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| 29 MAR 2005 at 2:39pm |
AyaGrand Inquisitor
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Status : Offline | Originally Posted By Elfstone (28 MAR 2005 10:21pm)
@Aya
You surprise me with your inclusion of TLJ in your top10...I would never have thought that it ranks higher on your list than on mine.
why is that? yes, it is true that 99% of the overhyped games do not deserve the hype they get, but tlj was an exception! probably one of the best adventures released the last decade! too bad its sequel seems like a console teenage gamers oriented hybrid... :-/
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| 30 MAR 2005 at 2:41pm |
AyaGrand Inquisitor
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Status : Offline | Originally Posted By Elfstone (28 MAR 2005 10:21pm)
Yeah, too bad this crazy-big list will vanish soon. Perhaps we should have one of those threads sticky and everytime a person changes the list it will be replaced with the new one. Some kind of "members for members personal AG list".
i don't know if it could stay sticky here... but if it can't, maybe it could be moved to the archives, where it would stay unlocked so that ppl can update or post new lists (as long as they remember it's there!)
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| 6 MAY 2005 at 11:01pm |
AyaGrand Inquisitor
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Joined: 16 OCT 2002
Status : Offline | so this has finally been archived! it stayed unlocked so that anyone can post new top 50s or update their old ones (i know mine needs updating, but i'm too bored to do it! )
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| 9 AUG 2005 at 4:06pm |
Goddess of All Things MagicalSchattenjger
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Status : Online | I didn't see Heart of China listed by anyone. :-/
This game had lots of heart!
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| 9 AUG 2005 at 9:23pm |
szcaxJourneyman
Posts : 935
Joined: 12 OCT 2002
Status : Online | Ok, looks like I'm a bit late coming onto this thread... oh well
Let's have at it then...
#1 Mystery of the Nautilus
#2 Simon the Sorceror 3D
#3 ...
whoops....
Let's try again, shall we?
1. Gabriel Knight 1: Sins of the Fathers
2. Grim Fandango
3. Indiana Jones and the Fate of Atlantis
4. Monkey Island 1
5. Broken Sword 1
7. King's Quest 6
8. Gabriel Knight 3
9. Rama
10. Gabriel Knight 2
11. Sherlock Holmes: Rose Tattoo
12. Day of the Tentacle
13. Monkey Island 3
14. The Longest Journey
15. Monkey Island 2
16. Zork: Grand Inquisitor
17. Shivers
18. Kyrandia
19. Neverhood
20. Toonstruck
21. Woodruff and the Schnibble
22. 7th Guest
23. King's Quest 5
24. Freddy Pharkas: Frontier Pharmacist
25. Connections
26. Lost in Time
27. King's Quest 4
28. King's Quest 7
29. Gold Rush
30. Space Quest 5
31. Kyrandia 2
32. Beneath a Steel Sky
33. Myst 3
34. Gobliiins 3
35. Dagger of Amon Ra
36. Dragonsphere
37. Phantasmagoria
38. Sam 'n Max hit the Road
39. Operation Weather Disaster
40. Sherlock Holmes: Serrated Scalpel
41. The Dig
42. Myst
43. Indiana Jones and the Last Crusade
44. Loom
45. Kyrandia 3
46. Duckman
47. Death Gate
48. Other Worlds
49. King's Quest 3
50. Pleurgburg: Dark Ages
That's better...
Wow, people aren't kidding... that did take forever. I had to cut like 20 games off the list to get it down to 50. It also made me aware of how much of my life was spent playing these games...
It also felt weird writing out the full names of some of these games... at first my list looked like: "GK1, Grim Fandango, FOA, MI1, BS1, KQ6, GK3, Rama, GK2, Sherlock Holmes: Rose Tattoo, DOTT, MI3, TLJ, MI2, Z:GI, etc...." and then I realized that maybe newcomers to the genre would appreciate the full titles...
And yes, I bribed the_cranky_hermit so that the forum list's #1 and #2 spots would go to GK1 and Grim Fandango
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| 8 SEP 2005 at 8:09am |
Ad_AvisIntergalactic Janitor
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Joined: 7 SEP 2005
Status : Online | Drat! I haven't played 50 adventure games. If it was a top 20 I could have made a list but for now it's impossible...sigh.
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| 8 SEP 2005 at 1:19pm |
AvatarPrivate Detective
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Status : Online | Originally Posted By Ad_Avis (8 SEP 2005 8:09am)
Drat! I haven't played 50 adventure games. If it was a top 20 I could have made a list but for now it's impossible...sigh.
