It's the tenth anniversary of Grim Fandango! Sort of.

[Jorpho]

Remember this pic?
http://tinear.net/images/106.jpg

[Gapporin]

Heh! And I just installed it on this computer not longer than a week ago. It takes all of 30MB of hard drive space, by the way.

Methinks I'll have to start pretty soon.

[carlcarlson]

that was a great game. I played the demo when it came out, but never got ahold of the full game. now it's kinda pricey...

[Porksta]

I have it, but it crashes often that I can't enjoy it :(

[Jorpho]

I have it, but it crashes often that I can't enjoy it :(

Oh dear. I guess you're running Windows XP? Maybe if you disable hardware rendering it will work better. (The first time I tried to run it, I had to downgrade my sound drivers in order to get rid of a weird echoing distortion effect.)

I regard this game as one of the few genuine works of art I have ever encountered in gaming. I'd buy a special edition with highres cutscenes if LucasArts ever had the nerve to release it. If the ScummVM team ever makes more progress with the Residual project, they wouldn't even have to re-code the engine.

[KeyserSoze61]

Brings a tear to my eye. I love that game so much; to this day, I would venture to say that it is my favorite game. Despite the control scheme that takes some getting used to, it is pretty much the pinnacle of adventure games: Tim Schaeffer comedy, clever puzzles, beautiful graphics, and a unique plot.

Its too bad that good adventure games are such a rarity now. Still there's a quality backlog -- in fact, I just got done playing through Blade Runner last month.

[Moo Cow]

that was a great game. I played the demo when it came out, but never got ahold of the full game. now it's kinda pricey...

The rerelease is pretty cheap if you don't want to buy the original.

[Mangar]

This game brings me back memories, because it was probably one of the best games i ever pirated and released during my tenure as leader of Deviance. (Then DVNiSO) Solid title.

[roushimsx]

I was really looking forward to the game, but the demo left me feeling a bit unimpressed. The control was kinda bleh (inventory management was an absolute chore and about 20 steps back from SCUMM) and the puzzle designs were more obnoxious than anything. Still wound up buying the game anyway because fuck it, it was a Lucasarts adventure and word on the street was that it'd be the last (which turned out to be kinda false, though Escape From Monkey Island isn't much of a swan song).

Color me disappointed in the lackluster gameplay, but completely in love with the awesome graphics, story, and dialog. Great characters and tons of awesome references. It's just a shame that the gameplay got fist fucked in the process of trying to 3Derize it all. Yea, I said 3Derize.

The puzzles were the worst thing this side of Police Quest, but from what I understand, Gabriel Knight 3 took it all a step further into the oblivion of shitty puzzle design. One of these days I'll play it just to establish that new baseline and give me a newfound appreciation for all of the adventure games that have logical puzzles.

[Kitsune Sniper]

The puzzles were the worst thing this side of Police Quest, but from what I understand, Gabriel Knight 3 took it all a step further into the oblivion of shitty puzzle design. One of these days I'll play it just to establish that new baseline and give me a newfound appreciation for all of the adventure games that have logical puzzles.

Oh god. The fucking cat puzzle. IT STILL HAUNTS ME.

[Jorpho]

Oh god. The fucking cat puzzle. IT STILL HAUNTS ME.

Oh yes, I remember reading about that one (http://www.oldmanmurray.com/features/77.html). Spectacular!

I rather liked the puzzles in Grim Fandango; the only tricky part came with the distinction between "use" and "give". I also don't think that the inventory management was that bad, mostly because you never really had very many items in your inventory.

At times I was reminded a little bit of Final Fantasy 7, and I had this weird vision of a turn-based RPG featuring Manny culling the denizens of the underworld with his scythe... but that'll never happen.

[Barbarianoutkast85]

Oh yea that game brings back memories of geting really angry and wanting to smash everything in my sight. For somme reason I remember geting stuck someplace and trying to figure it out for a couple days until it just drove me nuts and I never played it again. Which happens pretty often for me.

[TheRedEye]

This game brings me back memories, because it was probably one of the best games i ever pirated and released during my tenure as leader of Deviance. (Then DVNiSO) Solid title.

hey awesome dude, good job!