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Trumgottist 10-22-2006 08:36 AM

Top Adventure Games - Let's Make Another List
 
This thread is inspired by Soraria's recent top-10 threads. While I personally find it difficult, if not impossible, to rank the games I've played, I also find the various statistics in these threads interesting.

Here's the thing with this thread: Rank all adventure games you've played, from best to worst. You may group several games together if you think they're equally good.

If enough people answer this (there's no point to it if only one or two people posts), I'll put the results together using ranked pairs. I'm curious to see how the top ten created this way will compare to Sotaria's results, and if any other interesting statistics pop up along the way.

AFGNCAAP 10-22-2006 12:33 PM

I like the idea. This method has two obvious advantages over simply nominating your ten favourite games. For one, it gives a fair exposure to lesser known, but appreciated games. For two, it allows the people who played more games to make more educated votes (and yet equally valid as far as specific games are concerned).

However, the idea of ranking all games I've ever played scares me. :D I might do that, but don't be mad if I end up copying and pasting my top ten and lumping the rest in just a few categories like "excellent", "good", ..., "awful".

Wimli 10-22-2006 12:39 PM

Quote:

Originally Posted by Trumgottist (Post 356080)
Here's the thing with this thread: Rank all adventure games you've played, from best to worst. You may group several games together if you think they're equally good.

You probably meant that already, but just to be sure: this only includes games you've played all the way through, right? Think that would be best to limit it to those. I've played hundreds of games, but when it comes to finished adventures, the list becomes much more manageable. :)

Trumgottist 10-22-2006 01:03 PM

Quote:

Originally Posted by AFGNCAAP (Post 356124)
I might do that, but don't be mad if I end up copying and pasting my top ten and lumping the rest in just a few categories like "excellent", "good", ..., "awful".

Sounds like a reasonable approach to me.

Quote:

Originally Posted by Wimli (Post 356129)
You probably meant that already, but just to be sure: this only includes games you've played all the way through, right? Think that would be best to limit it to those. I've played hundreds of games, but when it comes to finished adventures, the list becomes much more manageable. :)

Yes, unless you feel certain about its place in your list. If you've played halfway through a game, found it awful and don't want to play another minute of it, feel free to put it at the bottom of the list. I'm leaving that as a judgement call. The advantage with this ranking system is that someone who hasn't played game X won't affect its place in the final results.

The main reason I asked for all the games you've played is to prevent the following: Let's say everybody posts their top ten only. One person puts a game in top that's not included on anyone else's list. That game would come out on top since nobody had said they liked another game better than it. The more data, the better results.

I'll post my own list later. I have most of my games elsewhere, and I want to make sure I don't forget anyone.

daikatana_ 10-22-2006 01:06 PM

This topic sounds interesting, but it will be quite hard to dig in memory and write down all ags ive ever played. But ill certainly try :)

daikatana_ 10-23-2006 05:16 AM

Almost done with the list :)
Just checking net if i my list is complete...

GoT 10-23-2006 05:37 AM

i dont think there's anyway i can pick out of my brain all the adventures i've played.. i'll only be able to remember the obvious ones.... i definetly think this is a great approach to doing a best game thread tho... good idea.

PolloDiablo 10-23-2006 01:01 PM

A site that may help jog some memories: http://adventure-archiv.de has a pretty comprehensive list of adventure-games that have been published through the years. It also includes many Indie adventure-games. Some have only been published in German, but they're clearly marked (Sprache: D instead of Sprache: E)

colpet 10-23-2006 03:42 PM

A top 50 was done at JA. It was very difficult to rank 50, never mind the 141 games I've played.

Sotaria 10-23-2006 05:02 PM

In principle I like what you are trying to do, but the only way to REALLY do this right (which I have never been able to figure out how to do) is to have a polling system where you can vote A+ to F on every game you have ever played (but the games should be prelisted). It should possible to do this, but I doubt this site is set up for that and I don't know how to realistically do that in these forums. If you have any ideas I would love to help. People could just go check the game title and see what its average rating is.

