Adventure games please help!

[valypan]

Hello!
I switched to the Mac a year ago! I am 99% happy with my choice! The last 1% is the lack of adventure games :( I used to play many adventuer games on the PC and now on the Mac I find there are almost no real adventure games! Anybody know of any adventure game for Mac os X? (and not like spiderman...those are action/adventuer games...something like Postmortem or Siberia.both not available for the mac).
Adventure games lovers unite and take over! :)

[mattmack]

Adventure games hmmmmm. Are you looking for something like civ III or warcraft? Or Diablo II (third person rpg)? Or a sim like Age of Empires II, Stronghold or Galactic Battlegrounds? I'm not sure what qualifies as an adventure game:)
PS I'm not familiar with the games you listed :confused:

[melchior]

adventure games are not RPG's! adventure games are not strategy games (WCIII, etc...)

adventure games are a classic genre that made me love computers as a kid. it is severely lacking these days... why? demand for high quality graphics and the nature of the genre and the lack of action/violence make it somewhat unpopular.

back in the day, Sierra was king of Adventure (roberta williams was it's queen) and was later surpassed by LucasArts. Between LA & Sierra, i spent countless hours not just playing, but thinking as a kid. figuring out puzzles, exploring worlds. it was a dream.

i hope we all remember Sam 'n' Max, by far, the funniest game i ever played.

i'm sorry, i'm old now (at least i feel it) and i don't know of any adventure games for OS X. the last thing i played that was close to an adventure game was American McGee's Alice, but i finished that in one night of playing :rolleyes:

i personally get the feeling that RPG has replaced Adventure and i hate that. i really hate that.

oh and one more, just because i loved it to death for the beautiful graphics it heralded for it's time. .kyrandia (http://www.mobygames.com/game/sheet/gameId,394/) . superb in so many ways. i loved it. i'm going to go hug my teddy now.

[jelloshotsrule]

do police and space quest (obviously king's quest is) count as adventure games???

how great was police quest? man... great game.

[melchior]

early police quests were great. the later one's started to get dodgy.

Alone in the Dark was the adventure game i hated.

space quest was massive. i loved the mini-games inside.

i hope everyone here knows who Leasure Suit Larry is. What a god :D

[melchior]

i did some digging and frankly i think it's not just a MAC problem. there are just so few Adventure games nowadays that the guys who port games probably just think of it as a long dead genre...

bring on the gore and the violence and the trigger finger, right? and goddamn i hate jumpers in those FPS when i first startedplaying it was a trick high class cheaters used. now it's standard practice. Doom was better because you couldn't jump!!!

ummm, yeah... i think there is little hope in this quest for new adventure games. if you find any, let us know.

oh, one more game i played to death. Gobblins!!! hahaha, those crazy guys!

[melchior]

Originally posted by valypan
Hello!
I switched to the Mac a year ago! I am 99% happy with my choice! The last 1% is the lack of adventure games :( I used to play many adventuer games on the PC and now on the Mac I find there are almost no real adventure games! Anybody know of any adventure game for Mac os X? (and not like spiderman...those are action/adventuer games...something like Postmortem or Siberia.both not available for the mac).
Adventure games lovers unite and take over! :)

by the way, both of those games are made by Dreamcatcher (http://www.dreamcatchergames.com/) and distributed by AdventureCompanyGames (http://www.adventurecompanygames.com) in the USA.

if you find adventure games by other companies, they might have OS X ports... but obviously dreamcatcher doesn't give a damn.

i am posting too much in this thread... methinks

Edit: here (http://www.adventurecompanygames.com/tac/mac.html) they have the games ported to the MAC. their latest mac game, Beyond Atlantis (for which a secqual is releasing soon) was in 2000. well, they are just bugggers, aren't they!? =P

[mattmack]

Originally posted by melchior


oh and one more, just because i loved it to death for the beautiful graphics it heralded for it's time. .kyrandia (http://www.mobygames.com/game/sheet/gameId,394/) . superb in so many ways. i loved it. i'm going to go hug my teddy now.
Just so you know I cut my computer teeth on an Apple IIe playing Cranston Manor and there are no interesting puzzle/adventure games out there. There are games in which you have to figure out levels (such as return to Castle wolfenstein) but they are blended or overshadowed by FPS gore. In that same vein if they do have some sense of adventure they aren't that challenging any more (star trek elite force took me all of five hurs to figure out) sigh oh well they don't make em like they used to

