After you’ve completed both Curse and Escape, I would like to hear what do you think of them. You’re the first person I hear speaking that way, maybe you’ve got something new and interesting to say
Well , I have already completed Curse, twice. I found the puzzles to be bad. (except one, but by then I already didn’t trust the designers so I was already bruteforcing.) The hi-res graphics felt fake and took me out of the immersion. The dialogs in general felt forced, so even when that occasional good joke came, it fell flat for me.
In general Curse had good elements taken in isolation, but then it didn’t work for me as a whole.
That’s much how I felt about Curse as a kid, but the game has grown on me overtime. It didn’t fit the style of MI1 and 2 at all, really it would have been better if they’d simply made a pirate adventure with all new characters not make it the third instalment, and then no one would have been bothered by the new look and feel. You could still have Guybrush pop up somewhere as a cameo. I think the game’s design was really good though overall. Some really great characters!
I decided to buy it (for the preservation of my physical copy) and I’m somewhat disappointed in that it exhibits the same video glitching issues as the old version.
That’s how I recently played my original Grim Fandango. Haven’t tried EMI that way though. Last time I played that was natively on Win98. And it was glitchy as hell. So the adventure game adagio “save often” holds here too (just for other reasons).
Really? I don’t recall anything particularly odd on Windows Me. But trying to play the game on Windows 10 without dgVoodoo2 (whether original or GOG) has weird remaining ghost texture and/or flickering glitches that can hardly be exclusive to my system (although possibly somehow exclusive to modern AMD).
Edit: and of course I’m completely overlooking the other obvious alternative: older games and programs almost always run better in Wine on Linux than they do in Windows.
You might counter that an emulator is even better, but I hardly have to bother with the annoyance of running Windows 10 if I can just run it in my XP VM.
It isn’t point’n’click. It’s more of a platformer (although not a hardcore one).
Puzzle aren’t hard. There is a timed gameplay element.
BUT it has great atmosphere and I like that, so deal with it :
Candleman: The Complete Journey (on GOG)
It’s on sale till 2018-10-23 and was released a couple of days ago (original release was beginning of 2018 but non-DRM-free releases don’t count anyway).
I definitely recommend that one. One of the few games I played lately that made me feel good and heroic. It’s not without flaws, but ruining your mood is not amongst them .
Just bought that on GOG (at full price) together with Thronebreaker.