Finished Myst 3: what next?

In My Humble Opinion
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A while back, a friend and I played Myst 3 together and had lots of fun. Now that its summer, we have some free time on our hands again and are looking for a new game to play. Any ideas?

Some guidelines:

I get motion sickness from 1st person shooters-type games. (I even got a little sick playing Myst.) Unfortunately this eliminates many, many games.

We are looking for something that requires brain power-- problems that we can solve together-- and a sort of role-play/adventure feel to it.

Some sort of murder mystery/detective theme is what I have in mind, but I am open to other suggestions.

My friend is a fan of British culture, so something with a British element would be nice for her.

We will be playing on a HP Pentium4 laptop (fairly new) running Windows XP.

Thanks in advance and sorry if its in the wrong forum. It’s sortof mundane-entertainment-opinion poll, so I wasn’t sure where to put it.

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If you want to try a text-based game online, check out “Hitchiker’s Guide to the Galaxy” - go to douglasadams.com and follow the links under collected works.

Also try “Starship Titanic” by DNA.

Other suggestions might be “Amber, Journeys Beyond” or “Lighthouse”.

For something music-themed, try “Xplora” or “Eve” from Peter Gabriel.

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My recent thing has been to dig into my old games and see what’ll run under XP. Most of this stuff is probably out of print, but I grew up on the Kings-Quest-style thinking games, so I sympathize.

So far all I’ve tried is Grim Fandango by LucasArts, and it runs fine (the only bugs I attribute to my graphics hardware, rather than XP). Next I’m gonna try The Space Quest Anthology :smiley:

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If you like adventure games(Grim Fandango, etc.) check out The Longest Journey. It’s probably the best adventure game released in years. The Monkey Island series is also pretty silly and fun. :stuck_out_tongue:

If you like RPG style games, give Planescape: Torment a try. It’s got a great plot, but isn’t quite as puzzle-based as Myst or games like that.

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[slight hijack] Does anyone have a clue if Starship Titanic will run under XP? I saw a copy for sale the other day. [/sh]

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I’ll second Grim Fandango. It’s a great game - the story is fresh and interesting, the graphics are unique, and the voices are funny and well done. There’s also quite a bit of puzzles in it.

As for the hardware requirements, it ran fine on my old P3 450mhz, with a STB Velocity 4400 (RIVA TNT drivers…), so you should be fine.

Another plus is that you can probably get it for cheap, since it’s been out for a couple of years.

You can read a review/look at stuff here.