( you could still give us a list of your top 20! we won't mind... plus most of us can't count very high anyway )
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| 8 SEP 2005 at 4:09pm |
Ad_AvisIntergalactic Janitor
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Joined: 7 SEP 2005
Status : Online | Thanks, I'll do that (as soon as I've made up my mind about which one's the best).
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| 26 AUG 2006 at 12:27pm |
from_finlandIntergalactic Janitor
Posts : 14
Joined: 30 AUG 2003
Status : Online | Top 30
1 Gabriel Knight II The Beast within / Sierra / 1995 / pc
2 Shenmue / Sega / 1999 / dreamcast
3 Shenmue II / Sega / 2001 / dreamcast
4 Blade Runner / Westwood / 1997 / pc
5 Broken Sword / Revolution Software / 1996 / pc
6 Gabriel Knight Sins of The Fathers / Sierra / 1993 / pc
7 Fahrenheit / Quantic Dream / 2005 / pc
8 Clock Tower 2 / Human Entertainment / 1996 / psx
9 Leisure Suit Larry 2 / Sierra / 1988 / pc
10 Gabriel Knight III / Sierra / 1999 / pc
11 Tex Murphy - Pandora Directive / Access Software / 1996 / pc
12 Monkey Island II / Lucas Arts / 1991 / pc
13 Grim Fandango / Lucas Arts / 1997 / pc
14 The Longest Journey / Funcom / 2000 / pc
15 Phoenix Wright Ace Attorney / Capcom / 2005 / nintendo ds
16 X-Files The Game / HyperBole Studios / 1998 / pc
17 Leisure Suit Larry 7 / Sierra / 1996 / pc
18 Deja Vu / ICOM Simulations / 1987 / nes
19 Indiana Jones and the Fate of Atlantis / Lucas Arts / 1992 / pc
20 Monkey Island III / Lucas Arts / 1997 / pc
21 Discworld Noir / Perfect Entertaiment / 1999 / pc
22 Police Quest II / Sierra / 1988 / pc
23 The Dig / Lucas Arts / 1996 / pc
24 Still Life / Microids / 2005 / pc
25 Syberia / Microids / 2002 / pc
26 Leisure Suit Larry 6 / Sierra / 1993 / pc
27 Largo Winch / Rebellion / 2002 / xbox
28 Monkey Island / Lucas Arts / 1990 / pc
29 Clock Tower / Human Entertaiment / 1995 / snes
30 Freddy Pharkas: Frontier Pharmacist / Sierra / 1993 / pc
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| 10 SEP 2006 at 8:17pm |
WimliGuild Master
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Joined: 14 MAR 2003
Status : Offline | Nice list from_finland! Glad to see that Largo Winch made it on it. 8-) One of these days, I'll sit down and make a list of my own fav games.
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| 10 OCT 2006 at 4:59pm |
AyaGrand Inquisitor
Posts : 7277
Joined: 16 OCT 2002
Status : Offline | i've been thinking about updating this for quite some time... after having played some really good recent and older titles and re-evaluating the ones that were already in there, here's the current adventure (that means no action/adventures) top 50... like before, if i tried to write this again in 2 hours it wouldn't be exactly the same!
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1. The Colonel's Bequest
[img]aya.tecort.net/pics/t5adv/uninvited_s.jpg[/img]
2. Uninvited
[img]aya.tecort.net/pics/t5adv/culpa_s.jpg[/img]
3. Culpa Innata
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4. Callahan's Crosstime Saloon
[img]aya.tecort.net/pics/t5adv/sammax_s.jpg[/img]
5. Sam & Max Hit The Road
[size=18]6. Deja Vu
7. Sanitarium
8. Ingrid's Back
9. King's Quest 4
10. The Guild Of Thieves
[size=16]11. The Longest Journey
12. Discworld Noir
13. Gabriel Knight 3
14. Larry 3
15. Indiana Jones And The Last Crusade
16. King's Quest 3
17. Darkfall
18. Knight Orc
19. The Feeble Files
20. Simon The Sorcerer 1
21. Toonstruck
22. Quest For Glory 5
23. The Journeyman Project 2
24. The Journeyman Project 3
25. Voyage
26. The Space Bar
27. Black Mirror
28. Future Wars
29. Larry 1
30. Monkey Island 3
31. Darkseed
32. Shadowgate
33. Loom
34. Kyrandia 1
35. The Blackstone Chronicles
36. The Pandora Directive
37. Beneath A Steel Sky
38. Cruise For A Corpse
39. Kyrandia 2
40. Monkey Island 2
41. Time & Magik
42. Under A Killing Moon
43. Scratches
44. Quest For Glory 1
45. Darkfall 2
46. Other Worlds
47. Larry 5
48. And Then There Were None
49. Grim Fandango
50. Zork Grand Inquisitor
pics clickable... i guess i'll be back in another 1.5-2 years for another update! and no, other worlds in not there just cause alkis was whining!
