A Point-and-click ramble-o-thon

I’d like to suggest A Final Unity, probably the only good Star Trek game ever made.

This was not on the list, but now is.

And that’s why Stobbart got a bunch of games made about him and not anyone around here.

25th Anniversary is a good 'un too. I think the similar Judgment Rites is meant to be good, but not played too much of that one.

Unsurprisingly, point and click seems to be a good genre for Trek.

I'm sure you already have it on the list, but The Longest Journey is the bestest point and click.

Nice idea for a channel. I do the occasional games blogging and quite enjoy doing that, but video output is clearly what the people want. It isn't something I would do solo, but could see it being fun with a partner, particularly narrative games like this. Not really point and click, but slightly adjacent, doing Until Dawn or something of the ilk could be fun. Actually, the new Star Trek one that is coming up could be a good fit.

Edit - oh and Unavowed is a great modern point and click, as well as most stuff by Wadjet Eye.

Quick sense-check (in as much as sense applies to anything we're doing) - We're looking at starting on the Tex Murphy games. Does anyone know whether it's worth starting right from the beginning, on Mean Streets, or whether I makes more sense to start at Martian Memorandum? I kind of feel like it would be more 'in-the-spirit' to start right at the beginning, but half of it looks like a terrible-looking flight-sim, which doesn't appeal, and apparently the later Overseer game covers the same story.

I think on balance, I might just go all in and play it, but just wondered in case anyone has experience with the series.

Thanks, maybe we'll give them a quick dip into for curiousity's sake, and if they're intolerable we'll just give it up and jump to the third, as you say.

I really want to play the first 3 Monkey Island games and it's annoying theres no android version or available on switch. Don't have a PC which would have been the easy way.

Guess I could ScummVM them but I fancied playing the remastered versions.

The OG's didn't have talky versions and I like talky versions. Plus I replayed them in the original forms a lot and I like shinnies now!

Probably MS being awks towards Ninty

In my "finally playing point and click games I meant to play 25+ years or so ago" phase right now, I completed Broken Sword 1 and 2 over the past few months (I don't get a lot of time to game!). Had originally started BS1 on the PS1 in 96/97 with a mate when we realised about 30 mins in that it wasn't the kind of game to play for fun when you had a school mate round. It was cool playing it again after all these years and remembering the fantastic cafe scene at the start. Absolutely loved both games, so much so I went on a completed BS5 (I was advised to skip the others). Very much hope we get to spend more time with George and Nicole again one day!

Next on the list, Indiana Jones and the Fate of Atlantis.

Was it the director’s cut? That version is weird. Suddenly going from classic graphics and compressed speech to something that looks AI generated and crystal clear voices is a dissonance that threw me out of the experience.

That fucking goat puzzle took me about a month. Had a lot of patience as a kid!

An understatement. I would genuinely enjoy seeing Nico force him over to a full sink and hold his head under the water until he stopped moving.

And probably make some kind of sarky quip about it, attributing his ingenuity to American Exceptionalism.