I recently played The Dig for the first time, which passed me by when I was younger. I had heard of it I didn’t realise it was another Lucas/Spielberg game. I’d just come off a couple of other Lucasarts games and it was quite different.

Looking back it seems quite divisive, I think because it was so different to the comedy Lucasarts adventures, but there’s still a lot of love for it floating around the internet, and now I’ve added to it here if you fancy a long read: https://p7uen.neocities.org/posts/2023-06-23-The-Dig

  • SpooneyOdin@lemmy.mlEnglish
    3·
    1 year ago

    The music was particularly amazing in this game. I just think the biggest drawback were the very cryptic puzzles especially in the later half. It all makes sense retrospectively once you understand what you are doing but in the moment it can be very frustrating.

    It reminds me lot of Myst like puzzles - you end up interacting with a bunch of weird technology and it isn’t always clear on what you are doing.

    • Lvxferre@lemmy.mlEnglish
      3·
      1 year ago

      You got slapped on the face, didn’t you? She told you! You should’ve listened to her!

      (I agree that it’s a great game.)

  • Kory@lemmy.mlEnglish
    2·
    1 year ago

    I’ve played it several times back then and kept a hand-written cheat sheet for that one puzzle where you had to get that crystal out. It was so hard without a quick walkthrough on the internet ;)

    Watched a video of it recently cause I had remembered it. Thought I would watch 10 mins or so, kept watching till the end :D

    • P7uen@beehaw.orgOPEnglish
      2·
      1 year ago

      When I was a kid I drew an A3-sized map of Jurassic Park on the SNES, still couldn’t complete the game until I was an adult!

      • Kory@lemmy.mlEnglish
        1·
        1 year ago

        Haha that reminds me of Bard’s Tale where we were drawing maps as we went.

  • eendjes@feddit.nlEnglish
    0·
    1 year ago

    I really loved this game but having played it again not too many years ago, it does have several “sins” of the genre like overly cryptic puzzles and pixel hunting.

    But the atmosphere is really top notch.

    • HidingCat@kbin.social
      1·
      1 year ago

      I don’t think the sins were that bad (I’ve played far worse), I thought it was one of the easier games of the genre. I didn’t quite like the ending though, it felt a bit anticlimactic and that the heroes didn’t really earn it. It was like they decided to rush the ending and just wrapped it up.