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| 28 JUL 2011 at 8:05pm |
FnordSchattenjger
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Status : Offline | That is never an easy question to answer, but I'm leaning towards Riven.
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| 28 JUL 2011 at 8:22pm |
Jenny100Guild Master
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Status : Offline | My favorite will vary depending on what I'm in the mood to play and what I've played most recently. I can tell you favorites I've had in the past, but I can't give you any one favorite.
The Longest Journey has been one of my favorites, but never Dreamfall. Dreamfall's gameplay was just too aggravating and though it had a good story as far as it went, it was unfinished unless you think "and it looks like everybody died in the end" is an ending.
Here are some past favorites:
Atlantis 2
The Dig
Faust
Gabriel Knight 1: Sins of the Fathers
Gabriel Knight 2
Grim Fandango
Indiana Jones and the Fate of Atlantis
The Longest Journey
Myst/RealMyst
Myst III: Exile
Obsidian
Shivers
Uru
I should probably replay Riven. At the time I played it I wasn't used to games like that and it was too difficult. I'd probably enjoy it more now.
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| 28 JUL 2011 at 9:31pm |
Lady KestrelGuild Master
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Joined: 27 SEP 2004
Location: US, NJ
Status : Offline | Erk! Only one favorite? The brain does not compute only one. As soon as I think of one, the brain floods with 5 others.
Okayokay. I have to go with Starship Titanic because it was my first game ever. It absorbed me totally for a couple of months, taxed my brain to the max, and made me laugh out loud. I guess it sums up nicely the reasons I play adventures: emersion in a different world, the challenge of figuring out that world, and having fun while doing it.
"Where is the fountain that throws up these flowers in a ceaseless outbreak of ecstasy?"
-Rabindranath Tagore
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| 28 JUL 2011 at 10:16pm |
colpetSchattenjger
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Joined: 12 APR 2003
Status : Offline | Riven. It was my first game and it got me hooked. Unfortunately it set the bar that very few games have since surpassed.
Occasionally visiting Uru Live (KI 0063722 .&&
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| 28 JUL 2011 at 10:17pm |
Lucien21Guild Master
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Status : Offline | Day of the Tentacle
Dear Diary, My teenage angst bullsh*t now has a bodycount.
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| 28 JUL 2011 at 11:20pm |
CrisGerSchattenjger
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Joined: 28 APR 2007
Location: US
Status : Offline | You are all great, that is just the response i was hoping for...the idea tickled my mind and i thought why not see what we come up with and as you see, i could not mention just one myself
but it is fun to ask ourselves what game did we LOVE?
Dreamfall is tricky i agree..i found the secret after many hours of frustration and ramming poor Zoe into walls all over the place...
reverse the X axis of the control and she moves ah so nicely I dont know why Funcom messed up on the default control axis but they did.
after that she and game flow much more smoothly.
there WILL be more...and not everyone dies.... Ragnar will work on it as soon as The Secret Life is done...he has indicated such.
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| 29 JUL 2011 at 3:28am |
CarolineJA+ Overseer
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Status : Offline | Riven. I played it just after my second son was born. I was house-trapped, exhausted and every night at 9pm I was free..... free to wander down to the lagoon and imagine swimming in such glorious water... free to take my lunch and creep up on the sunners before sitting down beneath the palm tree and soaking up the quiet sunshine and wiggling my toes in the warm shallow water..... need I go on?
Other games too entranced me but Riven was my holiday.... it took me months to figure out how to get the elevator in the big golden cage in the lagoon to work. And I have lost count how many times I'd squint at the screen in the dark and focus hard so I'd feel the thrill of those cable cars. Just a magic experience all round. [smiley=love.gif]
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| 29 JUL 2011 at 1:53pm |
Child Of DunwichPrivate Detective
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Joined: 25 MAY 2011
Status : Offline | Broken Sword... No doubt.
Nature's first green is gold,&&Her hardest hue to hold.&&Her early leaf's a flower;&&But only so an hour.&&Then leaf subsides to leaf.&&So Eden sank to grief,&&So dawn goes down to day.&&Nothing gold can stay.
