[ChrisP]

10. Dracula
9. Space Quest 5
8. Blade Runner
7. Gabriel Knight III
6. Broken Sword I
5. Space Quest 6
4. Tex Murphy -Pandora Directive
3. Curse Of Monkey Island
2. Gabriel Knight II
1. Timelapse

[Sotaria]

Originally Posted by ChrisP

10. Dracula
9. Space Quest 5
8. Blade Runner
7. Gabriel Knight III
6. Broken Sword I
5. Space Quest 6
4. Tex Murphy -Pandora Directive
3. Curse Of Monkey Island
2. Gabriel Knight II
1. Timelapse

Which Dracula game are you referring to? There are numerous AGs by that title.

Thanks for the vote.

[april_2006]

hi!
i'm new here but i couldn't resisit posting in this thread!

1.Broken sword 1 (wonderfull!)
2.longest journey (i love april)
3.riven
4.sam max
5.day of tentacle
6.still life
7.scratches
8.dreamfall
9.barrow hill

[Sotaria]

Now that the Top Ten Runoff is complete I was curious to see what are the most popular adventure series. So I have analyzed all the votes and put together this little info sheet below comprising everything which ranked in the top 100. For “Average Ranking” I took the average vote for each game from between this thread and the Top Ten Runoff thread (the first vote is its ranking in this thread, the second from the Top Ten finalist). If a game did not rank in the top the then I gave it the arbitrary ranking of #120.

Interestingly enough, the popular Legend of Kyrandia and Police Quest games did not make the cut despite their popularity, so make of this what you will. Of those series that did not rank in the top #100 “average ranking” the Star Trek series collected 10 overall points, the Sherlock Holmes series collected 9 overall points, the Legend of Kyrandia series collected 5 overall points, and Police Quest managed 4 overall points (interestingly enough each of the games received exactly 1 point!).


GABRIEL KNIGHT SERIES
STATS = Average Ranking = # 7 / All three games ranked in the top 11 overall
Gabriel Knight 1 – Sins of the Fathers = Rank # 3 / 2
Gabriel Knight 2 – The Beast Within = Rank # 8 / 10
Gabriel Knight 3 – Blood of the Sacred, Blood of the Damned = Rank # 10 / 11

LONGEST JOURNEY SERIES
STATS = Average Ranking # 16 / Both games ranked in top 50, but with a significant dropoff for #2
Longest Journey = Rank # 6 / 3
Longest Journey 2 – Dreamfall = Rank # 22 / 32

MONKEY ISLAND SERIES
STATS = Average Ranking # 17 / All games ranked in the top 52, the first three ranked in the Top 7!
Monkey Island 1 – Secret of Monkey Island = Rank # 5 / 6
Monkey Island 2 – LeChuck’s Revenge = Rank # 7 / 7
Monkey Island 3 – Curse of Monkey Island = Rank # 2 / 5
Monkey Island 4 – Escape from Monkey Island = Rank # 52

MANIAC MANSION SERIES
STATS = Average Ranking # 23 / #2 was the most popular but did not seem to warrant a third?
Maniac Mansion = Rank # 38
Maniac Mansion 2 – Day of the Tentacle = Rank # 9 / 8

SYBERIA SERIES
STATS = Average Ranking # 24 / Both rank in the top 41
Syberia = Rank # 14
Syberia 2 = Rank # 28 / 41

BROKEN SWORD SERIES
STATS = Average Ranking # 25 / All three (four not released in US yet) rank in the top 40, but #1 is 4th overall!
Broken Sword 1 – Circle of Blood / aka Shadow of the Templars = Rank # 4 / 4
Broken Sword 2 – The Smoking Mirror = Rank # 31 / 31
Broken Sword 3 – The Sleeping Dragon = Rank # 40
Broken Sword 4 – The Angel of Death = N/A as many have not played it yet

TEX MURPHY SERIES (FMV Only)
STATS = Average Ranking # 30 / All three rank in the top 45
Tex Murphy 3 – Under A Killing Moon = Rank # 31 / 30
Tex Murphy 4 – Pandora Directive = Rank # 13 / 17
Tex Murphy 5 – Overseer = Rank # 45 / 45

