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Posted November 20, 2014
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mintee: im seeing some titles that I havent heard of before and am intrigued.....( goes to google)
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rharpe: Here are some more adventure classics:
3 Skulls of the Toltecs
The 7th Guest
The Adventures of Willy Beamish
The Big Red Adventure
The Black Cauldron
BloodNet
Bud Tucker in Double Trouble
Chewy: Esc from F5
Code-Name: Iceman
The Colonel's Bequest
Companions of Xanth
Conquests of Camelot: The Search for the Grail
Conquests of the Longbow: The Legend of Robin Hood
Cruise for a Corpse
Curse of Enchantia
The Dagger of Amon Ra
Dune
Déjà Vu II: Lost in Las Vegas
EcoQuest: The Search for Cetus
Eric the Unready
Fable
Gold Rush!
Heart of China
Hugo's House of Horrors
The Island of Dr. Brain
It Came from the Desert
The Last Express
Les Manley in: Search for the King
Loom
Lure of the Temptress
Mixed-Up Mother Goose
The Oregon Trail
Rise of the Dragon
Shannara
Teenagent
Toonstruck
Touché: The Adventures of the Fifth Musketeer
Veil of Darkness
WaxWorks
Zak McKracken and the Alien Mindbenders
bookmarked this thread, lots of titles I havent even seen before. Having just reread the Dune series I wonder what the game was like............

someone earlier mentioned Grim Fandango... how on earth could I have forgotten that one. classic and quirky at its best, with some control probs natch. heh

I have to give GoG credit for allowing me to revisit so many of my collection which I havent been able to get running in years. this fall sale let me get a boat load of classic titles and am looking forward to playing them again.
Posted November 20, 2014
Sheesh!

Book of Unwritten Tales
Machinarium
Broken Age
Dark Eye: Chains of Satinav
Edna and Harvey - both
Gray Matter
Kentucky Rte. Zero
Return to Mysterious Island
Unmechanical
Posted November 20, 2014
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mintee: daymare town: freebie
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yogsloth: I highly recommend this one as well. Lots of AAA titles will get mentioned here, but the Daymare Town series is a really fun, highly atmospheric game. And it's free.
kongregate and its like have been a continuous source of free really good games by new and upcoming devs. its a great launch place for their skills, some really good point and click adventures there:


kingdom of liars series
trader of stories
the several stories of reemus
alice is dead series
morningstar
submachine series (most excellent)
Posted November 20, 2014
I'm a bit of a newbie to adventure games, so far Downfall is my favorite (unless you can call The Cat Lady an adventure game, in which it gets my vote) with a honorable mention going to The Perfidious Filling Station (a Leisure Suit Larry type game). I'm sure Sanitarium will become one of my favorites too once I get into it.

Admittedly the biggest thing keeping me from getting into the genre is that the ones I've played tend to dissolve into "hunt the correct pixel to right click on) simulators. If anybody wants to recommend me adventure games that don't fall into that category it would be much appreciated.

*I'm speaking exclusively of point & click adventure games, I haven't played any games like Myst or Dracula or whatever yet.
Posted November 20, 2014
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Austrobogulator: HOW HAS DAY OF THE TENTACLE NOT BEEN MENTIONED YET? :O

Erm, anyway, Day of the Tentacle...
This. The humour, characters and everything are just awesome. Best adventure ever for me.
Posted November 20, 2014
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mintee: bookmarked this thread, lots of titles I havent even seen before. Having just reread the Dune series I wonder what the game was like............
I grew up with the first Dune game before I even read the books, it's awesome. Great graphics, music, and voice acting. But then the sequels turned RTS and I never got into it.

I'll just leave this here: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=_wMIMMmWS74&list=PL9DB7EF0D0FEBB95A
Post edited November 20, 2014 by Exoanthrope
Posted November 20, 2014
The adventure game I mention the most as memorable, which would probably make it my favourite, is Nine Princes in Amber, a text adventure (with pictures, some of them animated, and music) for the Commodore 64 (it was also on other platforms; I played it on a C128). I'm an Amber fan, and this captured the story well (it encompasses the first and second books). I enjoyed the way in which you could ask characters to provide more information about what they said, and there were text sword fights in the game (not the high point of the game, but it was still a cool mechanic).

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litildivil: Broken sword series (don`t forget Community created Broken Sword 2.5)
Thanks for reminding me of this. I need to play it one day. Unfortunately I'll probably forget.
Posted November 20, 2014
wow, thanks for all the info guys and girls?! I see a few that i will be picking up.. I did start under the steelsky, but only played it for about 15 mins then got side tracked, and didn't go back. Maybe i should give it another go.

Dune is something that i noticed, and i love sci-fi.. maybe i should give this one a shot.

Monkey island, i do own one of um, and liked it, just never played it far, back when i got it, i was totally sucked into other games at the time and sort of back burnered it.

BTW, has anyone heard of the game "Kingdom II, Shadoan" it is from the makers of dragons lair.. and the game takes place in some magical world, and the game play is similar, as in you do something, then get a full motion cut screen. Was kinda unique, but i have never really heard much about it. Was one of those games i picked up in the 90's back when they used to sell games in boxes on shelves.. :P
Post edited November 20, 2014 by JeCy
Posted November 20, 2014
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NoNewTaleToTell: I'm a bit of a newbie to adventure games, so far Downfall is my favorite (unless you can call The Cat Lady an adventure game, in which it gets my vote) with a honorable mention going to The Perfidious Filling Station (a Leisure Suit Larry type game). I'm sure Sanitarium will become one of my favorites too once I get into it.

