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Fien · 01-03-2010, 06:53 PM

The adventure genre harbours different subgenres and maybe you're simply discovering which type of game you like best? You had no problems with the stand-alone puzzles in Machinarium (not much inventory there) and some of those were pretty hard. I don't mean to steer you away from 3rd-person adventures with lots of dialogue and inventory-based puzzles, but you might give the more Myst-like games a try, for instance Dark Fall 1 or Barrow Hill.

Other suggestions: Return to Mysterious Island. Not hard. You can solve things in different ways, thanks to its inventive inventory system. Play the demo! Loom is fun and easy. Gabriel Knight 2 has one or two whacky puzzles, but which game hasn't

and the story is wonderfully immersive.

01-03-2010, 06:53 PM	#92
Fien Senior female member Join Date: Jun 2005 Location: Holland Posts: 3,706	The adventure genre harbours different subgenres and maybe you're simply discovering which type of game you like best? You had no problems with the stand-alone puzzles in Machinarium (not much inventory there) and some of those were pretty hard. I don't mean to steer you away from 3rd-person adventures with lots of dialogue and inventory-based puzzles, but you might give the more Myst-like games a try, for instance Dark Fall 1 or Barrow Hill. Other suggestions: Return to Mysterious Island. Not hard. You can solve things in different ways, thanks to its inventive inventory system. Play the demo! Loom is fun and easy. Gabriel Knight 2 has one or two whacky puzzles, but which game hasn't and the story is wonderfully immersive.