[melchior]

this thread makes me feel sad. very sad. :(

[valypan]

Guys thank you so much for your sympathy! I am happy I am not the only one crying for the lack of adventure games. Maybe it is a genre that its dying ( god let it not be so!) but there are games such as The Cameron Files for which they just released a sequel! So there must be some success there otherwise they would not keep on doing it. As someone noticed, Dreamcatcher used to make quite a few adventure games for the mac. I dont know why they stopped! By the way for adventure games I mean games with no or very little violence and a lot of puzzles to solve and usually a very rich storyline like Beyond Atlantis. I wrote to the adventure company which is selling quite a few adventure games, also brand new ones, and they said they would love to see more games for the mac platform but its the DEVELOPERS who dont want to. So what the heck is going on here? Why dont they want to make more money by porting the games to the mac? Any ideas? :confused:

p.s.check out apple adventure games site...tomb raid chronicles and real myst! can we get any older and outdated than that??? :(

[valypan]

Incidentally I just browsed through the list of games at the Apple web site and I found a game called Lochness (which is basically The Cameron Files mentioned above) and its been listed in the apple site forever, however it is NOT available for mac! How saad is that? They get your hopes up and then BANG, they shoot you down :(
Seeing that most adventure games for the mac were made in the past and the future looks so grim, should I install OS 9 as well and buy those old games??? Always thought it was so stupid to have TWO OS just for the games sake...but I dont know what else to do :(
You think I should still keep hoping?:confused:

[bousozoku]

Those aren't adventure games. You should have played the Infocom text adventure games.

west.
there is a mailbox here.
open mailbox.
there is a pamphlet inside the mailbox.
take pamphlet then read it.

They also did things with swords and Grues and Flood Control Dams and other things which were much less interesting than mailboxes. :)

You could always get Zork Grand Inquisitor which is a graphical descendent of Infocom's first Zork and it runs on Mac OS X nicely. :)

[melchior]

Zork was great.

Sierra's early adventure games were text based too.

i don't suppose anyone remember's EpicMegaGames? they made a suite of great games...

and of course, who can forget, Hugo's House of Horror's! because of that book i read The Hobbit and then Lord of the Ring's in 5th grade... wow. memories. orange and black screens. pornographic bulletin boards.... oh those were the days. when 14 seemed like the coolest age anyone could be! ha!

[jimthorn]

Originally posted by mattmack
Just so you know I cut my computer teeth on an Apple IIe playing Cranston Manor and there are no interesting puzzle/adventure games out there.

Wow, I thought I was the last guy alive who remembered that game. I actually tracked it down and ran it on OSXII (Apple II emulator) a few months ago.

[etoiles]

Originally posted by bousozoku
Those aren't adventure games. You should have played the Infocom text adventure games.

west.
there is a mailbox here.
open mailbox.
there is a pamphlet inside the mailbox.
take pamphlet then read it.

They also did things with swords and Grues and Flood Control Dams and other things which were much less interesting than mailboxes. :)

You could always get Zork Grand Inquisitor which is a graphical descendent of Infocom's first Zork and it runs on Mac OS X nicely. :)

magnetic scrolls adventures...I think it was 'The Pawn' : "put potplant into pot..."
:D

[etoiles]

oh yeah, and Roger Wilco rules ! Especially Space Quest I+II. The graphics were so low rez, it was almost like reading a book: so much room for your imagination...

:p

[valypan]

For all the adventure games lovers out there...apparently Omega Stone by Dreamcatcher is coming to the mac platform. When? I dont know! Hopefully it will be for mac os x and not for mac os 9 like for example Dracula series! (What the heck are they thinking? :)
Also LAw and Order by Aspyr is coming out soon. Thats sort of a detective game, so I am looking forward to it. Nothing yet about the new biggies:Post Mortem, Siberia,etc...lets hope for the better. I am still tempted to load Mac os 9 and play dracula the last sanctuary...all well.:rolleyes:

[mattmack]

Originally posted by jimthorn
Wow, I thought I was the last guy alive who remembered that game. I actually tracked it down and ran it on OSXII (Apple II emulator) a few months ago.
Wow I have the emulator i"ll have to track down the rom image. Where'd you find it?
PS I probably still have it on 5.25" diskette somewhere LOL

[kel]

Anbody played Riven yet. Does it have the same story line as Myst? How is it?

