Essential Adventure Game Inventory Items

[drunkenmonkey]

I want you to think of an item used in an adventure game and list at least one game where it helped and how. I'll start.

Rope: On monkey island you need rope to get down into the gorge.

[Delling]

a blade of some kind

KQ1: dagger
KQ2: sword
KQ3: knife
KQ4: here they get creative... it's an axe
KQ5: here they break tradition all together: no blade
KQ6: one more for old time's sake... Celeste's dagger
KQ7: and again no blade

[Haids1987]

KQ6: one more for old time's sake... Celeste's dagger

Hey!  What about the sword Alex uses to whack the top of Alhazred's head?

[Delling]

KQ6: one more for old time's sake... Celeste's dagger

Hey!  What about the sword Alex uses to whack the top of Alhazred's head?

I considered that, but I don't think it ever actually goes into his inventory. I could have included things that have "blades" but that we wouldn't really consider a bladed weapon (shovels for instance) in which case KQ7 had a blade it was just a shovel.

[kindofdoon]

KQ6: one more for old time's sake... Celeste's dagger

Hey!  What about the sword Alex uses to whack the top of Alhazred's head?

Lol! You make it sound rather like a Tom and Jerry-style conflict!

[tessspoon]

Clay: Used in Gabriel Knight to make a mold

[KatieHal]

A stick!

Um...okay, granted I can't remember a list off the top of my head, but there's always a stick. The only one I can think of right now is in KQ5 that you throw at the dog.

[crayauchtin]

A stick!

Um...okay, granted I can't remember a list off the top of my head, but there's always a stick. The only one I can think of right now is in KQ5 that you throw at the dog.

And KQ7 in the desert!

[Delling]

KQ6: one more for old time's sake... Celeste's dagger

Hey!  What about the sword Alex uses to whack the top of Alhazred's head?

Lol! You make it sound rather like a Tom and Jerry-style conflict!

It kind of was. Alexander wasn't exactly swordfighting there. You'd think if Alhazred were any good with a sword, he'd have dispatched him quickly and easily. There was a bit of cat and mouse to that fight (and it's why Alhazred lost).

[Damar]

The sword in KQ6 may not have gone into the inventory, but the scythe did.  So that's two blades in Alexander's inventory.  Roberta also did Black Cauldron, which has a dagger in it too.  She liked her knives I guess.

How about rocks in Space Quest?  You use a rock in SQ1.  You sling a rock in SQ2, and you have a glowing gem, which is also just a rock.  You still have the glowing gem in SQ3.  I think 4 and 5 are rock free, but in SQ6, they're back to their roots, having you throw gall stones at nanites.

[Haids1987]

KQ6: one more for old time's sake... Celeste's dagger

Hey!  What about the sword Alex uses to whack the top of Alhazred's head?

Lol! You make it sound rather like a Tom and Jerry-style conflict!

There was a bit of cat and mouse to that fight

Hence the quote: "Soooo!  The mouse would bite?"  "This mouse SHALL bite!"

[Delling]

KQ6: one more for old time's sake... Celeste's dagger

Hey!  What about the sword Alex uses to whack the top of Alhazred's head?

Lol! You make it sound rather like a Tom and Jerry-style conflict!

There was a bit of cat and mouse to that fight

Hence the quote: "Soooo!  The mouse would bite?"  "This mouse SHALL bite!"

You know, I thought the exact same thing when I was making my post.

[Haids1987]

Great minds!

[crayauchtin]

Great minds!

And theirs too!
Oh snap.

Sorry, I couldn't resist! Ya'll are brilliant.

Anyways, I'm gonna go with "cup" for my item since Alexander uses one in both KQ3 and KQ6 (different kinds of cups, but cups nonetheless!)

[Haids1987]

"Cup" is also in TSL!

[crayauchtin]

"Cup" is also in TSL!

True!!

[drunkenmonkey]

Keys/Keycards: Pretty much any adventure game.

Where would an adventure be without blocked paths that you couldn't explore until you passed a certain point in the game and could unlock it.

[Enchantermon]

As Yahtzee said about System Shock 2 and Bioshock: "Whenever you get a deceptively simple objective like 'Walk across the room,' you can bet your bionic implants that a door's going to lock or the ceiling's going to collapse, and you'll have to journey to Mt. Doom and back just to restore the status quo." ^_^

How about money? KQ1, 3, 5, 6, 7, 8 and TSL all contain some form of coinage.

[FFL2and3rocks]

Freddy Pharkas: Frontier Pharmacist has horse poop, and Torin's Passage has dragon poop.
"Oh hey, I might need that! I'll scoop it up right away!"

[crayauchtin]

Freddy Pharkas: Frontier Pharmacist has horse poop, and Torin's Passage has dragon poop.
"Oh hey, I might need that! I'll scoop it up right away!"

Gross but good point.

....and again, gross.