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Secret of Monkey Island. It's not as funny, nor as engaging, nor as replayable, as the LucasArts titles that came before it, yet for some reason it enjoys an iconic status among AGs. Perhaps I don't have the benefit of viewing the game through rose-colored nostalgic glasses, as I only played it for the first time when the SE came out, but I thought it was overrated.

I'll say Syberia as well. I kept seeing it mentioned in the same breath as The Longest Journey, so I was expecting an interesting narrative with colorful characters and a well-fleshed-out game world. The reality is that the game is cold, emotionless, and technical, with poor dialogue and wooden voice-acting. The puzzles are kind of interesting, but the plot suffers from too much pointless dawdling.