good adventure game?

[Shamtee]

I love adventure games and wondering if anyone had found any recommend?

If I have to recommend some games back it'd be for the DS: another code and room 215.
For the PC Grim fandago, Toon struck (if you can get it to work), the runaway series but number 3 isn't out till next year but it's worth the wait its a great game. And if you've not played any simon the socerer game at least play 1 and 2. Maybe the disc world game as well.
Oh and also monkey island series and broken sword but they go without saying really :3

I could keep going but they're my favorite ones that come straight to my head.

 

[Terramax]

Cool. I'm not sure what you're first line meant though. Do you want us to recommend you good adventures or are you wanting to recommend adventures to us?

For my, I'm a big AG fan. I've been a member at adventuregamers.com for a number of years now. I'm quite a regular.

My favs include Broken Sword: Knights Templer, Discworld Noir, Grim Fandango, Sanitarium, Still Life, Myst III: Exile and Myst IV: Revelation.

 

[Minic]

I hear the Longest Journey is very good. I've been meaning to get it.

 

[L.B. Jeffries]

Pretty much anything by Wadjet Eye Games is worth trying:

http://s238485241.onlinehome.us/

The Shivah is particularly good.

These guys are bar-none the best AGD remake designers on the net, their work on King's Quest II is particularly good and I'm salivating for QFG2.

http://www.agdinteractive.com/

All of those games are downloadable, free, and failing that very cheap.

 

[Shamtee]

Cool. I'm not sure what you're first line meant though. Do you want us to recommend you good adventures or are you wanting to recommend adventures to us?

Sorry my fault, I'm dsylextic and thought that it made sense :/ I was asking for recommend for good games, but thought I'd give a few of my own too, to be fair.

sidenote: Got to love discworld games and all - colour of magic on sky one this Sunday ^^.

I've never heard of longest journey, I'm going check it out thanks ^^.

Thanks for the link's LB, going to check them out now.

 

[Choukou]

Cool. I'm not sure what you're first line meant though. Do you want us to recommend you good adventures or are you wanting to recommend adventures to us?

Sorry my fault, I'm dsylextic and thought that it made sense :/ I was asking for recommend for good games, but thought I'd give a few of my own too, to be fair.

sidenote: Got to love discworld games and all - colour of magic on sky one this Sunday ^^.

I've never heard of longest journey, I'm going check it out thanks ^^.

Thanks for the link's LB, going to check them out now.

You lucky turd with your Sky One. I don't have it anymore because Virgin and Sky got into a fight about getting laid, needless to say, Virgin lost.

Beneath a Steel Sky is now freeware and I highly reccomend it.

 

[gnaw]

Jussica Plunkenstein and the Düsseldorf Conspiracy [http://www.gregames.net/games/jessica/overview/index.php] is a brilliantly funny freeware adventure game. The New York times called it the best adventure game of 2005, though I realize that they aren't the most authoritative on video game judgments, but I kinda agree with them.

 

[sun_and_earth]

A new game by Jonathan Boakes, The Lost Crown, is EXCELLENT. I can't recommend this game highly enough, but if you don't like black-and-white run away. The entire game is in monochrome, with splashes of color thrown in here and there. It's really cool if you have the time to invest in it. It's really long for an adventure game (20-ish hours).

Also two other games by the same guy: Dark Fall and Dark Fall 2. Not AS good, but they've got a great concept and have fun puzzles.

Schizm: Mysterious Journey is a really nice Myst-like game, but the puzzles are MURDER and the CD-ROM version has a lot of the story missing from it, so you have to be sure to get it on DVD.

Scratches is another good horror themed game.

 

[The Reverend]

Make sure you play the Original The Longest Journey, not the "sequel." The original is so much better.

 

[Dalisclock]

Oh and also monkey island series and broken sword but they go without saying really :3

I would agree with the exception of #4 in both series. Escape from Monkey Island had some big flaws and Secrets of the Ark made me look fondly upon Godfather Part 3.

 

[Dalisclock]

Make sure you play the Original The Longest Journey, not the "sequel." The original is so much better.

The Original is awesome. The Sequel has a lot of potential, but it's hard to make a judgment on the game at this point because so much is left hanging up in the air at the end of dreamfall.

 

[Dalisclock]

If horror is your bag, Try the John Defoe series by Ben "Yathzee" Croshaw(Yes, THAT Yathzee).

The games are:
-5 days a Stranger
-7 days a Skeptic
-Tribily's Notes
-6 days a Sacrifice

They start out alright, dip a little and then rise to being quite good with 6 days and Notes. And they're free. I posted a review of the series a few weeks ago, though almost nobody commented on it.

http://www.fullyramblomatic.com/games.htm

 

[Strafe Mcgee]

Uh guys? You've missed a few...

Day Of The Tentacle
Sam And Max Hit The Road
Indiana Jones and The Fate Of Atlantis
Phoenix Wright 1-3 (Not traditional adventure games but still great fun.)
Full Throttle

The Dig is quite good if you can get a hold of it. The Longest Journey is excellent, though I really don't like the wonky logic of some of the puzzles. Day Of the Tentacle is probably the best of this bunch. It's pure, temporally dislocated, genius.

 

[Another]

I have a hard time placing one game or another as "adventure" but I would recommend Beyond Good & Evil, any Myst game.

By the way, thanks Shamtee for having played Another Code/ Trace Memory. I thought I was the only one who bought that game.

 

[monodiabloloco]

Get a friend to buy a game tap account and give you a log in for it, then play the Sam and Max series. Also, I believe that they have the Space Quest and Kings Quest series on there. Possibly the Quest for Glory too. I hate giving adverts for services, but they do have a ton of pretty awesome games on there.
Dalisclock, thanks! I had meant to get those and try them out, then promptly forgot.
I have to 3rd a vote for the Monkey Island games too.
If you have a Nes, play Shadowgate. lol. I am not sure why, but I loved that game and it's one of my favorites of that type.
If you haven't tried them there are a ton of text only games out there that are really fun to play too. Most of them are free.

 

[ilves7]

The Longest Journey might be the greatest adventure game I've ever played, right alongside Grim Fandango. The sequel was ok, not quite as good as the original but still worthwhile I think, have to wait for the last entry for completion on the storyline. I also loved Indiana Jones: Fate of Atlantis, but that's pretty old by now.

 

[hooloovoonate]

Indigo Prophecy is a damn fine adventure game.
Hotel Dusk: Room 215 is decent, but I was hoping for more to happen in it.
Dreamfall: The Longest Journey is alright, but nothing special.
And I've heard good things about Professor Layton and the Curious Village.

 

[werepossum]

My wife loves adventure games and especially loved the two Siberia games. She generally won't play anything with combat or death (Lemmings being the exception), and those two are her favorites. She liked the early Mist games as well, but not the later ones, liked Still Life and Indigo Prophecy but not so much The Longest Journey, Dreamfall: TLJ, or Paradise. We don't have Grim Fandango, but almost everyone who's played it loved it. Its graphics will be dated, but it's so stylistic you probably won't be disappointed. These are all PC games, so I hope that's your platform.

 

[mshcherbatskaya]

Make sure you play the Original The Longest Journey, not the "sequel." The original is so much better.

The sequel, Dreamfall, has some clunky "action" elements and a serious WTF? cliffhanger ending. I liked it and I'm willing to wait for the third game to resolve the story, but given the uncertainty of sequels for anything less than a blockbuster, I can't have a lot of confidence in the story ever being finished. Nevertheless, if you like Longest Journey, you will probably like Dreamfall enough to make it worth finishing.