXX".
Tomb Raider 1 and 2 are both fun though. Get a bit bored with the sliding block puzzles because it takes so long, but generally there's a decent balance of puzzle solving, and action. Looks extremely dated after almost 20 years, of course, but the animation is good.
Myst still looks gorgeous after all this time. Probably impossible without a pen and paper to write things down. Strange that I can only carry one piece of paper at a time though. It's a little tricky working out where I am in some locations. I do love the puzzles. Bit slow though. It takes a long time to get through a certain maze, and I seem to need to do that twice.
Was playing the Total Eclipse remake a while ago. Gets frustrating though. It doesn't have a proper save mechanic. Only save points. I *could* play the Amiga version that lets me save whenever I want, but that has a rather antiquated control mechanism that makes things frustrating.
Wondering what else I should discover or rediscover.
Turns out that they also offer Beneath a Steel Sky for free.
Have to say I was a little disappointed with Beneath a Steel Sky. It's a point and click very much in the same vein as Lucasarts games, but it has some serious gameplay flaws that arent in the lucasarts games.
Firstly, the nature of puzzles; There desn't seem to be a good reason to want to do things. I need to get past a guard to get inti a chapel. Why? Because he's in the way. No actual reason to go into the church. In fact, the only gameplay result of going in there is that it triggers the next plot occurance. A lot of problems can only be solved by talking to the right person and asking the right question. No indication of why we need to do this. Finally, if you miss a key part of dialogue, there's no way of going back to it. Really annoying if it's been a few days since last played. In Monkey Island, there's always a dialogue tree entry along the lines of "tell me again about XXX".
Tomb Raider 1 and 2 are both fun though. Get a bit bored with the sliding block puzzles because it takes so long, but generally there's a decent balance of puzzle solving, and action. Looks extremely dated after almost 20 years, of course, but the animation is good.
Myst still looks gorgeous after all this time. Probably impossible without a pen and paper to write things down. Strange that I can only carry one piece of paper at a time though. It's a little tricky working out where I am in some locations. I do love the puzzles. Bit slow though. It takes a long time to get through a certain maze, and I seem to need to do that twice.
Was playing the Total Eclipse remake a while ago. Gets frustrating though. It doesn't have a proper save mechanic. Only save points. I *could* play the Amiga version that lets me save whenever I want, but that has a rather antiquated control mechanism that makes things frustrating.
Wondering what else I should discover or rediscover.
