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Old 11-21-2005, 08:27 PM   #1
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good dark 3d-person adventure with surreal undertones. Any recommendations?
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Discworld Noir.


Or Psychonauts, if you're liberal in your definition of "adventure game."
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Sanitarium, Black Mirror or Still Life.
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Old 11-22-2005, 12:38 AM   #4
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Fahrenheit, though its second half is more abnormal than surreal.
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Sanitarium, Black Mirror or Still Life.
Yep.

Still Life is not as surreal, though.
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Old 11-22-2005, 06:14 AM   #6
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Thanks for the recommendations guys 'n gals, I shall check out Black mirror and Psychonauts.

I've yet to finish Discworld Noir but It's on my things to do list.

Fahrenheit is the greatest 1/4th of an adventure game i've played in years. To bad about the rest of it (the 3/4 )

Still Life was good, but some of the puzzles and voices irritated me and now I'm waiting for a sequle that may well never be.

I've finnished Sanitarium about two times now (And am seriusy thinking about begining my third run)

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I'd say Revelation was pretty dark and surreal, but that only applies to parts of the game. Also it's 1:st person. Great game though
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I'd say Revelation was pretty dark and surreal, but that only applies to parts of the game. Also it's 1:st person. Great game though
It is, but it's also a Myst game, and that might be a repellant.
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I'm not repelled by first person adventures. It's just that I found the original myst nothing special.
Years since I last tried to begin playing it tough....
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I'm not repelled by first person adventures. It's just that I found the original myst nothing special.
Years since I last tried to begin playing it tough....
Revelation is more story based than Myst and in my opinion superior in all ways.
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Faust, maybe? It's 1st-person, but has little in common with Myst. It's rather peculiar, though, you might want to read a couple of reviews first.

And did I mention that the DVD version has an absolutely horrible bug?
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"I Have No Mouth and I Must Scream" would fit the bill, I think. Doesn't run in XP, though, and runs horribly slow for me in Dosbox.
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I'm not repelled by first person adventures.
3rd person: I have no mouth and I must scream (DOS)

1st person:
The blackstone chronicles (very very dark)
Dark Fall I and II (not very dark)


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Dark Eye. Not quite a game, more of a story to click through, but with a creepy graphical style and atmosphere. A must if you like Edgar Allan Poe. (1st person)

Bad Mojo. If playing as a cockroach isn't surreal, then what is? Awesomely unique (with a single flaw: terrible acting).
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Dark Eye. Not quite a game, more of a story to click through, but with a creepy graphical style and atmosphere. A must if you like Edgar Allan Poe. (1st person)

Bad Mojo. If playing as a cockroach isn't surreal, then what is? Awesomely unique (with a single flaw: terrible acting).
I just had a fit of giggles trying to picture acting school for cockroaches! sorry... carry on...

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I just had a fit of giggles trying to picture acting school for cockroaches! sorry... carry on...
LOL, well, the whole menagerie actually did quite well compared to human performers.
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Revelation is more story based than Myst and in my opinion superior in all ways.
Agreed.

And so are Riven and, to a lesser extent, Exile, by the way.
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Phantasmagoria II: A Puzzle of Flesh.

I guess it's technically first-person, but there are so many cut-scenes you won't even notice.
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Phantasmagoria II: A Puzzle of Flesh.

I guess it's technically first-person, but there are so many cut-scenes you won't even notice.
No it isn't first-person. Not even technically.
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No, that's right. You did get a goofy looking picture of Curtis standing around, occasionally twitching uncomfortably. I forgot about that.
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