TheObviousSolution comments on 800 gamers tried to beat an '80s adventure without a walkthrough—only 2 did - Only .25% of players completed the AGAT, the Adventure Game Aptitude Test, designed by fiendish developer Woe Industries.

[–] TheObviousSolution@lemmy.ca 12 points 6 months ago (6 children)

Maniac Mansion was designed to be replayed, which is why the cast of characters you picked could be different each playthrough. It also meant a lot more red herrings.

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[–] ArmchairAce1944@lemmy.ca 2 points 6 months ago (5 children)

Lucasarts was much cleaner. We finished DOTT as kids without hints.

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[–] ICastFist@programming.dev 6 points 6 months ago* (2 children)

I vaguely remember that the point of LucasArts' adventure games was that they were tired of the bullshit moon logic of Sierra games. I guess it's the equivalent of someone who was so pissed off with Kaizo Mario that they made Dark Souls or something

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[–] TheObviousSolution@lemmy.ca 3 points 6 months ago* (1 child)

LucasArts has plenty of moon logic in their games, sometimes even mocking it with humor. DOTT was a lot of this. It just did not stick your save game to a point of no return where you have to restart over.

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[–] Delphia@lemmy.world 1 point 6 months ago

Yeah Curse of Monkey Island does have a few "Oh come the fuck on!" Moments.

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