Suggest a game to me.

[Calin Leafshade]

I am very much an inexperienced adventurer. Not quite a virgin but embarrasingly close.

So I'd like people to suggest adventure games for me to play pleeeease.

I like games that are serious, investigative dramas. Plot and dialogue quality must be high.
I like games with a psychological edge. If they were movies they would be called 'Psychological Thrillers'

Graphics wise I'd really like them to be VGA or later.

I have no issues with gore or objectionable material so they can be as X-rated as you like.

I throw myself at the mercy of the AGS community's frightening impressive adventure game knowledge.

[LRH]

Hmmm, I guess there's "I have no mouth, and I must scream.", although I figure you know about that already.

I'll have to keep track of this as well, I love psychological thrillers.

[Calin Leafshade]

yeah I've played that and it's pretty good although the stories are a bit of a mixed bag. Some good, some bad.

It suffers from its anthology format i think

[Igor Hardy]

Here are a few off the top of my head:

The Dark Eye
Bad Day on The Midway
Azrael's Tear
Black Dahlia
Dreamweb
I have no mouth but I must scream
Blade Runner
Overclocked
Shadow of The Comet
Sublustrum (aka Outcry)

oh, and I nearly forgot...

Snakes of Avalon

[blueskirt]

Gabriel Knight?

[tzachs]

Mccarthy Chronicles.

[Chicky]

Discworld Noir 

[Mehrdad]

Sanitarium
Darkseed I
Darkseed II

[Ghost]

The original Gabriel Knight is pretty good.

Spoiler

I strongly recommend you NEVER play Phantasmagoria.

[close]

[Calin Leafshade]

Gabriel Knight?

I shall investigate

Mccarthy Chronicles.

played it, its shit

Discworld Noir 

I've got it but making it actually *work* seems to be nigh on impossible.

Sanitarium
Darkseed I
Darkseed II

Will try Sanatorium.. the darkseed games were a little *too* abstract for me.

[GarageGothic]

I second Ascovel's suggestion of Shadow of the Comet. Not a perfect game by any means (i.e. you'll probably need to consult a walkthrough along the way), but the CD-ROM version is pretty damn atmospheric - and I love that the dialog portraits are based on classic horror actors like Vincent Price.

Another game worth checking out if you don't mind supernatural elements is Shadow of Destiny (aka Shadow of Memories). Feels like a console game, but the graphics are beautiful for their time and the story is very moving and full of mindbending twists.

[Igor Hardy]

I would just like to add that the first 2 titles I mentioned - The Dark Eye and Bad Day on The Midway - are probably the best games around, if you're looking for "psychological edge" before anything else. However, don't expect any traditional adventure game puzzles in them - they're both almost entirely exploration based.

[blueskirt]

How could I forget Sanitarium, it's a must play.

[GarageGothic]

This thread makes me so happy to be on the AGS forums where people have good taste in games. If you had asked this question on adventuregamers.com or justadventure.com you'd have had ten people warmly recommending Post Mortem, Black Mirror and Still Life by now

[InCreator]

KGB!!!1

Seriously,
http://www.abandonia.com/games/93/KGB%28akaConspiracy%29

[Cuiki]

+1 for Sanitarium

Come to think of it, I'd like to play it all over again myself.

[Intense Degree]

+1 for:

Gabriel Knight (all 3)
Shadow of the Comet
Overclocked

Also, if you are interested in a big investigative story, but with a lighter touch, try Broken Sword.

[mode7]

I very much enjoyed Book of Unwritten Tales. To mention one of the newer adventures.

[bicilotti]

If I may add something:

write a big list of all those suggestions and try to find some "Let's Play" of them.

In my experience reading (or watching) the first "chapters" of a LP gives me more than a strong hint on wheter I will like that Adventure Game or not.

Good luck with your research!

[kconan]

The original "Alone in the Dark" is worth a look.