Board 8 > Best/Worst #32 - 1990's LucasArts Game

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Welcome to the 32nd episode of Best & Worst... stuff.

Today we have LucasArts Games.
Particularly, from the 1990s.

Which game did you love the most?
And which game, out of the ones you played (because of course, I don't expect you to have played all of them) did you enjoy the least?

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Voting Form:
Best:
Worst:

1990's LucasArts Games
Monkey Island 2: LeChuck's Revenge
Sam & Max: Hit the World
Day of the Tentacle
Full Throttle
The Dig
Zombies Ate My Neighbours
Outlaws
Star Wars: X-Wing Alliance
Star Wars Episode 1 Racer
Lego Star Wars
Star Wars Jedi Knight: Dark Forces II
Star Wars: Rogue Squadron
Super Star Wars: Return of the Jedi
Loom
Star Wars: Tie Fighter
The Curse of Monkey Island
The Secret of Monkey Island
Grim Fandango
Indiana Jones and the Fate of Atlantis
Indiana Jones and the Infernal Machine



Previous Results ( Best | Worst ):

Friend: Chandler | Ross
Simpsons Season 1: Bart the General | Homer's Night Out
Final Fantasy VII NPC: Rufus | Priscilla
Golden Axe Character: Dwarf | Barbarian
Gears of War 2 Weapon: Torque Bow | Hammerburst
Dark Souls Boss: Artorias | Bed of Chaos
Kirby Super Star Game Mode: Revenge of Meta-Knight | Gourmet Race
Final Fantasy IX Character: Vivi | Amarant
Super Mario Kart Racer: Koopa Troopa | Donkey Kong Jr.
Jackbox Game (Pack 1 - 4): Trivia Murder Party | Monster Seeking Monster
Tony Hawk's Pro Skater 3 Course: Canada | Foundry
Kirby Copy Ability: UFO | Sleep
Final Fantasy XIII Character: Vanille | Hope
Cuphead Boss: Werner Werman | Rumor Honeybottoms
Twisted Metal 2 Car: Axel | Spectre, Grasshopper
Jet Force Gemini Level: Eschebone | Cerulean
Final Fantasy X Character: Tidus | Kimahri
Ocarina of Time Dungeon: Forest Temple | Jabu-Jabu's Belly
Wii Sports Sport: Bowling | Boxing
Daytona USA Track: Expert | Beginner
Mario Party 4 Minigame (4p): Booksquirm | Mario Speedwagon
Kid Chameleon Helmet: Maniaxe | Eyeclops
StarCraft Species: Protoss | Zerg
Super Metroid Boss: Ridley (2) | Spore Spawn
Mario Kart Double Dash Track: Baby Park | Luigi Circuit, Dry Dry Desert
Bart's Nightmare Level: Bartman | Temple of Maggie
Link to the Past Boss: Helmasaur King | Moldorm
Super Punch-Out Opponent: Gabby Jay, Masked Muscle | Aran Ryan
California Games Event: Foot Bag | Surfing
Street Fighter II Stage: Boxer | Dictator
Doom II Weapon: Super Shotgun | Fists

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Friends Results:

Chandler: 10 - 0
Joey: 9 - 0
Phoebe: 2 - 1
Monica: 1 - 2
Rachel: 0 - 8
Ross: 0 - 11

There is a clear gap between the top 2, middle 2, and last 2!
I love Friends...

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Bonus Discussion Topics

Q1: When was the last time you played and finished, a "point n click" adventure game?
Q2: Were you a 1990's PC gamer?
Q3: In flying games and racing games... What viewpoint do you prefer... Inside the cockpit? Or behind the vehicle?
Q4: what do you like and dislike about point n click games?
Q5: Were you a LucasArts fan? How many of the 20 games listed did you play?


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I dont believe any Lego Star Wars video game was released in the 90s.

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Best: Star Wars: Rogue Squadron
Worst: Star Wars Episode I: Racer

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hylianknight3 posted...

I dont believe any Lego Star Wars video game was released in the 90s.

Hylianknight... You are correct!
My bad! Lego Star Wars is out!

Damn you 1 hour edit window... =(


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Umm where is Metal Warriors!?

Also fun fact my uncle worked at LucasArts in the 90s

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MZero posted...

Umm where is Metal Warriors!?

Also fun fact my uncle worked at LucasArts in the 90s

I had never heard of it before. =(
Upon googling, apparently it was a North America only game?
As an Australian, in our poor neglected country... I apologise for not mentioning it.
We missed out on a lot of good stuff, you know...

Cool fact, too.

Just wanna say, any LucasArts Game from the 90s can be voted for.
My list and screenshots, they're just to make it more visually appealing and easier to think of games.
It's not the be all, end all.


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Best: Day of the Tentacle
Worst: Star Wars Episode I: Racer

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Best: The Secret of Monkey Island
Worst: Zombies Ate My Neighbors

Q1: When was the last time you played and finished, a "point n click" adventure game? -I replayed Lechuck's Revenge a few years ago.
Q2: Were you a 1990's PC gamer? - I played games on PC, but I woudn't consider myself a PC gamer during that time.
Q3: In flying games and racing games... What viewpoint do you prefer... Inside the cockpit? Or behind the vehicle? - For railshooters and racing, usually behind the vehicle. For non-railed flying games, usually in the cockpit.
Q4: what do you like and dislike about point n click games? - The writing and atmosphere is usually pretty good. The jumps in logic for some puzzles can be annoying.
Q5: Were you a LucasArts fan? How many of the 20 games listed did you play? - I really liked Lucasarts, but I only played half of those games, though I do own another five I haven't played yet - The Dig, both Indy games, X-Wing and Loom.

