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| 17 APR 2006 at 4:00pm |
shed22Space Cadet
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Joined: 18 SEP 2005
Status : Offline | Given that the word "Best" means one only, and hoping that there will be lots of other opinions and few insults about other people's ideas, I'd submit the rather odd choice of URU. It was drop dead beautiful; extremely varied in scenery and puzzles; and kept me enthralled for months. I've always thought it was underappreciated because of the initial debacle which "URU online" became. [smiley=huh.gif]
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| 17 APR 2006 at 4:06pm |
Lucien21Guild Master
Posts : 4876
Joined: 9 JUL 2003
Location: 0
Status : Offline | Day of the Tentacle
Dear Diary, My teenage angst bullsh*t now has a bodycount.
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| 17 APR 2006 at 4:22pm |
MarkGuild Master
Posts : 3839
Joined: 10 OCT 2002
Location: US, Georgia
Status : Offline | I will always have soft spot in my heart for Sanitarium.
Please proofread your posts carefully to see if you any words out.
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| 17 APR 2006 at 4:37pm |
Terry PenrodGrand Inquisitor
Posts : 6694
Joined: 16 OCT 2004
Location: US, Texas
Status : Offline | .
That's a tough one because my all-time favorite AGs represent a range of styles with very different moods. They are all superb games though - and while "best" and "favorite" are not interchangeable terms, I still tend to rely on personal preference as a key factor when determining the best of a genre.
Of the extremely well-made AGs I have thoroughly enjoyed over the years, Grim Fandango and The Beast Within: A Gabriel Knight Mystery (a.k.a. Gabriel Knight 2) are virtually tied at the top with at least a dozen others very close behind, which represent any even more diverse set of styles.
But to answer the question simply,
BEST HUMOROUS AG: Grim Fandango
BEST SERIOUS AG: Gabriel Knight 2
Cheers, Terry
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| 17 APR 2006 at 5:30pm |
KsandraSchattenjger
Posts : 2459
Joined: 2 APR 2003
Status : Online | My favourite game is and always has been Riven, which was one of the first AGs I ever played (Myst was probably the first). The Last Express comes a very close second.
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| 17 APR 2006 at 9:36pm |
StilerJourneyman
Posts : 1477
Joined: 27 SEP 2004
Location: US, TN
Status : Offline | That's such a hard question.
I really can't say "x" game is the best to me, cause that seems like it'd be putting down other ones .
Sanitarium is one of my favorites, along with the Syberia series, monkey island/full throttle, and Blade Runner.
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| 17 APR 2006 at 10:26pm |
Igor ArtemovSpace Cadet
Posts : 185
Joined: 1 APR 2003
Status : Online | Monkey Island 1-2 and Gabriel Knight 1 are always in my TOP-3 :-*
Killing Time
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| 18 APR 2006 at 1:05am |
AyaGrand Inquisitor
Posts : 7277
Joined: 16 OCT 2002
Status : Offline | the colonel's bequest 8-)
check out this thread for several forum members' top 50s: http://www.justadventure.com/cgi-bin/yabb2/YaBB.pl?num=1121475198/0#0 (mine needs updating :)
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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| 18 APR 2006 at 1:20am |
AndromusGuild Master
Posts : 5540
Joined: 6 NOV 2002
Status : Offline | Originally Posted By Aya (18 APR 2006 1:04am)
the colonel's bequest 8-)
check out this thread for several forum members' top 50s: http://www.justadventure.com/cgi-bin/yabb2/YaBB.pl?num=1121475198/0#0 (mine needs updating :)
Yeah, I know what you mean. I've played enough good games since then (Day of the Tentacle, Fate of Atlantis, Shivers 1, The Longest Journey, etc) that my own list needs to be completely redone.
As for my all time favorite game: I can't name one, even if my top 50 list says otherwise; my top ten or fifteen games are all special to me, if not all in the same way.
Particularly memorable to me though are Deja Vu, for introducing me to adventuring, and Myst for reintroducing me later on.
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| 18 APR 2006 at 1:41am |
GhostSorcerer Apprentice
Posts : 273
Joined: 31 JUL 2004
Status : Online | My favorite so far has been Myst IV: Revelation
I just love the atmosphere and the music - the puzzles were really challenging![smiley=love.gif]
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| 18 APR 2006 at 2:19am |
jujigatameSchattenjger
Posts : 1976
Joined: 14 FEB 2003
Status : Online | Grim Fandango, hands down. No other game has matched its combination of humor, artistry, and pure originality. GF had a brilliant storyline, memorable and endearing characters, and fun, creative puzzles. It is the greatest adventure game of all time by a fairly wide margin.
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| 18 APR 2006 at 3:03am |
| Deleted User | The Last Express, Riven, Obsidian, Zork Grand Inquisitior, Grim Fandango, the Day of the Tentacle, the Neverhood, Bad Mojo, Alice: An Interactive Museum, Discworld 1.
All of them number one.
PS: Hors concours the text adventure Trinity by the great storyteller Brian Moriarty.
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| 18 APR 2006 at 3:06am |
CountryEasternSorcerer Apprentice
Posts : 250
Joined: 2 NOV 2003
Status : Online | Nostalgia aside...I was blown away by the original Myst in, what, 1992???
