Adventure / Point-and-Click / Narrative Games

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Sierra made the games of my childhood. Are they still fun to play? (arstechnica.com)

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[–] celeste@kbin.earth 8 points 4 days ago

I've replayed some of them, but as stories, basically, with a guide. As a kid, me and my sister had tons of fun figuring out what worked in the text parser and what didn't. every new screen we unlocked was fascinating and nervewracking. we absolutely never finished them. we would mess around and then my sister would attempt the puzzle that involved reflexes, since i was younger. we died so so so many times.

the closest i got to winning one was years later. the one with the owl companion?? still, i got really far and then discovered i'd failed the game hours earlier by not picking up an item. i went and played something else. when i replayed them with guides, i was an adult, and some of it was cute, but you can't get back the brain you had as a kid that found them fascinating.