[melchior]

Originally posted by kel
Anbody played Riven yet. Does it have the same story line as Myst? How is it?

haha, "yet"? i played it in 1997/1998 and it was great i think. from what i remember. the premise for the adventure is a little different. Riven doesn't consist of traveling between Ages, as Myst did. This is just one big island adventure.

i've got to ask, did you really think Riven was a new game? or you just never played it?

ther is also Myst III as well as a myst online game due for release this year i believe. i haven't played either of these though so maybe someone else can tell you about them.

[Maclarny]

You should try RealMyst for OSX. It's basically just the old myst with a brand new graphics engine as far as I know. Requirements may be steep however so you should check it out.

[mattmack]

the Day of the Tentacle. It is supposed to a good adventure series
Escape from monkey island (tentacle series) is available for mac
Also try full throttle

[bousozoku]

Originally posted by etoiles
magnetic scrolls adventures...I think it was 'The Pawn' : "put potplant into pot..."
:D

That's quite a bit more adventurous than any of the games I ever played. :D

[Freg3000]

Originally posted by Maclarny
You should try RealMyst for OSX. It's basically just the old myst with a brand new graphics engine as far as I know. Requirements may be steep however so you should check it out.

I really love this game. I played it at my friends house once, but I never bought it. Everytime I go there I ask to play it. :)

[melchior]

Originally posted by mattmack
the Day of the Tentacle. It is supposed to a good adventure series
Escape from monkey island (tentacle series) is available for mac
Also try full throttle

there is no doubt these games are great. but they are a reenactment of my childhood. good for a laugh but i've played them so many times i know them inside out. Day or the tentacle was very cool. full throttle not so cool. monkey island is a legend.

[mattmack]

Originally posted by melchior
there is no doubt these games are great. but they are a reenactment of my childhood. good for a laugh but i've played them so many times i know them inside out. Day or the tentacle was very cool. full throttle not so cool. monkey island is a legend.
Would have loved to see Grim Fandango make it to mac. sigh oh well

[melchior]

Originally posted by mattmack
Would have loved to see Grim Fandango make it to mac. sigh oh well

ah yes, i played that on my pc. not particularly difficult, but a really great user experience. enveloping.

there's a short article on The Adenaline Vault (http://www.avault.com/editorials/index.asp?editorial=edit116) about the lack of creativity in the game industry. i mean they mostly mumble about the why's and wherefore's, but there is some good stuff towards the end.

Case in point: You've probably read that Funcom is shunning the point-and-click roots of The Longest Journey in favor of a developing 3D action-adventure sequel. This news wouldn't be so disappointing if the original game wasn't a minor classic - and if store shelves weren't already saturated with third-person romps manufactured in the same mold. I can imagine how disheartening this news is to fans of the first installment - but the truly worrying aspect of this development is series creator Ragnar Tornquist's statement to Adventure Gamers that "the era of point-and-click adventures is over." Tornquist is a talented designer with an elegant style and a knack for storytelling - but forgive me if I can't help seeing irony in the developers of The Longest Journey taking a shortcut to success in an industry stricken by a lack of originality.

[BrittasMac]

I love the old Lucasarts games. I got caught up in Sam & Max, The Dig and Full Throttle among others. After those I discovered the Journeyman series, those were all great fun. My favorite was Pegasus Prime, which was only for Macintosh I might add.

[P-Worm]

Come on guys you are missing some great classics for back when the Mac was in black and white.

Deja Vu
Shadowgate (loved that game!)
Uninvited

P-Worm

[alset]

I never thought I would say it, but Diablo has been dethroned. Anyone who likes adventure/RPGs should look into Dungeon Siege. It's a party game, like Baldur's Gate (up to 8 in a party) but with realtime battles like Diablo. It's the best of both worlds, and none of the garbage.

The game world is huge and there is no pausing for loading and levels are completely continuous. After loading a saved game, the engine never pauses until you stop playing. The AI is really solid and the progression of the game is about perfect (in terms of advancing difficulty).