AFGNCAAP 10-24-2006 12:58 AM

The point is not to have a simple average score for each game separately, though. Read the site Trumgottist linked to. Ranked pairs is a special algorithm of producing a list on which relative positions of games X and Y (ie. which is placed higher) are usually more influenced by people who played both X and Y than by the rest.

And I assume that Trumgottist have means to calculate the final rankings easily enough, or else he wouldn't offer to do it. :D

daikatana_ 10-24-2006 03:45 AM

Im thinking about making some script in php which could allow us all to "vote".
I havent read the site about those ranked pairs yet, so when i have some time, i will take a look and figure out some algorithm how to count the final score. Next good thing would be the possibility to enter more games even after you have voted if you forget some.

And actually, there wouldnt be a final score. I would keep the site up, so when some1 come up with more games or some new ppl come here, it will change the score...

Jelena 10-24-2006 04:35 AM

Quote:

Originally Posted by daikatana_ (Post 356566)
Im thinking about making some script in php which could allow us all to "vote".
I havent read the site about those ranked pairs yet, so when i have some time, i will take a look and figure out some algorithm how to count the final score. Next good thing would be the possibility to enter more games even after you have voted if you forget some.

And actually, there wouldnt be a final score. I would keep the site up, so when some1 come up with more games or some new ppl come here, it will change the score...

I'm pretty sure Trumgottist has got a plan for this List already.

Trumgottist 10-24-2006 02:40 PM

Quote:

Originally Posted by AFGNCAAP (Post 356535)
And I assume that Trumgottist have means to calculate the final rankings easily enough, or else he wouldn't offer to do it. :D

That's the easy part. (And yes, I have tools to help with the boring bits.) The hard part is what I suggested we all do. Assisted by the link PolloDiablo gave, I now have a file on my computer containing (at least most of) the adventure games I've played in a very rough order. The obvious things are in place, such as Simon3 > Simon2 > Simon1. But then comes the difficult part, and I haven't played as insanely many as some others here have. My list only contains 42 commercial games. (I think it's probably best to leave the freeware games out of this, or things will become even harder to compare.) I note there's only one of the games I find to be bad.

As AFGNCAAP points out, the idea was not to collect ratings for a large number of games, but more a variation on the "post your top games" threads. I thought of it since Sotaria was doing statistics on the most recent top-game thread. I found that interesting, but noted that simply adding scores is a blunt way of doing statistics. As an example, my personal top ten does not include any Space Quest games. Is that because I don't like those games? No, it's simply that I've never played them. I think it'd be interesting to see how the results of a ranked pair rating would compare. The large number of games thing sort of appeared as a requirement to do this sort of thing. It's pointless to apply the ranked pairs voting system to the top-ten thread (I'd have done that instead of starting a new thread if I thought that to be a good idea) - there's too little information in that thread to do it right.

I did not intend it to be anything more substantial than any other similar forum thread. Completely useless, but maybe a bit interesting. If anyone feels inspired to start some new rating site, or register at MobyGames and start rating they should feel free to do so, but that's another thing.

And for those of you that find it too hard to do: Group your list heavily. You could even do it as simply as splitting your list in two groups. "Games I like" and "Games I don't like". Or post the top ten you posted in the last thread and group the rest of the games together at the bottom. Those are completely valid approaches that will be handled appropriately when the results are put together.

Flyboy 10-24-2006 03:53 PM

Well since I've avoided posting on just about every other "rank your favorite games" list, I suppose this is as good a place as any to just give in and get it over with (and to get the ball rolling on this thread already).

