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Adventure_Knight

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Re: The greatest Adventure Game of all time...
« Reply #240 on: 06 Jun 2006, 02:06 »
This is my top 10.

#10 - Ben Jordan: Paranormal Investigator Case 4 - Horror at Number 50

#9 - King's Quest II+: Romancing the Stones

#8 - Quest for Glory I: So You Want to be a Hero

#7 - Maniac Mansion Deluxe

#6 - Zak McKracken and the Alien Mindbenders

#5 - Escape of Monkey Island

#4 - Secret of Monkey Island

#3 - LeChuck's Revenge

#2 - The Curse of Monkey Island

#1 - Day of the Tentacle

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Re: The greatest Adventure Game of all time...
« Reply #241 on: 07 Jun 2006, 10:53 »
But what about todays games?

I think Siberya was quite good, espectually the first part.

From the old Lucas classics, I like DOTT.
I am just a shallow stereotype, so you should take into consideration that my opinion has no great value to you.

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Re: The greatest Adventure Game of all time...
« Reply #242 on: 18 Jun 2006, 19:33 »
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Re: The greatest Adventure Game of all time...
« Reply #243 on: 19 Jun 2006, 17:02 »
Quest for Glory II

Re: The greatest Adventure Game of all time...
« Reply #244 on: 19 Jun 2006, 22:30 »
MI1 & QFG4

Even though I never finished QFG4 (too buggy) and even though I own the anthology I can't play it (my laptop won't run in 256 color mode).

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Re: The greatest Adventure Game of all time...
« Reply #245 on: 20 Jun 2006, 00:56 »
5. And Then There Were None
4. Ben Jordan Case Five
3. The whole Myst series
2. The DaVinci Code
(No, I'm just kidding. Zork: Grand Inquisitor.)
1. Perils of Poom. Seriously. That pretty much beats any other adventure game I've played (and I've played quite a few). You guys may flame me for not mentioning the classics, like Monkey Island of King's Quest, but I don't have all the time in the world to track them down. So, unless you have some place I can get them easy (EBay is out of the question), this is my list, and I'm sticking to it.
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Re: The greatest Adventure Game of all time...
« Reply #246 on: 22 Jun 2006, 17:48 »
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Please God, J. Jensen and Vivendi, let there be GK4.         

Yeah, I hope God listen to you.

Well, my greatest Adventure Game of all Time will be:

1. - Phantasmagoria I
2.-  Gabriel Knight II
3.-  Gabriel Kinght III
4.-  King's Quest VI
5.-  King's Quest VII

Re: The greatest Adventure Game of all time...
« Reply #247 on: 08 Jul 2006, 02:06 »
If I had ever played Grim Fandango I'm sure I'd have fallen in love with it.  Sadly, the only adventure games I've played are those ones that are classic Sierra/Lucas Arts stuff.

BEST COMMERCIAL:  Laura Bow 2:  The Dagger of Amon Ra
                                --Probably the first Sierra adventure game I've ever played
                                --Watched my Mom play it while I was 6, now I'm conditioned to be 
                                   scared to death of games that have a 256 color pallette.
                                --Great soundtrack, artwork, progression rate, and replayability

BEST NON-COMMERCIAL:

                               --Just about anything by Yahtzee, but if I had to pick it'd definitely
                               be anything that has to do with Trilby

                               --Teen Agent.  Most funny, most classic-feeling, and BESTEST EVEREST.

Re: The greatest Adventure Game of all time...
« Reply #248 on: 08 Jul 2006, 06:23 »
'Loom' by Lucasarts.

It was pure magic.

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Re: The greatest Adventure Game of all time...
« Reply #249 on: 08 Jul 2006, 11:53 »
Nippon Safes Inc. was a better game than BRA
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Re: The greatest Adventure Game of all time...
« Reply #250 on: 29 Jul 2006, 01:16 »
Gobliins 2
Who doesn't like a game that involvest teamwork, demented humor, and gibberish for voices?

Kharn

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Re: The greatest Adventure Game of all time...
« Reply #251 on: 29 Jul 2006, 12:31 »
Any of the monkey islands except for Escape from monkey island.
Phantasmagoria 1 for its freaky atmosphere
The short but sweet full throttle.
and beneath a steel sky.

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Re: The greatest Adventure Game of all time...
« Reply #252 on: 30 Jul 2006, 06:53 »
Hmm... The Longest Journey, followed closely by the first Gabriel Knight. Yup.

