Adventure Game Studio

I have no idea.

What, in your opinion, is the greatest adventure of all time (fangames and commercial)? I'm putting my money on King's Quest 6, I guess. Although Monkey Island 2 and Day of the Tentacle aren't far behind.

of ALL time? as in, the future too?

Monkey Island 2 for me btw

I think the best is Day of the Tentacle.
Though I loved all Monkey Island saga (except the fourth), I think MI2 could be the second best.
The Larrys are quite fun, too, perhaps LSL6 could be the third.

MI2, DOTT and Indy 3, in no special order.

And I can add Vel's... GK2.  ;D

For gameplay, FoA.
For humour, Teen Agent.
For atmosphere, The Dig.
For "its like a movie"-ness, Full Throttle.

I think I'd give LBA2 the overall greatest adventure game title
But I'd give DOTT greatest point & click adventure game`

C'mon.
Grim Fandango.

Quote from: The Subliminal Messenger on Sun 04/01/2004 14:28:42
I'm putting my money on King's Quest 6, I guess.

Err... is this some kind of competition?

Anyway...

Grim Fandango. True art in gaming.

beneath a steel sky for me every time

MI3 and BASS

Monkey Island 2 wins just because it was the first for me.

Grim, DOTT, S&M, FOA, MI1 are all very close seconds.

SQ3 & LSL3

but really:

All SQ, LSL, MI, QG, MM & GF and all the ones I missed

They're all my favourite and all win

Rock on Timosity!!
All the way!!

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Shit, this is really hard for me, since I've started to realize I have far too many favourite games...
But I'm afraid I'll have to say Grim Fandango - It's just so goddamn good... Can't explain it... The storytelling, the characters, the music, the graphics, the voices... You want me to mention more stuff I love about it?


Others that come close are of course GK1, DoTT, MI2 and Discworld Noir.
All of these games have something important in common - They all had an atmosphere that drew me in, and made me longing for more when the game was over. Not every game does that to me. GF was the one that had the biggest influence, though - And therefore it deserves the #1 spot.  

MI2 -  Everything
SQ6 - Humour
LSL6 - HUMOUR!
Grim - Story, Music
KQ6 - Story, Music
Simon the Sorcerer 2! - Humour, Animation

Darth and Timosity have already said my favourite. SQ3, all the way! ;D

Loom

runner-ups : MI1, GF, DOTT

For 1000 (Or more precisely, 2) reasons, Grim Fandango. Pure Excellence.

MI2 close second, along with DOTT, Full Throttle, MI1 andddd... FOA, which I only played recently and loved.

My favs besides the obvious classics like Larry and Police Quest 2, would have to be Shadow Gate, Deja-vu, and Uninvited the NES versions. The blue, pink and white of the originals kinda turn me off.

By far, Grim Fandango, the more adventures I play the less hopeful I am I'll ever find one as good.

OK, here's my biased opinion:

#1: Monkey Island 2
The gameplay, game design, the story, the music (they really went overboard with the new iMuse system), and THAT ENDING.
And also just because it was the first LucasArts adventure I ever played.

#2: Sam 'n' Max Hit The Road
Just the overall polish in the presentation, and the lead characters of course. Also, all the mini-games just made it special somehow.

#3: Hero's Quest (aka Quest For Glory 1 EGA)
No one's mentioned this? Is it not considered a pure adventure game or something? Anyways...
I think the RPG elements and the day/night cycle just brought a level of immersion I've never experienced in any other adventure game. On some levels I consider the QFG series to be the best designed adventure games I know of - nothing comes close for non-linearity and replayability. Of course, being a Sierra game, the plot and characters are nowhere near LucasArts standards.
I'm not sure why I prefer the original version, the graphics just seem to have more atmosphere.

yeah, hero's quest and QfG2 are my all time favorites, and the space quests are up there too. Not just for the nostalgia, they can still hold my attention better than most, even with the text parser and lack of pretty graphics.  QfG4 rocked too, despite the buggyness.

And of course Sam and Max, MI, Grim Fandango, and the dig are all up there, but they never meant as much to me.

Well, the greatest adventure game of all time, i would have to say is Kings Quest IV.

I know its an old game, but to me its pure beauty.

Runner-up would be: Curse of Monkey Island

BG  :)

Princess Tomato in the Salad Kingdom, Labyrinth, RLBAT and the QFG series. Those are, in my opinion, the greatest games of all time.

I like LURE OF THE TEMPTRESS, and while I'm sure it's not the BEST game ever, it deserves a mention for being better than B.A.S.S

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Tony Hawk series, but the best is THPS 4 (Tony Hawks Pro Skater 4).

Also Carmageddon: TDR 2000

WTF oliver!

i hope you were joking there ... it says the greatest ADVENTURE game of all time  :P

i would have to say indiana jones and the fate of atlantis ... possibly mi2, maybe even broken sword1.

I think a lot of the time our favorite adventure game goes by which adventure game we play first.

-a chicken

I say The Neverhood because it's funny and made entirely out of clay

[glow=black,glow 1, #characters wide]Full Throttle![/glow] 8)

Sanitarium...
Well, most of the adventure games I've played were excellent. It's impossible to choose.

QuoteWTF oliver! i hope you were joking there ...

Of course he was !

Quote from: Damien on Tue 06/01/2004 20:55:49
[glow=black,glow 1, #characters wide]Full Throttle![/glow] 8)

Hey, what's the BB Code to make illegible blobs?

The best adventure games: Hard to say.. If you're just talking about story and atmosphere, I'd say Loom. Now there's a creepy game.. If you're talking about humor, I'd say Day of the Tentacle. For puzzles I'd say Fate of Atlantis, even though I spoiled it toward the end with walkthroughs (I was only eight! I could barely read for Chrissakes!). It might look like I'm biased toward Lucas Arts games..  Well.

Curse of Monkey island?

Quote from: Oliver on Tue 06/01/2004 17:20:51
Tony Hawk series, but the best is THPS 4 (Tony Hawks Pro Skater 4).

Also Carmageddon: TDR 2000

Good ocassion to say:

STFU noob?  ???

The MI series and Postal 2, and THPS 4.

(They're adventuregames too. Prove me wrong!)

For me, it's the original Infocom Zork text adventures. Now, if only Activision would revive Infocom again (and realise that they don't need to use the Zork franchise to do it, either!)...

this is really hard!
as sequals are similar in style i'll have to mention simin the sourcerer 1 and 2, as 2 didn't lose the charm of the original. Funny witty and great.

THe discworld series (a masterpiece) I'm a fan of the books and these follow them faithfully, with enough explination for those who haven't to understand and those who had there isn't to much so we get bored. Rincewind is great. Death is wonderful!!(the charactor mind)

then sam and max hit the road. Heard there was gonna be a sequal true?

Quote from: Gemmalah on Fri 09/01/2004 12:40:32
this is really hard!
as sequals are similar in style i'll have to mention simin the sourcerer 1 and 2, as 2 didn't lose the charm of the original. Funny witty and great.

THe discworld series (a masterpiece) I'm a fan of the books and these follow them faithfully, with enough explination for those who haven't to understand and those who had there isn't to much so we get bored. Rincewind is great. Death is wonderful!!(the charactor mind)

then sam and max hit the road. Heard there was gonna be a sequal true?

"Simon the Sorcerer", eh? Well, I'm playing them thanks to the joys of ScummVM! Great piece of software, that. Don't know much about the third one, but haven't heard much good about it. Pity, that.

[EDIT: Mods, move this thread to the adventure games/related, please? Seems rather out of place here.]

Everybody's just naming their personal favorites. There's a difference between the "greated adventure game of all time" and your personal favorite. For example, I'd say Gabriel Knight is a better game than Sam and Max, even though Sam and Max was one of the first adventure games I played and holds a special place in my heart and all that.

Quote from: Gemmalah on Fri 09/01/2004 12:40:32
then sam and max hit the road. Heard there was gonna be a sequal true?

I loved Sam & Max too. I haven't played as many adventure games as some of you here (I'd like to think I am too busy making them myself :p), but I'd probably say Sam & Max is my fav.

And yes, you heard right. (http://www.lucasarts.com/products/freelancepolice/)

Gabriel Knight III: Blood of the sacred, Blood of the damned. No doubt about it - the deepest plot, the best soundtrack, the best interface.

Quote from: Vel on Fri 09/01/2004 17:35:26
Gabriel Knight III: Blood of the sacred, Blood of the damned. No doubt about it - the deepest plot, the best soundtrack, the best interface.

In your oppinion, I suppose...

I'd like to hear anyone tell me a game with deeper plot, or more intuitive interface. The music is really IMO, and the graphics are rather average, but this game is the most immersive one I have played (and I have played quite a few). Oh, and three more words: Le Serpent Rogue.

I don't like GB euther. Never liked 'em. Too dark and sinister for me (oh the irony...)

Quote from: Vel on Fri 09/01/2004 18:23:28
I'd like to hear anyone tell me a game with deeper plot, or more intuitive interface. The music is really IMO, and the graphics are rather average, but this game is the most immersive one I have played (and I have played quite a few). Oh, and three more words: Le Serpent Rogue.

Ohhh... You don't understand it, do you? The deep of the plot is a matter of the player. The inmersion the game gets has to see also with the player.

Why do I need to say a game with deeper plot? Who are you to say that bring back two friends from the past and the future is more superficial than you beloved Gabriel Knight's plot?

Trapezoid is right, everyone here posted its favourite, but you express your oppinion like a unique thruth... I guess there's nothing we can do... I'm tired of this. argh...

:P

It would really help if you played GK3...

I wouldn't like it, because I usually hate anything that has been object of devotion by fanatic teens.   ;D

RICHARD LONGHURST AND THE BOX THAT ATE TIME

LASSI QUEST or RED FLAGG

yeah, red flagg rocks, it's the only ags game that you can replay as often as you like and it never gets old.

I couldn't pick a game based on pure excellence, for I hold so many in my highest reguard.

So I will pick one based on personal impact the first time I played it.

I was totally blown away the first time I played Full Throttle. Though I have played games with better puzzles, better plots, and better graphs, I still have not played any game more than it, (except for Super Punch Out!!!, but we are not in the boxing game studio gen gen forum now, are we?)

Another adventure type game that I hold in the same reguard is Earthbound for SNES. That was a beautiful game.

My favorite AGS game?  Richard Longhurst and the Box that Ate Time.

uh, Hugo's House of Horrors 3?

anybody with me? Nobody? :)

Quote from: EvenWolf on Wed 14/01/2004 13:01:05
uh, Hugo's House of Horrors 3?

anybody with me? Nobody? :)

Never played 'em, so I can't comment. Sound interesting, though.

Quote from: Sslaxx on Wed 14/01/2004 14:32:20

Quote from: EvenWolf on Wed 14/01/2004 13:01:05
uh, Hugo's House of Horrors 3?

anybody with me? Nobody? :)

Never played 'em, so I can't comment.

Lovely paradox, eh?

Gotta love gabriel Knight 1, not only for the cachy music, wicked plot, and cool characters, but for the PIXELATED DEATH SCENES!!!!!!! Yes BLOOD!!!!!. number 3's good too, but the moving around gets annoying, and grace just doesnt sound the same as in the first. (Havnt played the second, but then again, who has i asks?)

BLOOD!!!!!!!!!!!

My personal favourites? Anchorhead (IF), FoA and Private Eye.

Flight of the Amazone Queen, Zack McCracken and Shadow of the Comet come close though.

I think my No.1 is Monkey Island 1.
It's easier to say which games I DIDN'T like.
Well, for starters, I hated Sam 'n Max. Great graphics, I admit, but I doubt there could be a stupider plot, and as for Max... I hate that character. I hate the f****n' bastard! I also didn't really like MI4.

GRIM FANDANGO.

MI2 (the first adventure game i ever played I might add)
on the second place simon the sorcerer (the great plot)

MI1! No doubt about it! I'm addicted to Le Chucks theme... Heck I've even programmed it as a ring tone for my cell..

matzyboy thats mad!!!!

I have quite a few favorites, and its hard to decide. Its between FOA, MI1,2+3 and grimfandango...

infact i think ive already posted here

ahhwell

Dying after every stupid move in adventure game, sucks.
Dead ends do suck too.
Difficult puzzles suck.
Timed puzzles suck.
No jokes? Sucks.
But...
...there's an exception, and damn good one.
KGB!
http://www.the-underdogs.org/game.php?id=586

Now how can be game, that ignored all basic rules of making a great game can be still great? This is so-oo paradoxal. And cool.

Then again, how many games are there, which have "fight" and "hide" options in interaction list? Or freedom to have a pistol at your inventory and shoot whoever you want to?

DOTT !!!!!!!

The Greatest Adventure Game of All Time.

Noones ever going to come even close to agreeing because you'd have to define "Greatest" (like, "greatness: the quality or condiction of being great").

Without thinking about it too much, just one comes to mind...

The Secret of Monkey Island   ... (1).
- I just think that it's central to most peoples' understanding of adventure games and it's hard to imagine anyone not having it in their top ten at least. I could speak for pages and pages about why I think this game should at least be among the greatest of all time, but I think most of us get it anyway.

There are other games I probably enjoy playing more, or that I think are more "complete", or technically better, or... whatever. I could never name one as my favourite, they all go in different catagories @_@ Though... if I had to say the greatest adventure game in terms of technical greatness as well gameplay/story/whatnot... Grim Fandango.

...and just because I -need- to back these up, Simon the Sorcerer 2 and QFG1&2 (atmosphere!). Just thinking about the sheer amount of stuff to do in QFG1, and Erasmus' castle... man, I need to play it again!

1# 5 Days a Stranger
2# Little Johnny Evil
3# C.S.I - Dark Motives
4# Rob Blanc 3
5# A Friend Indeed

So the best is definetly 5DAS. ;)

BaSS!@#!!two

Quote from: Vel on Fri 09/01/2004 18:23:28
I'd like to hear anyone tell me a game with deeper plot, or more intuitive interface. The music is really IMO, and the graphics are rather average, but this game is the most immersive one I have played (and I have played quite a few). Oh, and three more words: Le Serpent Rogue.