Here we go, motherfuckers! Every goddamn adventure game I've played and finished, from heavenly to hellish:

Monkey Island 1
Day of the Tentacle
Quest for Glory 1
Monkey Island 3
Grim Fandango
Conquest of Camelot
Beneath a Steel Sky
The Dig
King's Quest 6
Lost Files of Sherlock Holmes
Quest for Glory 2
Monkey Island 2
Conquests of the Longbow
Gabriel Knight: Sins
Indiana Jones: Fate of Atlantis
Sam and Max: Hit the Road
Space Quest 3
Broken Sword 1
King's Quest 5
Loom
Dagger of Amon Ra
Space Quest 5
Rise of the Dragon
Sanitarium
Freddy Pharkas
Quest for Glory 3
Blade Runner
Heart of China
Full Throttle
Space Quest 1
Police Quest 2
Space Quest 4
Colonel's Bequest
King's Quest 4
King's Quest 1
Star Trek: 25th Anniversary
Space Quest 6
Les Manley: Search for the King
Leisure Suit Larry 1
Adventures of Willy Beamish
Leisure Suit Larry 2
Police Quest 1
Altered Destiny
Toonstruck
Space Quest 2
Police Quest 3
King's Quest 2
Leisure Suit Larry 3
King's Quest 3
Indiana Jones: The Last Crusade
Monkey Island 4
Ween: The Prophecy
Codename: Iceman
Wayne’s World (dear god, why?)
Les Manley 2: Lost in LA (yes, it’s worse than Wayne’s World)

That's all I can think of for now. If I wake up in the middle of the night in a cold sweat reminded of some long lost obscure game I played in the late 80s, I'll be sure to edit it into the list. For now though, this is pretty much it.

Wimli 10-25-2006 02:47 AM

Ok, I'll go secondly :):

These are the adventure games I've played from start to finish (I chose not to include the ones I may have played enough to be able to rate them. That rating would probably still change after finishing the game.):

From good to bad:

Gabriel Knight 3: Blood of the Sacred, Blood of the Damned
Gabriel Knight 2: The Beast Within
Leisure Suit Larry 3: Passionate Patti in Pursuit of the Pulsating Pectorals
King's Quest VI: Heir Today, Gone Tomorrow
Broken Sword 1: Shadow of the Templars
Gabriel Knight 1: Sins of the Fathers
The Longest Journey
Sam & Max Hit the Road
King's Quest IV: The Perils of Rosella
Voyage
Gold Rush!
Zork Grand Inquisitor
Torin's Passage
Largo Winch: Empire Under Threat
Leisure Suit Larry 7: Love for Sail
Broken Sword 2: The Smoking Mirror
Police Quest 1: In Pursuit of the Death Angel
Discworld 1
Laura Bow 1: The Colonel's Bequest
Rama
Leisure Suit Larry 6: Shape Up or Slip Out
The Curse of Monkey Island
Leisure Suit Larry 1: in the Land of the Lounge Lizards
King's Quest VII: The Princeless Bride
Shivers 1
King's Quest V: Absence Makes the Heart Go Yonder
Starship Titanic
Police Quest 2: The Vengeance
Post Mortem
The 7th Guest
Zork Nemesis
Shivers 2: Harvest of Souls
Police Quest IV: Open Season
The Black Mirror
Phantasmagoria 2: A Puzzle of Flesh
Leisure Suit Larry 5: Passionate Patti Does a Little Undercover Work
UFOs
Phantasmagoria 1
Grim Fandango
Syberia 1
The Moment of Silence
CSI 1
Still Life
Myst

If I were asked to give scores to these games, none of them would go below a 5/10, because games I don't think have anything (or very little) going for them, I simply don't finish. So even the bottom five are not all bad. They'll never be favourites though.

Solid Snake 10-25-2006 03:57 AM

Quote:

Originally Posted by Flyboy (Post 356879)
Here we go, motherfuckers!

Uhm, language please.

Flyboy 10-25-2006 04:12 AM

Quote:

Originally Posted by Solid Snake (Post 357034)
Uhm, language please.