DISCWORLD SERIES
STATS = Average Ranking # 32 / All three rank in the top 41
Discworld = Rank # 41 / 39
Discworld 2 – Missing, Presumed...!? (aka Mortality Bytes) = Rank # 36 / 33
Discworld Noir = Rank # 26 / 15

MCPHERSON CRIME SERIES
STATS = Average Ranking # 43
Post Mortem = Rank # 67
Still Life = Rank # 20 / 19

INDIANA JONES SERIES (Graphic Adventures Only)
STATS = Average Ranking # 47
Indiana Jones and the Last Crusade = Rank # 83
Indiana Jones and the Fate of Atlantis = Rank # 11 / 9

MYST SERIES
STATS = Average Ranking # 51 / The first four rank inthe top 56 overall
Myst = Rank # 21 / 27
Myst 2 – Riven = Rank # 12 / 16
Myst 3 – Exile = Rank # 56
Myst 4 – Revelation = Rank # 46 / 37
Myst 5 – End of Ages = Not ranked

ZORK SERIES (Graphic Adventures Only)
STATS = Average Ranking # 57
Zork 6 – Return to Zork = Fell just short of the top 100
Zork 7 – Nemesis = Rank # 22 / 26
Zork 8 – Grand Inquisitor = Rank # 37 / 36

CONQUEST SERIES
STATS = Average Ranking # 59 / A quitely popular series
Conquest of Camelot = Rank # 75
Conquest of Longbow = Rank # 38 / 46

QUEST FOR GLORY SERIES
STATS = Average Ranking # 60 / Only game series of five where all five rank in the top 75 or better
Quest for Glory 1 – So You Want to be a Hero = Rank # 48 / 28
Quest for Glory 2 – Trial by Fire = Rank # 60
Quest for Glory 3 – Wages of War = Rank # 67
Quest for Glory 4 – Shadows of Darkness = Rank # 62
Quest for Glory 5 – Dragon Fire = Rank # 75

SIMON THE SORCERER SERIES
STATS = Average Ranking # 72 / #3 killed this one’s overall ranking
Simon the Sorcerer = Rank # 40 / 40
Simon the Sorcerer 2 = Rank # 54
Simon the Sorcerer 3D = Did not rank

SPACE QUEST SERIES
STATS = Average Ranking # 73 / All but the first rank in the top 100 all time
Space Quest 1 – The Sarien Encounter = Did not rank
Space Quest 2 – Vohaul's Revenge = Rank # 100
Space Quest 3 – The Pirates of Pestulon = Rank # 45 / 43
Space Quest 4 – Roger Wilco and the Time Rippers = Rank # 48
Space Quest 5 – The Next Mutation = Rank # 40 / 38
Space Quest 6 – The Spinal Frontier = Rank # 89

KING’S QUEST SERIES
STATS = Average Ranking # 78 / Five of the eight rank in the top 100
King’s Quest 1 – Quest for the Crown = Did not rank
King’s Quest 2 – Romancing the Throne = Did not rank
King’s Quest 3 – To Heir is Human = Rank # 53
King’s Quest 4 – The Perils of Rosella = Rank # 75
King’s Quest 5 – Absence Makes the Heart Go Yonder! = Rank # 61
King’s Quest 6 – Heir Today, Gone Tomorrow = Rank # 15 / 21
King’s Quest 7 – The Princeless Bride = Rank # 98
King’s Quest 8 – Mask of Eternity = N/A – not true adventure

LEISURE SUIT LARRY SERIES
STATS = Average Ranking # 83 / Only three of the seven rank in the top 100
Leisure Suit Larry 1 – In the Land of the Lounge Lizards = Did not rank
Leisure Suit Larry 2 – Larry Goes Looking for Love = Rank # 59
Leisure Suit Larry 3 – Passionate Patti in Pursuit of the Pulsating Pectorals = Rank # 64
Leisure Suit Larry 4 – N/A – The game is an urban myth – it was skipped as a joke by Sierra
Leisure Suit Larry 5 – Passionate Patti Does a Little Undercover Work = Did not rank
Leisure Suit Larry 6 – Shape Up or Slip Out! = Did not rank
Leisure Suit Larry 7 – Love for Sail = Rank # 24 / 29