Name another game with a deeper plot and all that? Okay, Gabriel Knight 2. You've got it all wrong. The plot was fantastic, albeit ripped off from a novel (Holy Blood, Holy Grail). But what soundtrack are you talking about? Compared to GK 1 and GK 2, the soundtrack was non-existent, and the music came up in all the wrong places.

Gabriel Knight 3 is a great game, but it's not as good as GK 1 and 2. GK2 is probably the greatest of all time.

bleh, it is Leisure Suit Larry 1 of course!

Teen Agent
Fate of Atlantis
Brad Bradson: Key Quest
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PLAY THEM ALL!!!
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Quite simply the best adventure game of all is Conquests of the Longbow.

Memorable music + great story + Robin Hood + nice graphics + intriguing puzzles = Best. Adventure.Game. Ever.

Paper mario
Mario and Luigi
The Legend of Zelda the ocarina of time
Starfox Adventures
Arcane
Megaman Battle Network 3 8)

*cough* ADVENTURE game... *cough*

around here adventure game is a term used for the classic point and click style gamesa, with mainly pickup and use puzles. I know that "av\dventure game" is a term that has recently been adopted my many game companies, but by reading the thread i think it's pretty obvious what we mean...

its adventure game studio after all.

i'd say MI1-3 and GF. CSI 1+2 were good too though

as far as point-and-click :
escape from monkey island
DOTT
Al Gurbish
Arcane online mystery serial
Steppenwolf
5 days a stranger

I personally think that the gratest game ever made were the monkey island series. They have very good puzzles and it has some funny things in it.

I have three games on the top of my list. They are all the best:

#1. Indiana Jones - Fate of Atlantis
#1. Gabriel Knight - Sins of the Fathers
#1. Grim Fandango

Monkey Island series are amazing in that they keep such a concistent style and never fail to entertain. I love them with all my heart, but I can't say that any of the games ON THEIR OWN deserve to be on the top of my list.

Honorable mentionings go to Loom and Day of the Tentacle.

I'm sure I'm forgetting some now. Feel free to chop my head off.  ;D

Quote from: Dart on Sun 13/06/2004 21:22:07
Quite simply the best adventure game of all is Conquests of the Longbow.

Memorable music + great story + Robin Hood + nice graphics + intriguing puzzles = Best. Adventure.Game. Ever.

Don't forget the multiple solutions to the puzzles that lead to multiple endings, the points system that works on at least two dimensions, and the fact that it includes an authentic medieval board game. It's genius!

It -is- a good game, isn't it? I still don't get tired of replaying it every now and again because it's always challenging all over again. There are so many challenging puzzles that you forget them the next time around, and of course you can finish the game differently... very nice game.

(Not the best ever, though ^_-)

Maybe not. I guess I'd cast my vote along with yours, for TSOMI. And not just for historical significance or nostalgia. I played it last weekend, and if had come out this year it would still be the best adventure game ever.

Quote from: tiki_dude on Thu 15/01/2004 11:41:06
and grace just doesnt sound the same as in the first.

Interesting we don't comment on the voice actors that much, but here's a short history of Grace's voice I found kind of interesting:
GK1: Leah Rimini, I think she's on the show King of Queens on CBS.
GK2: Don't know her name, but apparently she's a porno actress.
Gk3: Charity James, same voice as Elaine from EMI.

Anyway, I don't think there's a best adventure game of all time.

My personal favourite has to be Harvester. Yes, it was sick, brutal and very cruel, but I have never experienced such atmosphere in any other game and all the characters were so well designed - they all had their own story and their own twisted minds. It's so far the only game that really has made me feel some emotions besides joy - I actually felt worried about the consequences of my actions, I felt bad about the people who had to suffer because of what I did, I wanted my girlfriend to be safe and till the end I kept hoping for a happy ending... It's a game that truly touched me - a masterpiece.

stw - I wouldn't go as far as to claim it was the greatest adventure game ever, but I do agree that Harvester truly is underrated. It's not just about gore, there's a lot of moral dilemmas in it as well. I remember feeling so bad about killing the wasp lady, that I had to go back and restore a game - even though her death had absolutely no consequence for the game.

All of the lucasarts games rocked, way more then sierra games i think.  The best ones were probly Monkey island 1 and 2.

The Dig didn't rock, and nor did Loom.

Both did, AGA. They had something that most lucas games did not - solid and serious plot. And Loom is just fascinating.

Everyone to their own, and serious not always good :P

I liked Sierra games better on the whole.

But three of the most memorable games for me (when I think back) are Loom, Full Throttle, and Space Quest III.

Loom was the first game I ever played where I was totally immersed in the game itself, which was a neat experience.

 YARR!! Hello mateys!!
I can name quite a few great adventure games...DOTT,Indy Fate,Sam n Max,Full Throttle,The Longest Journey,Gabriel Knight 1 & 2,etc...but as far as the "Greatest  Adventure Game of All Time"
is concerned...gotta be Grim Fandango...no 2 ways about it(dont tell me bout the controls fellas)...its was plain beautiful...a work of art :)That game stood tall and beat em all for me ;D

If they're free, I've played it.  If I have to buy it, I come here first to see what all of you said.

Grim Fandango IS the best; The Myst Series, Monkey Island Series... all top notch.  I also (forgive me AGSer's) think The Key was simply wonderful.

Favorite AGS games by far have to be the Calsoon's and RON series.  Many other good ones, too many to list.  It's easier to remember the crappy ones (so as to avoid).

The best game? Cant say there is "one".  Anything by Sierra, they're all great. Rex Nebular was pretty cool, but i have to agree with most people here the Monkey island 1 is where is all began for me. Gotta love that rubber chicken with a pulley in the middle!! ::)

Don't worry, guys. AGA's opinion doesn't matter, as he has no taste and hates everything.

Allow me to reiterate that Callahan's Crosstime Saloon is the best, beating out even my all time favorite adventure game, Princess Tomato in the Salad Kingdom. It's story, humor and puzzles outshine any other game I've played.

¬_¬

I happen to love Zak McKracken and the Alien Mindbenders.

Without a doubt the best adventure game of all time is Circle of Blood

(aka Broken Sword)

SPACE QUEST 5

I can still hum the midi from it

DO DO DO DODO DO DOOOOO DO DO DO DOOOO DO DO DO DOOOOO DO DO DO DOOOOO OOOO OOOOOOOO

space quest 5 turned out to be one of my least favorite, 1, 4, and 6 stood out by far to me.

 ;D My fravorites are...

-SAM & MAX
-Day of the tentacle (Maniac Mansion II)

;) And games that I saw on this site...

-Pleurghburg: Dark Ages      (Can't wait for Pleurghburg: The Asylum.
                                              there's also a game they are making
                                                 called Revenants, it's a good game,
                                                  but for now it's just a Demo.)
-And more...

*I didn't play every game on the site or in the world so it's hard to tell.  ???

First of all, Hi everyone, I'm new.
I never really liked any of the Sierra games that I played and here's why:

Space Quest: the irritating narrator insults you every time you do something wrong

Leisure Suit Larry: Not my style of humour

King's Quest: too boring imo

LucasArts always did it for me, I've always loved MI, DOTT S&M (hehe) and so on.
Oh yeah, and Discworld 1, cos it was my first. Discworld 2 was too easy.

 ;D I like broken sword,hugo's house of horrors 1,2, and 3, but my all time favorite is the neverhood!

The best of all adventure games for me are:
MONKEY ISLAND (my first love in the adventures games  ;D)
second place fooooor:
Monkey Island II (deja vu)
and the third place is:
(trumpets: chaan chachachaaaaans)
DISWORLD (almost for me)

PD: (sorry about my poor english i am new in this page and from argentina )

defenately Indiana Jones! ;)

I still say what I've previously said, but I've recently played all the Broken Sword games, (well I'm in the middle of 1 atm) and I haven't got into games like this since I first played the Sierra & Lucasarts games.

Being at least twice as old as when I played the early sierra games, It can't top the nostalgic effect, but maybe when I'm 42 it'll become more clear.

Captain Power and the Amazing Flammable Foot.

Seriously though, Maniac Mansion started it all, baby

I liked drowning kids in the pool

Your all wrong!!!
Gabriel Night: Sins of The Fathers is THE BEST.
EVER!
FULL STOP!!!

Oooh, this is a tough one.  I've been playing adventure games for I don't know, 10 years, so I'm trying to think of all the ones that I've played.  Of course, the ones that stick out in my head are "the classics."  First off, there's the King's Quest series, which pretty much defined adventure gaming as we know it, imo.  I liked them all except for #7, which I think stunk because it was too cartoony and too non-KQish, and #8, which I haven't played.  Then of course, there's the Monkey Island series.  Don't have to say much on that, besides rock on.  There are others, like the QFG series, but those will always be rememered.

As for the title The Greatest Adventure Game of All Time, I don't think there is _one_ game.  Yeah, there are the ones that have been mentioned over and over again in this thread.  There's no denying those, but a few that I don't think have been mentioned are Zork Nemesis (though it's darker than the rest of the series, I thought the story was awesome), Myst (the only adventure game without any people, outside of books, that still rocked), and Dune (not to be confused with Dune 2.  While Dune has some simulator qualities, it still has predominant adventure qualities.)

I'll probably change my mind on all this by next week, but that's what so great with adventure games.  There are so many good ones out there, it's hard to have a true champion among them.

Zork:Grand Inquisitor. Great graphics, great gameplay, great puzzles, great actors, great EVERYTHING! No one can top this classic.

Quote from: JBiker51 on Fri 06/08/2004 23:02:35
Zork:Grand Inquisitor. Great graphics, great gameplay, great puzzles, great actors, great EVERYTHING! No one can top this classic.

Love to see a sequel to this, especially as it was supposed to be the beginning of a trilogy...

Day of the Tentacle, Sam and Max, Monkey Island 1,2 and 3 are my favourites!

Quote from: JBiker51 on Fri 06/08/2004 23:02:35
Zork:Grand Inquisitor. Great graphics, great gameplay, great puzzles, great actors, great EVERYTHING! No one can top this classic.

Hear hear. That's my favourite one too!

I like both Sierra and Lucasart.

I'm a fountain of diplomacy.
Or blandness.

5 DAYS A STRANGER DAMMIT!

Quote from: Haydn King on Wed 04/08/2004 21:29:34
Your all wrong!!!
Gabriel Night: Sins of The Fathers is THE BEST.
EVER!
FULL STOP!!!

Ever heard of something called an opinion? ::)

Doom II

I can't believe anyone said that before.

Second one would be Indy Car Racing 2

I'm all about sequels, you know!
Especially in Indy Car Racing the extented universe is amazing and all the new stuff you can do

Quote from: Junkie SX on Mon 30/08/2004 12:05:00
Doom II

I can't believe anyone said that before.

Second one would be Indy Car Racing 2

I'm all about sequels, you know!
Especially in Indy Car Racing the extented universe is amazing and all the new stuff you can do

Hahaha that's really funny.

The Longest Journey

I say Sanitarium

My personal Top Classic Adventures (in this order):

#10 Operation Stealth (Dolphin ?)
#9Ã,  Ã, Gabriel Knight II (Sierra)
#8Ã,  Ã, Indy IV (Lucasarts)
#7Ã,  Ã, Police Quest II (Sierra)
#6Ã,  Ã, Indy III (Lucasarts)
#5Ã,  Ã, QfG I (aka. Heroes Quest)
#4Ã,  Ã, Loom (Lucasarts)
#3Ã,  Ã, Leisure Suit Larry I-VII (Sierra)
#2Ã,  Ã, Future Wars (Dolphin ?)

AND MY ABSOLUTE ALL TIME FAVOURITE IS...

#1 Spellcasting Series (Legend)

Indiana Jones and the fate of atlantis is the best in my opinion.
oh and MI's of course.

- Raider

The great big adventure game that is life. I've never actually tried it, but I've heard it's quite good.

yeh, two words... Grim Fandango.

It is tough to pick out of so many good adventure games, but I'd have to go for Discworld Noir. It's so funny and immersive. The Broken Sword series is close on its tail though.  :)

It's such a tough choice since I love so many of them, but a quick rundown that I can definately say are in the top parts of my list are:

-The Dagger of Amon Ra
-Gabriel Knight: Sins of the Fathers
-The Last Express
-Beneath a Steel Sky
-Space Quest 4 (I like the others but this one takes the cake)
-all the Police Quest, King's Quest (except VII I really didn't like that one) and Leisure Suit Larrys
-Monkey Island series
-Torin's Passage

and I'll force myself to stop there before I name about 10 more titles. :P

i change my picks for best game to:
Ace Ventura
Sam and Max
DOTT
MI 1-3
Simon TS 1
FOA
Arcane
;D

If you meen professional games I'd go with Broken Sword: The shadow of the templars (best storyline ever!) that's made by Realsoft entertainment(I think). Be shure to notice: NOT The second or third one.

Although it's not much of a humoristic game (probably not at all) I've never ever played a game that's trapped me better. I think I played it through at least Three times.

(sorry if I have a lousy English)
(http://templarios-es.webcindario.com/cara_1024.jpg)

Quote from: Hawkins on Thu 16/09/2004 07:14:13
If you meen professional games I'd go with Broken Sword: The shadow of the templars (best storyline ever!) that's made by Realsoft entertainment(I think). Be shure to notice: NOT The second or third one.

Although it's not much of a humoristic game (probably not at all) I've never ever played a game that's trapped me better. I think I played it through at least Three times.

(sorry if I have a lousy English)

The Broken Sword games are made by Revolution.

Sorry ;D!!! I have a memory like a Bowl o melted butter that has been eaten by a shoten and grilled bear (witsh of course happened before it was shot and grilled( Perhaps I should take a TM on that scentince)).

Of Course it's Revolution. I haven't played it for a couple o months.

Best adventure game EVER, huh...

That's gotta be Monkey Island 2: Le'Chuck's Revenge. Great game.
I love the humor.