Wow, by quoting me you just went and doubled the use of the word "motherfuckers" in this thread. And now I've gone and tripled it. My bad.

daikatana_ 10-25-2006 12:36 PM

Bioforge
Broken Sword 1
Broken Sword 2
Little Big Adventure
Little Big Adventure 2
Outcast
The Dig
Future Wars
Broken Sword 4
Omicron: The Nomad Soul
The Longest Journey
Sam & Max
Dark Earth
Dreamweb
Gabriel Knight
Cruise for the Corpse
Gabriel Knight 2
Gabriel Knight 3
Pandora Directive
Syberia
Azrael's Tears
Woodruff
Loom
Simon The Sorcerer 2
Simon The Sorcerer
Journeyman Project
Blade Runner
Journeyman Project 2
Discworld Noir
Freddy Pharkas: Frontier Pharmacist
Journeyman Project 3
Kings Quest 6
Time Gate: Knights Chase
Goblins 3
Zork Nemesis
Still Life
Monkey Island
Monkey Island 2
Normality
Akagawa Jirou no Yuurei Ressha
Phantasmagoria
Al-Qadim
Beneath a Steel Sky
Monkey Island 3
Innocent Until Caught
Guilty
Legend of Kyrandia
Legend of Kyrandia 2
The Last Express
The Feeble Files
Legend of Kyrandia 3
Tajemstvi Osliho Ostrova
Big Red Adventure
Runaway
Zork Grand Inquisitor
Broken Sword 3
Day of The Tentacle
Flight of The Amazon Queen
Goblins
Goblins 2
Syberia 2
Shannara
Hell: The Cyberpunk Thriller
Space Quest 1
Inca
Inca 2
Prisoner of Ice
Companions of Xanth
Kings Quest 5
Death Gate
Space Quest 2
Space Quest 3
Ecstatica
Ecstatica 2
Bureau 13
Cosmology of Kyoto
Gene Machine
Police Quest 1
Police Quest 2
Police Quest 3
Discworld
I Have No Mouth and I Must Scream
Litil Divil
Oscar
Darkseed
Darkseed 2
Geisha
Bloodnet
Lost In Time
Labrinth of Time
Madness of Roland
The Orion Conspiracy
Bad Mojo
Bud Tucker in Double Trouble
Chronomaster
Congo
Lost Eden
Atlantis
Faust
Harvester
The Fear
Lighthouse
3 Skulls of Toltecs
Crime City
Blue Ice
Black Dahlia
Teen Agent
Zak MacCracken
Monkey Island 4
Grim Fandango
The 7th Guest
Fuck Quest

Sotaria 10-25-2006 01:34 PM

Okay. This list includes only those I have completed or that were so bad I will NEVER finish them. There are many others that I have yet to finish, but may well do someday. It is interesting that in compiling this list, it actually differs from my TOP 10 list, illustrating how hard it is to rank all these games. Take this, therefore, as a loose guide with a +/- 5 slots on average.

Tex Murphy 3 - Under A Killing Moon
Tex Murphy 4 - Pandora Directive
Monkey Island 3 - Curse of Monkey Island
Day of the Tentacle
Runaway
Monkey Island 1 - Secret of Monkey Island
3 Skulls of the Toltecs - Fenimore Fillmore 1
Monkey Island 2 - LeChuck's Revenge
Indiana Jones and the Fate of Atlantis
Space Quest 5 - The Next Mutation
Broken Sword 1 - Circle of Blood (aka The Templars)
The Gene Machine
Tex Murphy 1 - Mean Streets
Space Quest 2 - Vohaul's Revenge
Space Quest 6 - The Spinal Frontier
Tex Murphy 5 - Overseer
Garbiel Knight 1 - Sins of the Father
Beneath A Steel Sky
Inherit the Earth - Quest for the Orb
Legend of Kyrandia
Legend of Kyrandia 2 - The Hand of Fate
Gabriel Knight 2 - The Beast Within
Quest for Glory 4 - Shadows of Darkness
Black Dahlia
Zac MacCraken and the Alien Mindbenders
Broken Sword 2 - The Smoking Mirror
Flight of the Amazon Queen
Nightlong
Space Quest 1 - The Sarien Encounter
Amazon - Guardians of Eden
Quest for Glory 5 - Dragon Fire
Broken Sword 3 - The Sleeping Dragon
Monkey Island 4 - Escape from Monkey Island
Torin's Passage
King's Quest 5 - Absence Makes the Heart Go Yonder!
Maniac Mansion
Full Throttle
Knightsquire
Gold Rush
Quest for Glory 1 - So You Want to be a Hero
Space Quest 4 - Roger Wilco and the Time Ripper
King's Quest 7 - The Princeless Bride
Rise of the Dragon
Alien Virus
Out of Order
Santitarium
Return of the Phantom
Sam and Max Hit the Road
King's Quest 3 - To Heir Is Human
Star Trek - 25th Anniversary
Star Trek - Judgment Rites
Space Quest 3 - The Pirates of Pestulon
Zero Critical
Prisoner of Ice
King's Quest 2 - Romancing the Throne
Earthrise
Loom
King's Quest 4 - The Perils of Rosella
Police Quest 2 - The Vengeance
Tex Murphy 2 - Martian Memorandum
King's Quest 6 - Heir Today, Gone Tomorrow
Future Wars
Quest for Glory 2 - Trial by Fire
Police Quest 1 - In Pursuit of the Death Angel
Conquest of Longbow
Nibiru
Syberia
Codename : Iceman
Heart of China
The Dig
Legend of Kyranida 3 - Malcomb's Revenge
I Have No Mouth and I Must Scream
Quest for Glory 3 - Wages of War
Conquest of Camelot
Fable
Adventures of Willy Beamish
Bargon Attack
Freddy Pharkas Fronteir Pharmachologist
Countdown
Manhunter
Manhunter 2
Pleurburgh
Altered Destiny
Indiana Jones and the Last Crusade
Darkseed 2
Woodruff and Schnibble
Les Manley - Search for the King
King's Quest 1 - Quest for the Crown
Grim Fandango
The Orion Conspiracy

