I am very much an inexperienced adventurer. Not quite a virgin but embarrasingly close.
So I'd like people to suggest adventure games for me to play pleeeease.
I like games that are serious, investigative dramas. Plot and dialogue quality must be high.
I like games with a psychological edge. If they were movies they would be called 'Psychological Thrillers'
Graphics wise I'd really like them to be VGA or later.
I have no issues with gore or objectionable material so they can be as X-rated as you like.
I throw myself at the mercy of the AGS community's frightening impressive adventure game knowledge.
Hmmm, I guess there's "I have no mouth, and I must scream.", although I figure you know about that already.
I'll have to keep track of this as well, I love psychological thrillers. :)
yeah I've played that and it's pretty good although the stories are a bit of a mixed bag. Some good, some bad.
It suffers from its anthology format i think
Here are a few off the top of my head:
The Dark Eye
Bad Day on The Midway
Azrael's Tear
Black Dahlia
Dreamweb
I have no mouth but I must scream
Blade Runner
Overclocked
Shadow of The Comet
Sublustrum (aka Outcry)
oh, and I nearly forgot...
Snakes of Avalon :)
Gabriel Knight?
Mccarthy Chronicles.
Discworld Noir :D :=
Sanitarium
Darkseed I
Darkseed II
The original Gabriel Knight is pretty good.
Spoiler
I strongly recommend you NEVER play Phantasmagoria.
Quote from: blueskirt on Wed 20/10/2010 22:10:32
Gabriel Knight?
I shall investigate
Quote from: tzachs on Wed 20/10/2010 22:39:19
Mccarthy Chronicles.
played it, its shit
Quote from: Chicky on Wed 20/10/2010 23:38:35
Discworld Noir :D :=
I've got it but making it actually *work* seems to be nigh on impossible.
Quote from: MEHRDAD on Thu 21/10/2010 17:25:04
Sanitarium
Darkseed I
Darkseed II
Will try Sanatorium.. the darkseed games were a little *too* abstract for me.
I second Ascovel's suggestion of Shadow of the Comet (http://www.mobygames.com/game/call-of-cthulhu-shadow-of-the-comet). Not a perfect game by any means (i.e. you'll probably need to consult a walkthrough along the way), but the CD-ROM version is pretty damn atmospheric - and I love that the dialog portraits are based on classic horror actors like Vincent Price.
Another game worth checking out if you don't mind supernatural elements is Shadow of Destiny (http://www.mobygames.com/game/shadow-of-destiny) (aka Shadow of Memories). Feels like a console game, but the graphics are beautiful for their time and the story is very moving and full of mindbending twists.
I would just like to add that the first 2 titles I mentioned - The Dark Eye and Bad Day on The Midway - are probably the best games around, if you're looking for "psychological edge" before anything else. However, don't expect any traditional adventure game puzzles in them - they're both almost entirely exploration based.
How could I forget Sanitarium, it's a must play.
This thread makes me so happy to be on the AGS forums where people have good taste in games. If you had asked this question on adventuregamers.com or justadventure.com you'd have had ten people warmly recommending Post Mortem, Black Mirror and Still Life by now ;)
KGB!!!1
Seriously,
http://www.abandonia.com/games/93/KGB%28akaConspiracy%29
+1 for Sanitarium
Come to think of it, I'd like to play it all over again myself.
+1 for:
Gabriel Knight (all 3)
Shadow of the Comet
Overclocked
Also, if you are interested in a big investigative story, but with a lighter touch, try Broken Sword.
I very much enjoyed Book of Unwritten Tales. To mention one of the newer adventures.
If I may add something:
write a big list of all those suggestions and try to find some "Let's Play" of them.
In my experience reading (or watching) the first "chapters" of a LP gives me more than a strong hint on wheter I will like that Adventure Game or not.
Good luck with your research!
The original "Alone in the Dark" is worth a look.
Is there anyone on earth who hasnt played the original Alone in the Dark?
Already played shadow of the comet... Cthulu stuff doesn't really inspire terror in my loins to be honest.
Supernatural horror tends to be a little silly for the most part.
Quote from: Calin Leafshade on Fri 22/10/2010 19:48:53
Is there anyone on earth who hasnt played the original Alone in the Dark?
/me raises his hand as he had played AITD2 and 3 but never 1.
