I'm quite late to the Lucasarts P&C party, and I often end up playing the games with a guide because I don't like clicking / using items on everything and hoping for the best...
but in Day of the Tentacle getting the dentures was a really memorable moment, because in a spark of lunatic clairvoyance I immediately knew what I need to do for it. :D it was a good kind of crazy solution
Funny, when I saw the question my mind immediately jumped to day of the tentacle and some of the moments there, including the dentures. Just so many funny moments in that game.
I think some Lucasarts point and clicks made a perfect balancing act between a whimsical and silly world where anything can happen, and logic. The world makes the games fun, and excuse the weirdly logical solutions. I found that many new P&C games are stuck in a "too high level of reality", and that makes puzzles and actions overly complicated and awkward. Day of the Tentacle, or Full Throttle were incredibly free-flowing and story-rich, and the weird puzzles still fit so well into them, because they use a twisted version of rwal-life solutions.
Damn, you always pick out the most insane GAs!
My most memorable moment (or rather moments) was in Monkey Island 2 were I need to solve the hand sign puzzels. I solved it by pure chance. One year later I played it again AND again solved it by pure chance. Only alot of years later I played it again and figured it out, but I still cant believe I somehow managed it two times to get around there by chance without knowing what to do.
Omg, my brother and I were stuck at that puzzle for days on end! I can’t recall if we searched for a guide or eventually figured out the trick to solving it but we did manage to continue our adventure.
When the protagonist plays the music and the ghost with a saxophone started improvising in Blackwell Unbound.
When the protagonist meet her aunt again in Blackwell Epiphany.
Indiana Jones and the Last Crusade: Decapitating Indy and/or his father while being tied to the chairs.
And crossing the chasm near the end of the game :)
When I finally defeated the motherfucking goat in Broken Sword.
There were no guides online back then, and as a kid I thought calling the helpline could help. They could in fact NOT help. I had no idea what a helpline was back then. To my excuse I was like.. 7 or 8? :')
The scene near the end of Grim Fandango with Manny being super vengeful and all the flowers. Played that game when I was ten or so, that scene definitely left an impression on my tiny little mind.
I'm a huge fan of Monkey Island, but I guess the most memorable and unique point n click I've ever played was Grim Fandango. Got it as a kid and the art and themes are incredible.
Besides Monkey Island games, I had a lot of fun with The Longest Journey and Deponia series.
Most memorable... probably beating the wizard with a calculator in The Longest Journey.
I was caught pleasantly surprised when I got the first, of many, “trophies of cowardice” in Justin Wack and the Big Time Hack. Granted it’s probably not the most memorable moment, but it was a fairly-recent memorable moment that I think is worth mentioning.
I'm quite late to the Lucasarts P&C party, and I often end up playing the games with a guide because I don't like clicking / using items on everything and hoping for the best...
but in Day of the Tentacle getting the dentures was a really memorable moment, because in a spark of lunatic clairvoyance I immediately knew what I need to do for it. :D it was a good kind of crazy solution
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Funny, when I saw the question my mind immediately jumped to day of the tentacle and some of the moments there, including the dentures. Just so many funny moments in that game.
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My fav moment there was the hamster being subjected to cryonics. It was awesome when I saw what has to be done. So evil and so logical!
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I think some Lucasarts point and clicks made a perfect balancing act between a whimsical and silly world where anything can happen, and logic. The world makes the games fun, and excuse the weirdly logical solutions. I found that many new P&C games are stuck in a "too high level of reality", and that makes puzzles and actions overly complicated and awkward. Day of the Tentacle, or Full Throttle were incredibly free-flowing and story-rich, and the weird puzzles still fit so well into them, because they use a twisted version of rwal-life solutions.
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Damn, you always pick out the most insane GAs!
My most memorable moment (or rather moments) was in Monkey Island 2 were I need to solve the hand sign puzzels. I solved it by pure chance. One year later I played it again AND again solved it by pure chance. Only alot of years later I played it again and figured it out, but I still cant believe I somehow managed it two times to get around there by chance without knowing what to do.
