Most recent adventure classics

[Vel]

Which are the most recent adventure classics in your opinion? IMO, they are
Runaway(2001/2003)
Gabriel Knight 3(1999)
Discworld Noir(1998)
Sadly, only three games.

[AJA @ school]

You forgot "The longest journey" and maybe "Syberia"...

[Gilbert]

heh they're really recent to me, as I played none of them :p

[GarageGothic]

I'd say Gabriel Knight 3 and Grim Fandango. Obviously "recent" is a very relative term.

[Trapezoid]

Sooner or later they'll all be "classics". Yes, even EMI. (Though it'll probably take a while...)

[Privateer Puddin']

EMI is under 'classics' on the lucasarts site

[m0ds]

Gilbert Goodmate.

No, wait...

[Adamski]

GRIM FANDANGO!!![/i][/u][/b]

[benbigbrain]

GK3, MI4, Grim fandango a while back, siberia, ?BS2?

[Vel]

I wouldnt say that EMI would be a classic. I even enjoyed Gilbert Goodmate more than it. As for Syberia and TLJ, I guess you're right.

[n3tgraph]

I don't think Syberia is a classic

I mean

no,

oh well opinion problem

[Domino]

Curse of Monkey Island. The 2-D graphics are superb, the music is excellent, and just that feeling of really being there is what makes this game one of my favorites. I think the voice acting also is top-notch. I already beat this game awhile back but just started playing again for ideas for a game i would like to make.

[rodekill]

Runaway was suppsed to be out in America this week, but no one I spoke to knew anything about it.
Damn you lazy retailers. Damn you.

[Scummbuddy]

Why would they know of an incoming adventure game.  

"I thought those games were dead..."

[Groucho]

Both Syberia and Post Mortem are classics IMO.

In Syberia, I especialy liked the part when the opera diva sings. The sound is way above average, definately cd quality.

[remixor]

I can't imagine anyone not considering Grim Fandango as one (as has already been mentioned), and it came out  in 98, same as Discworld Noir as you mentioned.  Speaking of DW:Noir, it's one of my absolute favorite adventures, but I don't really know how much it can be considered a classic.  I liked it for very specific reasons, but I don't think it was really as flawless an adventure as some of those others (although I've not played Syberia so I can't comment on that).

I'm sure CMI will reach classic status, though I'm not too thrilled about that.  I think that if that game had just been "Curse of Something Else" rather than Monkey Island I'd hold it in much higher regard.  Then again, we'd all accuse it of being a MI ripoff.  Ah well, so it goes.  Out of context of the series, it's certainly a great game in its own right.  It's worth mentioning that when I was replaying this game last year, my roommate noticed me playing and could hardly believe it came out in 1997, the graphics were so clean.  That's what you get when you're inundated with crappy real-time 3D--you build up lower expectations, where higher technology can supercede actual beauty and style.  However, it looks like Broken Sword 3 is going to throw all that out the window.  Dear God, I can't wait for that game.  Without being too presumptuous, I'd like to ALREADY nominate that game to be a future classic.  Hats off to Revolution.


Well, that was certainly an unfocused post

[rodekill]

DW:Noir was also never released here.

Some days I think I should just move to Europe for the adventure games.

[remixor]

Rode:  It was released under a budget publishing line.  I'm not sure when exactly that was, but it's how I played the game.

[MrColossal]

i got noir off the interweb i think

i didn't know how to download a cd, can i just print it out, cut it out and put it in my cd player?

[rodekill]

You laugh, but here's a situation my brother ran into at work recently:

Dolt: "Hey Jason, can you help me find a birthday card for so-and-so on the internet?"
Jason: "Fine."
Googling ensues. Animated e-cards are found.
Dolt: "Can you print that?"
Jason: "Are you sure?"
Dolt: "Yeah, that's perfect."
Printing of one frame of animated card ensues.
Dolt: "Can't you print the whole thing?"
Jason: "What do you mean?"
Dolt: "The whole thing."
Jason: "You mean the animation?"
Dolt: "Yeah."
Jason: "But... it's an animation..."
Dolt: "Can you print it?"
Eyes of Jason bugging out of head in baffledom ensues.