I'm new here with some questions
 

Hi everyone. I'm new here and need some help. I have been playing PC adventure games for the last few years (Gabrielle Knight is my favorite). I have had a playstation 2 for a year now and have enjoyed playing Silent Hill 2 and 3, Fatal Frame and Clocktower 3, but I really want to find some PS2 games that are strictly adventure. I enjoy exploring and solving puzzles, and am not thrilled with killing monsters. I would love it if you could maybe tell me all of your favorites in this genre so that I can find something I really love. Thanks everyone. I really appreciate your help. Becky

You do know that you can play through Silent Hill 2 as an adventure game? Just turn off all the monsters and action, and you have a perfectly good adventure-game, and with puzzles on hard it can get quite challenging.

But anyway, you should try out Broken Sword - The Sleeping Dragon. I don't know if you've played the first two, but that one is at least a pure adventure game brought into today's gaming-standards.

Syberia is also on Playstation 2. And Largo Winch is sort of an adventure-game, but it has some rpg/fighting elements in it. The last one is cheap too.

Nevertheless, you really should play all of these games on a PC if you can. Well, except maybe Largo Winch. But Broken Sword on PC have far less loading than the console versions, I've heard.

I didn't know Gabriel had gotten a sex change!
Just kidding, welcome to the forums Beckybug ;)

I think it's the hair...

Good call! I devoted an entire thread to it, actually: Play Silent Hill 2 as an adventure game (yes, you can!)

Unfortunately, Becky, you live in the U.S., and Sony rejected Broken Sword: Sleeping Dragon to be distributed in the U.S. for PS2. So your best bet would be to rent an Xbox and play it that way, or on the PC.

Other PS2 adventure games to play are Shadow of Destiny (no action or violence whatsoever) and ICO (which has a lot of platforming and some combat but is nearly unparalleled in atmosphere, exploration, and emerging narrative).

Escape from Monkey Island is available for the PS2, and you should be able to get it for about $9 or cheaper.

Oh yeah, Syberia was also not released in the US for the PS2, only PC and Xbox.

Wasn't there a version of the classic Shadowgate released for PS2?

Gregory's Horror Show will be released in the US soon...

It's a bit of a survival horror, except you don't fight monsters you just run and hide from them...
There is lots of investigating/eavesdropping/spying...

Not much puzzles/item using though.... :frown:

BTW: I think Shadowgate was for N64? :confused:

Shadowgate was the original NES, I believe.

I know the original Shadowgate was for NES and I know that there was a Shadowgate 64 for the N64, but I seem to recall that there was also a PS2 version released in 1999 or 2000. But I could well be mistaken.

Thanks everybody. I'm keeping notes here, so keep the suggestions coming.

I was talking about the remake...
There was also an adaptation of the NES one for the GBC...

ICO is an adventure game for PS2

ICO, which I'm currently playing, is really an action-adventure game, that is gorgeous, and with a compelling story. You don't want to miss this if you have a PS2.

POP sands of time. Has lots of action/puzzle elements.

Primal. Lots and lots of puzzles but also has alot of fighting.

LOK/Soul Reaver games also may fit into a semi-adventure game catagory.

Don't forget [Shadow of Destiny].

Distributed by Konami, but somewhat different from other games by them. It totally failed in market all over the world, so price is not high at now, but it's really worth to try.

Myst 3: Exile was also released is the PS2, at least it was here in Europe.