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That makes sense if you only care about the overall arch I guess, since some worlds don’t really move that along.
I’m not going to say it’s great literature - I read when it I was an adolescent and it’s probably poorly written since neither of them is a great writer, technically. That being said, I still remember it fondly, probably due to never rereading it since.

Not progressed much in Death Gate, just travelled to the first world and explored a bit.

Some of these games just start with a lot of exposition. Gateway had the Computer archives to read, Companions of Xanth the “game” rules and this one starts with a 15-20 minutes dialogue talking just explaining the world. It was not bad because the voice acting was solid and the lore is pretty interesting but it does start rather slow.
Maybe it’s a result of all being adaptations of big book series and having to get the background all there.

As for the rest the graphical and audio leap is pretty big from Companions of Xanth at first glance, the magic system also looks like it could be good

wilco - 18 August 2015 02:44 PM

Undecided if I’ll play them because they are not adventures:
Star Control 3
Wheel of Time
Unreal 2

Not sure if anyone answered you regarding these, but I can say a bit about Star Control.

Star Control 1 was a pretty fun starship battle arcade. I really liked it as a child, but it’s just a simple arcade and you don’t need to know anything about it to play the other ones.

Star Control 2 is an amazing game. It’s not a pure adventure game, but a big chunk of the game is puzzle-based and dialog trees (and the dialogs are excellent and funny, and the story is great). There’s a freeware version called “The Ur-Quan Masters” (it’s an enhanced version of the original) at sc2.sourceforge.net. I highly recommend it. If you don’t like the arcade sections (though they’re pretty fun), you can put the arcade mode to “cyborg” which means the arcade sections are played for you, and then the game is a mix of adventure game and strategy game.

I remember being pretty disappointed with Star Control 3. It was an okay game, but Star Control 2 was my favorite game at one point in time, and the third game didn’t match the expectations I had.

Sounds good, I never played a Star Control game before but definitely will give it a go when the time comes.

You probably already know but I think Stardock bought the rights and is doing a new one.

Picked up Death Gate again after a little break and made lots of progress. Went through the 2 first worlds. Game is pretty impressive so far, each world is large, lots of lore specific to each one and I met Zifnab! Very charismatic, feels like meeting an important character in adventure game history
I would say that unless it falls apart in the last 2 worlds I will find it an importatnt omission of the Top 100 adventure games.

It works for me… I’m surprised that it takes so long to download; the game’s data is only 3 Mb or so.

Also, note that it’s running DOSBox in javascript inside your browser. So you need a pretty decent computer, and definitely a browser with a good js engine (so Firefox or Chrome; possibly Edge; certainly not IE or safari).

(BTW, you can save your game and restore at a later point; it’s saved in your browser’s offline storage.)

Then again, if you’re going to be playing the game for free, you might as well download it from an abandonware site and save you all the hassle.

Also seems to work fine here, I use Chrome, not sure what seems to be the problem Mike since I know nothing of it. Only tip I have is don’t forget to type naughty mode at the start (and prepare to restore a lot)

In other news, I was not able to put down Death Gate for the past day so I’ve finished it, early review is that it’s an obligatory adventure for everyone. More thoughts tomorrow hopefully

Yes, Dosbox worked great for me.