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Someone on the team really likes Saint’s Row. Read more

I hate to review the review but this review was a great review.

Thanks! :) Read more

*sees Fahey’s set up

I agree - with point’n’click adventures the characters and writing really is what you come for, besides gorgeus graphics and animation, of course. Few games have made me laugh as much as adventure games - the one-liners in them are indeed sillier than anywhere else. I guess they draw people like me who are a bit more Read more

For me Monkey Island is not nostalgia but a present game: I still replay it every two years at most and enjoy every minute of it. Well, except the swordfight grinding. Read more

Great video, brought back so many memories... and I read the article too, good stuff in it. Monkey Island is still one of my all-time favorite games - have the boxed Amiga version I initially bought and the PC CD-ROM 1 & 2 double pack. Read more

I love adventure point and click games. The Monkey Island series and Day of the Tentacle are a few of my favorite games of all time. I love the humor and wackiness. I remember loving the sword fighting. Violence without actually being violent. I come back to Monkey Island and Day of the Tentacle ever now and then. Read more

This was the game that made me desperate to get a computer. I would see it in Electronic Boutique and just stare at the box longingly. It was the first game I bought a few years later when I could finally get a computer. Good memories. Read more

Still one of my top 3 favorite games of all time. Played it for the first time around 1996 together with my best friend. We couldn’t finish it back then, because some floppy-discs (!) were missing, but we nevertheless had a wonderful time with it and cite it’s dialogues to this day. I found it especially impressive Read more

If you’re interested in a more television-centric context, I strongly recommend “I Know That Voice” - it’s a documentary film (currently streaming on Amazon Prime) from John DiMaggio (Bender in Futurama, Jake in Adventure Time, a million other things). It’s less a “how to get into voice acting” and more a “here’s what Read more