Yours,
~ StrangeDude

1. Grim Fandango
2. The Secret of Monkey Island
3. Monkey Island 2: LeChuck's Revenge
4. Broken Sword: The Shadow of the Templars
5. The Longest Journey

Day of the Tentacle is also great, but no room for it in my best five!

Topic called "...est ADVETURE..." not "adventures" so I won't repeat my list of favoutite quests which I posted in favourite games topic. :D

Legend of Kyrandia - is choice of my heart!
And not only the first part, but 2 & 3 too.

CYBERIA - the first game which had so awesome plot, it took me away for days and the story was just amazing ;).


btw my nickname goes from this game. Cyberion was one of the characters there ;)

Basically either any Kings Quest or Police Quest games.  Although most importantly Police Quest which are by far my favorite, and if I have to pick one it would probably be Police Quest 3 for the overall game and Police Quest 2 for the storyline.  I long for the day when somebody will remake or create an unnofficial sequel to the police quest series, since KQ and also Space Quest get all the attention, I feel police quest deserves some too! Anybody agree?

well, i think broken svord - the sleeping dragon
is the best for me, althought i haven't played the others i really want to play the other broken svord games

[now to offtopic]

the best game i have played is Final Fantasy 7
now that game is the best, oh all the memories

i even have all the soundtracks from the game in my computer ::)

BASS 'n' Monkey island 1,2,3!!! Really rules!!!
But when you love adventures like me, all of them are good!!!
DOTT!
SQ!
LSL!
Why not. Syberia for story!?!
Everything dog everything!!!! 

1. Day of the Tentacle!
2. Monkey Island 3
3. Grim Fandango
4. Broken Sword
5. Monkey Island 2
6. Sam n Max

oh my. That wasn't just ONE game, was it?

Sorry couldn't take that anymore...
YEAH, Beneath a steel sky is GREAT!!! :D

1. Broken Sword 2
2. Broken Sword 3
3. Curse of Monkey Island
4. Broken Sword 1
5. Grim Fandango

And then Full throttle comes around 10,764th after 'the Cat in the Hat' and 'Madeline'

Monkey Island 3
How did I pick it out of the other MI games we all know so well?..
They all rule and this one just looks the best so...
Billy's logic.

1. The Secret of Monkey Island
2. Monkey Island 2: Le Chucks Revenge
3. Beneath a Steel Sky
4. Indy 4
5. Loom

What's the point of choosing the one?

Grim fandango, Monkey Island, BASS, the Longest Journey, Gabriel Knight, KQ, SQ, PQ, DotT, Larry, Blade Runner (don't you forget him:)... all these are among the greatest and we, as adventure games lovers, love them all, don't you?

I personally prefer MI over KQ and if I had to write a game I'd definitely aim at something similar to the former, but to choose which one is better would be horrible. After all, they both are extremely good - and I suppose every adventure games lover would admit it. Hmm?

You know what... I'm so happy to be into adventure games... so happy!

The QFG series are the altamate game sieres. QFG4 especiall because of the Mordavian setting, vampires , the forest and graphics were awsome for that time, the whole screen dialouge was a new one for that time and had great effect. Also the new fighting system introduced that was never before experianced on Adventre Game. But some things sucked about it like learning how to climb took ages, and the rope and grapple gettting the bonsi tree took ages . but i have never forgoten about that game . I inspires me to make more games like it.

MI, GK, LSL7, GF
and...
Eric the Unready. Must be one of the funniest games ever made.
Also I wanted to mention Rise of the Dragon. Great game IMO.

Best Adventure:
1) The Dig (Lucas Arts)Ã, Ã,  Ã,  Ã,  Ã,  Ã,  Ã,  Ã,  Ã,  Ã,  Ã,  Ã,  for:Ã,  Ã,  (Best Story - Graphic)
2)Ã, Darkseed2Ã,  (Cyberdreams).Ã,  Ã,  Ã,  Ã,  Ã,  Ã, for:Ã,  Ã,  (Fantastic Story - HRgiger Arts)
3) Beneath a Steel skyÃ,  Ã,  Ã,  Ã,  Ã,  Ã,  Ã,  Ã,  Ã,  Ã,  Ã,  Ã, for:Ã,  Ã,  (Wonderful Atmospheric )

Best Arcade Adventure :
1)Another World (Delphin software)  for: (Best story & Atmospheric & cinematic)
2)Flashback (Delphin software)         for: (Best Animation)
3)Draconus  (Zephline- C64)              for: (Best puzzle & Atmospheric )

Quote from: MEHRDAD on Thu 20/01/2005 18:58:46
THE DIG (Lucas Art)  &  DARKSEED2  (Cyberdreams).

Woooow, registered only to give his/her opinion on that...

Btw, I have no favourite/s, but I love all of the LucasArts games...
- Day of the tentacle
- Discworld 1 [I am still playing II]
- Indiana Jones and the Last Crusade, Indiana Jones and the Fate of Atlantis
- Loom
- Maniac Mansion
- Monkey Island I and II [the other ones are nothing compared with the first ones, the 3rd is good but not as good as MI1... ^^]
- Sam and Max
- Simon the Sorcerer
Not in any special order [only alphabetic]. All of the above and the ones I'm missing.

THE best? Hm... either DOTT or Sam and Max. Maybe FOA too, or the first Monkey Island... strangely enough, I never really liked the second one all that much. Not Maniac Mansion, because that's already included with DOTT... Zak though.

And as Da Fool said, Eric the Unready was pretty awesome, too.

And while I'm at it... how could I forget Zork? I played that in third grade or so, when I knew only a handful of english words... my mom bought it for me at a sale without realizing that the whole game was text-based. But interactive fiction (as it's nowadays called) helped me improve my english A LOT.

Broken Sword 1 for its great graphics and writing

The first three Monkey Island games because they're such great fun

Simon the Sorcerer 1 & 2 because it makes me laugh out loud

Last Express.

QFG2 comes close.

The Hobbit, of course:

"The greatest adventure [game] is what lies ahead,
today and tomorrow are yet to be said,
the chances the changes are all your to make,
the mold of your life is your hands to break."

I agree that Kings quest 6 is a good adventure game, but in my opinion kings quest V beats it by far.Ã,  I like the dark and scary feel it has, and its creative puzzle's.Ã,  there is nothing better then it. NOTHING!

Monkey Island 1&2. (didnt get the Im bobbin are you my mother joke till i played loom years later).

My favorite game of all time would have to be Police Quest I, only because it was the first game I played.   I can still remember my heart racing when I pulled over Hoffman and waiting for the backup to arrive.

Any Lesiure Suit Larry Games, because they are just so funny!

Monkey Island 1 and 2 because they were so inovative.

I would have to say from my memory of all the adventure games I've played in my life, the one that sticks in my mind the most would have to be the beautifully crafted, pure adventureous, 'Heart of China'.

Has anyone else on here played it?

I've played it, and it was a great game. I first played it as a kid, and the only thing I remember was the tank scene and the sword fight on the train. I played it again recently, and enjoyed it very much. While I agree it is very "adventureous", but my favourite adventurGAME would have to be Monkey Island (1 and 2). I think I mentioned that before on this thread though.

I never threw mine into the mix.  My personal vote would be SQ3, of course it would be due to the fact that it's the second adventure game I played (after the oh-so-trite KQ4).  As far as what I consider the best..  GK1, the others were crap.

Honorable mentions: Sam and Max, DOTT, Grim Fandango, MI, (wow, lots of Lucas) and one I don't see much, Kyrandia 3 - sadistic sense of humor, interesting main character and made for a nice antithesis to the others in the series (I can still hear Malcolm's tone of voice when he says, "Squirrels, I like squirrels" in that chummy-banal-tongue-in-cheek way).

 8)Full Throttle. That is my favourite Adventure game!
Infact, I think I'll log off and play it right now

Grim Fandango. Far second: Monkey Island 3.
BTW, first post, nice meeting y'all.

I think it is necessary to distinguish among 1st person and 3rd person advernture games. My favourite 3rd person games are sure the Lucasarts classics.

My favourite first person game is "Death Gate" from Legend entertainment or "Superhero league of Hoboken". Both games have quite the same interface. I think "Death gate" is a totally underrated game, because it starts in a boring way but soon the story becomes more exciting. It has a great soundtrack too, and puzzles that i've never seen in other games. The spellcasting system was so innovative that it offered a lot of new possibilities, like transfering your own soul into the body of a dog, while you are prisoned, then you see yourself from the dogs perspective all in black and white, because dogs can't see colors.

You can get a CD rip version of "Death Gate" at the Underdogs.

I believe that designing a good 1st person adventure game is more difficult than making a 3rd person one, because you never see the main character and his actions. So its more difficult to make it interesting for a player.

Sierra got a nice Idea with Gabriel Knight 3 that is one of my favourite games too. It's kind of a hybrid between 3rd and 1st person. You always see Gabriel and his actions, but you can examine all locations from 1st person by yourself by wandering through the 3D world.Ã,  Ã, 

I agree with all you said about Death Gate, just a great game. And music is one of the best.
BTW, you can find the MIDI soundtrack here http://captain-nemo.nm.ru/music/DeathGate.rar ;)

Quote from: Beach Bum112885 on Thu 21/10/2004 08:11:57
Basically either any Kings Quest or Police Quest games.Ã,  Although most importantly Police Quest which are by far my favorite, and if I have to pick one it would probably be Police Quest 3 for the overall game and Police Quest 2 for the storyline.Ã,  I long for the day when somebody will remake or create an unnofficial sequel to the police quest series, since KQ and also Space Quest get all the attention, I feel police quest deserves some too! Anybody agree?

Hell yes, I so desperately long for a remake of any of the police quest games, especially the 2nd one, bit offtopic but does anyone know if there's already some plans to do a remake of the police quest series?

ONTOPIC..

I'd have to say that the best adventure game i've ever played was Quest for Glory 1, I mean, the non-linearity of it all was absolutely awesome, Quest for Glory 4 comes very close to 1 though. (I hated GFQ 3 though)

And of course the Police Quest series from 1 to 3, PQ 4 and SWAT sucked though.

I would have to say...

monkey island 1-3
Grim Fandango
BASS
Discworld
from here I seriously adored 5 days a stranger as well as Pleughburg

I still have to find sam and max hit the road!!

1.) Day of the Tentacle
2.) The Secret of Monkey Island
3.) Broken Sword 1

Pure genius. Thank the wizards from ScummVM for saving this classics for future generations.

I love Syberia. I have never been more touched by any other game. From the classic stuff future wars is my favorite.

I'm not really sure which one's my favourite... It's pending between The Secret of Monkey Island, Monkey Island 2: LeChuck's Revenge and Space Quest III: The Pirates of Pestulon.

Quote from: Bugalicious on Thu 15/01/2004 11:41:06
Gotta love gabriel Knight 1, not only for the cachy music, wicked plot, and cool characters, but for the PIXELATED DEATH SCENES!!!!!!! Yes BLOOD!!!!!. number 3's good too, but the moving around gets annoying, and grace just doesnt sound the same as in the first. (Havnt played the second, but then again, who has i asks?)

I know this is old, but what do you mean "Who was i asks?"Ã,  If you did not know, The Beast Within: A Gabriel Knight Mystery was voted as the best adventure game, best story, and game of the year in 1995.

I say that the Broken Sword Series(especially Smoking Mirror) and the Gabriel Knight Series(2 and 3 on top) are tied for the best, while the King's Quest Series is a close 2nd.

Guybrush come here quickly.You see this do you see all this men and probably one woman arguing about.

All this words but only one is at the top:

(http://www.rpgfan.com/reviews/monkeyisland/monkey-logo.jpg)

thank you Ron you are true creator of adventure game genre.

Amen to that.

It has to be Grim Fandango for me. The land of the living bit still freaks me out.
And I love Glottis.

I think that expecially MI2 was a revolution for computer gaming scene....
MI1 and MI2 demonstrated that computer games could be a new form of art like cinema or literature....

I also love Grim Fandango for its originality...

I'll try my best to make somethng comparable to them.... ;D

Well, a lot of the games mentioned above are downright incredible.

But I'm going to root for the underdogs here. Text adventures. Not only the Infocom classics - which were great - but some of the new ones being made - which are vastly better some ways.

Okay, how can an adventure be the best adventure game ever if it has no graphics and no music? Well, on the bright side, you don't have to spend hours walking around. Type N. N. E. E. N. N and you're across the game map. Compare that to Syberia, which, although very good, consisted largely of walking - even if you solved every puzzle in a quick guess!

So, my top five favorite adventure games ever of those _not mentioned above_ are:

5. Anchorhead

"He always returns to his blood."

I'll just link to a review:

http://www.ministryofpeace.com/if-review/reviews/20030228.html

This one's dark, like STB or Trinity, but it's also much more fun, in a twisted way, than either. It's about the puzzles and the brooding and the amazing atmosphere, but it's Lovecraftian darkness so you can't take it too seriously.

Can you?

4. Slouching Towards Bedlam

"If there are words for this... they have not yet been written."

A shorter game that makes the best use of multiple endings I have ever seen. You have something very close to free will, but whether or not you get certain endings depends on how thoroughly you REALIZE that. And it's hard to say which ending is best, and which is worst.

It's steampunk - really good steampunk - with an unsettlingly dehumanizing writing style. It also has one of the best puzzles I've ever played; I got a eureka moment on it while walking down the street, and I hadn't even realized there was a puzzle THERE before.

It's great.

3. Trinity (A 1986 Infocom game.)

"Sharp words between the superpowers. Tanks in East Berlin. And now, reports the BBC, rumors of a satellite blackout. It's enough to spoil your continental breakfast. "

This one's a weird inclusion, because in addition to having no graphics, music, or on-screen action, it has some really awful save-and-restore puzzles and a lot of puzzles whose solutions relied more on symbolism than logic. But this makes sense, given the game's time-looping premise. And Trinity may be the most flat-out memorable game I've ever played.

You mirror-reverse the world. You swing the sun through the sky. You float through space in a bubble. You cross the River Styx, sprint across the desert of New Mexico, sneak through the Trinity test site, rush to defuse the first A-bomb. And, the ending is incredibly haunting.