I haven't played the original Alone, I think I watched a let's play year or so ago. The looow poly thing kind of turned me off.
Quote from: Calin Leafshade on Fri 22/10/2010 19:48:53
Already played shadow of the comet... Cthulu stuff doesn't really inspire terror in my loins to be honest.
Supernatural horror tends to be a little silly for the most part.
Well a lot of Lovecraft stuff wouldn't be considered "hardcore horror" today, then again we are world where ideas like human centipede exist. :P It's more of an atmosphere and ideas source for me. Plus, it's probably the first time (or at least popularised and did it right) "evil cults" and similar themes were placed as a horror element.
It's more of a (urban) fantasy genre. But I agree it goes a bit too far into fantasy sometimes to be genuinely frightening, doesn't mean it's not fun to read though.
Quote from: Gilbet V7000a on Fri 22/10/2010 20:06:29
Quote from: Calin Leafshade on Fri 22/10/2010 19:48:53
Is there anyone on earth who hasnt played the original Alone in the Dark?
/me raises his hand as he had played AITD2 and 3 but never 1.
I also finished parts 2 and 3, but never beaten 1 to the end.
Quote from: kconan on Fri 22/10/2010 19:16:02
The original "Alone in the Dark" is worth a look.
Holy effing shit yes. Atmosphere-wise it's really worth playing even today.
Another one, and bonus points if you already have it: Lurking Horror. IF, but at its best. Not a thriller, but thrilling nevertheless. Available at underdogs IIRC.
Quote...where ideas like human centipede exist...
Argh, thanks for remembering me. I just managed to make the brain bleach work.
Quote from: Ghost on Fri 22/10/2010 20:18:12
Argh, thanks for remembering me. I just managed to make the brain bleach work.
Well if you liked that, you could always look up a movie called "Serbian film", oh, and of course, "Salo". ;D
Quote from: Ghost on Fri 22/10/2010 20:18:12
Argh, thanks for remembering me. I just managed to make the brain bleach work.
Remember him some other stuff.
I've played so little AGS games I can list them. But I can't remember them.
Daminit Anian! I did not need to be reminded of that!
Go play the original AITD, Gilbet! The sequels were action games with key/lock puzzles in between, the original was an adventure game with battles in between and was much better than the sequels. It had some pretty awesome puzzles too.
Quote from: blueskirt on Sat 23/10/2010 01:40:18
The sequels were action games with key/lock puzzles in between, the original was an adventure game with battles in between and was much better than the sequels. It had some pretty awesome puzzles too.
That's not true at all. The sequels were full of true adventure game style puzzles and the original AITD had nasty death-traps lurking behind every corner. I'd say the gameplay style was pretty much consistent throughout the whole trilogy, or at least very similar.
Quote from: Calin Leafshade on Fri 22/10/2010 19:48:53
Supernatural horror tends to be a little silly for the most part.
Now you're just being all kinds of wrong.
Also, AITD is good. AITD 2 is good. AITD 3 not so much. AITD: TNN equally so. AITD (2008) is a sack of plop.
Hooray!
Quote from: Ascovel on Sat 23/10/2010 01:51:03
That's not true at all. The sequels were full of true adventure game style puzzles and the original AITD had nasty death-traps lurking behind every corner. I'd say the gameplay style was pretty much consistent throughout the whole trilogy, or at least very similar.
I didn't get that impression. While in AITD1 several fights could be avoided and plenty of monsters were actually puzzles in disguise, AITD2 pits you against 5 guys with guns right off the bat and several more are waiting for you at every turn in the maze, this before you encounter your first puzzle. Puzzles are secondary to combat in the sequel, in the original they were at the forefront.
Quote from: blueskirt on Sat 23/10/2010 01:40:18
Go play the original AITD, Gilbet!
Yeah, I know that. As I have played 2 and 3, I know that these two games are much more restrictive in the gameplay, as the stories are forced to advance in a linear way, yet I still like them for their atmosphere.
I've tried playing 1 a bit and what I immediately learnt from it was that it's more like an adventure game than the sequels, in which you had to wander around and look for items to pick up, etc. I like this kind of games also, as I also like
those shameless imitators of it the Bio Hazard games and the LBA games (of course, as they're by the same people, though LBA had more action), so I'd like to play AITD1 for sure, but I wasn't ready to really try to play it for real at that time and decided to leave it alone for a while... and it's been years.