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| 10 OCT 2006 at 5:52pm |
| Deleted User | I can't give them an exact rating... I mean, 35 or 38, does it really make all that much difference?
1-10 They're all Number One to me! (But for very different reasons.)
The Last Express - Riven - Obsidian - Zork GI - Grim Fandango - Neverhood - Day of the Tentacle - Discworld 1 - Bad Mojo - Alice: An Interactive Museum
11-20
Sherlock Holmes: The Case of the Rose Tattoo - Tex Murphy: Pandora Directive - Space Bar - Dark Side of the Moon - Temujin - Black Dahlia - Dark Fall - Dark Eye - Feeble Files - Discworld Noir
20-30
Barrow Hill - Gadget - Shadow of Destiny - Blue Heat - Indiana Jones: Fate of Atlantis - Full Throttle - Broken Sword 1 - Bad Day on the Midway - Tex Murphy: Overseer - Trinity (IF)
30-40
The Longest Journey - Moment of Silence - Callahan’s Crosstime Saloon - Loom - Myst Exile - Isabelle - Stupid Invaders - Ceremony of Innocence - Amber - Journeyman Project 2
40-50
GAG - Noir: A Shadowy Thriller - Sam & Max - Byzantine: The Betrayal - Mode - Al Emmo - Gabriel Knight 2 - Duckman - Rhem 2 - Tex Murphy: Under a Killing Moon
Hors concours: Puppet Motel (a multimedia experience) and Louis Cat Orze (children's edutainment game, but great fun)
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| 10 OCT 2006 at 7:33pm |
AyaGrand Inquisitor
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Joined: 16 OCT 2002
Status : Offline | Originally Posted By Betje (10 OCT 2006 5:52pm)
I mean, 35 or 38, does it really make all that much difference?
not much! that's why the lower you go, the easier it gets to sort! i did like blackstone chronicles more than cruise for a corpse though
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| 10 OCT 2006 at 10:36pm |
WimliGuild Master
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Status : Offline | Originally Posted By Aya (10 OCT 2006 4:58pm)
[img]aya.tecort.net/pics/t5adv/culpa_s.jpg[/img]
3. Culpa Innata
Really? That good? I'm soooo looking forward to playing this one!
13. Gabriel Knight 3
Now we're talking! 8-)
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| 12 OCT 2006 at 2:14pm |
AyaGrand Inquisitor
Posts : 7277
Joined: 16 OCT 2002
Status : Offline | Originally Posted By Wimli (10 OCT 2006 10:36pm)
Really? That good? I'm soooo looking forward to playing this one!
it's actually even better, if you consider that the colonel's bequest and uninvited are practically unmovable!
Now we're talking! 8-)
maybe i should have put a note there though, saying "with someone else taking over the controls!"
You have gotten the attention of the mysterious lady. She turns to face you. Her face is devoid of any flesh. You are frozen with horror as she begins ripping your body into a bloody mess.
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| 12 OCT 2006 at 11:45pm |
WimliGuild Master
Posts : 3259
Joined: 14 MAR 2003
Status : Offline | Originally Posted By Aya (12 OCT 2006 2:13pm)
Originally Posted By Wimli (10 OCT 2006 10:36pm)
Really? That good? I'm soooo looking forward to playing this one!
it's actually even better, if you consider that the colonel's bequest and uninvited are practically unmovable!
Damn, you know how to make someone really want to play a game.
Now we're talking! 8-)
maybe i should have put a note there though, saying "with someone else taking over the controls!"
Ssjjj, you don't want to let people know that you're clumsy now do you?
