First of all, I love everything Point-and-Click. For the past half of the year I've already finished The Blackwell Series. I've played that series TWICE already, and I still want more. I've finished plenty of Wadjet Eye games, as well (The Golden Wake is a personal favorite, for example). Can't get enough of this genre, so to speak.

More recently, I've finished Gabriel Knight: Sins of the Fathers, but since I'm using a Mac OS, I can't play the other two games of the series. I don't want to bootcamp my Mac for fear of messing my computer up. (If you guys know of a better way let me know).

Now I just found out about this series, Tex Murphy. I'm interested in getting into this whole shenanigan, but I just don't know where to start. Can someone tell me on how best to jump into this charming bandwagon?

Mean Streets and Martian Memorandum are decent, but if you want to jump straight in, start with Under a Killing Moon.

Either way, the entire series is worth playing.

I generally am pretty strict about playing things in order. I tried Mean Streets and Martian Memorandum and found them clunky and too hard to get into. So I started with Under a Killing Moon. Played that and Pandora Directive, started Overseer (which retells the stories of Mean Streets and Martian Memorandum both, I think), but it kind of is not very good, so haven't beaten it yet (it might be my first video-game that I watch on youtube.) IMO the Tex Murphy games pale in comparison to GK2 and GK3, but I've not played Tesla Effect which seems like it could be a lot better than the other Tex games (not because of graphics, but because of quality of writing and the plot.)

My #1 Point and Click adventure is The Longest Journey, but there are bunches of very good ones out there. I hope you have fun discovering them!!!

I agree with zeogold--do it Chronologic! :-D

UaKM has some good puzzles and story elements, but I feel the acting is overall too goofy/hammy. It also has a few evil pixel hunting moments. Pandora Directive feels much more professionally done and doesn't feel worse than UaKM in any aspect, so why not start with that. I'd avoid Tesla Effect for now because you'll appreciate its nostalgic factor more after you've played the older titles.

In any case, each first-person Tex Murphy follows the traditional formula in that there are familiar parts. You have the dialogue/puzzle part in Chandler Avenue (the best part IMO), followed by exploration/puzzle part in someone's home or other location, then a "dangerous"/puzzle part with timed elements and/or enemies that can kill you, and even straight-up back-to-back logic puzzle parts that can get tedious after a while. But the series is very worth playing.

The later FMV Tex games are generally thought to be the stonrgest games in the series, so I'd recommend starting from Under The Killing Moon.

Mean Streets and Martian Memorandum both have a structure in them, that allows you to play yourself in a dead end situation, which forces you to roll back on a previous save. Martian Memorandum is really mean in this aspect, as you can get as far as near the ending, when you realise that you are missing an important object, which forces you to replay more than half of the game again.

Thanks for suggestions, guys! I've decided to start on Under A Killing Moon and take it from there. This will be my first FMV game and I cannot wait to try it.

And ugh, I still wish there was a better way than bootcamp so I can play Gabriel Knight 2 and 3 on my Mac. Heard they're thinking of making a 4th one. Let's hope it's all platforms though.

Anyway, on to the Tex Murphy universe I go!

Isn't GK 2 a DOS game? There shouldn't be many problems to get it running on Mac, I think.

I started from Under A Killing Moon and I didn't regret it.
Mean Streets is too old, difficult and clunky.
Even if there are some references, you don't actually need the previous games.

EDIT: I'm way too late..

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Tex Murphy forum as GOG doesn't add it anymore.