2. Savoir-Faire

Now this one's just plain FUN, and brilliantly programmed and conceived. Magic systems in adventure games tend to either circle around artifacts or the CAST X ON Y approach, but Savoir-Faire has only two bits of magic you can use, and they're amazingly well-done, and make for some subtle, sneaky, brilliant puzzles.

The game warns that it's easy to get into an unsolvable position, but it's fair. You can beat it with saves, restores, and careful play, and I didn't get frustrated at all with it, except in the good way. This game's like the opposite of Trinity in many ways. It's sort of an old-school game with a hint of treasure hunting and a backstory that only really becomes important in the last few moves of the game. But it goes for wit instead of weight, and it scores.

Is it pretentious? Well, sometimes. But I'd rather have pretension than a game that's afraid to pretend to anything.

(City of Secrets could also be on this list, but I didn't want to put two games by the same author, no matter how incredibly ambitious and good they are.)

1. Space Quest IV

"Casually glancing at the status bar, you notice you're in Space Quest 12."

Sophomoric. Funny, but not as pushy and loud about it as the Leisure Suit Larry games. Filled with little jabs at B-grade science fiction movies. Came with a little magazine that was at least as funny as the game, and in the tradition of the Infocom box stuff. Had some neat puzzles, though also had a nasty walking dead or two, and didn't have SQ3's reliance on action sequences. Also, was the first animated graphic adventure I played, and introduced me to the fun of solving puzzles better than your parents can even though you are seven years old.

Hey, this is the list of my personal favorites. I'm allowed to put something silly at the top.

I'd either go for Full Throttle or the Quest for Glory series... but it's hard...

Wellington: You completely forsook the grandmother of all games: ZORK, and it's many incarnations (I like Zork 0: the Coconut of Quendor the best). It seems as though only one of the games you picked waas a real Infocom game. Although I have to agree that Anchorhead is really good. And what about that old favorite, Leather Godesses of Phobos!

I think the best adventure game of all time was Nocturne, which I just posted about elsewhere....

Wait - I thought Beyond Zork was the one with the coconut, and Zork Zero was the one with the curse...

Anyway, Zork I is a brilliant game, and Zork 0 is fun, if a bit generic (it's got the Towers of Hanoi, peg jumping, and so on), and Beyond Zork has some neat RPG elements and also some horribly frustrating RPG elements... but I don't feel that Zork 2 and Zork 3 aged quite as well. Maybe it's because they have just enough plotline to suggest there's a story there, but not enough story to be compelling. Zork I doesn't pretend to be anything more than a treasure hunt, and is fun on that level.

(I like the Enchanter series more, really. Enchanter is consistently fair but challenging, Sorcerer has one of the best time travel puzzles ever written, and Spellbreaker is a great puzzlefest with a cool ending.)

LGOP was like Space Quest, but generally better and in text. It would likely be on my list if it weren't for that horrible, horrible maze. It was fair, and you got a map, but _man_ was it repetitive and plodding.

If there's an Infocom game I'd add to the list, it would probably be The Lurking Horror.

Ah, right you are. Beyond Zork was the Coconut of Quendor... That be it. Of course, Zork 2 and 3 weren't any good because they were just building on the success of their predecessor, which never comes out alright. They were pretty much the same game with different plot elements.
I had the priviledge of playing Zork 1,2,3, 0, and Beyond Zork, LGoP, Hitchhikers Guide, and Lurking Horror on my Commodore 64 back in the day, but Infocom re-released them for PC about 10 or so years ago. I bet they are still available, and most definitely could be found on Ebay. As for Anchorhead and some of the others, they are freeware. And I'm pretty sure there's a place where you can play Zork I as a Java applet if you look hard enough online...

OK, since I made top 5 list, here is 6-10 one.

6. Day of the Tentacle
7. The Dig
8. Beneath a Steel Sky
9. Indiana Jones and the Fate of Atlantis
10. Discworld

And now, 11-15...  ;D ;D

Eeh. I can't possibly say just one, so I'll put it in categories:

Sierra: Space Quest 5. Really nicely put together game, very smoothly going. And I also have a soft spot for the Sierra-style speech.

LucasArts: MI2, Sam and Max. Both were very immersing and had incredibly 'Wow. I'll miss you.' endings. Personally, I feel DoTT didn't immerse very well. It seemed to lack soul, which MI2 and Sam and Max had in leaps and bounds.

Cyan: Riven I'd say has to be around here. It's well disguised, but it's an adventure game, and what an adventure game.

AGS: GfW, with 5 Days close behind. GfW is really quite wonderous for an AGS game. I feel like it'd be a bit of an overstatement to put Poom here, but I think it's underrated.

Other: BaSS was excellent. The Hugo Trilogy was one of the first adventure games I played, with the second being the best of it (except for the pesky maze, but I guess it's just about excusable).

Now that I found Victor Loomes again it must be it and The Big Red Adventure... something very very nostalgic.

If I didn't remember those two, I'd surely go for MI1 or Zak, which was the first I played through

Professional: Zork: Grand Inquisitor

AGS: Da New Guys! ;D ;D ;D :) :) :) ;D ;D ;D

For me it's definately Monkey Island 3!

I love the grapics and puzzles in the game, and since this is the first game in the saga I played I kind of fell in love with it :P

Other than that I really love Beneth A Steel Sky and grim fandango!

I have to Agree with Zork: Grand Inquisitor. One of the best games ever made.

I wonder...why did Activision cancel the Zork series after Grand Inquisitor? They don't even mention it on their website anymore! They should've decided to make another one; if not a Zork game, maybe a different series! It also leads to the conclusion that graphics have not only enhanced adventures, but also have doomed them (why the hell did they get rid of video actors in Myst? Look at Myst 5!). Zork MUST be revived.

I played The Dig yesterday and I have to say that, this is just awesome.
Anyway here's my TOP 3.

1.The Dig
2.Monkey Island 2
3.DOTT
:)

Grim Fandango and MI2, no question ;D

This is by far one of the most complicated questions ever.

I would have to say that all the games had their own special appeal.
Lets face it, everybody likes something else, and thats just the way
we are we love different things cause it just appealed more to us
for some reason.

Mine would be;
indiana jones : Wow
Full Throtlle : Kick ass
Day of the tentacle : Wacked

truely I can say i enjoyed most of the adventure games!

Indiana Jones and the Last Crusade.
It was my first adventure game on Amiga, and now I enjoy playing it again on PC.

QFG definitely and also Indy werent bad, but QFG is my top 1 choice

Hey! I just discovered this:

http://www.4webgames.com/consoleapps/

If you scroll to the bottom there is a list of all the old INFOCOM games that you can play as web applets, including all the Zorks, Wishbringer, Trinity, Lurking Horror, Hitchhiker's guide... etc. Sadly missing is Leather Godesses of Phobos :(

Best moment ever in an interactive fiction game: When you first meet the Implementors in Beyond Zork, one of them says, "Isn't this the feeb who said X a couple moves ago?" where X equals your worst typo of the game. Hah! Good stuff, good times...

Well the best ever:
Grim Fandango, the sound, graphics, character, humour was excellent. Also the logic required for it, made it an easy adventure game as well, didn't really get stuck once.

Secondly, Quest for glory, yup I'm aware that it asn't pure adventure (with the RPG aspect also included.) To be able to wait for nightfall, and then break into a house, only to loot it all!!! hahaha im so evil!

Monkey Island 1

Kings Quest VI is unquestionably at the top for me.

Second place would be KQV, and then SQIV.

... is being alive. Shame about the final cut scene though.

Quote from: esper on Sun 06/11/2005 08:53:15
Hey! I just discovered this:

http://www.4webgames.com/consoleapps/

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I deny being immature.

Without doubt...

Gabriel Knight - Sins of the Fathers.
I was so caught up in that game, just listening to the music from it bring back lots of happy memories.

Runner-up has to be: Robin Hood & The Conquests of the Longbow!

SQ3 and GK.
KQ6 was also a very good adventure game.

this is how it would go for me so far.

1. monkey island 1&2
2. 5 days a stranger
3. seven days a skeptic
4. a couple of other adventure games

All Space Quest parts
All Larry games,
Full Throttle
Indy TLC, and Indy FOA ( Young sentement )
Day of the Tentacle
ALL monkey islands
Grim Fadango..

etc etc.  LOVE LUCASARTS P&C ADVENTURES!!


Anyone know sum REALLY un commercial P&C adventures??

Monkey island 1 for everything

Syberia for story

Hero quest (quest for gLory 1) for memories of playing it with my brother

DOTT cause my grirlfriend played it and love it

Black Mirror cause this is a first game that we enjoyed after a long time (2 years) of not playing games.

And DISCWORLD 1 because we love Pratchet books

Excuse me if I did this already...?

1. Monkey Island 2,3,4
2. Broken sword 1,2
3. Flight of the amazon queen
4. indy: Fate of atlantis
5. Still life

(BTW, due to not having a PC for millions of years(but an amiga back then), I have yet to play sam n max, DOTT, The dig, gabriel knight and full throttle.)

Manic,  I find it odd that you like all Monkey Islands except for Secret.   

It was alright, but not only did I play 2 first, (thus increasing my expectations) but I didn't like the constant walking back and forth through the same locations over and over. (At the time.)

So in short, not one of my fave adventure games of all time. See?

CURSE OF ECHANTIA!!!!



omg just joking! xP


Day of the tentacle is the best AG ever made...yep..another one who thinks that..

Myst IV: Revelation is a very beautiful adventure game and definitely on my top 10.

The Original Monkey Island!!
And Monkey Island 2...
and Curse of Monkey Island...
and--

And The Longest Journey

I'm gonna have to go with The Dig. I have yet to play an adventure game that comes even slightly close to bringing together that many elements that I wholeheartedly enjoyed. The plot--which is a lot closer to what I wanted from the movie Contact--the voice-acting, the visuals, the music...it was like they had a camera inside my head.

...except, you know, not literally.  ;D

Simon the sorceror

Full throttle

Monkey Island

Discworld (this one sticks in my mind not only because I am a fan of Pratchett but also because I remember playing it one xmas whilst staying in a council flat (while my house was being rebuilt...don't ask.. it was traumatic...) - I went to make a cup of coffee and left the game running. After a while someone knocked on the window, which was odd since it was a second floor flat... Tap tap "... hello..." I checked the window Tap tap ".....heeeellooooo....." - I thought I was going mad.... then I walked past the computer and there was Rincewind tapping on the monitor trying to catch my attention.....)

Gabriel Knight - What can I say but...  Wow!

Indiana jones: Fate of atlantis/temple of doom
Monkey island 1/2

I have a special place for Monkey Isle (as does everyone), but it's probably Zak McKracken.

Wasn't the first one I ever played, and I do really love some of the others. But this one's kind of special. Played it first on my cousin's Amiga, I was drawn in right from the titles and that funky music. Had to get it on mail order for my ST because I couldn't find it anywhere.

Almost everything about it's great. From the tabloid hintbook up to Leslie's hair, it's absolutely nuts. Really funny. And I stuck it out for months and months before I finally finished it. The only real downside is those awful maze sections, but they can't stop it from being a classic.

My fav, Adventure game would have to be The Dig, only took me and a friend 1 night but what a game....

Crime Time. Best game ever... I love that game. (I just downloaded it, and I'm playing it right now.)
If you haven't downloaded it yet, GO DO IT NOW!! It's hilarious, I love those jokes.
Monkey Island is second.

(Speaking of Crime Time... it says "act one" is all they have and the rest you have to imagine... but does it say when act one is over, because I seem to be stuck... is it just the end of the game? Please PM me. Thanks)

syberia I and II
Space quest 1, 2
LSL 1, 2, 3, 6
Police quest 1, 2
GOLD Rush

Well, my Top Three Personal Favorites Are (In No Particular Order):

1. Sam & Max Hit The Road
2. Conquests Of The Longbow
3. Curse of Monkey Island

But if I had to pick what I think the "greatest Adventure Game of all time" is (while trying to keep my personal bias out of it as much as I can), I would have to say "Day Of The Tentacle". There's not a single aspect of the game that I can readily find fault with (other than the conceit of flushing inventory items through time and space)...

Runner up would be "King's Quest 6", which was perhaps the most flexible of the entire series.

Gabriel Knight 2, on the strength of story, depth of characters, drama, and the intriguing puzzles. No other game author has accomplished the plot development that Jane Jensen does. All three GK games are among the top.

Quote from: DarkRiver on Mon 13/02/2006 11:22:05
Gabriel Knight 2, on the strength of story, depth of characters, drama, and the intriguing puzzles. No other game author has accomplished the plot development that Jane Jensen does. All three GK games are among the top.

I dont know that third one was kinda sketchy...

1#: Monkey Island 2: Totally Awsm everything!

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2#: Sam'n'Max hit the road: Great presntation, minigames, Maxes 'anal penetration'!

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3#: Monkey Island 1: The first adventure game I've EVER played.

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4#: Maniac Mansion Deluxe: Totally all-new multiplayer way of exploring the mansion, different endings.

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5# No-Action-Jackson: The only nonLucasFan adventure game that reminded me of the old LucasFilm games.

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Wow, lots of pages to catch up on... but just shooting from the hip, two of my FAVORITE adventure games have to be, bar none, Police Quest 1 and 2... it was absolutely awesome trying to track down and bring the Death Angel to justice.

Gotta be Myst and Riven for me. Myst is probably the perfect introduction to adventure gaming, and Riven is probably the nearest thing the genre is going to get to be considered as an Artistic Masterpiece.

Monkey Island 1 and 2 for all time.. ;D

Simon 2 is by far the best for me because it is a Talkie game with the best humor, character and graphics I've ever seen for an adventure game (except one could argue that simon 1's background graphics are better).

The Humor is amazing.... I mean it's like a modernized blackadder kind of satire in a talkie colourful beautifully designed adventure game in a beautifully designed magical world!

I'd Say for me it would then go Simon 1 or Monkey Island 2 not sure which (played simon 1 over and over and Mk2 only once so if I'd played mk2 as much as Simon 1 and Simon 1 rarely and Simon1 was therefore fresher I'm sure I'd like Simon 1 The most so It probably is Simon1 second then Mk2 3rd...

