Best Adventure Game Sidekick! (Round 3)

[Tawmis]

My votes:
1. Cedric (simply because I know him, whereas I've never heard of Boogle before now).

WHAT?!?!?

Have you seriously never played TORIN'S PASSAGE?

[Collector]

What about narrators from non-Sierra games?

[DeadPoolX]

My votes:
1. Cedric (simply because I know him, whereas I've never heard of Boogle before now).

WHAT?!?!?

Have you seriously never played TORIN'S PASSAGE?

I've never played Torin's Passage. I didn't pick it up since it looked like a cross between a laserdisc game (like Space Ace) and a CD-I reject.

[MusicallyInspired]

I don't even remember the narrator from GK1....who was it? And I thought the KQ6 narrator was remarkable. One of the best in any Sierra game. The worst has gotta be KQ5, though.

Ok, how about this then: a contest for the worst adventure game narrator ever? (Sierra and non-Sierra)

[DeadPoolX]

I don't even remember the narrator from GK1....who was it? And I thought the KQ6 narrator was remarkable. One of the best in any Sierra game. The worst has gotta be KQ5, though.

Ok, how about this then: a contest for the worst adventure game narrator ever? (Sierra and non-Sierra)

The only Adventure Game narrators I recall were for GK1, SQ6, KQ5 and KQ6. Out of those four, I've only experienced two: GK1 and SQ6.

Regardless of the game type, I hate narrators. Aside from whatever voice preferences one may have, I dislike waiting for the narrators to finish their statements. I'd rather read the text.

[Tawmis]

My votes:
1. Cedric (simply because I know him, whereas I've never heard of Boogle before now).

WHAT?!?!?
Have you seriously never played TORIN'S PASSAGE?

I've never played Torin's Passage. I didn't pick it up since it looked like a cross between a laserdisc game (like Space Ace) and a CD-I reject.

Thou hath been seriously misguided!

(Although I admit, I don't know what CD-I is...?)

[DeadPoolX]

The CD-i was a failed attempt at combining a multimedia player and a gaming console. It's a lot like the 3DO, but even worse. Neither were as bad as the Atari Jaguar, however.

Here's some screen shots from Zelda: The Wand of Gamelon on the CD-i. Space Ace looks marginally better, but still pretty bad overall.

From what I've seen of Torin's Passage, the graphics look very similar.

[Datadog]

Oh, god, no. Nothing, nothing NOTHING like those CD-I Zelda games! *shudder* Those were designed to give a person nightmares. TP was more closely made in the style of KQ7 or LSL7, and probably the best animated of the three.

[Tawmis]

Ditto Datadog. 101%

[Tawmis]

Check out what Andrea said about Torin's Passage since he recently played it for the first time! And Al Lowe claims it's his favorite game he's ever done! And then read this random thread I started about Torin's Passage! You are seriously robbing yourself of a great game by not giving TORIN'S PASSAGE a try.

[Datadog]

I'd like to say the same for a lot of the LucasArts adventures. I noticed in these contests that there's a lot of people who haven't played some of them, and while I know this is a Sierra forum, I highly recommend checking them out if possible. There's a reason LEC was Sierra's biggest competitor for the longest time, and there's a good chance some people could be missing out on some potential favorites.

[DeadPoolX]

Unless I could get for free, I doubt I'll bother playing Torin's Passage. Considering it was released in 1995, I'd spend a dollar or two for it at most.

[BBP]

The CD-i was a failed attempt at combining a multimedia player and a gaming console. It's a lot like the 3DO, but even worse. Neither were as bad as the Atari Jaguar, however.

Here's some screen shots from Zelda: The Wand of Gamelon on the CD-i. Space Ace looks marginally better, but still pretty bad overall.

From what I've seen of Torin's Passage, the graphics look very similar.

Not really. CD-I was never really intended as a gaming console, it wanted to bring interactive media to the common man (computers were still the domain of wizzkids back in the day). The earliest titles are educative, children's interactive stories, and CDs with slide shows accompanying the tracks on it. There were some games like Chess, Battleships and Connect-4, but the AI on CD-I is completely lousy, so playing the computer is no fun and because the loading time after every move is rather high, it's no fun playing with 2 either.
Philips did realise they made a mistake and switched to games in 1994, but the low disk-speed, the bad AI and the miserable controls meant the best games on the console are adventures.
But as far as graphics is concerned: the best-looking 7th Guest runs on CD-I. (And you can actually BEAT the microscope puzzle.)
Cluedo? is amazing. Only you need a video card for those, and most CD-I customers just never made that extra purchase. And without one there's always Voyeur or Mad Dog McCree.

[Akril]

Woah, tangent...

Anyway, my vote goes to Boogle (I'm surprised that Cedric made it this far) and Joey.

[BBP]

Woah, tangent...

Anyway, my vote goes to Boogle (I'm surprised that Cedric made it this far) and Joey.

I'm sorry if I sounded a little irate, I really wasn't.
There's just this misconception that I see a lot with American reviewers that CD-i was a gaming console. It wasn't, they just made a "supercomputer for the non-wizzkids", a device you could use as CD-player, as VCD-player (= video-CD, something like DVD but without menu and with less disk-space), as tutor, and later as Internet access (which could only be used with a 144K modem, which was already low by the standards of the age).
CD-i should not be viewed as "retarded gaming system" but as predecessor of the DVD, and of today's multimedia consoles. It was partly too ahead of its time (attempting to sell technology while it was not really ready yet) and partly much too late. It's sad, but in a very amusing way.

That misconception has caused a lot of mindless reviews, Philips-bashing and Dutchmen-bashing. And that can get me cross.