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Omg, my brother and I were stuck at that puzzle for days on end! I can’t recall if we searched for a guide or eventually figured out the trick to solving it but we did manage to continue our adventure.
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Some years ago, in the ancient times before corona, I implemented that puzzel into my Pen&Paper campain as the GM. My player hated it XD
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Cool! Thanks for the great contribution. 🐵
Not my most memorable moment; just a scene I enjoy and think about often:
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It was in Milkmaid of the Milkyway when the cow died.
.......................HEAVY SPOILER !! ^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^
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Big thanks to ESGST that does unspoiler everything on the page...
worry not. I have no idea what you are talking about
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When the protagonist plays the music and the ghost with a saxophone started improvising in Blackwell Unbound.
When the protagonist meet her aunt again in Blackwell Epiphany.
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Man, those games gutted me.
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Digging a grave in the original Monkey Island 2! Cracks me up anytime (the SE version somewhat loses the charm on that bit though)
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Yep, that was awesome!
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This is the one, yes!:D
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Something from Zak McKraken (sp?) - loved that game. Possibly involving a yak.
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Most memorable, or perhaps more accurately 'painfully burned into my memory', is that damned goat. That god-damned goat.
Broken Sword, for those who haven't felt the pain.
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OMG YES! I hadn't read the comments before commenting myself. This scarred me for life.
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Glad it wasn't just me!
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In ZakMcKracken when you go to Mars and in a closet there's the gas tank for the chainsaw you find in Maniac Mansion xD
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Indiana Jones and the Last Crusade: Decapitating Indy and/or his father while being tied to the chairs.
And crossing the chasm near the end of the game :)
"Hi, I am Bobbin. Are you my mother?"
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wow. I discovered hidden formatting techniques xD
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Not so hidden https://www.steamgifts.com/about/comment-formatting
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When I finally defeated the motherfucking goat in Broken Sword.
There were no guides online back then, and as a kid I thought calling the helpline could help. They could in fact NOT help. I had no idea what a helpline was back then. To my excuse I was like.. 7 or 8? :')
There's a reason this has it's own wiki-page; https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/The_Goat_Puzzle
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The scene near the end of Grim Fandango with Manny being super vengeful and all the flowers. Played that game when I was ten or so, that scene definitely left an impression on my tiny little mind.
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Use pig on door in Simon the sorcerer.......
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The giant monkey mech from... I think it was Escape from Monkey Island...
Thank you for the GA :)
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Key or region-restricted gift?
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It is a key, as far as I know (accoring to the store) there are no region restrictions.
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Getting trapped in Myst because I made a wrong choice on which brother to save.
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I'm a huge fan of Monkey Island, but I guess the most memorable and unique point n click I've ever played was Grim Fandango. Got it as a kid and the art and themes are incredible.
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Besides Monkey Island games, I had a lot of fun with The Longest Journey and Deponia series.
Most memorable... probably beating the wizard with a calculator in The Longest Journey.
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Since Monkey Island was THE first game I ever played...
Cognition: An Erica Reed Thriller - absolutely loved it!
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That's one of those games I always install to remind myself that I want to play it, then completely forget about it :P
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Aw, it made me have hope about PnCs again. Aaaaand I kinda hunter down a couple of PnCs from the creator - I also liked them :3
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"When I'm on the road, I'm indestructible..." [wheel falls out]
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Conquests of the Longbow when I stumbled across Maid Marian in the forest.
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Beat me to it: I was hoping for first giveaway :D
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Yours could finish first ;)
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I was caught pleasantly surprised when I got the first, of many, “trophies of cowardice” in Justin Wack and the Big Time Hack. Granted it’s probably not the most memorable moment, but it was a fairly-recent memorable moment that I think is worth mentioning.
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A fine choice!
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