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Dominic Armato, voice of Guybrush Threepwood, has always loved LucasArts' adventure games, but there's one he still can't get into: 'I get 10 minutes in and I'm like, oh, this is tedious, man'
The actor and food critic guides us through the games on his PC.
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Dominic Armato is adventure game royalty, but an early adventure game experience almost killed his enthusiasm for videogames: "The one that really sticks in my head is The Hitchhiker's Guide to the Galaxy," he says. "It was just evil. I was a kid, and I'm trying to play this game that's one of the most difficult text adventure games ever written … It's not a happy memory. It's a miracle that I stuck with videogames at all."
Yet persist with games Armato did, becoming an avid fan of the point 'n' click adventures designed by LucasArts. This led Armato to audition for and be cast as mighty pirate Guybrush Threepwood for 1997's The Curse of Monkey Island. It's a role he would reprise for every subsequent Monkey Island game, including the remakes of The Secret of Monkey Island and Monkey Island 2, as well as 2022's excellent Return to Monkey Island.
Alongside Monkey Island Armato has appeared in games like Jedi Knight 2: Jedi Outcast and Metal Gear Solid 2: Sons of Liberty. He's also an experienced dining critic, running his own food blog Skillet Doux until 2015, before working as a food writer for The Arizona Republic and the Phoenix New Times.
Armato is currently working on a new project, while also pondering a potential return to voice acting. "I'm trying to start doing voiceover for games again, so we'll see if I'm successful in that," he says. But he took a break from reviewing restaurants to show me around the grog-spattered tavern of his Steam library.
I am currently playing Chants of Sennaar. I've been doing a lot of flying, so I've been wearing out the Steam Deck lately. I was actually trying to start Silksong, but I screwed up and forgot to start it up once before I got on the plane, so I couldn't run it. I was like "Oh, crap, I gotta play something else!" So I picked up Chants of Sennaar instead and I got hooked into that.
I'm enjoying that one an awful lot. I dig those slow-paced puzzle games that have an idea. You get a little bit of a world. You get a little bit of a story in there. It's kind of atmospheric, and there's some good [mysteries] in there, and you can just live in them and solve puzzles for a while.
I very much enjoy that genre. I'm not really a genre gamer in general. I tend to pick and choose the real shining examples of each genre. But I would probably be lying if I didn't say I was maybe a little more drawn to that kind of game a lot of the time.