I have logged about 18 hours of solid gaming since Sunday, and that's with 10 hours of class every day. It's addictive! Absolutely one of the best games I have ever played..

Dan

[kiwi_the_iwik]

Originally posted by P-Worm
Come on guys you are missing some great classics for back when the Mac was in black and white.

Deja Vu
Shadowgate (loved that game!)
Uninvited



Ooooh - I lost HOURS on those! Mindscape point-and-clicks were brilliant.

If you want to play them in COLOUR , I suggest playing them on an Apple IIgs Emulator (Bernie's pretty cool). You can get them from http://www.inwards.com/~fairway/

[P-Worm]

Originally posted by kiwi_the_iwik
Ooooh - I lost HOURS on those! Mindscape point-and-clicks were brilliant.

If you want to play them in COLOUR , I suggest playing them on an Apple IIgs Emulator (Bernie's pretty cool). You can get them from http://www.inwards.com/~fairway/

I'm dffinately interested, it might bring back some childhood memories. But I can't seem to find the files I found Deja Vu, but what is this 'shrinkit' archive? Is it like a ROM?

P-Worm

[ooshmaster]

im only thirteen years old so i dont know all of the games youre talking about...

there was this one game i played on my old mac CI and you were a teenage kid. i dont remembrer much about it but i know he you had a pet frog in youre inventory and you had to keep from getting in trouble or els you would go to millitary school do you guys know what game this is?

[ooshmaster]

im only thirteen years old so i dont know all of the games youre talking about...

there was this one game i played on my old mac CI and you were a teenage kid. i dont remembrer much about it but i know he you had a pet frog in youre inventory and you had to keep from getting in trouble or els you would go to millitary school do you guys know what game this is?

[Daveman Deluxe]

I remember playing that game once, but I forget the name.

[ooshmaster]

yeah i cant remember. what about the monkey island series? 1 & 2 were the only good ones...

i dont think tomb raider is an adventure game.

oh i ddnt mean to post that twice whooops sorry

[BenWakin]

Yes, the Monkey Island series was way good. Not the 3d crap, but the originals. Ummm, the Indy games were good too. The Last Crusade and The Search for Atlantis. Loom was fun. All Lucas Arts games. Lots of fun back in the day.

[dcb]

http://mac.the-underdogs.org/

Abandanware website for the mac

[Poff]

Hello. I can think of one game - the Feeble files. It´s a bit fun, but poorly made on several places. Better than nothing at least..

I sure miss the humor of DOTT and Sam&Max. Those were the days of good games. I´ve never tried Monkey Island tho, so I´m downloading the first two from the link in the abandonware-thread.

This thread makes me sad too.. :(

[Phil Of Mac]

There were lots of adventure games back in the day. Old-school System 7 shareware, in the days of john calhoun, Ingemar Ragnemalm, Cary Torkelson, and all the other great shareware programmers :)

[kiwi_the_iwik]

Originally posted by P-Worm
I'm dffinately interested, it might bring back some childhood memories. But I can't seem to find the files I found Deja Vu, but what is this 'shrinkit' archive? Is it like a ROM?

P-Worm

Just download the 2img file - it's designed to work with the emulator AS IS.

Be sure to download the Hard Disk image that they provided - it gives you an optimised setup for your games.

Get your emulator from, you guessed it, www.emulation.net - they've even got the system roms for the old Apple ][GS!


Happy reminiscing!

:cool:

[Oyo]

Hello, everyone
I was doing search on the web for the newest adventure game for mac. One of the result bring me here. After I read that topic, I was very surprise not seeing Alida mentioned.
What I want to say is that Alida (http://www.alidagame.com/) and RHEM (http://www.rhem-game.com/) are adventure game for Mac X. Just take a look...

...or maybe you already know about it :confused:

Au revoir ;)
Oyo

[ickle_fing]

when are we ever going to get some decent adventure games on mac?

does anyone remember zak mckraken and the alien mind benders?
ahh amiga games . .

[ooshmaster]

another good point and click one is starship titanic. great graphics, hours of fun. deffinetly one of my favorites.

[melchior]

I really hated myst and every game thereafter that is just cloning. i guess the reason is simple. i gained no pleasure from solving those puzzles. there were no rewards. it is boring...

longing for a *true* adventure game revival!

