"What was the best adventure game?"

I was about to post a comment with my favorite adventure games, but found that peej had done so already. Your taste is truly impeccable. :)
I'd also like to nominate Planetfall - damn, Steve Meretzky was on a roll back in the 80's. Whatever happened to him?

janos wrote:
I was about to post a comment with my favorite adventure games, but found that peej had done so already. Your taste is truly impeccable. :)
I'd also like to nominate Planetfall - damn, Steve Meretzky was on a roll back in the 80's. Whatever happened to him?

Cheers Dude.

Mucho respect for mentioning Planetfall too. That was a TOUGH son of a bitch..

Used to be horribly addicted to that Adventure Gaming column in C & VG for my sins...I think I spent a fortune on Scott Adams' games that I never got anywhere with...

Hobbit was ace too. Type "En Do"

Peej

Yay! Old shool!

Three (proper) adventure games I really enjoyed (on the C64):

Guild of Thieves (from Magnetic Scrolls)
Lords of Time (from Level 9)
Leather Goddesses of Phobos (from Infocom)

They don't make them like they used to, do they?


When it comes to (slightly) more modern graphical adventures, I'll cast my vote on:

Simon the Sorceror
Grim Fandango
The Krystal
Space Quest III
Future Wars: Time Traveller
Operation Stealth
Cruise for a Corpse

Toast wrote:
You can play Hitchhikers Guide to the Galaxy on the BBC website somewhere. A tad hard as I recall, and not averse to the old insta-death.

In fact, you can play it right here

Monkey Island 1, 2 & 3
Grim Fandango
Zelda: OoT
Zelda: Link to the Past

Loom.

Loom.

Loom, Loom, Loom.

Also, Loom.


Edit: Oh, and I forgot to mention Loom.

Edited by Chris Gardiner at 10:07:46 15-12-2004

Monkey Island for the swordfights alone!

Day of the Tentacle was a classic too; remember the intro?

/goes to download SCUMMVM

With the rampant fervour still present for this type of game it's amazing that most developers see Adventures as a "non-market"

Imagine if you will that LucasArse had taken the plunge with Sam and Max and produced a sequel, not only that, a sequel that was a PROPER adventure game not some nasty Leisure-Suit-Larry-Esque abortion.

I would've bought it, damn I'm sure a lot of you would've too..


Now though, if you want anything even vaguely resembling an adventure game you're forced to buy something that's really either just an FPS with adventury puzzley bits tacked in, or something that's just "pull lever, go under door, move box"

Crap, I call it....


One other title worthy of mention here - and some might argue that it wasn't an adventure game but they can go stick their heads in a pig...

BLADERUNNER.

Westwood's finest non C & C hour.

Peej

pjmaybe wrote:
There is but one game to rule them all, and it's a LucasArts game. Ladies and Gentlemen, I give you Grim Fandango...

Gotta agree, just a fantastic alround game with some many wonderful touches and a really excellent plot. It was a dogged with some fairly random/illogical quests like the underwater one with the barnacle bloke. Those can be overlooked though.

I am trying to remember the name of that detective game on a boat too, I played that for ages.

Gotta agree with the Blade Runner thing, although I'd wish they'd have made it a bit longer/varied rather than doing the sheer number of endings.

Edited by Mr Sleep at 10:30:21 15-12-2004

pjmaybe wrote:
With the rampant fervour still present for this type of game it's amazing that most developers see Adventures as a "non-market"

Peej

I think this was posted before, right?
Makes for an interesting read.
Although I know way to little of the industry to be able to judge whether he's making any sense or not.

malloc wrote:
There was another adventure game that I remember playing, about a detective, but can't for the life of me remember it. When went on a relative visiting holiday, myself and my cousin spent an age playing. (Maybe Tex Murphy, but can't remember)

If it was set in a post-WW3 city full of mutants, it was Tex Murphy.

A clown in a drum of acid.

A hulking hotel receptionist with the mind of a child and a love of burnt showbiz firemen with sqeaky voices.

Setting fire to a cult's botanical garden in space.

Good times =)

Detective game on a boat was "Cruise For A Corpse", by Delphine of Flashback/Another World fame.

Was quite tricky and slightly illogical too. Although my friend ruined it by telling me who the murderer was before I finished it!

Anyone know where I could download any of the Sam & Max / Police Quest games? I'm about to be made redundant and I need to entertain myself for the next couple of weeks

Does Secret of Mana class as an adventure game? If so it gets my vote

It was different each time wasn't it?

I remember that it would crash if you used the map too much. Grrr

Anyway, you won't see point-n-clicks until people start buying the current lot and proving that there is a market for the genre; rather than waiting for a company to push out a big name franchise that they could lose money on.

No, it was quite a detailed plot and so was always the same killer. I can even remember his name now! Gah!

pjmaybe wrote:
Used to be horribly addicted to that Adventure Gaming column in C & VG for my sins...
Peej

/remembers the 'Go West' column in 'Popular Computing Weekly' fondly...

Spectrum - Adventure 200 (text)
THHGTTG on C64
The first two Broken Swords (Why did you have to make number 3 a bloody 3D Tomb Raider clone you bastaaaaaaards!!!!!)
The first Gabriel Knight (I like the 2nd one, but not as much, cos Grace Nakamura wasn't how I'd imagined her in the first one. Which reminds me - I've still got the third one to play.)

