21st January 2004, 1:40 PM
I said my top five, not a list of all great Lucasarts adventures... :)
I don't have Sam & Max, actually, but I've heard more than enough great things to know that it's certainly in that top five. Oh, I do have Day of the Tentacle, but it never impressed me as much as the other Lucasarts adventures... it's trying to be funny but IMO doesn't work as well as the humor in Monkey Island. And it's a bit annoyingly hard, with completely random puzzles that make no logical sense at all... I got it and Indy Fate at the same time (CD versions free along with Rebel Assualt in our P90 PC we got in early '95...), and Indy Fate (identifying it from Indiana Jones and the Last Crusade, the other (older) pure adventure Indy game) was, IMO, definitely the better of the two. I haven't played it in years, true, but I sure remember it being great... :) I'd have played it more recently but it's been missing for quite some time now... :(
If I was listing LucasArts adventures I had I'd take those five, remove Sam & Max, and add Escape from Monkey Island, Maniac Mansion, and Maniac Mansion: Day of the Tentacle. Haven't played The Dig. I did play the demo of Full Throttle, though.
I don't have Sam & Max, actually, but I've heard more than enough great things to know that it's certainly in that top five. Oh, I do have Day of the Tentacle, but it never impressed me as much as the other Lucasarts adventures... it's trying to be funny but IMO doesn't work as well as the humor in Monkey Island. And it's a bit annoyingly hard, with completely random puzzles that make no logical sense at all... I got it and Indy Fate at the same time (CD versions free along with Rebel Assualt in our P90 PC we got in early '95...), and Indy Fate (identifying it from Indiana Jones and the Last Crusade, the other (older) pure adventure Indy game) was, IMO, definitely the better of the two. I haven't played it in years, true, but I sure remember it being great... :) I'd have played it more recently but it's been missing for quite some time now... :(
If I was listing LucasArts adventures I had I'd take those five, remove Sam & Max, and add Escape from Monkey Island, Maniac Mansion, and Maniac Mansion: Day of the Tentacle. Haven't played The Dig. I did play the demo of Full Throttle, though.