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| 29 JUL 2011 at 2:44pm |
markornikovJourneyman
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Location: BE, Antwerp
Status : Offline | King's Quest VII
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| 29 JUL 2011 at 5:28pm |
TravellerGuild Master
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Location: US
Status : Offline | Hard to say: The Awakened, Gabriel Knight 2, Kings Quest VI (no doubt because it was my first game ever) ... then the atmosphere in Prague in Still Life, and in Syberia... gee, I can't choose a single game.
Other games come to mind as well, so I'll just stop and not try to pin it down too much.
* * * Just call me Trav. * * *
“Despite my ghoulish reputation, I really have the heart of a small boy. I keep it in a jar on my desk.” - Robert Bloch
"They are not reciprocally sublated--the one does not sublate the other externally--but each sublates itself in itself and is in its own self the opposite of itself" (Hegel, from The Doctrine of Being)..."
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| 29 JUL 2011 at 5:33pm |
CrisGerSchattenjger
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Status : Offline | I know this a hard test ......just ONE???????
Robyn Miller is going to love hearing how many people have already picked RIVEN..i too was entranced by the beauty of that game.
It was the largest wireframe ever made for any game yet, when it was created and they spent a year, Robyn and Richard Van Der Wendt just preparing the back story, the language, alphabet, culture and more....and the development took 3 more years. There is someone now working on a 3D version of it, a team ... but what a wonderful world they created. I spend months and months playing too, i think six in all, Caroline, so i empathize ..i too would look forward to Riven time in the evening after a long day at work....and the domes and that grid puzzle wow, that took me FOREVER!!!!!
i am getting excited about a replay Anyone up for a Group Play thru?
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| 29 JUL 2011 at 5:42pm |
TravellerGuild Master
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Status : Offline | Wow, a group playthrough sounds nice.
..but will you give us some time to get ready first?
That will motivate me to get going and play through my RealMyst that I got from GOG the other day.
* * * Just call me Trav. * * *
“Despite my ghoulish reputation, I really have the heart of a small boy. I keep it in a jar on my desk.” - Robert Bloch
"They are not reciprocally sublated--the one does not sublate the other externally--but each sublates itself in itself and is in its own self the opposite of itself" (Hegel, from The Doctrine of Being)..."
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| 29 JUL 2011 at 7:02pm |
SirDaveGuild Master
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Status : Offline | I've always wavered between the original Myst and Riven (because Myst was the first AG that totally hooked me). But Riven took Myst where no man/ woman had ever gone and to this day have never reached again.
So, it's got to be [size=12]Riven!
The future ain't what it used to be!
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| 29 JUL 2011 at 9:03pm |
tincup2Journeyman
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Status : Offline | Myst was the first - and you never forget your first so to speak, but Riven was such a completly captivating self-contained world that I have to go with Riven.
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| 30 JUL 2011 at 12:16am |
Terry PenrodGrand Inquisitor
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Status : Offline | .
I can barely produce a top-ten-favorite adventure game list or for that matter... RPG, shooter, or strategy game list. Sames goes for books, music, movies, artworks, food, etc.
What I love above all else in gaming and in life is variety - a wide yet refined variety that develops over time to create a range of sentimental / emotional, artistic, and intellectual favorites in pretty much every genre or category.
I don't have a favorite cuisine or color or place - just a collectiion of most enjoyable things that remains open to new additions at all times.
That neverending path of discovery works for me and that's the way I plan to keep experiencing all things, all ideas, all people.
Cheers, Terry
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| 30 JUL 2011 at 12:47am |
CarolineJA+ Overseer
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Status : Offline | If I could wave a magic wand it would be to play 3D Riven with buddies and avatars like Uru
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| 30 JUL 2011 at 1:31am |
AndromusGuild Master
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Status : Offline | This is tough. Myst? Riven? Obsidian? Day of the Tentacle? Broken Sword 1? Grim Fandango? One of the Gabriel Knight games? I could make a case for any of my top ten adventures to be number one, but if pressed to pick one I have to go with Riven. For many of the reasons already mentioned, definitely, but also because of how it clicked with me on the second playthrough after struggling badly the first time around several years earlier. The change was like a breath of fresh air, and I've rarely enjoyed a game in quite that way.