JOURNEYMAN SERIES
STATS = Average Ranking # 87
The Journeyman Project – Pegasus Prime = Did not rank
The Journeyman Project 2 – Buried In Time = Rank # 84
The Journeyman Project 3 – Legacy of Time = Rank # 58

Opinions?

[Hysteria]

I am kind of new to AD games so if u exuse me...
1. Fahrenheit
2. Syberia
3. Dreamfall
4. The Longest journey
5. Syberia II
6. The Secret files: Tunguska
7. Still Life
8. Paradise
9. Broken Sword: Sleeping Dragon
10. /

[Dasilva]

Originally Posted by Hysteria

10. /

Yeah Slash was a superb game.

[tantalus]

My favourites are:

1. The Last Express
2. Grim Fandango
3. Fahrenheit
4. Blade Runner
5. Myst
6. Outcast
7. Shenmue
8. Discworld Noir
9. The Longest Journey
10. Syberia

Those adventure games really impressed me when they came out, although I have to admit that I am not a big fan of the genre overall due to the fact that most "genre conventions" really annoy me. Therefore I have chosen mostly games that stand on their own.

Other games I would put on such a list, though I am aware of the fact that they are genre-mixes, are Psychonauts, Silent Hill 2, Beyond Good and Evil and Knights of the old Republic.

[Sar]

I'm late as usual but here goes and it was not easy.

1------------Longest Journey 1
2------------Broken Sword 1
3------------Gabriel Knight 1
4------------Kings Quest 7
5------------Lost In Time
6------------syberia 1
7------------Dreamfall
8------------Syberia 2
9------------Gabriel Knight 2
10-----------Still Life

[mr00v3ck]

I'm so, so, sooooo shocked that noone mentioned my two favourites. Here's my list then

1. Flight of the Amazon Queen (hell yeah!)
2. Indiana Jones & Fate of Atlantis
3. Curse of Monkey Island
4. Lure of the Temptress (and thats the second one ;P)
5. the Longest Journey
6. Tex Murphy - Under A Killing Moon
7. Secret of Monkey Island
8. Myst III: Exile
9. Syberia
10. The Dig

[Solaera]

1. The Beast Within GK
2. Syberia
3. Sins of the Fathers GK
4. The Longest Journey
5. Tex Murphy Overseer
6. Phantasmagoria
7. Grim Fandango
8. Still Life
9. Myst
10. Barrow Hill

My Honorable Mentions

The Black Mirror [The voice acting was horrendous but the storyline was so captivating]
The Blackstone Chronicles
The Neverhood
Scratches
Amber

[Henke]

This is really hard. This is sort of how I think it should be (but not exactly, then I have to replay all games again).

10. Shadow of the comet
09. Gabriel Knight 2 The Beast Within
08. Grim Fandango
07. Broken Sword 4 The Angel of Death
06. Broken Sword 2 The Smoking Mirror
05. Monkey Island 2 Lechucks' Revenge
04. The Curse of Monkey Island
03. Indiana Jones and the fate of Atlantis
02. Sanitarium
01. Day of the Tentacle

Should be on the list:
Prince of Persia The Sands of Time
Call of Cthulhu Dark Corners Of the Earth

[I Love Cookiemonster]

Originally Posted by Henke

06. Broken Sword 4 The Angel of Death

I'm suprised anyone even put this game in there top 10

[Terramax]

I base my top 10 on these factors:

1. Most importantly - has to have a great story. It must be consistant and balanced - not too long (which is the case with some AGs).
2. Have a perfect balance in character - this includes voice acting.
3. Correct atmosphere - graphics and sound
4. Well intergrated controls

Unless the puzzles are really obtuse I don't base an AG on its puzzles, as a good one will have puzzles well implimented into it.

