Posted July 07, 2012
There's a game from 1995 called Dust: A Tale of the Wired West, and it was really amazingly good. To this day it remains among my top five favorite games ever. It was an adventure and puzzle solving game where you play as a stranger in a small town during the Wild West era. Solving puzzles actually took paying attention to the plot and small, minor hints given by characters. In-game books provide information, following someone can help you get information, being nice or rude to characters has an effect on how they treat you in return. There's poker, blackjack, and a slot machine in the saloon, too.
And I imagine it's one of the hardest adventure games to beat of all time.
Fully voice acted, branching dialog trees, multiple paths to take in order to accomplish goals such as acquiring a gun, boots, and making enough money for rent. The story is really great and the characters are some of the funniest I've ever seen in a game. The gunplay is a little bit annoying but it can definitely be overlooked because it isn't a focal point.
I would love it if you guys would put it on the site. That was probably the first game I ever played where I felt attached to the characters. I can remember literally every single one of them. Unfortunately I lost my CD and it hadn't worked on Windows XP so well for me. The graphics are not really a problem because of the art style.
And when you talk to people in the town, they use photos in a sort of stop-motion system to show you real people instead of just cartoony renditions.
And I imagine it's one of the hardest adventure games to beat of all time.
Fully voice acted, branching dialog trees, multiple paths to take in order to accomplish goals such as acquiring a gun, boots, and making enough money for rent. The story is really great and the characters are some of the funniest I've ever seen in a game. The gunplay is a little bit annoying but it can definitely be overlooked because it isn't a focal point.
I would love it if you guys would put it on the site. That was probably the first game I ever played where I felt attached to the characters. I can remember literally every single one of them. Unfortunately I lost my CD and it hadn't worked on Windows XP so well for me. The graphics are not really a problem because of the art style.
And when you talk to people in the town, they use photos in a sort of stop-motion system to show you real people instead of just cartoony renditions.
