I prefer the context-sensitive 'smart' single mouse click.
I liked the old lucasarts "look at / push / whatever" buttons at the time, and didn't mind the 'click and select an action' that the later monkey island games used either, but after replaying some of the old adventure games not too long ago I can definitely say that I don't care too much for those anymore.
the delays picking the action you want get kind of tedious after a while, and there's been plenty of adventure games our there that proof it's not necessary to do it that way.
Sam and Max for one just uses the single-click for everything now.
I liked the old lucasarts "look at / push / whatever" buttons at the time, and didn't mind the 'click and select an action' that the later monkey island games used either, but after replaying some of the old adventure games not too long ago I can definitely say that I don't care too much for those anymore.
the delays picking the action you want get kind of tedious after a while, and there's been plenty of adventure games our there that proof it's not necessary to do it that way.
Sam and Max for one just uses the single-click for everything now.