Hello, everyone
I was doing search on the web for the newest adventure game for mac. One of the result bring me here. After I read that topic, I was very surprise not seeing Alida mentioned.
What I want to say is that Alida (http://www.alidagame.com/) and RHEM (http://www.rhem-game.com/) are adventure game for Mac X. Just take a look...

...or maybe you already know about it :confused:

Au revoir ;)
Oyo

[ooshmaster]

i liked the myst series(except uru and realmyst, (long live point and click! quit bastardizing it!) , but it had no inventory. inventory is the most fun part of adventure games.

[melchior]

i've got to agree there. inventories were a key feature!

i liked the myst series(except uru and realmyst, (long live point and click! quit bastardizing it!) , but it had no inventory. inventory is the most fun part of adventure games. :p

[phonemonkey]

don't know what it classifies into but the jedi knight games are awesome! I just finished Jedi Academy and it was great. A bit easy but hey, the gameplay made up for it.

[TimDaddy]

Zork was great.


Man, I loved Zork! I recently download it and some sequals from some Mac "abandonware" site. I haven't had much time to play it, though. Look around macrumors.com, I think there is still a thread about this website. I can't remember the address.

I bought one of those text based iPod games, The Rise of The Lost, thinking it would be similar to Zork. It was very cheesy. A waste of ten bucks.

edit: Ok, as usual, someone already mentioned the website.

[advocate]

there was this one game i played on my old mac CI and you were a teenage kid. i dont remembrer much about it but i know he you had a pet frog in youre inventory and you had to keep from getting in trouble or els you would go to millitary school do you guys know what game this is?
That sounds like The Adventures of Willy Beamish. I played it on a PC; no idea if it was available for the Mac.

[phonemonkey]

did they ever port kings quest or leisure suit larry for the mac?

[DavidLeblond]

did they ever port kings quest or leisure suit larry for the mac?

Probably, though it doesn't matter... you can get Sarien (http://sarien.sourceforge.net/) to play most of those games.

[maxterpiece]

Fallout and Fallout 2 are, in my opinion, the best RPG/adventure games ever made. The characters are all so cool. The puzzles are great. The worlds are detailed, complex and HIGHLY interactive. There are so many different storylines that you can follow. It is the only RPG i ever played over again after i beat it.
Fallout is definitely first and foremost an RPG in that your character gains skills as he (or she) gains experience, but there are plenty of puzzles and fighting is only maybe 25% of the game. The puzzles aren't basic and elementary like in diablo. Seriously check it out. THe storyline is funny and interesting and you just meet so many different characters - real characters, who have great personalities. Fallout 2 works for OS X and fallout was for OS 9. I know both games are available for cheap.

[mattmack]

did they ever port kings quest or leisure suit larry for the mac?yes and yes the both can be found at the abandonware site. I think i still have a copy of KQ 7
:confused:

[ooshmaster]

another good one is darkseed. you can download it at the abandonware site, and they have a link to the site where you can download a patch so it will work on a powerpc. oh, and if you get it, be sure to catch the monkey island reference in the graveyard scene! :D

[ooshmaster]

the abandonware site seems to be down at the moment

http://mac.the-underdogs.org/

[mattmack]

the abandonware site seems to be down at the moment

http://mac.the-underdogs.org/It is working now
;)

[discoforce]

another good point and click one is starship titanic. great graphics, hours of fun. deffinetly one of my favorites.

I just bought this one and it's a blast. There's even a companion book written by Terry Jones :p :p

Also, no one has mentioned the Hitchhiker's Guide to the Galaxy text adventure which you can play online here. (http://www.douglasadams.com/creations/infocomjava.html)

Loved that dern Babel Fish!

Oh, and I am a bit biased when it comes to Douglas Adams... :rolleyes:

[ooshmaster]

Yes, the Monkey Island series was way good. Not the 3d crap, but the originals.

actually i was thinking that the fourth one was the worst. the third was nothing compared to the first two, of course, but at least it was a point and click, not some 3d adventure (i hate those.) I played it on my freinds pc, and if it comes to mac osx i might as well get it

[ooshmaster]

That sounds like The Adventures of Willy Beamish. I played it on a PC; no idea if it was available for the Mac.

yes thats the one. thankyou so much. an unscratchable itch that ive had for years is now gone. an emptyness is now filled. yeah. thanks again. i went and got it, and it isnt as good as i remembered, but its another added to my collection. thanks!

