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Robar the II
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Joined: 26 Sep 2003
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What is your favorite adventure game and why so?
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piln
High Emperor
Joined: 22 May 2003
Posts: 906
Location: Leeds, UK |
Well, I haven't played any for a while (excluding Broken Sword 3), so I may forget some...
...but if I had to choose just one, I'm pretty sure it would be Bioforge. And that would be closely followed by Azrael's Tear. Depending on what mood I'm in, they might even switch places 
I'd also like to mention Shenmue 1&2 here, but I'm honestly not sure what "type" of game they are. Well, they're brilliant, whatever they are! |
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Gorath
Mostly Harmless
Joined: 03 Sep 2001
Posts: 6327
Location: NRW, Germany |
DOTT. Weird humor, good puzzles.
Broken Sword 1. Classic, classy point and click.
Death Gate. Old school and absolutely minimalistic. This game shows why Legend was one of the best adventure devs. Shannara is also pretty good.
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Val
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Joined: 18 Feb 2002
Posts: 14724
Location: Utah, USA |
Quest for Glory 4, followed closely by all of the other Quest for Glory games.
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MoonDragon
High Emperor
Joined: 25 May 2002
Posts: 1254
Location: Waterloo, Canada |
Planetfall (old text adventure game).
Syberia 1/2. Adventure games definately profitted from the new computer technology.
Quest for glory series was fun, as far as I remember.
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Ioskeha
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Joined: 25 Apr 2004
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Like Val - Quest for Glory 4 followed by Quest for Glory 1, then 5, after that comes 2, then last but not least 3. I'm also a huge fan of the Zork series - Zork 2 being my favorite game from the series. The Longest Journey also ranks right up there at the top of my favorite adventure games. heh I've yet to play an adventure game that I didn't enjoy one way or another. As to why I like them. It's simple. Puzzles, no matter how unlogical they are, and storylines. |
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Tue Apr 27, 2004 9:34 pm |
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DarkWeaver
A Dark Prince
Joined: 07 Dec 2003
Posts: 517
Location: The Netherlands |
Prince Of Persia Sand Of Time and i like the Quest for Glory series. |
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Tue Apr 27, 2004 10:13 pm |
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Graham 2
High Emperor
Joined: 29 Jan 2004
Posts: 795
Location: Preston/England |
I don't know if this would be classed as an adventure game but,
I like silver, mostly because of the fighting system, and as an added bonus it had a half deccent story aswell I would recomend this game to anybody.
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Wysardry
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Joined: 08 Jan 2004
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That's a tough one.
The original Zork trilogy, the Infocom "Sorcerer" trilogy or perhaps Level 9's Snowball are my favourites. If I absolutely had to choose one, it would probably be Sorcerer, as being able to cast spells was an unusual experience at the time. |
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Fri Apr 30, 2004 5:17 am |
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piln
High Emperor
Joined: 22 May 2003
Posts: 906
Location: Leeds, UK |
To those of you who like old-school puzzly text adventures, I can't recommend Andrew Plotkin's "Spider And Web" highly enough. Get it for free from his website (and read the info before you start playing!)
The puzzles are excellent. It's nice to see that, when good IF is currently leaning almost entirely towards story, this title manages to combine a great story (great story-telling, more to the point) with a genuinely challenging game, and still manages to play fair for the most part (ie, no deliberately obscure or illogical puzzle solutions just to prolong the challenge).
I haven't played any of Plotkin's other IF's, but I hear they are very good. And I have nothing against story-centred IF either, I just get the impression that the more traditional puzzling style is more appropriate here. Another IF author I'd recommend highly is Adam Cadre, I've played a few of his - Photopia and Shrapnel in particular are excellent. Shrapnel is rather gruesome, and can be incredibly confusing, but it's really clever and if you stick it out to the end, you should get the gist of it. Photopia is one of the best short stories I've ever read, interactive or no. If you are alive, you will enjoy it  Worth playing twice to get all the details, AC's use of interactivity to tell the tale is superb. Not exactly a happy story, though. |
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Jaz
Late Night Spook
Joined: 20 Jan 2002
Posts: 9708
Location: RPGDot |
I liked the Zork text adventures a lot, and I replay them from times to time on my handheld.
My favorite graphic adventures are - in no particular order:
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Zork: Nemesis - the most serious and dark of the Zork adventures, not really Zork-y, yet a beautiful game in its own right.
Beautiful, mystical, dark.
Zork: Inquisitor - the last game in the series had crankiness return to the Zork universe. I mean, come on... which other game has incredibly useful spells like 'turn purple things invisible' and 'reverse spell effect' (which, in this case, would make 'turn invisible things purple')?
Cranky, clever, hilarious.[
The Dig - great atmosphere, great soundtrack, great characters. The only adventure which made me want to hit one of the protagonists over the head with a shovel, repeatedly. And which made me regret my wish once it had miraculously come true.
Atmospheric, romance, old-fashioned.
Kyrandia 2: The Hand of Fate - Heroine Zanthia and her bumbling sidekick Marco made for some memorable screwball action, and the adventure sported a memorable villain.
Witty, screwball, cute.
Kyrandia 3: Malcolm's Revenge - Malcolm the evil jester was such an improbably likeable hero, and the gimmicks (like studio audience and align-o-meter) really made this adventure one of the highlights for me.
Comedy, cartoony, quips.
System Shock - for me, it's an action/adventure, and I loved it - so it makes this list. I guess I needn't say anything about this game because nearly everybody will be familiar with it.
Betrayal, dire, traps.
Realms of the Haunting - this action/adventure had a gripping story, nice plot twists and a cast of unexpectedly good actors in a set of remarkable FMVs. Being the hybrid game lover that I am, Realms probably is my favorite of these games.
Occult, twisted, epic.
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By the way, I remember Bioforge all too well. It was a nice game IMO, yet I played it some time after System Shock, and it just couldn't compare.
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EverythingXen
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Joined: 01 Feb 2002
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Quest For Glory 4 was my least favorite in the series. Possibly because it kept crashing on me... but I recall not liking the combat much either.
Quest For Glory 5 was my favorite of the series, though not by much... all of them were easily fantastic.
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Edda
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Joined: 10 Dec 2003
Posts: 82
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The Longest Journey (a "classical"adventure): I like the atmosphere very much, good story, beautiful pictures, and the riddles are not too easy. |
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Wed May 12, 2004 4:30 pm |
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gothic_army_babe_202
Village Dweller
Joined: 12 Jun 2004
Posts: 7
Location: the depths of hell |
my favourite games r all the final fantasies and the prince of persia the sands of time i juss luv the final fantasies tho. my favs r final fantasy x and final fantasy x-2
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piln
High Emperor
Joined: 22 May 2003
Posts: 906
Location: Leeds, UK |
Have you seen anything of the new Prince Of Persia? Bit more gothic-looking... not exactly original, but it does look pretty good. |
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