Then I THINK It's DOTT 4th.... I think DOTT has perfect Storyline and Animating and Graphics and Introduction And I mean the timetravel aspect is an amazing thing an adventure game and the ability to switch between characters through the whole game I mean WOW!

Only problem with I'd say is I say I'd prefer Simon1 and 2' and the monkey island game's STYLE of art and also prefer it overall despite the DOTT art could art could be technically better (Defenately can't beat Simon1's backgrounds though...nothing can for detail 3d or 2d that I've seen)

Also It's a shame DOTT wasn't talkie all the way though... that's what's great about Simon1 and 2 they're both talkie all the way through and simon1 came out in 1993! It was way ahead of it's time.

However the Lack of Length in DOTT and Difficulty Is My Main Problem with it... It was finished too quickly for my liking. Bloody good game though....


So All in all Simon 2 is the best for me by a longshot then the rest are kinda reasonably far apart.

Ever played full throttle?

Yup

FANTASTIC Music... Game was too short and easy though played more like a movie.... Great MUSIC and CHARACTER though:)

Greetings from a Monkey Island Fan...

But there are many more:

Recently I have played Frasse and the Peas of Kejick

It's  freeware and really awesome!!!

i'd say either sam and max or Indy: FoA. BASS is close behind, with it's good graphics. The game was too easy though.

So..

except from Monkey Island of course...

It was Runaway!

Did not get this music out of my head ;D

Hey all.

My pick is definately: Beneath a Steel Sky, for a point&click adventure game. Though, the greatest adventure game ever is Star Control 2! And it's also probably the best pc-game I've ever played (It's also number 1 at my list for best story and plot!).

- Yuval

the first game i ever played was "THE DAY OF THE TENTCALE".after playing this i became intrested in adventure games.i completed it without walkthrough at the age of 13.this is a best game for me.

Space Quest five is such a wonderful game, it deserves best computer game, I'd say QFG4, but the bugs were an intense anoyance and took away from the gameplay, but the replayablity factor of all the QFG games was a real nice feature there. I think the first adventure game I ever played was QFG2, and even though its terrific, there was the whole not having much to do while waiting around for day four, or whichever day was needed to trigger certain events.

I must be kinda boring but I've gotta say Grim Fandango.
The atmosphere is priceless.

Grim Fand....what???

Is that a Sierra game?

No, Grim Fandango is a LucasArts game that came out back in '98.

Whaaaaaaaaa? ???
Czar has got to be kidding.

How the hell could he have missed one of most celebrated adventure game ever?
Almost every single game magazine I've read has it among it's top 10 games of all time.
The biggest Swedish PC Gamer has claimed it to be the best game ever since it came out.
Grim Fandango ROCKS!

Grim Fandango.
Nothing else gives me the same feeling. Except if I listen to the soundtrack by Peter McConnell.  ;)

An adventure I can list in "almost the same category" is Little Big Adventure 2... Long time since I played it though, but when I replayed GF it reminded me of LBA2.

My top 3 is, I think;

- Grim Fandango; because I'm easily drawn to games with great music & atmosphere.
- Day of the Tentacle; had a lot of fun playing that one!
- Monkey Island 2; I still play some bits on rainy afternoons and boring sundays.

The Beast Within: A Gabriel Knight Mystery.

I'm sorry guys, I really don't know what are you talking about.

I actually don't even think it's that great as you are saying it is.
I believe it's a fad type of adventure games.
The only game that's got me rockin' me bootles( yes i made this word up. ) is Monkey Island 4.
I haven't seen more originality and atmosphere than this game and you better believe it.

Although for the sake of this community in the next couple of years I'll gather some time and play a bit of this Grimm Fadango.

I'd buy Grim Fandango, but looking on Amazon.co.uk it seems to cost £40 for a new copy.  :o

I missed out on it because I owned an Amiga when it was first released.

Czar, I haven't heard a single adventure game fan say they didn't enjoy Grim Fandango.

ARGGGGGHHHHHHHH.... I always want to play Gabriel Knight 2, but I have to say that Phantasmagoria I was the best for me then
King's Quest VI and then King's Quest VII

Quote from: Trapezoid on Sun 04/01/2004 16:12:16
C'mon.
Grim Fandango.

I'll second that, nothing beats Grim Fandango. :)

Other favorites are Full Throttle, Monkey Island 1-3 (the 4th one falls out of the line even though it was pretty good), Broken Sword 1 and The Neverhood.

Manic Matt, Grim Fandango call still be found on the high-street. As can Full Throttle, The Dig, and Escape from Monkey Island.

GAME, Virgin Megastore, and HMV  have copies, or have had, over here, so it couldn't be THAT hard to find. :)

I've looked in HMV and GAME.

All I could find was The dig for £9.99.

If anyone thinks I'm paying a tenner for a ten year old game can think again!

(And I've got escape from monkey island on the PS2)

I bet you live somewhere bigger than Leicester where the shops are absolutely massive!

Quote from: ManicMatt on Wed 31/05/2006 23:36:10
I bet you live somewhere bigger than Leicester where the shops are absolutely massive!

Dublin seems to be the City Of Lost PC Games! :P

Easy. MI1 or the Big Red adventure. The latter really radiated awesomeness and had a great atmosphere and music.

Big red adventure? Gosh that brings back memories! That was one of the last adventure games I played on the Amiga. That and sixth sense investigations (Which was funny but a bit crap and very bugged).

BRA had a nice black case too. And a good acronym.

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

But what about todays games?

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

From the old Lucas classics, I like DOTT.

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Quest for Glory II

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).

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.

QuotePlease 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

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.

'Loom' by Lucasarts.

It was pure magic.

Nippon Safes Inc. was a better game than BRA

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

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.

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

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?

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.

Quote from: Nathan23 on Thu 22/06/2006 17:48:57

QuotePlease 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...

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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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)

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

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.

10 Gold Rush
9 Indiana jones and the fate of atlantis
8 Zak Mckraken and the alien mindbenders
7 Curse of Enchantia (amiga )
6 Sam n Max hit the road
5 DOTT
4 Simon the sorceror 2
3 Broken sword
2 Monkey Island 1
...............................................................................drumroll please







...Monkey island 2

MI2 (of course  ;D)
Sam n Max  (and not the halfwitted version from telltales..)
Dragonsphere (this game rocks, if you haven't played it before find it)

I just love DiscNoir!

My first adventure was Escape from Mi
So i downloaded the other 2 and bought Curse
I loved all of them but one is a personal favourite
is MI2
Ok they were all perfect
It's my favourite game
but when i played 2 i  was stunned
Great music
One hell of an Ending
many laughs
(i like it when he jumps with the crossbar and he hear the Indy theme0
Plus very  strange
ex: when he opens the door and you see Mi 1

     I got some good news for all of you who would like to try out the recommended game Dragonsphere. It was just added to abandonia. I'm downloading it now. It looks pretty awesome!!!

Best adventure game?

That has to be Monkey Island III! Greatest humour ever combined with stunning (at the time) graphics. Just thinking about the banjo contest puts a smile on my face! :)

Runners up are:

MI 2
Larry 1-4
Police Quest 1+2
Space Quest 1-4
Syberia 1

Tom..

Monkey island 2, i'm more to funny games than scary ones.

5. Beneath a Steel Sky
4. Monkey Island 1
3. Leisure Suit Larry 1-4
2. Gabriel Knight: Blood of the Damned
1. Quest for Glory 2

IMO Quest for glory is the funniest and ingenious adventure game series ;D

I say Indiana Jones and the Fate of Atlantis, it has some replay value, you really feel the "adventure" when travelling around the globe, it has humor, romance and action, plus interesting fictional facts about Atlantis.
That doesn't mean that all the other adventures suck,some of them are very, very, very great too.

I don't really have favourites as such but having recently played 5 Days a Stranger, I was amazed that such a quality game was made on AGS, but had been taken one step further with an amazing plot worthy of an Oscar in my opinion.  Infact if I was a screenwriter or director I would want to make a film based on it.

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My favourites have to be:

Monkey Island 2: LeChucks Revenge
                          &
Talky Simon The Sorceror 1 (With Voices)

Of course.....


THE GABRIEL KNIGHT TRILOGY!!!!!!!!!!!

5. KQ 2 (the Tierra remake, was really impressed by this)
4. Indiana Jones, Fate of Atlantis
3. John Defoe Quadrilogy
2. Gabriel Knight, Blood of the damned
1. Gabriel Knight: Sins of a fathers

Haven't played GK 2 though, if so it will probably conquer it's place in the top 3 as well :)

DOTT, the first adventure game I played.

I would say "The Curse of Monkey Island" i just love the good quality cartoon and humor in this game :D
I aslo like Space Quest 6, Larry Laffer 6 and 7, Kings Quest IV.
My first adventure game was Kings Quest IV and i LOVED it :D but they don't make that kind of game any more :( now all has to be 3d and all that.
No give me a Adventure game with good DRAWN gfx and humor and i'm hocked :D

Quote from: DoomStone on Sat 26/05/2007 01:32:02
I would say "The Curse of Monkey Island" i just love the good quality cartoon and humor in this game :D
I aslo like Space Quest 6, Larry Laffer 6 and 7, Kings Quest IV.
My first adventure game was Kings Quest IV and i LOVED it :D but they don't make that kind of game any more :( now all has to be 3d and all that.
No give me a Adventure game with good DRAWN gfx and humor and i'm hocked :D

Yeah Kings Quest 4 was amazing.  I still remember when i was in my teens and we went to pick the game up, and my family decided to go out to dinner before heading home. I kept looking at the box over and over at Denny's in anticipation of getting home and finally play it. I was soooooo excited to get home and play it. Sierra did a great job with that game, and is one of my favorites to this day.

Quote from: Domino on Sat 26/05/2007 02:07:05

Quote from: DoomStone on Sat 26/05/2007 01:32:02
I would say "The Curse of Monkey Island" i just love the good quality cartoon and humor in this game :D
I aslo like Space Quest 6, Larry Laffer 6 and 7, Kings Quest IV.
My first adventure game was Kings Quest IV and i LOVED it :D but they don't make that kind of game any more :( now all has to be 3d and all that.
No give me a Adventure game with good DRAWN gfx and humor and i'm hocked :D

Yeah Kings Quest 4 was amazing.  I still remember when i was in my teens and we went to pick the game up, and my family decided to go out to dinner before heading home. I kept looking at the box over and over at Denny's in anticipation of getting home and finally play it. I was soooooo excited to get home and play it. Sierra did a great job with that game, and is one of my favorites to this day.

Hehe i was just a young lad at the age og 11 when i got the game, and i remember me and my hole family sitting at the computer playing the game together :D

it'd have to be FFVII tied with Castlevania: Symphony of the Night.

as far as point-and-click/old sierra games go, i'd say the Legend of Kyrandia by a long shot.
then Larry 3 and KQ1.

Indy 3 - First game I ever played. Memories I'll never forget..
Indy 4 - Stunning graphics, let alone story, puzzles etc. (humour) ;)
Monkey Island 1-3 - Great sense of humour, great puzzles..
The lost files of Sherlock Holmes - Great, great game.. Loved it so much (atmosphere etc.)
Broken Sword 1-2 - Brilliant
Sam 'n Max - Best sense of humour
DOTT - Sorry even more best sense of humour :)
Police Quest 3 - Very cool; gave me the creeps cos I was fairly young
Simon the Sorcerer II - Great sense of humour and pretty wicked ;)
Full Throttle - good game...

Of the newer ones: Runaway - nice graphics, good puzzles

:)

While compiling this thread into a top ten list (http://www.adventuregamestudio.co.uk/yabb/index.php?topic=32345.0) (with fifteen entries), I realized that I'd never actually posted here myself. Therefore, I now nominate Grim Fandango, The Secret of Monkey Island and Loom, in roughly that order, as the greatest adventure games of all time.

I am adding these to my top list:

1)Zak McKracken and the alien mindbenders
2)Police Quest 2
3) Indy 3
4) Space Quest 6
5) Indy 4
6) MI 2
7) MI 1
8) Beneath a steel sky
9) Flight of the amazon Queen
10) Rob Blanc 3


EDIT:

THERE IS A QUICKER POLL HERE: http://energon-plant.com/ehome/index.php?option=com_pollask=results&id=16&Itemid=124

PLEASE: Dont vote on each poll. Rather, find your favorite game and select it and vote and then leave the other polls alone. You can see the results on the page itself.

Let's make this thread a little longer...  ;D

My favorite commercial games:

The King's Quest Series
The Kyrandia Series
Myst I - IV (V crashed on my PC, and I didn't like URU)
Lighthouse

Favorites from this site:

Ben Jordan all cases
Jessica Plunkenstein... (I got a kick out of the singing cats!)  ;D

dbz bt 3

Happy ducky adventure obviously

Zork Nemesis
Discworld 2
The Longest journey
Sanitarium

Although I liked Lucasart's games more than Sierra's, my favourite saga is Quest for Glory, in this order:
5. QFG3
4. QFG5
3. QFG1
2. QFG2
1. QFG4
After the Quest for Glory games, the ones I liked the most were the four Monkey Islands, Indiana Jones and the Fate of Atlantis, Zak McKracken and Day of the Tentacle.

1. Torin's passage
-If i played it today first time, i maybe woudnt like it that much, but it was the first adventure game i ever played  :)

2. Loom
-Its a pity they never finished the trilogy...

3.MI 1

4.MI 2

5.The Ur-Quan Masters
-I would put it in adventure games category  :)

Ooh I loved Torin's Passage! It was one of my first adventure games. (I know I'm a bit past the era...) But my all-time favourite is still King's Quest VI. I want to play it right now.  ;D

Grim Fandango (I even bought the soundtrack - My first online purchase)

Curse of Monkey Island, largely for the humour. The intro to Skull Island, Murray and the Death Certificate dialogue are some of the funniest I've heard in any game.