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| 13 OCT 2006 at 12:49am |
WimliGuild Master
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Joined: 14 MAR 2003
Status : Offline | And inspired by Aya's example (including clickable pictures and everything ), I'll finally post my adventure game top 50. I must say though that I haven't completed all games on this list, but have played them sufficiently long enough to rank them. There are also some games near the bottom of the list that I don't rate that highly, but needed to get to 50. Both remarks imply that this top 50 could change very, very quickly.
Here we go:
[IMG]http://img183.imageshack.us/img183/9393/top50nr1bwq2.th.jpg[/IMG]
[size=25]1. Gabriel Knight: Blood of the Sacred, Blood of the Damned
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[size=20]2. Gabriel Knight: The Beast Within
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[size=20]3. Leisure Suit Larry 3: Passionate Patti in Pursuit of the Pulsating Pectorals
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[size=18]4. King's Quest VI: Heir Today, Gone Tomorrow
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[size=18]5. Broken Sword: Shadow of the Templars
[size=16]6. Gabriel Knight: Sins of the Fathers
7. The Longest Journey
8. Sam and Max Hit the Road
9. King's Quest IV: The Perils of Rosella
10. Voyage / Journey to the Moon
[size=14]11. Gold Rush!
12. Zork Grand Inquisitor
13. Torin's Passage
14. Largo Winch: Empire Under Threat
15. Leisure Suit Larry 7: Love for Sail
16. Broken Sword II: The Smoking Mirror
17. Police Quest I: In Pursuit of the Death Angel
18. Discworld 1
19. The Secret of Monkey Island (MI1)
20. Laura Bow 1: The Colonel's Bequest
[size=12]21. Dark Fall 1
22. Rama
23. Leisure Suit Larry 6: Shape Up or Slip Out
24. The Curse of Monkey Island (MI3)
25. Day of the Tentacle
26. Leisure Suit Larry in the Land of the Lounge Lizards (LSL1)
27. Sanitarium
28. King's Quest VII: The Princeless Bride
29. Shivers 1
30. The Dark Eye
31. Freddy Pharkas: Frontier Pharmacist
32. King's Quest V: Absence Makes the Heart Go Yonder
33. Gag
34. Space Quest 1: The Sarien Encounter
35. Starship Titanic
36. Police Quest 2: The Vengeance
37. Post Mortem
38. The 7th Guest
39. Zork Nemesis
40. Shivers 2: Harvest of Souls
41. Police Quest IV: Open Season
42. The Black Mirror
43. Phantasmagoria 2: A Puzzle of Flesh
44. Lighthouse
45. Leisure Suit Larry V: Passionate Patti Does a Little Undercover Work
46. UFOs
47. Phantasmagoria 1
48. Grim Fandango
49. Syberia 1
50. The Moment of Silence
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| 13 OCT 2006 at 2:42pm |
AyaGrand Inquisitor
Posts : 7277
Joined: 16 OCT 2002
Status : Offline | Originally Posted By Wimli (12 OCT 2006 11:45pm)
Damn, you know how to make someone really want to play a game.
i should be hired as a sales person!
Ssjjj, you don't want to let people know that you're clumsy now do you?
no, but i want them to know how awful gk3's controls are! :
nice list there btw... good thing to see you're finally catching up with your adventuring! the moment of silence should have been in my list too... i debated a lot before i finally left it out, cause none of the others could be removed
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| 14 OCT 2006 at 12:11pm |
MarkGuild Master
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Joined: 10 OCT 2002
Location: US, Georgia
Status : Offline | Originally Posted By Aya (10 OCT 2006 4:58pm)
3. Culpa Innata
That good, huh? How'sa 'bout a review? Preeze?
Originally Posted By Aya (10 OCT 2006 4:58pm)
7. Sanitarium
Yes, indeedy. I love this game. With all my heart. With all my soul. Can I purchase Sanitarium a spot in the Just Adventure Hall of Fame? Wouldja ask Randy for me?
Originally Posted By Aya (10 OCT 2006 4:58pm)
25. Voyage
I'm pleased this made your list - being fairly recent, rather ignored by many and so forth. I liked Voyage, too. I was about to give it up at first play but after I landed on the moon, things really picked up. A real sweet game. Not a mean bone in its body. Or should I say, no body. The Selenites didn't seem to have bodies. Just regular appendages (arms, legs) and...a head. I still don't know how they worked that out.
Originally Posted By Aya (10 OCT 2006 4:58pm)
31. Darkseed
I have it, but haven't played it. I did start playing Darkseed 2 but didn't get very far. I hardly ever see Darkseed as a mention in lists of people's favorite Adventure games so I wondered why you like it, Aya.