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| 30 JUL 2011 at 4:17am |
CrisGerSchattenjger
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Status : Offline | wow...Riven sure moved a lot of us
Sure Trav, plenty of time for a play thru, i have to go to a show opening soon so maybe after that....in the meantime i dug out my original Five disk Riven in its cool special box...what fun they had on all the details ...
this is fun..and ys it is very hard even unfair to say just one...but it is fun to try.
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| 2 AUG 2011 at 6:23pm |
Child Of DunwichPrivate Detective
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Status : Offline | Annnnnnnnnnnnnnnnnnnd, the winner is of course, Riven!
Nature's first green is gold,&&Her hardest hue to hold.&&Her early leaf's a flower;&&But only so an hour.&&Then leaf subsides to leaf.&&So Eden sank to grief,&&So dawn goes down to day.&&Nothing gold can stay.
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| 10 AUG 2011 at 12:39pm |
Pygmy_MarmosetIntergalactic Janitor
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Joined: 18 JUL 2010
Status : Offline | Beavis and Butthead Do U.
It was the second Beavis and Butthead adventure game made, and the best one.
I know a lot of people are probably rolling their eyes. I myself am not a huge fan of Beavis and Butthead, but the game is an excellent example of everything that makes adventure games fun. It has humorous dialogue and situations, but at the same time the dialogue is not too verbose like we have seen in games like Tony Tough and Vampyre Story. The graphics are of a classic animated style, which is also a plus in my book. The setting and challenges held my interest. The control system is similar to that of Full Throttle, which is very intuitive. In addition there are several mini-games peppered through, which really added to the overall experience.
The company that made it, "Illusions", also made the Duckman adventure game, which is also terrific. Though I found Do U to be just a little bit better.
The only bad thing about the game is the "heh heh heh" annoying laughter of Beavis and Butthead, but I quickly got used to that because the overall game was just that fun to me.
I know they also made a Daria adventure game but I read that it was geared towards younger audiences.
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| 10 AUG 2011 at 12:56pm |
OrmworIntergalactic Janitor
Posts : 24
Joined: 4 AUG 2011
Status : Offline | In no particular order:
The Neverhood
Syberia 1+2
Samorost 1+2
Machinarium
Full Throttle
Grim Fandango
Hardly can wait for my copy of Amerzone to arrive...
General Note: I'm Russian and my English is not good. If you think that I'm rude, it's just wrong selected translation of what I politely mean.
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| 10 AUG 2011 at 1:31pm |
walshSorcerer Apprentice
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Status : Offline | Wow this is incredibly hard.
I would have to say Secret of Monkey Island. But i'm sure that's nostalgia speaking because it was the first I'd played. I'm sure if I had played Day of the Tentacle, Space Quest 4, Syberia, Gabriel Knight 3, Myst 3 or Zork Nemesis before anything else, I would have chosen them
(That's just a creative way of being able to choose more than one answer )
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| 11 AUG 2011 at 7:51am |
| Deleted User | I had started with the Indiana Jones and the Fate of Atlantis and then i get interest in adventurous games. But my most favorite is "God of War"and "Beyond Good & Evil".
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| 11 AUG 2011 at 8:23am |
MarkGuild Master
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Status : Offline | Originally Posted By josephpratt (11 AUG 2011 7:50am)
I had started with the Indiana Jones and the Fate of Atlantis and then I got interested in adventurous games. But my most favorite is "God of War"and "Beyond Good & Evil".
God of War and Beyond Good & Evil are both High Action-y games, and both had their roots in Consoles.
They may be "Adventurous" but after playing through both, I can attest they are definitely more Action than Adventure.
Please proofread your posts carefully to see if you any words out.
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