PS-if any of you guys like willy beamish, try rise of the dragon. much better game, but still has the same painful interface!

[maxterpiece]

another good one is darkseed. you can download it at the abandonware site, and they have a link to the site where you can download a patch so it will work on a powerpc. oh, and if you get it, be sure to catch the monkey island reference in the graveyard scene! :D
Oh my god I remember darkseed. The thing i remember most is him saying, "my head is killing me," and "my head feels like it's going to explode." It took me like 2 weeks to realize that he just wanted some darn advil from the medicine cabinet. I nearly gave up on the game because he wouldn't shutup about his headache.

[ooshmaster]

heres one—Cythera. some you you hardcore adventure fans wont like it. its about half point and click adventure and half RPG. but its such a fun game i think it work mentioning.

[bousozoku]

I just bought this one and it's a blast. There's even a companion book written by Terry Jones :p :p

Also, no one has mentioned the Hitchhiker's Guide to the Galaxy text adventure which you can play online here. (http://www.douglasadams.com/creations/infocomjava.html)

Loved that dern Babel Fish!

Oh, and I am a bit biased when it comes to Douglas Adams... :rolleyes:

I mentioned all the Infocom text adventure games, of which one was Hitchhiker's Guide to the Galaxy. :) Several years back, Infocom/Activision re-released various compendiums of them.

Your link helps a lot since it's not necessary to start Classic to play it.

[blaster_boy]

I found the scummvm emulator ( http://www.scummvm.org/ ) can emulate a lot of the classic lucasarts games on Mac os X.

See their site for more information.

[ooshmaster]

I found the scummvm emulator ( http://www.scummvm.org/ ) can emulate a lot of the classic lucasarts games on Mac os X.

See their site for more information.

I can't seem to get it to work. When I open up the program and say add game it brings up a browse window and then it freezes and I have to force quit. :(

[ooshmaster]

another one is gabriel knight. its a fun game, with a good sotory. but having a fast computer will prevent completion of the game, so maye there is a program you can use to slow it down with.

[nessinka]

I've found this download site for old Darkseed (PC version):
Darkseed download (http://www.old-pc-games.com/adventure/games-d/darkseed.html)

[jalagl]

The demise of adventure games was very unfortunate.

I second the suggestion on ScummVM for OSX, and play the old games again. I have been playing Monkey Island 2 on it lately, and it still holds up pretty well - plus I don't remember the solutions, so they're as entertaining (frustrating?) as ever ;)

[OnceUGoMac]

Those aren't adventure games. You should have played the Infocom text adventure games.

west.
there is a mailbox here.
open mailbox.
there is a pamphlet inside the mailbox.
take pamphlet then read it.

They also did things with swords and Grues and Flood Control Dams and other things which were much less interesting than mailboxes. :)

You could always get Zork Grand Inquisitor which is a graphical descendent of Infocom's first Zork and it runs on Mac OS X nicely. :)

I got Zork for free with realMyst and it has never worked for me. :(

[bousozoku]

I got Zork for free with realMyst and it has never worked for me. :(

The original Zork (Zork I now) for Mac game has to be played in the Classic environment and you must specify settings in the System Preferences, as well as have Mac OS 9.x on your hard drive.

[chanoc]

Max Payne was an adventure for me. Running around as a fugitive in NYC with the mob, cops, and secret government out for my head! Fun stuff. ;)

Yes, aware Max Payne is in the action genre. :)

[HiRez]

You might want to check out Adventuregamers.com (http://www.adventuregamers.com/). It's a generic site, and I don't even know if they know the Mac exists at all, but it's a nice resource. If you see a game you like you can go to the publisher's site and see if it's available on the Mac.

[mishi]

heres one—Cythera. some you you hardcore adventure fans wont like it. its about half point and click adventure and half RPG. but its such a fun game i think it work mentioning.

yea i love Cythera, so much i purchased it from abrosia(or however you spell it) i spent about 45 hours on it

[mishi]

The most important adventure game that macs dont have is the Elder Scrolls, one, two, and especially 3. Morrowind is one of the best games every put out. it is a wonderfully rendered game that lasts forever i just love the non liniar storyline. that is the one single adventure game that should be portered.