Originally Posted By Aya (10 OCT 2006 4:58pm)
...and no, Other Worlds is not there just cause Alkis was whining...
Aya really likes Other Worlds, Alkis. He really does. He didn't say that he likes your game because he's a bud. No, Aya wouldn't do that. He really likes your game. Really. He does. Really. A lot of people do. They do. Really.
TO ALKIS: But who is that ugly kid in your avatar, Alkis? Am I going to have to stare at that kid in your upcoming game? I just want to smack him. So, I'm going to buy your new game here, in America, for top dollar from my choice of a multitude of retailers so you can buy a Grecian villa and retire to a life of opulence...and then I'll have to look at that kid? Who is that, anyway. Is that you? Can you close his mouth? Seriously, I think your new game is going to be really something, Alkis. You seem inspired.
Please proofread your posts carefully to see if you any words out.
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| 14 OCT 2006 at 5:51pm |
AyaGrand Inquisitor
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Joined: 16 OCT 2002
Status : Offline | Originally Posted By Mark (14 OCT 2006 12:10pm)
That good, huh? How'sa 'bout a review? Preeze?
need to have the final version to do a review... the version i have may be complete, but it's not final, so i could only write a preview... patience until early 2007 (or smth!)
Originally Posted By Aya (10 OCT 2006 4:58pm)
Yes, indeedy. I love this game. With all my heart. With all my soul. Can I purchase Sanitarium a spot in the Just Adventure Hall of Fame? Wouldja ask Randy for me?
do we still have a hall of fame?!
Originally Posted By Aya (10 OCT 2006 4:58pm)
I'm pleased this made your list - being fairly recent, rather ignored by many and so forth.
best game of 2005! 8-) whoever ignored it, it's their loss!
Originally Posted By Aya (10 OCT 2006 4:58pm)
I have it, but haven't played it. I did start playing Darkseed 2 but didn't get very far. I hardly ever see Darkseed as a mention in lists of people's favorite Adventure games so I wondered why you like it, Aya.
darkseed 2 is not as good... it's also incredibly easy, as opposed to ds1 which is incredibly hard (and unfair at time!)... great story, captivating atmosphere, tough puzzles (and some unfair ones!) and h.r.giger!
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| 15 OCT 2006 at 10:06am |
alkis21Schattenjger
Posts : 2112
Joined: 23 OCT 2002
Location: GR
Status : Offline | Great list, Mr. Wimli.
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| 15 OCT 2006 at 12:31pm |
| Deleted User | Originally Posted By Aya (13 OCT 2006 2:42pm)
nice list there btw... good thing to see you're finally catching up with your adventuring! the moment of silence should have been in my list too... i debated a lot before i finally left it out, cause none of the others could be removed
the moment of silence is NOT in wimli's list because he thinks it's a good game. it's there to fill the gap...
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| 15 OCT 2006 at 4:52pm |
WimliGuild Master
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Joined: 14 MAR 2003
Status : Offline | Originally Posted By alkis21 (15 OCT 2006 10:05am)
Great list, Mr. Wimli.
Thanks Alkis! How about an update on yours? Would be nice to see some more updated lists here from people who posted here long time ago, like Aya did.
Originally Posted By Betje (15 OCT 2006 10:05am)
Originally Posted By Aya (15 OCT 2006 10:05am)
nice list there btw... good thing to see you're finally catching up with your adventuring! Cheesy the moment of silence should have been in my list too... i debated a lot before i finally left it out, cause none of the others could be removed
Jep, Betje is right about that one. It'll probably take only one game to kick out MoS. While I finished it, unlike some of the others on the list, it's not exactly one of the best adventure games. Like I said, expect my list to change a lot as I still have lots of classic adventures left to play. 8-)
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| 15 OCT 2006 at 5:30pm |
alkis21Schattenjger
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Location: GR
Status : Offline | Originally Posted By Wimli (15 OCT 2006 4:52pm)
Thanks Alkis! How about an update on yours? Would be nice to see some more updated lists here from people who posted here long time ago, like Aya did.
Not much to update... I've only had time to play something like 15 adventure games since I made the list, and out of them only Scratches would make it into my Top 50 (no Aya, Black Mirror doesn't make it)... perhaps as #23, after Future Wars and before The Book of Spells.
You can check my Top-30 of Adventure games characters if you like.
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