Your Top 5 AGS Made Games You've Played

[m0ds]

There are a LOT I haven't played yet, so I'm only going to include ones I've completed or nearly completed

- Robert Redford Saves the Day
- Nelly Cootalot
- Pleurghburg
- Adventures of Fatman
- Larry Valeses

and as ManicMatt said, yes indeed, my own too

[Shane 'ProgZmax' Stevens]

None of my games are on these lists...you heartless bastards.

I generally avoid these kinds of threads because listing your favorite games is so subjective and you always miss some, so I will list only a few of the many I have enjoyed (and the reasons why!).  Excuse me while I avoid some of the more obvious ones!

Gladiator Quest - one of the more original ags games made, but then anything with c-64 style artwork makes me happy.  And who couldn't appreciate nigh-impossible bosses like the old days?

No Action Jackson - possibly the first complete ags game I ever played, this has stuck with me as one of the most positive experiences I've had with an amateur game.  It oozes 80's nostalgia like week-old Gouda, and that's a good thing!

Maniac Mansion Deluxe - hardly original, it is still a solid remake that showed considerable effort on the part of LucasFan.

[Da_Elf]

none of mine either. oh wait. ive only got one game and its not even finished as yet. but atleast there is a playable demo hehehe. ill add the demo to my game to my list of the top 5 games ive played hehe

[blueskirt]

I generally avoid these kinds of threads because listing your favorite games is so subjective and you always miss some, so I will list only a few of the many I have enjoyed (and the reasons why!).Ã,  Excuse me while I avoid some of the more obvious ones!

That's the problem, either you only list a few and miss some good games, either everyone goes overboard and list every games that are just on the limit of barely worth being played and it quickly turn into a never ending list of mediocre games.

Back before 2004 it wasn't really a problem, with 5 nominations and 1 winners in every AGS awards categories, you could easily download every award winners and give a look  at some of the most the nominated games, and you knew you would miss absolutly no games for that year. Pretty much in the same way you can visit Newgrounds once a year, and catch up with all the movies you missed by only checking the Top 50.

But since 2004, and particuliary last year, games reached an unprecedent level of quality, not only every nominated games are must play, but I get the feeling that only 5 nominations is not being enough because last year there were so many great games in competition.

If the maximum number of nomination for every categories isn't increased for the next AGS awards, maybe there should have a "recommended" kind of award for the next year, to nominate the games that did well in some categories, but couldn't make it to the nominations because these are limited to 5.

No Action Jackson - possibly the first complete ags game I ever played, this has stuck with me as one of the most positive experiences I've had with an amateur game.Ã,  It oozes 80's nostalgia like week-old Gouda, and that's a good thing!

Someone will have to remake that game one of those days. Of the 4 or 5 times I gave this game a try, on every try I fell on at least 4 different game crashing bugs that ruined the puzzle solving until finally I gave up trying this game.

Back on the issue, if everyone are to list every games they think are must play, why not also make a little effort to stay on topic and list your personal Top 5 AGS games? Your 5 favorites AGS games and how they marked you as a gamer and/or game creator?

[Erenan]

Sorry, ProgZmax. Your games were 6, 7, 8, and 9 on my list, but they got cut off.

[accolyte]

Well, my favourite AGS-made game has to be "King,s Quest2: Romancing the stones". It,s simply a great game in all aspects, beautifull graphics, wonderfull music and sound, good story and wery high-quality voice-acting. (Yes, playing it without the music and speech would basically be playing only half the game.) However, some other favourites would be:

Phleurgburg: (hope i spelled it right) Pretty primitive graphics and somewhat underdeveloped characters but a good story with many good puzzles. Even multiple paths that offer replayibility.

Ben Jordan 3: Simple puzzles but a captivating plot.

Trillby,s Journal: Simply the best horror game made with AGS I,ve played so far. :o Only a pity the puzzles were almost embarrisingly easy.

[Neil Dnuma]

Might have overlooked it, but nobody seem to have mentioned it, so:

- Richard Longhurst and the Box that Ate Time.

Also:
- Spellbound, for showing so much promise

[Helm]

Gladiator Quest - one of the more original ags games made, but then anything with c-64 style artwork makes me happy.  And who couldn't appreciate nigh-impossible bosses like the old days?

Appreciated, Progz. Let's just say it wasn't a big hit with most ags people, to the point where someone in private correspondence told me he 'doesn't consider it an adventure game at all'. That was really an eye-opener.

[SpacePirateCaine]

I can't see why people wouldn't like it - it showed some great innovation, and damned if the soundtrack and graphics weren't awesome-licious. I'm all with ProgZ with that one. Gladiator Quest is one of my faves, even if I'm not even remotely hardcore enough to have played it through to the end. Not to mention that it was made in one week. I'd planned on entering that one, but I suck.

So, to keep on track, I'd have to say:

Gladiator Quest,
The Yahtzee Trilby series
Bestowers of Eternity (Or what there was to see in the demo)
The Apprentice Series
And for some reason, I still love "Alien Rape Escape". I think it's 'coz I've had to explain that it didn't belong in my porn folder because it wasn't actually porn no small number of times.

[TheJBurger]

Gladiator Quest - one of the more original ags games made, but then anything with c-64 style artwork makes me happy.Ã,  And who couldn't appreciate nigh-impossible bosses like the old days?

Appreciated, Progz. Let's just say it wasn't a big hit with most ags people, to the point where someone in private correspondence told me he 'doesn't consider it an adventure game at all'. That was really an eye-opener.

I loved Gladiator Quest. All of the features, like trying to find extra money, talking to the characters, learning backstories, and the fighting system were all fun. I know somewhere you said it was of the nostalgic "so bad-it's good" quality, but the lack of a saving system and the ridiculously hard later bosses just put me off in the end. It was a great game though.

[Blackthorne]

In no particular order, these are some that are sitting in my mind right now....

Cirque Du Zale

Grrr....Bearly Sane

Razor's In The Night

Duty and Beyond

Seven Days a Skeptic

The Shivah


Bt

[noxis]

Definetly would have to be the following:

Pleurghburg - Dark Ages
Apprentice 2
Prodigal
Kings Quest 2
Duzz Quest

In no particular order

[Ionias]

I guess I'm old school but this is my top 5:

1. Rob Blanc
2. Larry Vales, I & II.
3. Pleurgburg, Dark Ages.
4. Rodekill, A day in the life.
5. Snail Quest.

[mr.me]

I'm pretty new to AGS and I have about 40 games I have downloaded and haven't played yet but here's my list out of the games I have beaten:

1. Heartland Deluxe
2. No-Action Jackson
3. Trilby's Notes
4. Ben Jordan Case 1 Deluxe
5. Apprentice 2