What are the best Horror/Mystery adventure games?

citizeneman · Thu 25/05/2006 23:50:58

What are the best Horror/Mystery adventure games? I have Tex Murphy and Gabriel Knight, I am looking for the lesser known games. Thanks.

Babar · Thu 25/05/2006 23:55:29

Horror slash mystery? Can those two be combined like that?

No matter. What about "Laura Bow" (both)? Hugo's house of horrors?

ManicMatt · Fri 26/05/2006 00:04:33

I'm guessing you haven't played commercial game Still Life? That's about a killer on the loose and a detective, to put it simply.

citizeneman · Fri 26/05/2006 00:16:12

My bad, I meant to say what are the best horror and mystery adventure games? Also, I have played Laura Bow: The Colonel's Bequest, and it has to be one of my favorite adventure games

. I have yet to play the sequel.

Renal Shutdown · Fri 26/05/2006 01:13:53

So is this Horror and/or Mystery?

Cruise for a Corpse was a mystery, and it was pretty horrific.

Redwall · Fri 26/05/2006 03:35:36

He said "best", ManicMatt. No need to mention Still Life.

Steel Drummer · Fri 26/05/2006 04:54:59

You could check out the game I made

lol, it sucks though, and it's not really a mystery or horror.. I can't think of any at the moment (besides GK and Cruise for a Corpse). If you want to find some for download, try abandonia.com, holyfile.com, or the-underdogs.com

ManicMatt · Fri 26/05/2006 11:04:29

Quote from: Redwall on Fri 26/05/2006 03:35:36
He said "best", ManicMatt. No need to mention Still Life.

Hahaha. He also said "lesser known", otherwise I wouldn't have mentioned it!

Radiant · Fri 26/05/2006 12:57:33

Cruise for a Corpse is good.
You might want to try Shadow of the Comet.
Laura Bow is simply awful.

Covert Action (mystery) and Elvira (horror-ish) come to mind although they aren't strictly adventure.

jetxl · Fri 26/05/2006 13:20:08

Horror/Mystery is popular in adventure games.

good ones.
+7th guest. 11th hour.
+Phantasmagoria 1&2. Sierra made a bunch of those real-actor slasher games.
+ObsCure.
+Braindead 13. (non adventure)
+Orion Conspiracy.
+5 Days: A Stranger.
+Alone in the Dark.

bad ones.
-Evil Dead: Hail to the King.
-Afred Hithcock: The Final Cut.
-Black Mirror.
-Shadow of the Comet.

There are many more, but these spung in mind.
You could check out the survival-horror games as well.

citizeneman · Sat 27/05/2006 02:10:35

Thanks

Exorph · Sat 27/05/2006 02:18:22

I'm currently playing an interactive fiction game called Anchorhead.
It's really well written, has great pacing and just happens to be both horror and mystery.
I really recommend it if you (think you can) enjoy text-based games.

citizeneman · Sat 27/05/2006 05:40:13

It's like a book, but better!

sergiocornaga · Sat 27/05/2006 09:36:58

Quote from: jet on Fri 26/05/2006 13:20:08
bad ones.
-Evil Dead: Hail to the King.
-Afred Hithcock: The Final Cut.
-Black Mirror.
-Shadow of the Comet.

Did you finish this game? I actually quite liked it. Well, I wouldn't call it bad. I'll admit it had a horribly slow begining and some dodgy puzzles though...

ManicMatt · Sat 27/05/2006 10:25:55

+ObsCure.
survival horror game in the vein of resident evil. Very average, but should be cheap. Not what I'd class as adventure!

+Alone in the Dark.

Isn't this a survival horror game too? Where resident evil got it's "inspiration" from?

-Evil Dead: Hail to the King.

Not adventure. But it is shit.

"You could check out the survival-horror games as well."
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Helm · Sat 27/05/2006 10:30:06

Alone in the Dark AND Resident Evil are adventure games. AitD happens to be good, Resident Evil happens to be stupid. Killing a few enemies along the way does make the game more action-based, but does this make the games any less of the inventory-puzzle-fests they are?

ManicMatt · Sat 27/05/2006 10:42:43

If I was to base resident evil solely on it's puzzles, then I'd say it was one of the worse puzzle games ever.

Nope, I won't budge on the genre labelling of resident evil. Also, try typing in "resident evil survival" and "resident evil adventure" into google and notice the results.

Helm · Sat 27/05/2006 10:46:06

ask eric to take you back to 1995 and google 'doom clone' versus 'first person shooter'.

'survival horror' is just a marketing term for games that copy Resident Evil. Made to appeal to the demographic that needs clones of Resident Evil. Because Resident Evil was a successful franchise (for what reason is beyond me). Inside they're still action-heavy BAD adventure games.

ManicMatt · Sat 27/05/2006 11:14:11

Sigh..

'first person shooter' is just a marketing term for games that copy Doom. Made to appeal to the demographic that needs clones of Doom. Because Doom was a successful franchise.

Oh wait, most of these genre labels are made up by marketing spods in the last ten years! I'd better just stick to using only the old terms and confuse people into thinking resident evil is going to be a game like beneath a steel sky by calling it an adventure game..

Helm · Sat 27/05/2006 11:29:53

QuoteOh wait, most of these genre labels are made up by marketing spods in the last ten years! I'd better just stick to using only the old terms

I'm ok with new genre names that make a valuable distinction based on the inherent traits of the new gameplay. First Person Shooter is pretty descriptive. It's a game played from the first person, where you shoot stuff. 'Survival Horror' is just a silly term, where for example even Doom could be held within if you found Cyberdeamons sufficiently horrible. We arrive at a stage where if you have a fps game where there's some undead and you have way the hell too few medicits/ammo to make it through all-guns blazing, it's suddenly a 'fps with survival horror undertones'. I mean, ugh!

But I'll give you 'adventure game' really doesn't neatly describe what the games are about at all.

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