The greatest Adventure Game of all time...

[Adventure_Knight]

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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But what about todays games?

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

From the old Lucas classics, I like DOTT.

[FZ]

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[advent]

Quest for Glory II

[Russtaccio]

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).

[TheCheese33]

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.

[Nathan23]

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

[HammerBlade]

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.

[PureGhostGR]

'Loom' by Lucasarts.

It was pure magic.

[Helm]

Nippon Safes Inc. was a better game than BRA

[Dr Orpheus]

Gobliins 2
Who doesn't like a game that involvest teamwork, demented humor, and gibberish for voices?

[Kharn]

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.

[sergiocornaga]

Hmm... The Longest Journey, followed closely by the first Gabriel Knight. Yup.

[OneDollar]

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?

[Dan_N]

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.

[MarkPhantom]

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...

[R4L]

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.

Spoiler

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

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[Drowps]

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)

[stobbart]

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

[Peder 🚀]

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.