I guess it's worth mentioning I've not played any Tex Murphey game, not played the first two MI games or Gabriel Knight 2 (I've played 3).
Just so people don't questions why for some reason they're not on my list.

Top 10:
1. Broken Sword - Shadow of the Templers
2. Grim Fandango
3. Silent Hill 2 (SH3 is my fav, but SH2 is best for story).
4. Discworld Noir
5. Myst: Revelations
6. Still Life
7. Full Throttle
8. Gabriel Knight: Sins of the Fathers
9. Curse of Monkey Island
10. Blazing Dragons

[Isak]

10. Atlantis - The lost tales
9. Indiana Jones and the fate of Atlantis
8. Discworld Noir
7. Syberia 1 and 2 (same game but two different episodes)
6. Sanitarium
5. Broken Sword 2 - The Smoking Mirror
4. Monkey Island 2 - Lechucks Revenge
3. Black Mirror
2. Secret of Monkey Island
1. Broken Sword - The Shadow of the Templars

just outside top ten:
Dreamfall
Broken Sword 3 - The Sleeping Dragon
Beneath a Steel Sky
Curse of Monkey Island
and
Beyond good and evil (if that counts)
and YES, I have played and finished Grim Fandango.

[Henke]

Originally Posted by I Love Cookiemonster

I'm suprised anyone even put this game in there top 10

What do people here think of this game? I think it was really good. The puzzles were great, the story had some flaws but some of the characters were interesting so it didn't matter much to me. Could have had better sceneries though but still a really good game (much better then The Sleeping Dragon and just as good, if not better, then Shadow of the templars). Although The Smoking Mirror is still my favourite BS-game.

[I Love Cookiemonster]

Originally Posted by Henke

What do people here think of this game? I think it was really good. The puzzles were great, the story had some flaws but some of the characters were interesting so it didn't matter much to me. Could have had better sceneries though but still a really good game (much better then The Sleeping Dragon and just as good, if not better, then Shadow of the templers). Although The Smoking Mirror is still my favourite BS-game.

Well i thought the game was buggy, the story weak mainly because of the many, many plotholes, the camera and controls where crappy, the graphics where oke but george looked pretty crappy, and the coverart sucked harder then any other game i have ever seen. But i had some fun with it, especialy the second half of the game so it wasn't all bad. But, and i never thought i would say this, I really don't need to play BS5. I'll probably play it if it ever comes out but they don't have to make one as far as i'm conserend.

[Henke]

Originally Posted by I Love Cookiemonster

Well i thought the game was buggy, the story weak mainly because of the many, many plotholes, the camera and controls where crappy, the graphics where oke but george looked pretty crappy, and the coverart sucked harder then any other game i have ever seen. But i had some fun with it, especialy the second half of the game so it wasn't all bad. But, and i never thought i would say this, I really don't need to play BS5. I'll probably play it if it ever comes out but they don't have to make one as far as i'm conserend.

Well I agree about BS5. I prefer new games over sequels in almost all cases actually.

[Isak]

I thought Broken Sword - The Angel of Death was a good game, but not close to the other three. Although, the humor was excellent, probably the best for a Broken Sword game.
I would think it would be really strange if there will not be a BS5, I can almost ensure you there will, as long as Broken Sword 4 sold as much as Broken Sword 3.

[Henke]

Originally Posted by Isak

I thought Broken Sword - The Angel of Death was a good game, but not close to the other three.

You think The Sleeping Dragon was better? The first two are a tough call which one's the best, but the third is easily a step back for me. Still an all right game though.

[Ninth]

I don't think I've posted in this one...

So:

1 - Indiana Jones and the Fate of Alantis
2 - Death Gate
3 - The Secret of Monkey Island
4 - Monkey Island 2 : LeChuck's Revenge
5 - Simon the Sorcerer
6 - Myst 2 : Riven
7 - Zork : Nemesis
8 - Kyrandia 2 : Hand of Fate
9 - Day of the Tentacle
10 - Still Life