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[Alastor3]

I just finished Her Story, and I really like the use of real life video integrated into the game and came to realised I missed all those other titles like Myst and the likes. I just bought the new Tex Murphy game because I heard it's kinda good and plan to play it soon but I want to find other games like that. Is there something that got release in the past years and that was good?? I don't think I will go back to try and play Myst mostly because of it's age unless it's really a must have and it still play well on current machine.

I love that I discovered a new type of genre into my favorite type of media!

 

[timmyp53]

Cibel?

Spoiler

I liked it... dont kill me

 

[Xamtheking]

Ummm
Roundabout has some FMV stuff, but it's mostly for humor and the game isn't centered around FMV

 

[SatoAilDarko]

Any FMV titles for PS1?

Quality does not matter.

 

[SixMachine]

When I was a kid, my dad had a copy of 7th Guest. It is all about puzzles and interacting with the environment, but it freaked me out as a kid. Revisiting it a few years back, some of it is cheesier than I remember, but the whole grainy FMV look definitely did add to the atmosphere.

Also you should try Harvester. I never played it but I remember watching DansGame do a playthrough and it's a riot because of how weird it is.

edit: Oh you said past few years...uh, scratch my recommendation off the list then.

 

[HoodWinked]

never played it but last year people were also praising Contradiction - Spot The Liar

giant bomb ql
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=WVi4IQ4j1lw

 

[reddwarf42]

Contradiction: Spot the Liar

 

[SunBroDave]

never played it but last year people were also praising Contradiction - Spot The Liar

giant bomb ql
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=WVi4IQ4j1lw

Came here to post this

 

[MrCunningham]

Any FMV titles for PS1?

Quality does not matter.

Brain Dead 13 is an animated FMV game in the style of Dragon's Lair.

 

[Maiden Voyage]

Contradiction for sure.

 

[Glowsquid]

Any FMV titles for PS1?

Quality does not matter.

on top of my head:

Fox Hunt

X-Files

Gundam 0071: The War for Earth

Creature Shock

some Europe only sci-fi shooter whose name I forgot (I thought it was among the lines of "Warp Speed" but doesn't seem so) edit: It's "The Hive"

 

[BTails]

The Tex Murphy FMV adventures: Under a Killing Moon, The Pandora Directive, Overseer, Telsa Effect.

Gabriel Knight: The Beast Within

 

[bobawesome]

Cibel?

Spoiler

I liked it... dont kill me

Did this turn out to be bad? It sounded pretty interesting based on what I heard from Austin Walker from Giant Bomb.

 

[vocab]

Gabriel knight 2 and under a killing moon are some of the best. Pandora directive had too many puzzles that really suffocated the design.

The offbeat cheesy games would be harvester, noctroplis, and phantasmagoria 2.

 

[SatoAilDarko]

Brain Dead 13 is an animated FMV game in the style of Dragon's Lair.

on top of my head:

Fox Hunt

X-Files

Gundam 0071: The War for Earth

Creature Shock

some Europe only sci-fi shooter whose name I forgot (I thought it was among the lines of "Warp Speed" but doesn't seem so)

Thanks a lot!

Did Gundam: The War for Earth game ever get a Western release?

Will definitely get the X-Files game, already have the PS2 game.

 

[cj_iwakura]

The Sega CD is full of them. Most of them are cheap no-budget junk, but it has stuff like Night Trap and Double Switch(both are great, seriously).


Seconding Brain Dead 13. It's also on Saturn and PC.

 

[Alastor3]

never played it but last year people were also praising Contradiction - Spot The Liar

giant bomb ql
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=WVi4IQ4j1lw

Look really nice!!! Will get it!!

 

[Lafazar]

Most FMV titles on Steam:
http://store.steampowered.com/search/?term=#sort_by=_ASC&tags=18594&page=1

Most FMV titles on GOG:
https://www.gog.com/mix/interactive_movies_fmv_games

My personal recommendations (warning: a lot of these are older games, so YMMV):

"Pure" FMV (adventure or interactive movie):
Contradiction: Spot the Liar
Gabriel Knight 2: The Beast Within (on GOG)
Star Wars: Rebel Assault 2
Myst and especially Riven (GOG versions are better)
Zork: Nemesis (on GOG)
Zork: Grand Inquisitor (on GOG)
Journeyman Project Series (on GOG)
Bad Mojo
The Last Express (GOG version is better)
Toonstruck (on GOG)

FMV cutscenes:
Realms of the Haunting
Star Wars: Jedi Knight (GOG version is better)
Tex Murphy Series from 3 onwards (Under a Killing Moon)
Lands of Lore 2 (on GOG)
Wing Commander 3 & 4 (on GOG)
Terra Nova: Strike Force Centauri

Of Historical Importance, but not really good games:
Star Wars: Rebel Assault 1
Dragons Lair
Space Ace
The 7th Guest
The 11th Hour
Harvester
Phantasmagoria 1 & 2 (on GOG)
Cyberia 1 & 2

 

[Glowsquid]

Thanks a lot!

