As an 80s baby I grew up playing Sierra games on PC and one series my brother and I would play a lot was the Police Quest series (along with Space Quest). I found a website where you could play Sierra games (first one I played was Leisure Suit Larry since I wasn't allowed to play it as a kid) and I am considering doing a replay of the Police Quest games and basically a total retro gaming dive until Starfield and Elder Scrolls 6 comes out (my main gaming at the moment is Modded Skyrim, Sims, and Assassin's Creed Valhalla).
Can anyone recommend any good cop games whether old or new?
You seem to like RPGs. Not a cop game, but have you tried the classic RPGs Baldur's Gate and Planescape Torment?
I have not. Yes, RPG's are my favorite type of game for sure. I've heard of Baldur's Gate but never played it. Planescape as well. I can check them out.
I would argue Planescape Torment was the best game story ever written.
2nd best story is Star Control 2 http://sc2.sourceforge.net/ playable on modern systems. But you need to be able to handle the interface and controls of the gaming before times.
One of the first "open world" (open galaxy?) experiences where you can explore in almost any order but you find clues to the big mystery everywhere.
You have excellent taste. Neither game has been matched since.
Also some of the best strange one-liners.
"Our reinforcement procedures on your landers are complete. Now if your crew will stop putting their hands out the windows, they will be protected against hostile life-forms."
"Juffo-Wup fills in my fibers and I grow turgid. Violent action ensues."
"Let's be special together. <Spicy games> are fun."
The writers must have been on DMT.
Thanks!
Currently, only the "Enhanced Edition" of Baldur's Gate 1 & 2 seems to be for sale anywhere, a version updated in 2013 of a game that came out originally in 1998. I think it's highly arguable whether it's actually better than the original + a couple of mods. What makes it worse is that Beamdog- the company who "enhanced" it, not the company that originally made it- are SJWs and injected their own characters and writing into the game instead of just updating it for current computers, and then proceeded to take down sales of the original so you can't even buy it except their version. New characters include a character who announces himself as trans in the three dialogue lines you have with them. So they took a classic game, added their own shitty shoehorned agenda-driven writing, and removed the originals from sale.
So pirate the originals in good conscience. You can get them from gog-games.com.
The good news is that Larian are developing Baldur's Gate 3, after having made Divinity: Original Sin 1 & 2, the best RPGs to come out in the last ten years.
I've got the GoG installers for the original versions if we need to make this happen.
Nice offer, but I should have been a bit more clear: gog-games.com is not official GOG, it's a site that hosts the GOG installers for free. It's a piracy site. The official GOG site doesn't list the original BG games any more, but gog-games still does.
I’ve played the unfinished BG3 and it’s pretty great. I just wish it would come out soon. :(
I wish it was actually BG3 and not some other game wearing it's skin.
You need to find time to play both of them. Baldur's Gate has more to dig into mechanically, but Planescape is the one game where after finishing it I wished I could forget it entirely. Not because it is a bad game, but the exact opposite. It's a game I wish I could experience fresh for the first time all over again.
Either way I'm gonna recommend you avoid the Enchanced Editions as Beamdog added subpar content and the classic versions are just that: Classic.
Cool. I love RPGs. My friends told me I can’t just play Skyrim forever
If you like RPGs with solid stories, more so than Elder Scrolls, you'll love them. A lot of replayabity as well.
Sounds good. I'll check steam. Also getting Xbox gamepass soon so I may just check there.