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Ask Slashdot: Best Adventure Game To Start With?

Posted by Soulskill on from the getting-them-hooked-early dept.

canolecaptain writes "One of my daughters (10 years old) has become interested in adventure games, and started playing Fate. It's been awhile since I've had time to play this type of game (since the Diablo 2 days), and I'd like to know what Slashdotters thought would be the best set of adventure games to start her on (PC preferred). Nothing too scary yet, so unfortunately, Diablo is out for the time being. I'd prefer one with multi-player so that we could quest together on ocassion."

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  1. Going Outside is a good adventure by enjar · · Score: 5, Insightful

    It's not on the PC, but it's pretty cheap.

    You can quest together on occasion.

    It's generally not scary.

    1. Re:Going Outside is a good adventure by npsimons · · Score: 1, Insightful

      It's not on the PC, but it's pretty cheap.

      You can quest together on occasion.

      It's generally not scary.

      Seconded. I used to be a gamer; grew up on NES (FF1, Solar Jetman, DW1, etc), then SNES (FF2, etc), then DOS (Ultima UW 1&2, Dark Legions, MOO 1&2, etc), PlayStation (FF7), then Linux (HoMM3, JA2, NWN, etc). Lately, though, I just can't bring myself to play video games much anymore. I'm just too busy and there's no appeal. Why go on virtual quests when I can go rescue someone for real? Why pretend to play a guitar when I can go play in a real band for real fans? I'm not slagging games, I loved them when I was into them, but there's so much more to the world, and most of the games these days are bug-ridden, DRM-ridden, overpriced "moneymakers" that aren't released for Linux, and I'm not about to fsck around with getting them to run in WINE; I've got better things to do (see above).

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  2. Re:Torchlight by SEWilco · · Score: 5, Insightful

    You can only imagine how disappointed your daughter would be cracking open a text adventure, wanting FATE instead!

    It depends upon the resolution of her imagination's graphics whether Zork is good.

  3. "What you mean by adventure", pfff. by Stormwatch · · Score: 4, Insightful

    I can see some similar replies: "It depends on what you mean by adventure"... well, no. If you say adventure, you MUST mean games similar to Zork, King's Quest, Myst, Monkey Island, Gabriel Knight, stuff like that. Otherwise, you are simply using the wrong word. This is the traditional, well-established, widely accepted definition; it is not open to debate, period.

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