Monkey Island 2. The first adventure game I ever played. I remember my teacher having it on a computer in our classroom and we were allowed to play it every now and then. Gorgeous at the time, great puzzles, great jokes and the music was phenomenal.

The Longest Journey!

It's so hard to pick just one Greatest, but here's my number 1 pick and the rest:

1) The Curse Of Monkey Island - Words can't express how much I love this game (and indeed, the entire series). The visuals of this game are jaw dropping and my favourite game art, from the beautiful surroundings of Plunder Island, to the hauntingly amazing atmosphere of Blood Island and Big Whoop. From the amazing storyline and puzzles to the remarkably funny dialogue and situations Guybrush finds himself in. From the sensational voice acting bringing the MI characters to life, to the incredible music score... all of this combined would immerse me in the world of Monkey Island, feeling as though I was in the game and not just playing it... a rarity for third-person adventure games. Couldn't count the amount of times I played the whole series, especially this game, growing up.

2) Grim Fandango - It was the story. I remember being unable to stop playing for a week or two the first time, because I had know what happened to Manny and co. Another glorious game filled with a narrative like nothing I'd ever imagined before, and beautiful scenery you could immerse yourself in.

3)Monkey Island 1 & 2: The beginnings of a legend. For mostly the same reasons as Curse of Monkey Island, only from a different era. I started playing Secret of Monkey Island as a 6 year old, had no idea what was going on haha. It took me years to track down Lechuck's Revenge in my town, but I did it... and much of my childhood was spent on these masterpieces.

4) Sam'n'Max Series (new and old): Hilarious. Won't say any more as I'm starting to ramble.

5) Beneath A Steel Sky: Sci-fi genius.

6) Monkey Island 4: Lost some of the piratey appeal and essential charm that made the others great in some parts, and a couple of utterly embarrassing plot holes, but still a top shelf game... besides, I will follow the series til the bitter end (which was basically a while ago it would seem).

Having just posted my own finished game I decided to read through this thread.  I find it interesting (and maybe says a lot about this AGS based forum!) that so many of you prefer the older style third person adventures.  I have played a number of those listed, but for me they will always come second to a good first person immersive game (having just completed a third person game myself!)  I wish I had the technical resources and the time to make a good first person game, but the one I've just finished took over three years!

The first PC game I played was Myst, followed by Riven.  This spoilt me for most of the others!  Of those already mentioned, I enjoyed Zork, Grand Inquisitor, and Gabriel Knight 2, but I want to tell you about a few that have not yet been listed.  All are good first person games.

The Journeyman Project 2 & 3:
Both are good and it is worth playing 2 (Buried In Time) before 3 as it leads into the third game (I played 3 first, but still enjoyed playing 2 afterwards).  Game 3 (The Legacy of Time) is one of the most enjoyable that I have played (I have enjoyed playing more than once!)  It has one of the best 360 view and movement systems that I have encountered, and the puzzles are very good, with a built in hint system (Arthur) if you get stuck.

Byzantne, the Betrayal:
A game with photographic 360 screens and live actors, giving it a good sense of realism.  Set in modern Turkey, but with a device that allows access to the past in certain places.  Good puzzles and an intriguing plot.  Probably difficult to find now, but maybe on ebay, where I have pickd up one or two older games at reasonable cost.

Riddle of the Sphinx:
A game that lets you explore (imaginary) hidden tunnels and treasure filled rooms beneath the Great Pyramid.  The detail of the ancient Egyptian settings and objects is very good, and the game play is engaging.

Amerzone:
A fantasy trip to an Amazon like forest, with strange devices and even stranger animals.  I found both the atmosphere and the puzzles very good.

Morpheus:
A bit of a rarity - I learnt about it by chance and then tracked it down on ebay.  Set on an abandoned ship trapped in the Arctic ice, it is atmospheric and fascinating, with good puzzles.

Rhem:
This is a game created by an individual (Knut Muller) rather than a commercial studio, and shows just what someone like us can achieve!  The graphics are a little less sophisiticated that most commercial games, but he has created a world that I really enjoyed exploring, with excellent puzzles.

I hope that some of you will be tempted to try one or two of the above.  I have just started The Black Mirror, so I hope it is as good as some of you have claimed!

Good gaming
Elen

Black Mirror may not be all it is cracked up to be, but entertaining- I daresay you won't be disappointed.

On my personal list, three old classics:
Kyrandia II Hand Of Fate
Simon the Sorcerer
Curses

Id say tied for first place would be CMI and Grim Fandango, then MI 1 and 2 in 2nd place followed by the chzo mythos in third.

I think it's a personal choice allways, either it's because they were the first adventures one has played or the first one we have finished or just because it came at the right time in our lifes to play them.
Anyway, the one that got me more emersed and I enjoyed the most was Gabriel Knight 3. The ones close to the heart are maybe the Monkey Island series and Loom.

Humor- Sam and Max Hit the Roads
Horror- Dark Seed
Atmosphere- Grim Fandango
Story- Beneath a Steel Sky

Quote from: Equinox on Fri 29/02/2008 18:54:52
Horror- Dark Seed

I totally support the list, but Dark Seed? A glum horror setting where the main character was constantly cracking bad jokes? I think I gave up after the "tribbles" comment on the graveyard. It was like watching Shining, but with Jim Carey as the main character.

I wouldn't know the order, but my favorites are:
Sam & Max episodes
Gabriel Knight
I Have no Mouth, and I Must Scream
Alone in the Dark

For me, the best games are :
Kings Quest 6 - Everything about it I love. EVERYTHING. Zounds!!!

Monkey Island 2 and 3 - They are hilarious! Made me laugh all the way through.

Laura Bow 2 Dagger of Armon Ra - I dont want to talk too much about it. Dont want to give anything away for those who might plan to play it.
(by the way, anyone who HAS played it..feel free to i.m. me. I haven't been able to discuss the game with anyone! No one I know has played it before. =(

The Space Quest games are something I've never played and they have appeared several times on this thread, so I've just bought the complete series on eBay.  If I like them then I might do the same with Kings Quest (yeh I've never played those either, so sue me).

Quote from: JuuJuu on Sun 13/04/2008 07:42:14
For me, the best games are :
Kings Quest 6 - Everything about it I love. EVERYTHING. Zounds!!!
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Laura Bow 2 Dagger of Armon Ra - I dont want to talk too much about it. Dont want to give anything away for those who might plan to play it.
(by the way, anyone who HAS played it..feel free to i.m. me. I haven't been able to discuss the game with anyone! No one I know has played it before. =(

KQVI = Best Game Ever... in my opinion, anyway. I love it. And... LB2 !!!  :o Same with me, never heard of anyone but my family playing it. (Also, I fixed the title so that anyone wanting to play it can now find it. Yaaaay someone else knows about it!

The first love of my digital life was... "Quest for Glory: So You Want to be a Hero?" (In all its EGA goodness!)

<removed>

1. BASS
2. 5DAS
3. Teenagent

Pieces of art in every aspect.

Has anyone mentioned Broken Sword 1?
Broken Sword is just a great game isn't it? (If you played it (If you havent then you MUST))

The greatest adventure games - Space Quest I and Larry I.

I've only played a few but I liked "a Tale of Two Kingdoms" & "5 Days A Stranger".

It used to be Space Quest 3, which is still up there, but recently my favorite adventure game is actually 5 Days a Stranger, They're like kneck and kneck now.

PQ1 for me. Probably because it was my first, but I loved the freedom of driving. Didn't like the remake though.

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Quest for Glory: So You Want to Be a Hero? (or, as the copy I had was still called, "Hero's Quest.") This is probably largely due to nostalgic reasons - it and Space Quest III were probably the first colour games I ever played (although MechWarrior 2 was strangely also in there somewhere). I have nothing but love for the original QfG. Rounding out the top 3 are Space Quest III and Beneath a Steel Sky.

5 days A stranger, it was just simply awesome, it was scary, sort of funny, and it was just overall great!

"5 days A stranger" - The greatest Adventure Game of all time ?!?  ??? I don't think so.

The Greatest Adventure Game of all time should be a good adventure game that bring something new to the genre.

Larry I
Space Quest I, II, III
Syberia I
Larry 7
Gold Rush
Grim Fandango

Quote from: Simon on Fri 25/07/2008 02:03:23
5 days A stranger, it was just simply awesome, it was scary, sort of funny, and it was just overall great!

Yeah, everyone's entitled to their opinion, but I really do have to wonder about the gaming history of somebody who says 5DAS is the greatest of all time. As much as I love the AGS community I'm yet to play any games coming near the classic LucasArts/Revolution/Sierra heights of quality.

I think the greatest adventure games would have to be the Space Quest Series especially 1, 2, and 5. I also love Star Trek: The 25th Anniversary and Star Trek Judgment Rights (Mostly because they are Star Trek: The Original Series though).  5 Days a Stranger and 7 Days a Skeptic are awesome as well, my favourite AGS games, but you are right they don’t compare to original Sierra.

I'm thinking maybe The Pandora Directive, amazing, brilliant story.
And also Phantasmagoria 2, brilliant story.

However, cant beat Space Quest 3!!!

I'm amazed time and again how games are mentioned here that are basically fests of the gravest game design mistakes in the history of computer games. But that's just me I guess.

Especially the early Sierra Games are IMO the most unforgiving, unfair and frustrating games ever conceived, ever.
To me it's like loving a movie that's boring and cheap with bad acting and shitty dialogs (and I don't mean the hilariously bad ones being so trashy they're fun to watch).

I don't wanna start a discussion here, just had to get it out of my system after browsing through the first few pages of this thread.

And yeah, the greatest adventure game is MI2. IMO.

DOTT, MI1, Indy3, Indy4, KQ3, KQ4, MI2, LSL2, LSL3.

Personally, my favorite game of all time would have to be Gabriel Knight: Sins of the Fathers. This is nothing I don't like about this game, which isn't something I can say for any other game. There are some that come very close, like MI1 and FOA, but growing up with Sierra may have biased me a tad. I think Gabriel Knight is, at the very least, the great Sierra game of all time. I do love SQ4 and QFG4, so it's a really hard choice. Damn, it is so hard to pick a favorite, already about ten more games are popping into my head, so I guess I'll just quit now before I go on an intense rant leading to a top twenty list.  ::)

  I never do "greatest ever" lists because I know I would always just include my favorites or the first game I played.  Really, the majority of the  adventuregames I have played have been at least fairly enjoyable and alot of them are really good.

  As for my "favorite" list.  It always changes.

  1. King's Quest V (I just really like the feel of the game and all the different locations and the excitement of it... honestly I'm not as big of a fan of VI and its locations and characters, although I do understand why so many others like it)

  2. Star Trek: 25th Anniversary (probably just because I like Trek, but it truly captures the feel of the original series with its "episodes" and has the entire cast and some really great stories... the sequel is good as well)

  3. Space Quest III (this game is a blast, first played it with an old Tandy that actually had a spoken line in the intro, and back then it was amazing... all of the different planets and fun puzzles and sequences, it really could be my favorite games and is definately my favorite Space Quest game, although I enjoy them all and Space QUest IV is in my top 15)

  4. King's Quest IV  (the night sequence where you dig up the graves is one of my favorite, if not my VERY favorite, adventure gaming sequences ever, I enjoyed everything about this game... except for the whale puzzle... I may like it as much as King's Quest V)

  5.  Colonel's Bequest (simply love the mood and creepy feel of the game, as well as the "open-endedness" to it... you just keep discovering more and more each time you play it)


Alot of other games could easily be in my top five too.  Myst, Monkey Island 1 and 2, an old Sherlock Holmes game by EA (case of the serrated scalpel I believe it was), Gabriel King: Sins of the Father, Quest for Glory 2, Grim Fandango...

  Unlike alot of people, I've also enjoyed newer adventure games.  Murder on the Orient Express (with the voice of David Suchet, the definitive Poirot!) and "And Then There Were None" are two adventure games I really enjoyed, as well as some of the Nancy Drew Games.  I guess I just like adventure games.

For me:

1. Gabriel Knight 1 - the game that is so good even 8 different mouse icons to scroll through doesn't ruin it!

2. Broken Sword 1 - Amazing story/music/art

3. Kings Quest VI - the game that made me fall in love with adventure games

LSL5, Police Quest 1 VGA, Sam&Max HTR, DOTT, Gold Rush!, Freddy Pharkus, Flight of The Amazon Queen,Indiana Jones and The Fate of Atlantis, Zack McKracken, BASS,Monkey Island 2, Discworld 2 Missing Presumed...?!/Mortality Bytes

These are the games I consider best of the best but theres a lot more very decent adventure games out there

BASS without a doubt is the greatest adventure game of all time.  I could connect with the whole cyberpunk jaded future vision, because I don't personally buy into the theory that more technology = happier world.  A big plus was that it's set in Australia, my home country, though the fosters beer references were a bit stereotypical it felt more authentic than other games with American / European pop culture references.  The dry humor was balanced just right.  The scope was there for sequels which sadly never occurred.  The backstory had the right balance of tragedy and hope and enough loose ends to make me want more in the end.  How was life out in the gap?  Could we ever visit the gap?  I think the carictatured disparity between the rich elite and the filthy masses was slightly over the top, but it was kind of cute in a way.  Also, having too many questions magically answered at the end was a bit droll, like, they could have kept some mystery surrounding Roberts childhood and death of his mother.  Saying "Oh it was all just the fault of a mad computer, now it's all fixed thanks to these meddling kids" was too much of a happy ending.

But still...  It is the best adventure game of all time, for me.  I think only Monkey Island 2 / 3, DOTT, and Simon the Sorcerer come close, for wildly different reasons.

Those are my picks.

It's almost too hard for me to choose one game, but if I had to it would probably be
Indiana Jones and the Fate of Atlantis: Possibly my favorite adventure game ever. Loved the hard but fair puzzles, the gripping story, the interesting locations, the beautiful music, the characters, the crackling dialog between Indy and Sophia... you even had three quite different different paths to choose from. Also, it really feels like Indiana Jones, much more so than the dreadful fourth movie.

