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Adventure Games

posted 19 years ago by lovrekovic
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I just love these kind of games. Like Monkey Island or Leisurre Suit Larry 7.Can anybody recomend some other adventure games like these.

[–] wutscher0815 19 years ago

full throttle
grim fandango
broken sword 1, 2 (and 3?)
Day of the tentacle
Sam and MAx
Runaway

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[–] ursykitty 19 years ago

Starship Titanic

I'm so cool you could keep a side of meat in me for a month.

[–] my_name_is_tony 19 years ago

Go onto Wikipedia and type in SCUMM and it will show you a full list of the type of adventure games which used the SCUMM system which MI 1,2 and 3 used. There are also links to similar games

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[–] mocii 18 years ago

I can heartily recommend The Longest Journey (1999) to you and to everyone else. It was maybe the most enchanting and strongest experience that I have ever got from a visually told story.

Of course it's completely different from the Monkey Island series. But it's technically point-and-click, and by definition it's an adventure game, released towards the end of the not-full-3D era. So it became a most beautiful 2D-background p&c game with 3D characters. (Being someone who really got used to the control interface of Monkey Islands, I haven't had to adapt to a really different cotnrol style. It was even easier to use than Monkey Islands'.)

The game became a top-selling adventure despite very low marketing budget and an overly delayed U.S. release (more than a year after the European). It was the fans that helped to make the game profitable, and all those online and printed magazines labelling the game as outstanding.

And it has a sequel too: Dreamfall (2006) had just been released last month!

Both games can be bought online (Dreamfall is also in stores now).

[links:]
IMDb - The Longest Journey: http://www.imdb.com/title/tt0219139/
IMDb - Dreamfall: http://www.imdb.com/title/tt0375926/
Official site - The Longest Journey: http://www.longestjourney.com/
Official site - Dreamfall: http://www.dreamfall.com

[–] MaroonSerpent 18 years ago

Yeah, think I'll look out for Longest Journey. I didn't get it when it was first released because I was sure my then computer wouldn't be able to run it. But where do you find a seven year old computer game? Nothing on eBay except for its sequel.

[–] mocii 18 years ago

The Longest Journey - newer, 2CD version, fully Windows XP compatible, is available from the developer's/publisher's own online shop for only US$14.99 (plus shipping and packaging):

https://funcom.asknet.com/cgi-bin/cart/ml=EN?ID=184973

I myself have also bought this version from this shop, and everything went OK with the buying process and the shipping.

Note; Please don't forget to acquire the latest patch for the 2CD version from the official website: http://www.longestjourney.com/help/patches/

You can force your video card driver to turn on FSAA on this game, which makes it a little bit better-looking.

Other items can be ordered from the Funcom Online Store - https://funcom.asknet.com/cgi-bin/show/ml=EN, such as the brand new Dreamfall (released in April/May 2006), the "second chapter" in the TLJ saga.

Both games meant an almost unspeakable experience for me in terms of story, mood and characters.

TLJ's graphics are not technically modern or cutting-edge now, but the theme and mood and the detailedness makes up for it.

Dreamfall's graphics are really breathtaking even with its minimum supported video card (GeForce FX 5700, which I have) (And it even looks better on a video that suppots Shader Model 3.0 or Pixel Shader 3.0, such as a Geforce 6 or 7 series card. Of course the suitable ATI cards are perfect for this game as well).

Not that Monkey Island 1-2 games are bad because the "outdated" graphics. They are still those great games as they were back then, so as The Longest Journey (and also: if a grpahics engine is "outdated", it doesn't mean it can't look winderful. TLJ still looks wonderful, IMHO).

Have fun with these wonderful games!

[–] Home-Brewed 18 years ago

I would recommend these:

- Beneath a steel sky
- Bladerunner
- Broken Sword (1,2,3)
- Flight of the Amazon Queen
- Full Throttle
- Gabriel Knight: Sins Of The Fathers (my all-time favorite adventure game)
- Gabriel Knight 2: The Beast Within
- Gabriel Knight 3: Blood Of The Sacred, Blood of the damned
- Grim Fandango
- Indiana Jones and the fate of Atlantis
- Phantasmagoria
- Phantasmagoria: A puzzle of flesh
- Runaway: A road adventure
- The legend of Kyrandia

And of course the previous Monkey Island games, if you've missed any... MI 1+2 are pure gold!

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[–] TheLeifert 18 years ago

in my opinion Beneath a steel sky is the best adventure game ever written.. Heard they are working on a sequel.. Can't wait!!!!

[–] The-Hellish-Gnome 18 years ago

The Broken Sword games have to be some of the best "Adventure" games out there. Top of the league.

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[–] MaroonSerpent 18 years ago

Found "The Longest Journey" on eBay not long after I posted my previous message, but I should've read the info better because it was a version completely dubbed in Dutch!

[–] billylia 17 years ago

MONKEY ISLAND (ALL OF THEM!) AND FULL THROTTLE ALL THE WAY!!!

p.s which gabriel knight had the screaming or yelling in the background as u enter a place of some sort i can still remember that when i was little:P thanx

[–] shemroom9 17 years ago

Grim Fandango is the best

[–] musical_devotee 17 years ago

Black Dahlia. With Monkey Island games, this is one of my all time favorites.

[–] Inzaneclown 17 years ago

You guys forgot Day of the tentacle and Discworld. Both games worth of playing.