Did Gundam: The War for Earth game ever get a Western release?

Will definitely get the X-Files game, already have the PS2 game.

Not on PS1, but it *seems* there might have been a very limited western release of the Mac version. At the very least, there's an english version out there

also I edited my post because I found the name of the last game I was talking about. It's The Hive.

 

[Lijik]

Wirehead on the Sega CD is goofy fun. The first half hour or so involves

Spoiler

skateboarding to an airport, sneaking onto a plane through the baggage claim, getting pushed out midflight by an assassin, saving yourself with a raft, landing in a waterfall, surviving that but washing ashore right next to a bear, and then escaping that and wandering into some old timey western town

 

[PastorOfMuppets]

The X-Files is often said to be the GOAT of all FMV games.

 

[shawnbuddy]

Try Bad Mojo Redux on Steam. A freaky puzzle game with a freaky FMV story.

Get Phantasmagoria on GOG.com, too. Very impressive, and mor accessible than most older Sierra adventure games.

The anime-style Road Avenger/Road Blaster is the GOAT for that kind of FMV game. There's a good iOS version out.

Oh, the recent Press X to Not Die is fun for a lark. The acting is Z-grade but that's part of the charm.

 

[Lactose_Intolerant]

Gabriel Knight 2 is probably the best older one.

 

[Alastor3]

Does one of the myst have a remake made? I saw a remastered on Steam but it's with the same old graphic.

I heard Myst 2 is pretty good.

 

[The Dear Leader]

Contradiction: Spot the Liar

 

[SatoAilDarko]

Not on PS1, but it *seems* there might have been a very limited western release of the Mac version. At the very least, there's an english version out there

also I edited my post because I found the name of the last game I was talking about. It's The Hive.

Thanks. Interesting.

 

[Muskieratboi]

PHANTASMAGORIA 2.

"I heard that, Curtis!"

 

[Dineren]

Contradiction: Spot the Liar is a wonderful game. GBEast did a Quick Look of it not expecting a lot, but they ended up enjoying it enough to continue the series and finish the whole game. It's worth checking out the QL if you're on the fence. If you do end up playing it, GBEast's whole playthrough is worth a watch after completion.

 

[MrCunningham]

I also have to add these two:

The Neverhood

This game uses claymation, but it is fully FMV.

And of course its kickstarter sequel:

Armikrog

 

[AppleSeason]

I will always have a place in my heart for D. Sure, it's pretty terrible, but It has a weird charm to It. Better play the psx version, as oc haa terrible interlaced videos.

 

[shawnbuddy]

Does one of the myst have a remake made? I saw a remastered on Steam but it's with the same old graphic.

I heard Myst 2 is pretty good.

There is a an enhanced remake of Myst, the Masterpiece Edition. There are also versions of Myst recreated with realtime graphics, realMyst and RealMyst: Masterpiece Edition.

 

[NinjamicWZ]

I also have to add these two:

The Neverhood

Wait, wtf The Neverhood got a PS1 release? I only ever saw Skullmonkeys, before retroactively learning about Neverhood because of it, and just assumed it was only a PC game.

 

[I am Christina Aguilera]

Wirehead on the Sega CD is goofy fun. The first half hour or so involves

Spoiler

skateboarding to an airport, sneaking onto a plane through the baggage claim, getting pushed out midflight by an assassin, saving yourself with a raft, landing in a waterfall, surviving that but washing ashore right next to a bear, and then escaping that and wandering into some old timey western town

I got Wirehead new on Sega CD for cheap in the mid-'90s. It was definitely the most fun that I ever had with an FMV game on the Sega CD, their natural habitat. I mean, it's like a C or D-movie at best, and the gameplay is just another Dragon's Lair retread, but it's just a fun, ridiculous interactive bad movie with your '90s cliche Alex Mack-esque, here is a human protagonist with a unique thing/ability, so generic '90s besuited sunglasses toughs are obviously after him to experiment on him or whatever it is that generic '90s besuited sunglasses toughs are always after.

Basically, you will just sit with a Sega controller in hand, mouth agape, at all of the crazy real-life stunts that they filmed (often that don't even lead to progress in the game) in order to make this footage into a game. As a bonus, once you've played through Wirehead, you will start to spot the actor who played Wirehead/Ned Hubbard also popping up in TV commercials, AT MINIMUM twice a year.