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Best: Monkey Island 2
Worst: Star Wars Episode I: Racer

Best: Grim Fandango
Worst: uhm... abstain, too hard from the ones i've played.

Ooh, this is a topic.

Best: I was going to say Fate of Atlantis before I remembered the X-Wing games were a thing. It feels weird not picking a SCUMM game here, but objectively speaking the answer here is Tie-Fighter. (I got more enjoyment out of X-Wing, but Tie-Fighter is definitely a better game.)

Worst: I've only played about a quarter of these, but I gotta go with Star Wars Episode 1 Racer. Everything else was really good. That game, I rented from Blockbuster, and had no desire to go back to.

Also, no Afterlife on the list?

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Q1: When was the last time you played and finished, a "point n click" adventure game?

Earlier this year, I played Unavowed.

Q2: Were you a 1990's PC gamer?

Yes. My parents didn't believe in consoles. I eventually wore them down and got an N64, but I endured a Nintendo-less, Genesis-less, SNES-less childhood.

Q3: In flying games and racing games... What viewpoint do you prefer... Inside the cockpit? Or behind the vehicle?

Flying = cockpit. Racing = chase.

Q4: what do you like and dislike about point n click games?

I like the sense of discovery and sometimes how unique the puzzles are, but I dislike having to look for magic pixels or (usually with Sierra games) how obtuse the puzzle solutions were. Not to mention being progression-locked if you didn't do something earlier in the game, which was definitely not a LucasArts thing.

Q5: Were you a LucasArts fan? How many of the 20 games listed did you play?

The more I think about it, the more incomplete the list in the OP is. I played Temple of Doom, Fate of Atlantis, Afterlife, and a bunch of star wars games. I also had a DOS shareware demo for Monkey Island which I loved and would have wanted to play the full game if I'd had the chance.

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Up!


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Voting Form:
Best: Grim Fandango
Worst: Star Wars Episode 1 Racer

Q1: Mr. Boop and the Curse of the Dinner Party, earlier this year
Q2: I was born in '93, so I probably played a couple simple games in the 90s, but primarily no
Q3: Behind the vehicle, for the most part
Q4: I like the humor in the writing, the silliness of the plots. I don't like having to look up a walkthrough to figure out that the only way to unlock the door is by burying the blender in the backyard or something that could never be remotely reasoned.
Q5: I've enjoyed what I've played, which is only like 5 of them

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Best: Indiana Jones and the Fate of Atlantis
Worst: Outlaws, I guess. Never played it and it may well be a good game but it looks the worst among these.

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Best: Star Wars: Droid Works
Worst: abstain

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Oh, dang, I've got a lot for Best but none of the ones I played can be considered "Worst," because while I haven't touched a good half of this list, I have no bad memories of any of them.

Best for me: Star Wars: TIE Fighter

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You forgot https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Star_Wars:_Episode_I_%E2%80%93_The_Phantom_Menace_(video_game)

That game is total fucking garbage

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I'll put that in the worst column for you.

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OK! Best would be Dark Forces 2 Jedi Knight

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TotallyNotMI posted...

Best: Day of the Tentacle
Worst: Star Wars Episode I: Racer

Best: Metal Warriors
Worst: Star Wars Episode 1 Racer


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Best: Grim Fandango
Worst: Star Wars Episode I Racer

Q1: When was the last time you played and finished, a "point n click" adventure game?
Earlier this year, specifically with Grim Fandango

Q2: Were you a 1990's PC gamer?
Nope, didn't have a decent PC until the late 2010s

Q3: In flying games and racing games... What viewpoint do you prefer... Inside the cockpit? Or behind the vehicle?
Behind the vehicle

Q4: what do you like and dislike about point n click games?
How cryptic some of the puzzles can be.

Q5: Were you a LucasArts fan? How many of the 20 games listed did you play?

I wasn't growing up, but I've enjoyed a lot of the games recently. I've only played four of the games on the list. The other two being Monkey Island and Day of the Tentacle

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Q1: When was the last time you played and finished, a "point n click" adventure game?
Never played one that as far as I remember

Q2: Were you a 1990's PC gamer?
Not really. I was born in '92 and was mostly a SNES and Genesis (and eventually N64) kid. In the late 90s I played Starcraft and FF7 on PC though

Q3: In flying games and racing games... What viewpoint do you prefer... Inside the cockpit? Or behind the vehicle?
Don't really like these kinds of games, no preference

Q4: what do you like and dislike about point n click games?
Never played one, but they don't really appeal to me because they don't seem very action-packed

Q5: Were you a LucasArts fan? How many of the 20 games listed did you play?
I would say so, yes. I remember playing 3 of these, plus Metal Warriors obviously, and probably some others I don't remember.

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Q1: When was the last time you played and finished, a "point n click" adventure game?
Broken Sword V on PS4. It was very fun.

Q2: Were you a 1990's PC gamer?
Yes. Balanced it the whole decade with the Master System/SNES/PS1

Q3: In flying games and racing games... What viewpoint do you prefer... Inside the cockpit? Or behind the vehicle?
More often than not, inside.

Q4: what do you like and dislike about point n click games?
The humour and puzzles. I'm playing through Fate of Atlantis now and almost at the end. What I don't like is getting lost with no idea what to do next...

Q5: Were you a LucasArts fan? How many of the 20 games listed did you play?
I own all of them except for Infernal Machine, and Dark Forces II (and the games others have mentioned that I accidentally missed from my list.) I was a big, big fan.

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Best: Secret of Monkey Island
Worst: The Dig (And it's not even a bad game... But if I have to pick one for last...)


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