Runner Ups:
Gabriel Knight Trilogy: The first one is nearly flawless to me, but the other two are very, very good too. The storylines and characters are the best I have ever witnessed in an adventure game. Jane Jensen is a genius.
Monkey Island 1: Again I love the whole series. But the first one will always have a special place in my heart and is to me the quintessential Monkey Island. The later ones were sometimes almost too silly.

Honorable Mentions:
ZakMcKracken And The Alien Mindbenders: After Maniac Mansion the second adventure game I ever played and I loved this one even more. I think my brother and I needed years for actually solving it, but in the end we suceeded. There was so much freedom and exploration in that game, you don't get that anymore.
Day of the Tentacle: Loved the wacky characters, the humour, the mind-frying puzzles and especially the three different time levels. My favorite fun-adventure!
Black Mirror: A modern classic with great, great atmosphere. The characters are quite weak and I didn't care for the ending. But other than that I loved the game. Perfect puzzles, pacing and mystery.

AGS favourite:
The Ben Jordan Series: There are many AGS games I played and thoroughly enjoyed, but in terms of obsession Ben Jordan wins by default. The first few games were ok, but as the series proceeded its charm became apparant. The stories got much more interesting and I especially came to like the characters and their interactions. After the cliffhanger for case 7 I can hardly wait for the last game. Splendid work, Grundislav!

GK3, sanitarium. and myst, of course (i've played 1, 2 & 3 so far, but i believe the other two won't dissapoint me either)

Oh, this is very difficult. I can't name just one, but I'll name some of my all-time favs:

Myst! (of course)
The Crystal Key (some people HATE this game. I LOVE it!)
Monkey Island 1 (didn't like the second one as much)
The Lost Crown (though it was created with the worst enemy of AGS: WINTERMUTE ENGINE!)
Broken Sword: The Shadow of the Templars
King's Quest (the whole series except number eight. I never played it and I hear it sucks.)
Indiana Jones and the Last Crusade

Must be The Dig because of the atmosphere and the mature themes. Also the graphics and the music. So well done!! Other than that, Zak Mckracken. But mostley because it was the first point and click adventure i ever played (on my amiga 600), and holds a special place in my heart

Unfortunately I can't name one favourite game.

Although my essentials would be:

Monkey Island series (1-3)
Broken Sword 1&2
Space Quest 6 (The only other one I played was IV and I really thought it was a let down)
Full Throttle
Day of the Tentacle
Blade Runner

Everything else just simply didn't cut the mustard, although I enjoyed larry 5 and 6 (I think it was those 2), I suffered a walking dead in one of them (you leave a walking dead in a commercial game, I'm not going to complete it).

The "Mum do farts have lumps in them?" award goes to Phantasmagoria. I remember not being allowed anywhere near it when my dad was playing it as a kid, and eventually talking him into letting me play it when I was about 13 (what the hell he was thinking I don't know. I got to chapter 4 I think, and got so scared I didn't even want to play the thing. I remember 7th guest (and there was a sequel 11th hour I think), but I never got to play those.

Gabriel Knight is one of those I missed. Apperently the first one is so rare its a collectors item now. Im not  sure whether it was the first one or the 3rd one I played (I know the 3rd one is still in the cabinet at my folks house) but It never really gripped me. Some bullshit story about a werewolf or something at the start and I lost interest.

I'm probably one of the few people that never completed Grim Fandango. I probably will one day, but the thing that pissed me off about that game was the fact that they went through the effort to make it 3d, yet didn't spend the time on the control system, making it a mess to play. Otherwise it was a pretty good game.

To me, Myst was a load of bollocks. I think it was the photo style they incorporated into the game, I couldn't get to grips with it.

I have tons of games to get through that I've just never played. Syberia 1 and 2 (I saw syberia was made in virtools which put me off slightly), and The longest Journey games (ie TLJ and Dreamfall). I should also probably consider the sam and max episodic stuff too, I played a few of them and I didn't think the episodic style worked (some of them work well, some of them seem more like they're there to fill the story) The original was awesome, however having seen what's happening with the monkey island series now, I'm tempted the spend my time on other things.

Also, I have never played The Dig, does that make me less of a person  :(

EDIT: I forgot Blade Runner, How could I forget Blade Runner?

1 - Monkey Island 1&2

2 - Sam&Max

3 - Loom

4 - Countdown

5 - Willy Beamish

1. Sam & Max: Hit the Road
2. Final Fantasy VII
3. Indiana Jones and FOA
4. DOTT
5. Grim Fandango
5. The Dig I guess

Thing is I was young and I played these games with spoiler guides just so I could see the artwork and didn't get the puzzles. Doh. So I guess I missed out.

I'm looking to find the cheapest place to buy Monkey Island 1 & 2. Anyone know? eBay?

Also, I was such a fan of Sam & Max that I flew from South Africa to visit ComiCon in San Diego to meet Steve Purcell, the creator of the characters. Was great. Also went to a talk with Dave Grossman. Must say, I played the first episodic Sam & Max and didn't grab me. There's something about those old blocky textures, man. In plain ol' 2D.

1  -  Beneath a Steel Sky
2  -  The Dig
3  -  Loom
4  -  Leisure Suit Larry 6 (though I loved them all)
5  -  Simon the Sorcerer

If companies would make more games like BASS and The Dig, I would be a HAPPY HAPPY GAMER.
Most serious adult oriented games please, preferably with cyberpunk-esque themes!! ;)

In terms of origanility- I would have to give the mark to Beneath a Steel Sky. Especially Joey- he ROCKED, so funny and clever haha!

Mind you, the Monkey Island series comes close.

1-day of tentacle
2-Curse of monkey island
3-Grim Fandango
4-broken sword 2

Monkey Island 2 I guess, though it didn't had insult sword fight, from new ones it would be Ghost Pirates of Vooju Island, and tales of MI came out pretty well to me  ;)

Freeware: The Ben Jordan series AGS
Commercial: Gabriel Knight, Broken Sword

My top 5:

1) Police Quest 3
2) Space Quest 4
3) Police Quest 1 EGA or VGA
4) Gabriel Knight 1
4) Space Quest 6

You people disappoint me! I've only read a few pages but very sad to see no IF games given love. So I'll do it some justice. Zork - A blast from the past. Blue Lucuna - An innovation of the evolution of IF. My favorite two IF games of the past and present. They don't get much better than these two in my opinion. When you can create a game(adventure) that entertains without the need for graphics, sound/music, and animations -then you my friend- are doing something right.

Quote from: Gravity on Sat 08/05/2010 20:22:55
You people disappoint me! I've only read a few pages but very sad to see no IF games given love. So I'll do it some justice. Zork - A blast from the past. Blue Lucuna - An innovation of the evolution of IF. My favorite two IF games of the past and present. They don't get much better than these two in my opinion. When you can create a game(adventure) that entertains without the need for graphics, sound/music, and animations -then you my friend- are doing something right.

"Blue Lacuna" is Interactive Fiction, as are most of the Zork games (the latter three of that series being the exception there - certainly I feel both Nemesis and Grand Inquisitor are excellent adventure games).

Quote from: Sslaxx on Sat 08/05/2010 21:01:48

Quote from: Gravity on Sat 08/05/2010 20:22:55
You people disappoint me! I've only read a few pages but very sad to see no IF games given love. So I'll do it some justice. Zork - A blast from the past. Blue Lucuna - An innovation of the evolution of IF. My favorite two IF games of the past and present. They don't get much better than these two in my opinion. When you can create a game(adventure) that entertains without the need for graphics, sound/music, and animations -then you my friend- are doing something right.

"Blue Lacuna" is Interactive Fiction, as are most of the Zork games (the latter three of that series being the exception there - certainly I feel both Nemesis and Grand Inquisitor are excellent adventure games).

Interactive Fiction is a form of adventure games. A game does not have to be graphical in order to be counted as an adventure game. 'In common usage, the term refers to text adventures, a type of adventure game where the entire interface is "text-only".' ;)

[Super edit powers to stop making yourself look like an arrogant twat away!]

Umm, have you done a survey or something to determine that?

I'd say none of the Zorks is IF in the arty sense. They are pure adventure games.
However, in my opinion the original is a pretty poor adventure compared to some of the later Infocom games, such as Sorceror or Planetfall, since it's just a big treasure hunt.

My Personal Favorite Adventure game is Grim Fandango

For commercial games its definitely Grim Fandango.

For the independent games, I haven't played many good ones, I've played allot of games that disappointed me however. But the best one I played would be trilby's notes, closely followed by 6 days a sacrifice.

Shenmue 1 & 2. Omikron: The Nomad Soul. Myst. The Zork Series. Blue Lucuna. And more, to be sure. But I find it hard to rate any game as the greatest of all time. The above are some of my favorites whether by design or over overall gameplay.

3 of my favourites;

"Morpheus" from 1998. This is really the best adventure game of all. Nothing else haven't ever touched me in a same way. Just amazing... the graphics and music is stunning! See the trailer (sadly made from spanish dubbed version)

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Px-roc9sA6Q&fmt=18

http://www.justadventure.com/reviews/Morpheus/Morpheus_Review.shtm


"Dark Eye" from 1995. This is a true masterpiece that is sadly forgotten. This is one of the most original games ever! This is more likely called as visual novel because there's really no puzzles to solve, only hotspots. But the game itself is visually stunning and the twisted atmosphere is one of the creepiest I have ever experience. Specially the voice acting is mind blowing and the music is totally horrifying... in a perfect way! See the trailer by yourself!

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=HfPJF3ksJic&fmt=18

http://www.justadventure.com/reviews/Dark_Eye_HOF/Dark_Eye.shtm


"The Last Express" from 1997. The big GEM! Animation is made from real live acting scenes and transformed into darn great comic style animation and it's just amazing. And the gameplay works at realtime!

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=1aj3SIXUqlo

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=3ykBrHYjAzw

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=33CScBb1eQE

http://www.justadventure.com/reviews/TLE/TLE.shtm

For me, the best absolutely must be the first three Monkey Island games. Incidentally, Monkey Island 1 was the first PC game I ever PLAYED, so nothing ever quite compared after that!

In second place I'm going to say The Feeble Files. I thought the story was completely wonderful, and the voices were great as well.

Hm design wise I'd say Monkey Island 2. I think this is as good as any adventure can get. CMI is my favourite for graphics and music and just overall feel. I also think "Snatcher" for the SegaCD was a great adventure. For the recent ones I really enjoyed Book of Unwritten Tales.

@ptpt Dark Eye seems really interesting. I saw it on underdogs some time ago before it went offline. Should have gotten it.
For Morpheus: I think I played the demo way back, thought of it as a mediocre myst clone. Maybe I should have given it another try. These days the market was so oversaturated  with CG 1st person adventures

@placebo: Feeble Files was a huge disapointment for me. It had some great moments...and some really frustrating ones.

Quote from: mode7 on Tue 05/10/2010 01:07:05
Hm design wise I'd say Monkey Island 2. I think this is as good as any adventure can get. CMI is my favourite for graphics and music and just overall feel. I also think "Snatcher" for the SegaCD was a great adventure. For the recent ones I really enjoyed Book of Unwritten Tales.

@ptpt Dark Eye seems really interesting. I saw it on underdogs some time ago before it went offline. Should have gotten it.
For Morpheus: I think I played the demo way back, thought of it as a mediocre myst clone. Maybe I should have given it another try. These days the market was so oversaturated  with CG 1st person adventures

@placebo: Feeble Files was a huge disapointment for me. It had some great moments...and some really frustrating ones.

The underdogs didn't went offline but changed their server and url. It's http://www.hotud.org/

About Morpheus, previously I found the demo (it's totally trashed everywhere... completely deleted from every server) but it wasn't even working properly so can't blame it didn't impress.

I recently replayed Sam & Max and Full Throttle, and DOTT not too long ago. Busy with Monkey Island II which I never played. Really nice! No voices though, playing a 6 MB thing I dl'd off the internet BUT I recently purchased a MI 1&2 CD off Amazon so I DO own the original cd's. My buddy is bringing it over from the UK for me. Other than that ... I enjoyed Indiana Jones and the FOA ... all of which makes me want to badly to make an adventure game. I think I'd be able to crack a pretty good Sam & Max art style if anyone wants to code ONE ROOM FOR ME I'll do the rest, just as a test. I was an artist in the now devoid fan-game Sam & Max: Flintlocked. We got SOMEWHERE but a little too ambitious at first perhaps.

http://www.bruandboegie.co.za

Monkey Island 1 is the best.  Sierra's Space Quest 4 is good.
The Longest Journey
Infinity

well my favorites would be the first 3 broken swords, full throttle and toonstruck but if we were to say what was great in terms of influence, i'd say the greatest adventure game would be "King's Quest V" nothing has had such a lasting impact as that game, full voice acting, proper songs (with sung vocals),  and a point and click interface it really redefined for me the art of adventure gaming and how adventure games where being told as a story medium. Sure Lucas arts has an influence on adding more humor (which many forget to credit Al Lowe and his Larry series for helping along to),  so definitely Monkey Island 1 comes up close to its influenced, but King's quest V to me seems like an unsung hero. The most ambitious adventure game of all time without a doubt would have to be phantasmagoria.

Thats my 5 cents.

Grim Fandango - if it hadn't been for the somewhat awkward controls and a select few poor puzzles I'd say this was the best slice of entertainment that I ever experienced, all categories. There have certainly been games designed with better flow and more intuitive controls, but never has any game come close to beating the amazing mood of the Grim Fandango universe. Art, music, voice acting, plot, dialog... these are all flawless.

Runners up to me are GK1, MI2, DOTT, FT, THE DIG. All of them amazing games, but all of them with their own internal piles of odd flaws that I'd love to do without. It's strange, somehow it feels like the adventure game genre choked off before it really had a chance to stabilize.

I'd love to put the broken sword games onto this list because of their amazingly good flow. Nothing flows as good as a broken sword game. wow. I have however sadly never really liked the games' style. They've got that schizophrenic realistic/cartoony style that doesn't really do it for me. The character animation is spotless though. And the music rocks, so they certainly deserve to be mentioned.

Oh while talking about flow, I'd really like to mention the Blackwell games. Perfect pacing.