Admittedly the biggest thing keeping me from getting into the genre is that the ones I've played tend to dissolve into "hunt the correct pixel to right click on) simulators. If anybody wants to recommend me adventure games that don't fall into that category it would be much appreciated.

*I'm speaking exclusively of point & click adventure games, I haven't played any games like Myst or Dracula or whatever yet.
There are many adventure games that feature hotspot highlighting, a few examples:

-Simon the Sorcerer 2 (Simon the Sorcerer 1 does not have the feature)
-Secret Files series: Tunguska etc
-The Dark Eye series: Chains of Satinav and Memoria
-Deponia series
-A New Beginning
-Runaway 3 (Runaway 1 & 2 have some irritating pixel hunting, especially Runaway 1...almost drove me nuts)

The great thing is that this feature is optional, meaning you can explore every scene on your own if you like but if you get stuck you can press a key that shows all the interactable hotspots, very convenient especially with games like the Dark Eye series that have incredibly detailed backgrounds. I've found myself using the hotpot highlighter on several occasions. Sure, it's possible to complete every game without it but with limited gaming time there's no sense in searching every scene pixel by pixel every single time.
Post edited November 20, 2014 by awalterj
Posted November 20, 2014
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genkicolleen: Ohhh, well, if we're going to go childhood favorites, then I have a lot more to say! lol~

The old Windham Classics adventures for C64 -- specifically Alice in Wonderland and Below the Root - were definite favorites. Swiss Family Robinson was good, too, but if you it was Permadeath, and sometimes just walking on the wrong piece of map would get you killed (D'oh! Quicksand!), and that lessened my enjoyment just a bit ;D

Text adventures were faves on the Apple II, especially The Wonderful World of Eamon games. Again, Permadeath, but I enjoyed them so much that I didn't care. I was happy to go through and play The Beginner's Cave every time I died, then try again :D

I found an absolutely fascinating text adventure 10-12 years ago, and sadly, I can only remember fragments of it -- Not enough to ever find it again! :( Going to sleep and waking up in a dream-type realm that had a red moon, the ocean, being up in the trees, crystal caves, the hut with spiderwebs in the corner that my character couldn't go near... Fantasy and intellect all wrapped up in one story-text adventure. Geez I wish I could remember what the darned thing is so I can play it again! >_<
Was it maybe Time and Magik: Red Moon?

http://www.mobygames.com/game/time-and-magik-the-trilogy

http://www.mobygames.com/game/red-moon
Posted November 20, 2014
Indiana Jones and the Last Crusade.

One of the few games the other half liked to actually play. We ended up playing it together while she was on the sick
Posted November 20, 2014
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SnakeSqueaker: Was it maybe Time and Magik: Red Moon?

http://www.mobygames.com/game/time-and-magik-the-trilogy
http://www.mobygames.com/game/red-moon
Sadly, no, but thanks for trying! This game was entirely text (no images at all.) I think I still have the computer that the game was on, but I need to find a way to get a monitor hooked up to the old thing! lol~ If I ever figure it out, I'll post here in the thread :D
Posted November 21, 2014
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NoNewTaleToTell: Admittedly the biggest thing keeping me from getting into the genre is that the ones I've played tend to dissolve into "hunt the correct pixel to right click on) simulators. If anybody wants to recommend me adventure games that don't fall into that category it would be much appreciated.

*I'm speaking exclusively of point & click adventure games, I haven't played any games like Myst or Dracula or whatever yet.
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awalterj: There are many adventure games that feature hotspot highlighting, a few examples:

-Simon the Sorcerer 2 (Simon the Sorcerer 1 does not have the feature)
-Secret Files series: Tunguska etc
-The Dark Eye series: Chains of Satinav and Memoria
-Deponia series
-A New Beginning
-Runaway 3 (Runaway 1 & 2 have some irritating pixel hunting, especially Runaway 1...almost drove me nuts)

The great thing is that this feature is optional, meaning you can explore every scene on your own if you like but if you get stuck you can press a key that shows all the interactable hotspots, very convenient especially with games like the Dark Eye series that have incredibly detailed backgrounds. I've found myself using the hotpot highlighter on several occasions. Sure, it's possible to complete every game without it but with limited gaming time there's no sense in searching every scene pixel by pixel every single time.
Night of the Rabbit & Lilly Looking Through have hot-spotting too, and yes, its very helpful
Posted November 21, 2014
Chosing a favourite adventure game is really a challange. I love so many of them, it is hard to chose one.
But right now five come to mind, that I liked more than most others. I'm sure I'm forgetting some... but those are the ones that just came to mind:

Gabriel Knight: Sins of the Fathers (the original, not the remake)
Gray Matter
Moebius: Empire Rising
Overclocked
The Critter Chronicles
Posted November 21, 2014
Myst I-IV are perfect in my opinion. Followed by the Journeyman Project series, especially liked part III back then. Frankenstein with Tim Curry was fun as well, except for way too many labyrinths.

All the LucasArts games were fine too, Monkey Island 2 is probably my favourite of them
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