| 3 JAN 2006 at 4:48am |
AvatarPrivate Detective
Posts : 661
Joined: 3 JAN 2004
Status : Online | How did you play Neverhood? Is it XP compatible? [smiley=hyper.gif]
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| 3 JAN 2006 at 5:47pm |
colpetSchattenjger
Posts : 1630
Joined: 12 APR 2003
Status : Offline | Hope you don't mind if I hook onto your thread. I think it's fun to see what people played this past year.
Runaway - I had a lot of fun with this game. I'll be getting the sequel.
Dark Fall 2 – loved it almost as much as the first one.
Neverhood – exceptional entertainment
Chronomaster – yuck. Barely made it through even with a WT.
Drowned God – Loved everything but the 9 men morris puzzle.
Necronomicon – can't remember much about it. I guess that says it all.
Aura fate of the Ages – Good game. Can't wait for the sequel
Rama – Another classic for me.
Magnetic – I finished about 50% of the AI games. I don't really like playing against the computer.
Myst Exile – This was a replay. Still as great as it was the first time.
Puzz 3D Thomas Kinkaide – Not as good as the first 3.
Syberia 1 and 2 – The first was a replay, and then went into the second right after. Beautiful, sad story.
Legend of Lotus Spring – also immenently forgettable
Qin – Started in July, still haven't got into it
Sentinel – In much the same vein as Aura
Return to Mysterious Island – fun game, liked the novelty of all that inventory (though I really think that Chemicus had more)
The Arrangement – A good indie game
Mystery of the Mummy (Sherlock Holmes) - Glad to have played it
Bad Mojo – Fun, fun, fun, even with the arrow controls.
Alida – Has the distinction of my best game played this year.
Presently playing:
Beneath a steel Sky
Pandora’s Box GOTY
Martian Chronicles
Occasionally visiting Uru Live (KI 0063722 .&&
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| 3 JAN 2006 at 7:00pm |
ElfstoneGuild Master
Posts : 5892
Joined: 4 NOV 2002
Status : Online | Originally Posted By Avatar (3 JAN 2006 4:47am)
How did you play Neverhood? Is it XP compatible? [smiley=hyper.gif]
Yes, it is.
@colpet
I think Betje intended for us to post our list.
But I can't remember everything...
new games
Fahrenheit/Indigo Prophecy - innovation of the year...see my review
The Moment of Silence - two sides of the metal in this one...see my review
Voyage - all-around great...see my review :
played for the first time
Deathgate - some very clever puzzles in this one (picked it up for a Euro or something )
Myst - liked it (slightly annoying because you have to do things twice)
Riven - really liked it
Exile - loved it
tested
Scratches Beta - you'll see...
non-adventure
Commandos 2 - stopped half-way through, but it was great to start this again
Fifa 2006 - the master of presentation and atmosphere with new PES-inspired controls and some old problems solved
Pro Evolution Soccer 5 - the gameplay master...truly the closest you can get to a soccer experience
Need for Speed: Most Wanted - hot pursuit in new clothing: most annoying characters in a game (ever?)
[b]playing[/b]: Destination Treasure Island (done in two sittings, but it's nice), Syberia (ho-hum), Dracula: Last Sanctuary (on hold)&&[b]reading[/b]: even more study papers&&[b]listening to[/b]: [url=http://www.last.fm/user/Brax82/]this and that[/url], plus [url=http://www.musicovery.com/]Musicovery[/url]&&[b]TV favorites[/b]: (currently) Pushing Daisies, Chuck, Journeyman (cancelled! grrr...), Heroes&& all-time) 24, Stargate SG1, X-Files, Lost, House
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| 3 JAN 2006 at 11:19pm |
colpetSchattenjger
Posts : 1630
Joined: 12 APR 2003
Status : Offline | @colpet
But I can't remember everything...
You mean you don't keep an accurate list of exactly when you start and end a game ? Wow, you must be odd man out, or I'm really anal, which I think is closer to the truth :-/.
Occasionally visiting Uru Live (KI 0063722 .&&
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| 5 JAN 2006 at 4:05pm |
ElfstoneGuild Master
Posts : 5892
Joined: 4 NOV 2002
Status : Online | @colpet
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Because Top5s are so much fun, here's my (adventure) games-played-in-2005 Top5:
5. Deathgate
4. Fahrenheit/Indigo Prophecy
3. Voyage
2. Riven
1. Exile
The Moment of Silence didn't quite make it, because of its flaws.
Exile may well be one of my favorite games of all time now.
Even with the training-worlds cop-out. :
Edit: Scratches obviously doesn't count, because it's a 2006 game... (I defy my own logic, did you notice that?)
[b]playing[/b]: Destination Treasure Island (done in two sittings, but it's nice), Syberia (ho-hum), Dracula: Last Sanctuary (on hold)&&[b]reading[/b]: even more study papers&&[b]listening to[/b]: [url=http://www.last.fm/user/Brax82/]this and that[/url], plus [url=http://www.musicovery.com/]Musicovery[/url]&&[b]TV favorites[/b]: (currently) Pushing Daisies, Chuck, Journeyman (cancelled! grrr...), Heroes&& all-time) 24, Stargate SG1, X-Files, Lost, House
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| 5 JAN 2006 at 5:15pm |
snowtimeJourneyman
Posts : 1014
Joined: 28 JUN 2005
Status : Online | Games I played in 2005, in order of preference:
Enjoyable
- Riven (replay) - No need for comment
- Myst III: Exile (just sneaked in...started in 04 finished in 05) - I liked the overacting! Nice puzzles. Nice rewards.
