The greatest Adventure Game of all time...

[Mehrdad]

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 )

[Bombadil]

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.

[Stalker]

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.

[Mickey Bitsko]

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

[Khaveen]

Last Express.

QFG2 comes close.

[edmundito]

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."

[robbie jojo]

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!

[Muttley]

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

[ziffle]

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.

[crazy_atheist]

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?

[Babar]

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.

[TheYak]

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).

[Super Neo]

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

[Jesus_DeSaad]

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

[Le Woltaire]

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, 

[qptain Nemo]

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

[Sonny Bonds]

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.

[madgooseparade]

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!!

[copycat]

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.

[bluber]

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