Decent PC Adventure game?

[wannadivenotwork]

There's probably a few of you out there old enough to remember the old computer advanture game "Hobbit"? Good old fashioned adventure game. You go west and find and old bridge etc etc.

Can anyone recommend a decent adventure game for the PC? Doesn't have to be new - as long as i can get hold of it!

Any suggestions?

[BigHairyAl]

Don't think you can get any of those old text based games these days, but you could give Baldurs Gate a whirl.

http://www.gamespot.com/pc/rpg/baldursgate/review.html

It's quite a few years old so you should be able to pick it for for peanuts. Huge game though. Make sure you don't tip the Diving vs Gaming balance the wrong way!

[gunsentry]

Have search on eBay for Zork - A few titles will be available.

Try:-

http://www.firstage.net/testimonials.html

http://nxn.netgate.net/games2_XadventureX.html

http://www.if-legends.org/~pdd/

http://members.chello.at/theodor.lau...mes/advent.htm

A few to get you going.

[Little Pete]

Big thumbs up for Baldur's gate as well. If you like something with a really weird but layered plot then try Planescape Torment by the same company (Black Isle).

You start the game as a scarred amnesiac....but you're also immortal!

Solving plots by dying and coming back to life is really quite cool

[Mark Davies]

Morrowind - an Elder Scrolls game - is bloody excellent. It's got a free-roaming structure so you can choose to do whatever you want. It's in a first person format and has expansion packs to keep you going. I lost several months of my life to it a few years ago. A collector's edition with all the expansion packs is still available in the shops.

I've never come across anything better since - most good RPG's are on-line now and I'm too tight to pay a subscription!

[Woz]

If you want a totally impossible one try the Hitchhiker's game on the BBC Radio4 website.

If you don't get killed by a flying brick as your house gets knocked down I would be very surprised.

[Lazlo]

Originally Posted by Mark Davies

Morrowind - an Elder Scrolls game - is bloody excellent. It's got a free-roaming structure so you can choose to do whatever you want. It's in a first person format and has expansion packs to keep you going. I lost several months of my life to it a few years ago. A collector's edition with all the expansion packs is still available in the shops.

I've never come across anything better since - most good RPG's are on-line now and I'm too tight to pay a subscription!

3rd person as well - you choose.

What - only months?

Still the best game ever made imho.

With the possible exception of Knights of the Old Republic.

[Nick Kay]

Believe it or not, you can still get hold of the original Zork games for the PC.

You can also get a "run-time" that allows you to play them on a Pocket-PC.

Never tried copying the ".sav" file from PC to Pocket-PC (and/or back)

I think they're now effectively "Public Domain". Have copies if you're interested?

[bottle_monkey]

Have recently got morrow wind and is a good indepth game. I however, much prefer the baulders gates games. Iw ould not bother with the first one, would defs get the second one (shadows of ahm).

However, if you want a really good game that will destroy your social life entirely (Well I might have had one before I am not sure) then get world of warcraft. ONline game that is trully awesome

Kev the geek

[Woz]

Originally Posted by bottle_monkey

Have recently got morrow wind and is a good indepth game. I however, much prefer the baulders gates games. Iw ould not bother with the first one, would defs get the second one (shadows of ahm).

However, if you want a really good game that will destroy your social life entirely (Well I might have had one before I am not sure) then get world of warcraft. ONline game that is trully awesome

Kev the geek

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