I'm just listening to the soundtrack of Grim Fandango now. It's definately the greatest adventure game of all time, at least in my books. It's the only game in existance that I think shouldn't have a sequel just because the original game is so great that there's no way a second game could make justice to it (especially nowadays as Tim Schafer is not in the same company as the IP).

TLJ and Discworld Noir are also high on my list. I think the fact that these games have a magical world without being childish is a big thing for me. Other than that, I've always been a Lucasarts guy, so other titles that I've liked are pretty much the usual ones from that camp.

Don't forget The Longest Journey original.
TLJ Darkfall sucked because they changed to a funky mouse\keyboard clunky interface.

For me Grim Fandango (pure poetry)

I won't be original at all and just say Broken Sword 1, Grim Fandago and Monkey Islands 1,2 and 3

For the first time in my life I feel mainstream!

 :o

I myself am a adventure game junkie but, and I shit you not, I haven't played Grim Fandango.

My faves would be Indiana Jones and the fate of Atlantis, graphic and sound wise. It was the first adventure game I played back when the CD player was external. At first I didn't understand it, since before that game I was used to playing Atari's Moctezuma and the sort. But when I got the hang of it I just couldn't stop looking for more of the genre.

Also, DOTT.

The Dig is very nicely done. I remember the music, that was nice.

I have no mouth and I must scream, based on one of Harlan Ellison 's short stories. 'Twas my first attempt at "psychological" thrillers.

Wow! Thank you everyone for your input in this epic thread! You've brought to light a lot of classic adventure games that I've never played (and now will), even despite the fact that I've been playing adventure games for over 25 years (my first was the 1985 Sierra release of The Black Cauldron, based on the Disney film of the same title).

Once I saw this thread, I had to get it in on it! :) Yes, I even passed that silly quiz to register in this forum JUST so I could make a single post in this thread! You guys are awesome for contributing to this thread and bringing it to life!

Just to add whatever little I can to this thread, here are a few of my favorites that I've played (ranked roughly in order of preference):
The Curse of Monkey Island (Monkey Island 3)
Monkey Island 2: LeChuck's Revenge (the original, I haven't played the 2010 remake)
Myst
King's Quest VI: Heir Today, Gone Tomorrow
Space Quest: The Serian Encounter (Space Quest 1)
Strong Bad's Cool Game for Attractive People - Episode 5: 8-Bit Is Enough
Maniac Mansion
Escape from Monkey Island (Monkey Island 4)
Strong Bad's Cool Game for Attractive People - Episode 4: The Criminal Projective
The Secret of Monkey Island (Monkey Island 1, the original, I haven't played the 2009 remake)
Leisure Suit Larry in the Land of the Lounge Lizards (Leisure Suit Larry 1)
Strong Bad's Cool Game for Attractive People - Episode 2: Strongbadia the Free

Wow! I honestly thought I was just going to list "a few" of my favorites, but I ended up listing twelve! Believe me, though, there are many more adventure games that I liked that are not on that list of my favorites!

After reading this thread, I'm now totally convinced that I need to go out and find/play the following games as well (these ones I haven't previously played!):
Maniac Mansion: Day of the Tentacle (amazingly, I've played the original, but not its sequel!)
Grim Fandango
Indiana Jones and the Fate of Atlantis
Sam & Max (probably the entire series, or at least close to the entire thing)
Simon the Sorcerer
Discworld
Sanitarium
Broken Sword (I actually already have a copy of this game for the Wii, but haven't gotten around to it yet)

Thank you again everybody! I'm super excited now, and looking forward to exposing myself to a whole new world of classic adventure titles!

I think the best adventure game is The Longest Journey (the first, not Dreamfall!),
second best is Tales of Monkey Island.

DOTT.

Iv never played DOTT or any Monkey Islands,

Judging by the responses I should definatley find a way to get them.

For me SQ4 will always be special to me, and my choice for Greatest is Broken Sword 1.

The themes, voicing and animation were all so well peiced together.

Also special mention to beneath a steel sky

Well, my opinion is an obvious one: Monkey Islands 1&2.
With a twist - I really believe the series should've ended on MI2. Really, everything after that was a classic case of milking the cow.

And I really don't understand the hype surrounding Broken Sword. OK, ,it's a nice game, with absolutely gorgeous graphics and animation, and some really funny dialogue, but... but.... the whole time I played it I was wondering: WHY? Why he does that? Why him? Why, oh why?

BS has probably the most fundamental flaw a story can have. THE weakest main character EVER! George Stobbart is a man with zero motivation, drive, sex appeal, coolness, whatever. He misses on all accounts.

He's supposed to be Guybrush & Indy at the same time. It just doesn't work like that.
Everything he does in BS - fighting the bad guys, solving puzzles, getting the girl feels so forced it's just unbearable.  IMO, he should've fled after that cafe exploded, never to return. That's the kind of personality he really is.

And thinking about guys with motivation, I should mention my other favourite adventure series: Leisure Suit Larry (older ones, up to early 90s).
Nothing is cooler than having computer classes in 7th grade, where teacher instructs us to learn english through LSL's parser. One of the moments in life that defined me as a pervert person that I am.
Low res boobs on hercules monochrome screen FTW!

Well, since I wrote my original list six months ago, I've played three more adventures games and replayed a slew of them. I'm revising my list now!

My top ten (only includes games I've actually played):

1. Grim Fandango -- it's just otherworldly good (pun intended!)
2. The Secret of Monkey Island (Monkey Island 1, the original from 1990) -- Insult sword fighting!
3. Maniac Mansion: Day of the Tentacle -- "Women go crazy over men with big signatures" - John Hancock
4. The Curse of Monkey Island (Monkey Island 3) -- Loved the leap Monkey Island made in the late-90s.
5. Monkey Island 2: LeChuck's Revenge (the original from 1991) -- Killer sequel to the original
6. Broken Sword: The Shadow of the Templars (Broken Sword 1) -- Even I fell in love with Nicole Collard
7. King's Quest VI: Heir Today, Gone Tomorrow -- The highlight of the landmark Sierra series
8. Strong Bad's Cool Game for Attractive People Episode 5: 8 Bit Is Enough! -- Amazing throwbacks!
9. Space Quest V: Roger Wilco - The Next Mutation -- Commanding the garbage scow SCS Eureka!
10. Maniac Mansion -- The game that invented LucasArts' famed point and click interface.

For me it's The Dig, I just really like sci-fi stuff. Grim Fandango is a very close second though.

I've been on a veritable adventure gaming binge lately, checking many games off my list that I've been intending to play for a while now! I'm updating my list of top adventure games again:

1. Grim Fandango -- An innovative blend of Mexican folklore and original writing. Just brilliant.
2. The Longest Journey -- Who doesn't love saving the world? Er, worlds.
3. The Secret of Monkey Island (Monkey Island 1, the original from 1990) -- Insult sword fighting!
4. Maniac Mansion: Day of the Tentacle -- "Women go crazy over men with big signatures" - John Hancock
5. The Curse of Monkey Island (Monkey Island 3) -- Loved the leap Monkey Island made in the late-90s.
6. Monkey Island 2: LeChuck's Revenge (the original from 1991) -- Killer sequel to the original.
7. The Neverhood -- Genius collaboration of Hollywood and the software industry. Brilliant soundtrack.
8. Broken Sword: The Shadow of the Templars (Broken Sword 1) -- Even I fell in love with Nicole Collard.
9. King's Quest VI: Heir Today, Gone Tomorrow -- The highlight of the landmark Sierra series.
10. Tales of Monkey Island 4: The Trial and Execution of Guybrush Threepwood -- Peak of Telltale's revival of the Monkey Island series!

Honorable Mentions:

11. Strong Bad's Cool Game for Attractive People Episode 5: 8 Bit Is Enough! -- A modern adventure game with throwbacks to the classics.
12. Maniac Mansion -- The game that invented LucasArts' famed point and click interface.

The Dig followed by FoA.

Grimm, BASS close contenders.

Continuing my adventure gaming binge, I'm updating and reshuffling my list yet again!

1. Grim Fandango -- An innovative blend of Mexican folklore and original writing. Just brilliant.
2. The Secret of Monkey Island (Monkey Island 1, the original from 1990) -- Insult sword fighting!
3. Maniac Mansion: Day of the Tentacle -- "Women go crazy over men with big signatures" - John Hancock
4. The Curse of Monkey Island (Monkey Island 3) -- Loved the leap Monkey Island made in the late-90s.
5. The Longest Journey -- Who doesn't love saving the world? Er, worlds.
6. Monkey Island 2: LeChuck's Revenge (the original from 1991) -- Killer sequel to the original.
7. Ghost Trick: Phantom Detective -- Proving that the genre is still alive and well in 2011, this DS title has crossover appeal to many gamers!
8. The Neverhood -- The adventure genre meets over 3.5 tons of clay and 50,000 frames of animation. Incredible!
9. Indiana Jones and the Fate of Atlantis -- You get to choose the adventure game you want to play: puzzle-heavy, fighting-heavy, or team-based!
10. Broken Sword: The Shadow of the Templars (Broken Sword 1) -- Even I fell in love with Nicole Collard.

Honorable Mentions:

11. King's Quest VI: Heir Today, Gone Tomorrow -- The pinnacle of the landmark Sierra series that revolutionized it all.
12. Tales of Monkey Island -- A wonderful reboot of the Monkey Island series nearly ten years after the last title!
13. Maniac Mansion -- The game that invented LucasArts' famed point and click interface.

Easy... following my heart I would say Monkey Island

but for the style and concept art and a more modern touch it's Broken Sword for me.

My adventure gaming binge continues, and so I update my list yet again!

1. Grim Fandango -- Genius on top of genius on top of genius. The stellar combination of killer graphics and a superb storyline that's worthy of film.
2. The Secret of Monkey Island (Monkey Island 1, the original from 1990) -- Insult sword fighting that can only come from the wit of Orson Scott Card!
3. Maniac Mansion: Day of the Tentacle -- A wonderful cartoony-style adventure game with hysterical historical allusions.
4. The Curse of Monkey Island (Monkey Island 3) -- Inspired voice acting with a graphics reboot that brought Monkey Island back in the late-90s!
5. The Longest Journey -- Who doesn't love saving the world? Er, worlds.
6. Monkey Island 2: LeChuck's Revenge (the original from 1991) -- "Leg or no leg, I trust you about as far as I could throw Manhattan."
7. Gabriel Knight: Sins of the Fathers (Gabriel Knight 1) -- Inspired integration of the New Orleans culture, cityscape, and architecture into its puzzles.
8. Sam & Max Hit the Road -- Hilarity ensues as the furry detectives take the case in this cartoony gaming classic!
9. Ghost Trick: Phantom Detective -- Proving that the genre is still alive and well in 2011, this DS title has crossover appeal to many gamers!
10. Indiana Jones and the Fate of Atlantis -- You get to choose the adventure game you want to play: puzzle-heavy, fighting-heavy, or team-based!

Honorable Mentions:

11. The Neverhood -- The adventure genre meets over 3.5 tons of clay and 50,000 frames of animation. Incredible!
12. Broken Sword: The Shadow of the Templars (Broken Sword 1) -- A wonderfully rich story that's sure to keep the player intrigued throughout.
13. King's Quest VI: Heir Today, Gone Tomorrow -- Roberta Williams and Jane Jensen collaborate to create the pinnacle of the King's Quest series.
14. Tales of Monkey Island -- A wonderful reboot of the Monkey Island series nearly ten years after the previous title!
15. Maniac Mansion -- The game that invented LucasArts' famed point and click (SCUMM) interface.

Snatcher!!!! That was the game that hook me on the whole adventure thing. It was my second adventure game (the first one was Syberia, I really like thought) and it give me an experience I will NEVER forget.

QuoteSnatcher!!!! That was the game that hook me on the whole adventure thing.

Wow. Thanks for the recommendation! Somehow I completely missed this game (not too surprising since I've never owned a Sega), but it is exceptional. I think I'll have to revise my top ten list accordingly! ;)

1. Grim Fandango -- Genius on top of genius on top of genius. The stellar combination of killer graphics and a superb storyline that's worthy of film.
2. The Secret of Monkey Island (Monkey Island 1, the original from 1990) -- Insult sword fighting that can only come from the wit of Orson Scott Card!
3. Maniac Mansion: Day of the Tentacle -- A wonderful cartoony-style adventure game with hysterical historical allusions.
4. The Curse of Monkey Island (Monkey Island 3) -- Inspired voice acting with a graphics reboot that brought Monkey Island back in the late-90s!
5. Snatcher -- a sci-fi thriller wrapped in an adventure game! What a ton of fun!
6. The Longest Journey -- Who doesn't love saving the world? Er, worlds.
7. Monkey Island 2: LeChuck's Revenge (the original from 1991) -- "Leg or no leg, I trust you about as far as I could throw Manhattan."
8. Gabriel Knight: Sins of the Fathers (Gabriel Knight 1) -- Inspired integration of the New Orleans culture, cityscape, and architecture into its puzzles.
9. Ghost Trick: Phantom Detective -- Proving that the genre is still alive and well in 2011, this DS title has crossover appeal to many gamers!
10. Sam & Max Hit the Road -- Hilarity ensues as the furry detectives take the case in this cartoony gaming classic!

Honorable Mentions:

11. The Neverhood -- The adventure genre meets over 3.5 tons of clay and 50,000 frames of animation. Incredible!
12. Indiana Jones and the Fate of Atlantis -- You get to choose the adventure game you want to play: puzzle-heavy, fighting-heavy, or team-based!
13. Broken Sword: The Shadow of the Templars (Broken Sword 1) -- A wonderfully rich story that's sure to keep the player intrigued throughout.
14. King's Quest VI: Heir Today, Gone Tomorrow -- Roberta Williams and Jane Jensen collaborate to create the pinnacle of the King's Quest series.
15. Tales of Monkey Island -- A wonderful reboot of the Monkey Island series nearly ten years after the previous title!
16. Maniac Mansion -- The game that invented LucasArts' famed point and click (SCUMM) interface.