Whatever the Monkey Island was the was released on PS2, although a few too many in jokes for MI n00bs

I vaguely remember an adventure I had on the C64 called 'Hampstead' which I singularly failed to get anywhere with. Did anyone finish it?

Looks like this point'n'click fan has a few classics to catch up on. I never did play Blade Runner (mainly since PC Zone, which was my bible at the time, gave it a bad review) or the Longest Journey or (either) Syberia.

So many games to play, so little time.
Must... concentrate... on HL2 and Fable...

edit: Oops, looks like I forgot to vote for my favourite adventure game.

The Secret of Monkey Island!

Edited by StixxUK at 12:10:19 15-12-2004

Toast wrote:

Loved all the old Marvel Comic adventures, such as Hulk ("bite lip"). Redhawk on the ST was quite decent. Discworld was a giggle, though a bit tough in places.

/Shouts "KWAH"

Day of the Tentacle of course.

Ingenious, funny, great art design, clever, great script, great voice acting. just perfect.

Twin Kingdom Valley on my Acorn Electron had me busy for a long time way back in the old days.

The next adventure game I remember comitting to was Zak McKracken and the Alien Mindbenders on my rusty old C64. It opened my up to the wonderful world of point and click.

Ooh, the nostalgia.

In the days of the Amiga: I loved all the LucasArts games, Another World, Legend of Kyrandia and Beneath a Steel Sky.

/wipes tear from left eye

I particularly enjoyed Quest for Glory. Played it for about two years, over and over again. Fantastic game.
Other adventures I enjoyed were Leisure Suit Larry 1 (because it was the first game I ever played), an Indiana Jones adventure (don't remember which one exactly) and Police Quest. Didn't really like Space Quest or King's Quest.

MetalDog wrote:

malloc wrote:
There was another adventure game that I remember playing, about a detective, but can't for the life of me remember it. When went on a relative visiting holiday, myself and my cousin spent an age playing. (Maybe Tex Murphy, but can't remember)

If it was set in a post-WW3 city full of mutants, it was Tex Murphy.

A clown in a drum of acid.

A hulking hotel receptionist with the mind of a child and a love of burnt showbiz firemen with sqeaky voices.

Setting fire to a cult's botanical garden in space.

Good times =)

Wowsers, that must be it. Not sure if I'm confusing it with journeyman, but could you buy hints, and didn't you have to unshread some paper at one point to read a message. Great.

Thing I like about those sorts of adventures is that you can play them multiplayer coop. The fun isn't in the actual pressing the buttons, but in the figuring of it out.

Games that are too mentally demanding and that don't rely on spiffing graphics just aren't going to get made any more. Shame.

Bladerunner was tops too. I bought it and had to put in the second CD, which of course crashed my PC. So I returned the game, only to find a patch on the net for it a day or so later. Seeing as I had deleted all the files, I couldn't really be bothered to re-buy it. In fact I think my comp going pear shaped when having to put in CD2 happened with Broken Sword, when I was in Ireland and had to get past a goat IIRC. Wished I'd figured out that I had a dicky CD drive...

Talking of DotT a mate of mine who had the floppy disk version, decided to reply it for old times sake, only to get through the first 7 disks and it didn't work on the last one, corrupted. Heh.

Once again I totally forgot a whole set of games - the Magnetic Scrolls adventures by Rainbird.

The Pawn
Guild of Thieves

And my all time faves...

Fish
Jinxter.

Jinxter in particular sucked me in. A Douglas-Adams-esque world to get lost in on my Atari ST. Graphics were quite nice for the time, and you had the option to switch 'em off. Possibly some of the best adventures for just getting me hopelessly lost in the story, especially Jinxter (I even named my first website after its newspaper, the Grauniad)

Peej

StixxUK wrote:
Syberia.

Posted a thread about that yesterday, there is currently a box set going pretty cheap on Play. Well worth a purchase.

pjmaybe wrote:
Once again I totally forgot a whole set of games - the Magnetic Scrolls adventures by Rainbird.

The Pawn
Guild of Thieves

And my all time faves...

Fish
Jinxter.

Jinxter in particular sucked me in. A Douglas-Adams-esque world to get lost in on my Atari ST. Graphics were quite nice for the time, and you had the option to switch 'em off. Possibly some of the best adventures for just getting me hopelessly lost in the story, especially Jinxter (I even named my first website after its newspaper, the Grauniad)

I've been trying to find these, I wanted to give them a go again, I loved the GUI on those and on the Deja Vu games.

Any list of my favourites would have to include these: The Monkey Island Series, Police Quest (1,2,and 3), Discworld Noir (bought it for 50p), and the Hitch Hikers Guide To the Galaxy (a text adventure and bloody hard but very good). And I musn't forget Grim Fandango.

The Old Bill wrote:
Discworld

Never really got into that, it was a little buggy on my system and I lost interest pretty early on. Must go back to it some time.

Mr. Sleep,
I believe you actually have to download a patch to actually finish the game, but I felt it worth it.

The Old Bill wrote:
Mr. Sleep,
I believe you actually have to download a patch to actually finish the game, but I felt it worth it.

Stands to reason I had lots of problems just starting the game and it played pretty poorly. Kind of expected on XP I guess.

is it me or is it strange that no-one mentioned Dark Seed yet, adventure based on Lovecraft lore. Fantastic, that was.