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Re: The greatest Adventure Game of all time...
« Reply #253 on: 31 Jul 2006, 14:59 »
In terms of 'Greatest Ever', I'd pick Maniac Mansion because it kicked off the whole point and click game style, as apposed to typing to control a character.

Monkey Island I (CD version) was the first game I ever played, and it was many years before I encountered anything older than the 256 colour, impossible to get irreversibly stuck, impossible to die type of adventure game (yes, I completed that puzzle in under 10 minutes), and as such I have never got on as well with anything older. So personal favourite would be Sam and Max hit the road, just because the dialogue is brilliant. First time I played that (when I was very young) the jokes went completely over my head, and when I replayed it later I got so much more out of it. That is a very funny game.

Also, just to throw a reasonably obscure one in, Toonstruck also ranks very highly in my opinion. I mean c'mon, Christoper Llyod, Tim Curry, Dan Castellaneta, that woman who voices 75% of the characters in Futurama... that game was also very funny. Why haven't I seen it mentioned more often (or at all) in these forums?

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Re: The greatest Adventure Game of all time...
« Reply #254 on: 02 Aug 2006, 16:23 »
Ok, the greatest adventure game of all times...
Hmmm... Tough one. My personal favourite is Beneath a Steel Sky, first of all because it's SF and that's always great, second because it's a good SF, even better, third because it's cyberpunk which is just freakin' great, fourth because the graphics are excellent (backgrounds are comic-like painted and clear and really make feel you're there - some gave me vertigo..., sprites are excellent, the human body is wonderfully depicted here - not just the nudity, although they all move to fast, but natural), fifth because the main character has depth, sixth because the dialogs are brilliant and show that people can keep a smile even when in great danger and seventh because the music is extraordinary. There are a few minor bad sides to BASS, of which I've noticed: characters move a bit fast, although the movement seems very natural, there aren't any sounds, and there are, they stick to adlib buzzings and some aspects of the environment seem inspired, not copied or plagiurised. That's my opinion and I'm stickin' to it! Correct me if I'm wrong.

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Re: The greatest Adventure Game of all time...
« Reply #255 on: 07 Aug 2006, 00:56 »
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Please God, J. Jensen and Vivendi, let there be GK4.         

Yeah, I hope God listen to you.

Well, my greatest Adventure Game of all Time will be:

1. - Phantasmagoria I


Phantasmagoria greatest adventure of all time? Hmmm....wouldn't agree on that one. Pretty much agree with everything else though ;)

My top 5?

1. Monkey Island I
2. Monkey Island II: LeChuck's Revenge
3. Gabriel Knight II
4. Sam and Max Hit the Road
5. Simon the Sorceror 2

I'm putting out a special mention to Yahtzee's Trilby Trilogy (phnaar) because they're just amazingly well done - Trilby's Notes especially had moments that genuinely scared me...

'Hallow's End: Everyone goes there eventually'  http://www.freewebs.com/codpiecestudios

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Re: The greatest Adventure Game of all time...
« Reply #256 on: 01 Sep 2006, 15:18 »
I myself loved The Adventures of Maddog Williams in the Dungeons of Duridian. The game was so great. You could jump, fight, and even rode a dragon to fight with. The puzzles were awesome as well, and the ending was pretty funny and unexpected.

He gets abducted by aliens. ah... loved that game.

Re: The greatest Adventure Game of all time...
« Reply #257 on: 04 Sep 2006, 00:33 »
Everything that starts with "Quest", continues with "for" and ends with "Glory". (Before I played that series, all the adventure games where too adventurish for me, and RPGs where too roleplayerish to me)

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Re: The greatest Adventure Game of all time...
« Reply #258 on: 05 Sep 2006, 01:02 »
my top 10 :

10.grim fandago
9.gabriel knight : sins of the fathers
8.still life
7.black mirror
6.sanitarium
5.indiana jones : fate of atlantis
4.the longest journey
3.tex murphy : pandora directive
2.loom
1.broken sword : the shadow of the templars/shenmue

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Re: The greatest Adventure Game of all time...
« Reply #259 on: 06 Sep 2006, 11:11 »
My favourites:

Beneath A Steel Sky
The Dig
Sam and Max
Monkey Island 2
Broken Sword
Day of the Tentacle
and Indiana Jones Fate of Atlantis.