And it's one of the rare Sega CD FMV games that actually play video full screen instead of in a tiny window, so that's worth some credit too.

And on the topic of just batshit crazy bad-good FMV, some credit has to go as well to the TurboGrafx-CD version of It Came From the Desert, which is totally different from other versions of the game. Watching a YouTube let's play is all that it really takes to "get it," but man, what a bizarre little universe that game made for itself.

Wait, wtf The Neverhood got a PS1 release? I only ever saw Skullmonkeys, before retroactively learning about Neverhood because of it, and just assumed it was only a PC game.

That image is just a photoshop -- Neverhood came out for the PS1, but only in Japan, in Japanese, under the title "Klaymen Klaymen."

 

[luka]

riven and zork nemesis are essential.

wing commander 4 is pretty great too and destroys everything else in terms of budget and star-power.

 

[Mad Season]

Gabriel knight : the beast within

You'll thank me later

 

[Lafazar]

I also have to add these two:

The Neverhood

This game uses claymation, but it is fully FMV.

And of course its kickstarter sequel:

Armikrog

Protip: Play The Neverhood with ScummVM and activate the HQ2x filter. This makes the sprites edges look really nice and gets rid of a lot of the dithering.

 

[johnnydrama]

Quantum Break?

 

[Count of Monte Sawed-Off]

Gabriel Knight: The Beast Within, I still feel is the best. It's generally well done and features good acting compared to other releases from the era. Wing Commander 3 and 4 are also good.

 

[NotMyUsername]

Did this turn out to be bad? It sounded pretty interesting based on what I heard from Austin Walker from Giant Bomb.

I've typed and erased responses a couple times.

To be blunt: It's extremely boring to play.

The two gameplay elements are clicking over fake Windows to look in folders and e-mails to get some background and ancillary details of the lead. You then log into the online game to play the absolute most basic Diablo style game (from what I recall you click once on an enemy and then wait for the auto attacks to kill it before moving onto the next. You can't take damage so it's just mindless for ten minutes).

But the point isn't to make an exciting, fun game. What you do is just the means to give background to the events surrounding the story and provide a setting. Most the story is told through reading simple messages and voiced dialogue imitating voice chat.

I think it's worth checking out if you want to experience a somewhat different type of story, one that's very personal to the creator, and you champion games pushing themselves into other directions as a medium. But just go in with proper expectations that you're mostly just there to read and listen to a linear story.

 

[xir]

Burn.Cycle's time limit intrigued me.

But then again so did D, and that game....

 

[red720]

The Tex Murphy FMV adventures: Under a Killing Moon, The Pandora Directive, Overseer, Telsa Effect.

Gabriel Knight: The Beast Within

Under a Killing Moon was pretty good and very impressive at the time. I didn't play the others, but I remember the FMV Gabriel Knight reviewing poorly.

EDIT: I guess not, maybe I'd just dismissed it at the time because of the FMV

 

[Kevitivity]

Sewer Shark.

It's good.

 

[-tetsuo-]

Contradiction is a treat

 

[Gr8one]

Most FMV titles on Steam:
http://store.steampowered.com/search/?term=#sort_by=_ASC&tags=18594&page=1

Most FMV titles on GOG:
https://www.gog.com/mix/interactive_movies_fmv_games

My personal recommendations (warning: a lot of these are older games, so YMMV):

"Pure" FMV (adventure or interactive movie):
Contradiction: Spot the Liar
Gabriel Knight 2: The Beast Within (on GOG)
Star Wars: Rebel Assault 2
Myst and especially Riven (GOG versions are better)
Zork: Nemesis (on GOG)
Zork: Grand Inquisitor (on GOG)
Journeyman Project Series (on GOG)
Bad Mojo
The Last Express (GOG version is better)

FMV cutscenes:
Tex Murphy Series from 3 onwards (Under a Killing Moon)
Realms of the Haunting
Star Wars: Jedi Knight (GOG version is better)
Lands of Lore 2 (on GOG)
Wing Commander 3 & 4 (on GOG)
Terra Nova: Strike Force Centauri

Of Historical Importance, but not really good games:
Star Wars: Rebel Assault 1
Dragons Lair
Space Ace
The 7th Guest
The 11th Hour
Harvester
Phantasmagoria 1 & 2 (on GOG)
Cyberia 1 & 2

Great list here. Really glad you included Wing Commander 3 & 4, classic FMV cutscenes. Gabriel Knight 2 is a classic. RIP Sierra & Origin

 

[MrCunningham]

Wait, wtf The Neverhood got a PS1 release? I only ever saw Skullmonkeys, before retroactively learning about Neverhood because of it, and just assumed it was only a PC game.

