Are there any modern games of the Monkey Island ilk?

[Paul Adams]

Dragging this back from the archives to rave about a game I bought, and its prequel

Purchased "Runaway : The Dream of the Turtle" recently after reading a review in a Swedish PC mag which gave it a pretty good rating.
Turned out to be the sequel to a game from 2001, "Runaway : A Road Adventure", which we didn't know at the time.

VERY much fun - 3D-rendered scenes give a nice fluid motion, antialiased to make it less harsh, and a rather cool "3D to 2D" filter engine which makes it appear more "cartoony" - a la Monkey Island or Full Throttle.

Great humour, lots of puzzles, simple interface, nice voice acting, fantastic scenery (just under 6GB of disk space consumed with a full install).

After finding out it was a sequel, I then found the original game from 6 years prior, which is now available as a pay-per-download for just $20, so that was a buyer.

Admittedly my assumption was that it wouldn't be quite so good as the more recent game, but I was pleasantly surprised - it was under 2GB to download, installed and played on Vista x64 even with the StarForce copy protection requirement.

My wife and I chewed through both games rather quickly, but we do so enjoy this genre that it was inevitable - but it has been a long time since we enjoyed a game of this kind it was worth it.

There are even a couple of wiki pages on the 2 games:
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Runaway:_A_Road_Adventure
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Runaway..._of_The_Turtle

[kopite]

HAve ya tried to the episodic sam and max games that telltale games have out now?

They are pretty good Not as in depth as the as the original but still a good laugh.

There are a few point and click games coming out soon I seem to remember seeing but not sure of the quality.

http://www.gilbertgoodmate.com/ is another option. I played a demo on my ppc and it was quite good.

[directhex]

sam & max seems to be the right answer, by the way

the 4th episode is the best so far

[ikonia]

leasure suit larry was superb from sierra.

[MadduckUK]

arent we forgetting somethings?

discworld
discworld 2
discworld noir

[directhex]

arent we forgetting somethings?

discworld
discworld 2
discworld noir

try running them on a modern pc tho

[MadduckUK]

i cant i dont have em anymore im sure ther ewill be a way of doing it tho

http://wiki.dot-totally.co.uk/Play_Discworld_2_on_XP liiike that, no i dont understand a word of it

[LazyGit]

Nobody wants or plays them? That's like those morons saying that reality TV programs are good because people want them and watch them. The public takes what it's given. The industry won't make adventure games because it takes real creativity, not the cheap graphic design sort but the sort that involves coherent plots, emotional connections and humour. It takes auteurs. And one person can't drive through a game anymore, Peter Molyneaux does but it takes years for each title to appear.

Anyway. I don't know any modern adventure games that are worth their salt but I do know some slightly less recent ones that haven't been mentioned.

The Last Express is a brilliant game that is played in real time and makes you feel like you're taking part in a well layered and textured period spy thriller, and it looks beautiful.

And the King of Games: Grim Fandango. I'm not going to describe it, if you haven't played it or heard of it then just go and buy it or download it and send money to Lucasarts, it's perfection.