I'm with Shed. URU. For visual appeal, story addiction, controls, interaction...you name it. And the community lives on to today.
Most puzzling game that others love: Grim Fandango. I cannot figure why that game is so popular. It irritates me beyond belief. lol.
Second choice: Syberia, then TLJ, then all of the others.
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| 18 APR 2006 at 3:16am |
Goddess of All Things MagicalSchattenjger
Posts : 1565
Joined: 27 MAY 2003
Status : Online | GK2 for sure always. It's a game that I can return to from year to year and still love every moment over and over again.
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| 18 APR 2006 at 3:23am |
jujigatameSchattenjger
Posts : 1976
Joined: 14 FEB 2003
Status : Online | GK2 would rival Grim Fandango for me except the irritating 4th chapter takes it down a notch for me. GK1 is almost up there but not quite on the level. TLJ would be a rival as well except for the excessive verbosity.
Grim Fandango, hands down.
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| 18 APR 2006 at 4:48am |
kuddlesPrivate Detective
Posts : 702
Joined: 22 OCT 2004
Status : Online | My top 3:
1) King's Quest VI. That game was nothing short of epic, and is one of the few adventure games I've ever replayed. It helps that it was one of the first games I ever played, so part of it may be nostalgia factors talking, but man did I spend hours on that game at a time, and probably wouldn't be a computer gamer today without it.
2) A close runner-up would be Zork Nemesis. I don't care much for Myst-like puzzles or the first person perspective, but this one won me over, It also had some pretty tough puzzles, but I was never overly frustrated or confused over what I should be doing at any given moment, nor did I feel cheated when I figured out what the answer was. And it had a "surprise" ending that I honestly never saw coming.
3) I know this is probably hitting the redundancy button, but Scratches gave me more enjoyment, more tense moments, and more emotional highs and lows than practically any other game I have ever played.
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| 18 APR 2006 at 7:57am |
KamisoriXSchattenjger
Posts : 1700
Joined: 15 MAY 2004
Status : Online | MYST, forced to play it, learned to love it and it came for free when I bought my mac back then :-*
[IMG]http://img269.imageshack.us/img269/971/kamisig94ct.gif[/IMG]&&&&If the Earth would be a Sphere, and not a Disc, I wouldn't be so afraid to fall of the Edge...
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| 18 APR 2006 at 1:23pm |
Lady KestrelGuild Master
Posts : 4047
Joined: 27 SEP 2004
Location: US, NJ
Status : Offline | There are just too many "bests" for me, but I will always love Starship Titanic the most. First is best in this case.
"Where is the fountain that throws up these flowers in a ceaseless outbreak of ecstasy?"
-Rabindranath Tagore
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| 18 APR 2006 at 1:24pm |
AyaGrand Inquisitor
Posts : 7277
Joined: 16 OCT 2002
Status : Offline | Originally Posted By Andromus (18 APR 2006 1:20am)
Particularly memorable to me though are Deja Vu, for introducing me to adventuring, and Myst for reintroducing me later on.
deja vu? i thought you started with shadowgate
and going from deja vu to myst? boy, what a nightmare...!
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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| 18 APR 2006 at 1:44pm |
alkis21Schattenjger
Posts : 2112
Joined: 23 OCT 2002
Location: GR
Status : Offline | Originally Posted By Gox (17 APR 2006 12:39pm)
The game I consider is the best of all adventure games which I´ve played is Syberia, it has good graphics and a very good story, it keeps you playing the computer till you´ve finished it.
The whole day?
My answer to the question is Monkey Island 2: LeChuck's Revenge.
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| 18 APR 2006 at 1:49pm |
ShanyGuild Master
Posts : 3313
Joined: 19 JUN 2003
Status : Online | For me it's a tie between Gabriel Knight 2 and Discworld 2. The former for story,puzzles, characters and presentation and the latter for humor, puzzles and voice acting.
Second place goes to Monkey Island 3 and Grim Fandango, both I love for the humor and characters.
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| 18 APR 2006 at 1:58pm |
CrapstormJourneyman
Posts : 829
Joined: 18 FEB 2004
Status : Online | This is about the fortieth time I've answered this question, but it's Zork Nemesis all the way. Grim Fandango was incredibly good too.
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| 18 APR 2006 at 2:01pm |
jamarchandSchattenjger
Posts : 1665
Joined: 10 OCT 2002
Status : Offline | Three on my list - RIVEN, ZORK NEMESIS and TRAITOR'S GATE
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| 18 APR 2006 at 5:33pm |
WimliGuild Master
Posts : 3259
Joined: 14 MAR 2003
Status : Offline | Gabriel Knight 3! No doubt about that! I may have trouble composing a top 10 of my favourite games, but the number one is undisputed. 8-) I've never been that immersed in a game. Just brilliant story line, told fantastically, great puzzles, awesome interface, cool graphics, superb dialogs and voice overs. Hell, I even liked the action sequences near the end of the game. Oh, and talk about a satisfying ending! Perfect game!
Come on Elfstone, where are you? GK3 needs some extra support in here!
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