Fien 10-25-2006 03:06 PM

The Madness of Roland is not a game. It's an interactive novel.

colpet 10-25-2006 05:30 PM

Here you go (this is not really an exact science):

Riven
Myst Exile
Realmyst
Rhem
Obsidian
Darkfall
Zork Nemesis
Morpheus
Gabriel Knight 2 (Beast Within)
Riddle of the Sphinx
Alida
Beyond Atlantis
Schizm
Timelapse
Amber
Amerzone
Zork Grand inquisitor
Reah
Tex Murphy the Pandora Directive
Black Dahlia
Seven Games of the Soul (Faust)
Legends of the Prophet and Assasin / Secret of Almut
Barrow Hill
Beyond Atlantis 2
Chemicus
Physicus
Bioscopia
Neverhood
Last Half of Darkness
Syberia
Syberia 2
Gabriel Knight 3 (Blood of the Sacred)
Aura fate of the Ages
Rama
Blackstone Chronicles
The Longest Journey
Drowned God
Shivers
Dark Fall 2
Shivers 2 Harvest of the Souls
Labyrinth of Time
Journeyman Project Trilogy
Sanitarium
Safecracker 2006
Safecracker 1997
Sentinel
Return to Mysterious Island
Mysterious Journey 2
The Omega Stone
Secret of the Luxor
Nancy Drew Haunted Mansion
Nancy Drew secret of the Scarlet Hand
NancyDrewDeceptionIsland
Nancy Drew Blackmoor Manor
Nancy Drew Treasure in the RoyalTower
Nancy Drew Ghost Dogs of MoonLake
Nancy Drew Secret of the Old Clock
Nancy Drew last Train to BlueMoonCanyon
Nancy Drew Shadow Ranch
Nancy Drew Stay Tuned for Danger
Nancy Drew Secrets can Kill
Nancy Drew Haunted Carousel
Tex Murphy Under a Killing Moon
Mummy Tomb of the Pharaoh
Lighthouse
Cracking the Conspiracy
Celtica
Chaos a Fantasy Adventure
Comer
Lightbringer
Beyond Time
Bad Mojo
Ripper
Byzantine Path of Betrayal
Temujin
Cassandra Galleries
Black Mirror
Runaway
Niburu
Tex Murphy Overseer
AGON Mysterious Codex
Martin Mystere Operation Dorian Gray
Cameron File Pharoah’s Curse
Dracula Resurrection
Dracula Last Sanctuary
Frankenstein Through the Eyes of a Monster
Puzz 3D Victorian mansion
Puzz 3D Neushwanstein
Puzz 3D Notre-Dame Cathedral
Puzz 3D Orient Express
Puzz 3D Thomas Kinkaide
Pandora’s Box GOTY
7th Guest
11th Hour
Delaware St. John Curse of Midnight Manor
DelawareSt. JohnTown with no Name
Connections
Entombed Enhanced
Egyptian Prophecy
Echo Secrets of the Lost Cavern
Sigma
Golden Gate
Harvest
The Messenger
the Ring
The Forgotten
Necronomicon
Qin
Mystery of the Mummy (Sherlock Holmes)
The Arrangement
Mystery of the Druids
Remedy
Dark Side of the Moon
Crystal Key
Beneath a steel Sky
5 Days a Stranger
Legend of Lotus Spring
Lifestream
Shady Brook
Chronomaster
Broken Sword 1 Circle of Blood
Broken Sword 2 Smoking Mirror
Uru
Cameron Files Secret of LochNess
Jazz and Faust
Crystal Key 2
MonkeyIsland 1
Crystal Key
Road to India
Traitor’s Gate
Post Mortem
Watchmaker
Stupid Invaders
Adventure at Chateau D’or
Pilgrim
The Ward

