Grim Fandango.

I just never got into it.

I can never get into that 'up is forward and you turn with left and right' type gameplay. Except Resident Evil, I guess. But that's one of the defining things about it.

Loved the style.

sounds like one of those keyboard with lots of extra keys. usually they assign the F# keys to perform extra functions. and usually there's a button somewhere that deactivates that.

or it could just be something with scummvm.