- RHEM - Knut, the puzzlemeister. Long may he reign
- Dark Fall: The Journal - The atmosphere - just increased my dry-cleaning bill
- Morpheus - It's not a fantastic I just had fun with this...it had something
- Sentinel, Descendants in Time - nice puzzles, nice graphics...made up for crap story, plastic 3D characters
- Zork Grand Inquisitor fun all the way
Less enjoyable but still pleasant
- Myst IV: Revelation - Those killer puzzles and lack of rewards nearly spoiled it. The graphics saved it.
- Alida - The only thing that prevented this being higher was the sameiness of the "find the info" puzzle type
- Dark Fall 2: Lights Out - Just didn't have the same atmosphere as the first one. 3D characters and pointless dialogue tree - yeuck!
- Aura - Pretty and some nice puzzles, but wooden characters and pixel hunting spoiled the fun
- Timelapse - Should have scored higher but it just didn't grab me
- Zork Nemesis - Let down by the navigation - too much spinning around having to brain damage my CPU to get it to run at a reasonable speed. Otherwise fun.
- Omega Stone - Solid performance, but I want to kill that driver.
- Reah - Incredibly cheesy acting and a non-sensical plot, but some of the puzzles were great fun.
- Broken Sword: The Shadow of the Templars - George is annoying, but not bad considering my preference for 1st person.
- Broken Sword 2: The Smoking Mirror - Ditto
Frustrating
- Cydonia: Mission to Mars - Disk swapping anyone?
Disappointing
- Amerzone - Pretty but too short and undemanding. Overhyped.
Disastrous
- Ring: Legend of the Nibelungen - Don't get me started...!
And looking ahead...lined up for 2006, I have:
- Finish RHEM 2
- Journeyman Project 2: Buried in Time
- Lighthouse: The Dark Being
- Jewels of the Oracle
If I can get them working:
- Secrets of the Luxor
- URU
- Traitor's Gate
- Faust: Seven Games of the Soul
If I can get round to finishing them:
- Schizm: Mysterious Journey
- Grim Fandango
If I can get hold of it without selling my soul:
Also considering getting:
- Scratches (once they've worked out UK distribution!)
- Sanitarium
- Bad Mojo Redux
- Voyage (Journey to the Moon)
- Gabriel Knight
- Riddle of the Sphinx
- Shivers
- Myst V (maybe)
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| 5 JAN 2006 at 10:16pm |
RevliskciPrivate Detective
Posts : 724
Joined: 9 NOV 2002
Status : Offline | I know I played more games than this but they are all the recent ones I can remember:
Sanitarium - Outstanding.
Largo Winch - Didn't like it at first, but this game grew on me and I really enjoyed it.
Jack Orlando - Rubbish
Beyond Good and Evil - Outstanding
Pandora Directive - Good, but not as good as UAKM
Vampire: Bloodline - Buggy, hard to get into as has a different system to other RPGs but quite entertaining. Finding the amount of evil I can do as a character was eye-opening as well.
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| 11 JAN 2006 at 2:05am |
mszvPrivate Detective
Posts : 751
Joined: 12 OCT 2002
Status : Online | I played so few adventure games (and so few games in general), so I thought I'd post, so no one feels that they can't post, as they have not played enough games! Nowadays, I read more about games than get to play them. Hopefully that will change, this year.
In 2005, I played all the rest of the games in the Myst series. Aside from wanting to, very much, I sort of had to - I mod over at the Ubisoft Myst IV/V Uru forums, thought it's really slow there now, not much to do.
I played Myst IV and Myst V. Hmmm - I should go back and see if they both came out in 2005, and not 2004 and 2005
Myst IV - I liked it a lot, in terms of story and characters. From a story and character perspective, I think it's the best of all the Myst series games. Gameplay was fine.
Myst V - it's 3D and no realtime video characters, so if that bothers you, in a Myst game, I would not play it. I also liked this game - as a somewhat wistful end to the whole series. I also think it looks great.
The other game that I played was Still Life - the sequel to Post Mortem, a murder mystery set in present day Chicago, and also in Prague - 1929. I liked this a lot - the characters, the story, the settings, the moody atmosphere, some of the puzzles. It had a lovely noirish feel, at least some of the time. It's a dialogue kind of game, so if that's not your thing, I would not play it.
Aside from games for my Palm (now a Palm T/3) and Sims 2, which I'm now playing on the Nintendo DS - that's it!
Regards, mszv
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| 11 JAN 2006 at 3:34am |
AndromusGuild Master
Posts : 5538
Joined: 6 NOV 2002
Status : Offline | Been a good year, played a number of classics that are going to have to be somehow squeezed into my top 10-20 games:
The Great:
Shivers
Timelapse
The Longest Journey
Other Worlds
Fate of Atlantis
Day of the Tentacle
The OK:
Flight of the Amazon Queen
Eye of the Kraken
Hauntings of Mystery Manor
The Ugly:
Egypt 1
Replayed:
Sam & Max
Myst
Notable non-adventures:
Thief 1
No One Lives Forever
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| 11 JAN 2006 at 1:06pm |
CrapstormJourneyman
Posts : 829
Joined: 18 FEB 2004
Status : Online | 2005 was great for me, because I discovered Zork Nemesis, RHEM and Obsidian. Unfortunately, I wasn't able to avoid the super-stinky 11th Hour, and Syberia violated the Geneva conventions by requiring me to pixel-hunt a blank screen; I lost a piece of my humanity that I will never get back.
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