i finally got around to installing a Win98SE partition on one of my drives and am happily playing some of my favorite adventure games.

currently, it's sanitarium. i loved this game the first time i played it and i'm having even more fun with it on this playthru. and i've got some monkey islands queued up for playing afterwards.

when you get turned into a 4-armed cyclops!
http://img.photobucket.com/albums/v3...s/grimwall.jpg

after being a cyclops, you're back to being a human nutcase again
http://img.photobucket.com/albums/v3...clops_bugs.jpg

cutscene that includes screaming monkey experiments
http://img.photobucket.com/albums/v3...s/cutscene.jpg

the puzzles are challenging, but fun. the storyline is good with lots of twists and turns. [img]smile.gif[/img] it's one of my very favorites.

so, what are your favorite adventure games?

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Grim Fandango
Full Throttle
The Longest Journey
Starship Titanic

Hmm, never been much for adventure games relly but I have played some...
Full throttle was sort of fun and also really intriguing.
Gabriel Knight is one of those games I started to play but for some reasons never finished. I remember that I liked that one.
Zork Nemesis, but got tired with too many stupid quests and unlogical ones and the music and listening to tones just got me mad and invited home a musical friend who solved it with no problems.
7th Guest is the winner however for all the funny games, use of sound and cutscenes. Compelling story and you had a chance to solve all the troubles send your way.

Did you play Dreamfall the sequel to The Longest journey? I did, and I really liked it, I can't wait for the final part of the trilogy.

Did you play Dreamfall the sequel to The Longest journey? I did, and I really liked it, I can't wait for the final part of the trilogy. </font>[/QUOTE]Not yet. [img]smile.gif[/img]

DeathGate is really good. It's quite old and needs DOS or DOSbox to play, but it's athmospheric, has humor (Zifnab :D ), has some challenge and isn't frustratingly hard.

And from what I remember from 8 years ago, Little Big Adventure 2 was quite fun.

What Dundee wrote, but I'd also add Fahrenheit as one of the best I've ever played. So good, so entrancing...

Curse of Monkey Island was really fun

Not necessarily in any order:

first two Monkey Islands
Sam and Max
Flight of the Amazon Queen
Loom
Day of the Tentackle
Beneath a Steel Scy
Frederick Pohl's Gateway
Death Gate
Discworld

Although I think that of these Loom and Beneath a Steel Scy are the only ones I have actually finished.

I really like the Quest for Glory and Space Quest series.

I also loved the Lucasarts games of the genre: Loom, Indiana Jones and the Last Crusade, Maniac Mansion, Monkey Island, Zak McCracken. I got a box set of all of those games one year.

My overall favorite is probably Quest for Glory 2.
Of course I'm always looking for 'new' games to try out, and some of these I'll have to look into.

[ 08-23-2006, 02:05 PM: Message edited by: Lucern ]

Ahh this genre is a little like an elusively forgotten flame for me. Such bittersweet nostalgia. I don't play that many as often I used to in high school, but back then it was practically the golden age for the genre.

I've never played Sanitarium - but I have heard from friends that its great indeed. Neat screenshots, Veselle. [img]smile.gif[/img]

Some of my favourites echo those already mentioned:
Maniac Mansion (Finished it on my c64, but never got around to seeing the alternative endings.)
Zak McCraken and the Alien Mindbenders (Also on my c64, never finished it - got stuck in the maze on Mars I think it was)
Kings Quest 1-3 (played the first one in primary school)
Indiana Jones and the Fate of Atlantis (classic)
Phantasmagoria (Cheesy, but entertainingly so)

I was also a big fan of the interactive fiction style of text adventures as a kid, with or without graphics. Played alot of them on my C64 - particularly Mountain Valley Software's simple graphic adventures requiring only two word commands (Mystery Island, Oasis of Shalimar, Castle of Mydor) Magnetic Scrolls (The Pawn, Guild of Thieves...) though I never completed too many of these, they were fun and immersive.

The last one I tried on my old Dx2 before it died was probably 'Veil of Darkness', an SSI horror edged isometric adventure with some rpg elements. I never got too far but it was fascinating and mildly creepy. Anyone else played it? I might have to get into DOSbox some more and have another shot at it...

I think the last adventure game I played and actually completed was probably the first Broken Sword on PC, which was a nice little romp. Anything with some strong detective elements, the hint of horror or suspense with a darkish atmosphere is usually enough to suck me in. [img]smile.gif[/img]

That reminds me, I must get into the Gabriel Knight games sometime too! :D

Little Big Adventure (called "Relentless" in Aus.) was one of my early favourites. Too bad i lost it after playing through it the first time. I'd actually forgotten about that game until you mentioned it. Now i'm thinking i'd like to play it again. Ah, nostalgia.

The Kyrandia games. Sure, they're ancient, but they're also packed with witty dialogues, black humor and strange (but rarely frustrating) puzzles. Nowadays, you can actually download all of them for free at http://www.abandonia.com/genre.php?search=kyrandia

Those abandonware sites are great. I recently downloaded the two ringworld games for a "blast from the past".

Mostly In Order (at least the top 3)

1) Grim Fandango
2) Sam & Max
3) Mission Critical
4) Return to Zork
5) Zork Grand Inquisitor
6) Syberia 1
7) Noir
8) Morpheous
9) Drowned God