Looking it up, The Neverhood was only released in Japan for the PS1 under the name Klaymen Klaymen.

I guess the image I linked to is a fan made cover. Skullmonkeys was called Klaymen Klaymen 2 in Japan, and there was even a third Japanese exclusive PS1 game featuring Klaymen, which is kinda like pong in 3D:

Sewer Shark.

It's good.

A lot of people tend to make the mistake that Sewer Shark uses CG, but it actually doesn't. The game was mostly filmed in 1988, and uses miniature models and practical effects. The director of the game is John Dykstra who was one of the special effect designers on Star Wars: A New Hope and still works in Hollywood. He is doing the special effects for X-Men: Apocalypse .

 

[Stiler]

FMV games (usually adventure games) are some of my favorite, however I really enjoy both the good ones and the cheesy b-movie style ones that have some laugh out loud acting or are simply campy as heck.

Some ones I'd recommend:

Gabriel Knight 2 (Part of one of the best adventure game series, the first Gabriel Knight is a classic 2d adventure game, the second one was an FMV adventure game, and the third one was a 3d adventure game). I'd recommend at least watching a gabriel knight 1 playthrough or something to catch up on the story and characters as it will help set up the game and the backstory of Gabriel and a few other characters.

Realms of the Haunting - One of my personal favorites. This is an FMV game with one of the best storylines and it's also an fps/adventure game. Has an excellent atmosphere and a story that will keep you on the edge of your seat. If you can stand the old school fps style I highly recommend it. One of the higher critically acclaimed fmv games to ever come out.

Phantasmagoria 1 and 2 - A classic horror/campy adventure game. If you enjoy some cheesy b-movie acting and some good mystery/suspense this one would be enjoyable.

7th guest - probably one of the better FMV horror games. If you like horror/mystery games and FMV (even if some of the acting isn't amazing) then this is definitely a game you should check out. Widely considered one of best classic adventures let alone an fmv game.

Tex Murphy series - Easily one of the BEST FMV game series of all time. A good proper mystery game but also chock full of humor and wit. Highly recommend that you do NOT play the new one without first playing the older ones, as the new one is a continuation of that story and characters. You should at least watch some youtube playthroughs if you don't want to do that. You can find them on gog/steam.

Toonstruck - do you like Roger Rabbit? Do you like wacky/surreal stories? Then this is right up your alley. A good funny game with a mix of live actors and cartoons in the nature of Roger Rabbit. It has Christopher Lloyd in it (he is the main character) as well as Dom DeLuise and Tim Curry among many other great actors/voice actors (like Jim Cummings , Rob Paulsen, Frank Welker, etc).

Ripper - This is probably the most star-studded FMV game. You have Christopher Walken, Burgess Meredith, Karen Allen, Ossie Davis, John Rhys-Davies, Paul Giamatti, etc. It's a mystery game and although it has many good actors in it there's still some wonky acting, which to me made it more enjoyable to see some of them ham it up.

Black Dahlia - A game based on the infamous case. Has two great actors in it, Dennis Hopper and Teri Garr.

Harvester - Probably one the campiest/cheesy FMV games. Surreal, creepy, downright strange at times. I recommend it if you like that sort of thing.

 

[bobawesome]

I've typed and erased responses a couple times.

To be blunt: It's extremely boring to play.

The two gameplay elements are clicking over fake Windows to look in folders and e-mails to get some background and ancillary details of the lead. You then log into the online game to play the absolute most basic Diablo style game (from what I recall you click once on an enemy and then wait for the auto attacks to kill it before moving onto the next. You can't take damage so it's just mindless for ten minutes).

But the point isn't to make an exciting, fun game. What you do is just the means to give background to the events surrounding the story and provide a setting. Most the story is told through reading simple messages and voiced dialogue imitating voice chat.

I think it's worth checking out if you want to experience a somewhat different type of story, one that's very personal to the creator, and you champion games pushing themselves into other directions as a medium. But just go in with proper expectations that you're mostly just there to read and listen to a linear story.

Thanks for the post, I really appreciate it. I like the concept for the game and even if it's not a groundbreaking experience it sounds like it's still worth trying out. I knew about the "MMO" but didn't realize you had to actually play through parts of it. That's somewhat amusing.

 

[orborborb]

I have a soft spot for a cheesy cyberpunk FMV adventure game called "Angel Devoid" and of course the FMV version of Return to Zork is a classic.

 

[bounchfx]

Contradiction

like her story but not
but also a lot better

 

[jb1234]

I don't think anything beats Gabriel Knight: The Beast Within. It's simply superb. I also really liked Realms of the Haunting, although the acting isn't at the same quality.,