greatAuk 10-25-2006 10:20 PM

Great Way to Avoid Writting Papers
 
Well based on how I feel at the moment here goes...


Grim Fandango
Quest for Glory I: So You Want to Be a Hero
The Curse of Monkey’s Island
The Longest Journey
Gabriel Knight III: Blood of the Sacred, Blood of the Damned
The Pandora Directive
I Have No Mouth, and I Must Scream
Star Trek 25th Anniversary
Star Trek: Judgment Rites
Sanitarium
Leisure Suit Larry 7: Love for Sail!
Space Quest V: The Next Mutation
The Last Express
The Dark Eye
Quest for Glory II: Trial by Fire
Quest for Glory III: Wages of War
The Secret of Monkey Island
Out From Boneville
Indiana Jones and the Last Crusade
The Great Cow Race
Blade Runner
Quest for Glory IV: Shadows of Darkness
Superhero League of Hoboken
Kings Quest II: Romancing the Throne
Kings Quest: Quest for the Crown
Indiana Jones and the Fate of Atlantis
Freddy Pharkas Frontier Pharmacist
Discworld Noir
Beavis and Butt-head in Virtual Stupidity
Duckman
Dragonsphere
Spycraft: The Great Game
Kings Quest VII: The Princeless Bride
Leisure Suit Larry 6: Shape up or Slip Out!
Leisure Suit Larry 5: Passionate Patti Does a Little Undercover Work!
Space Quest VI: The Spinal Frontier
Space Quest IV: The Time Rippers
Space Quest III: Pirates of Pestulon
Gabriel Knight I: Sins of the Father
Police Quest 1: In Pursuit of the Death Angel
Laura Bow 1: The Colonel's Bequest
Kings Quest IV: The Perils of Rosella
Kings Quest III: To Heir is Human
Kings Quest VI: Heir Today, Gone Tomorrow
Kings Quest V: Absence Makes the Heart Go Yonder
Full Throttle
Sam and Max Hit the Road
Quest for Glory V: Dragon Fire
The Dig
Under a Killing Moon
Loom
Police Quest 2: The Vengeance
Police Quest 3: The Kindred
Leisure Suit Larry 2: Goes Looking for Love (In Several Wrong Places!)
Leisure Suit Larry 3: Passionate Patti in Pursuit of the Pulsating Pectorals!
Leisure Suit Larry 1: In the Land of the Lounge Lizard
Overseer
Escape from Monkey’s Island
Fahrenheit
Space Quest I: The Sarien Encounter
Space Quest II: Vouhaul’s Revenge
Laura Bow 2: The Dagger of Amon Ra
Callahan’s Crosstime Salon
Maniac Mansion: Day of the Tentacle
Eric the Unready
Missing
Shannara
Discworld
Discworld 2: Mortality Bytes!
Death Gate
Mission Critical
Gabriel Knight II: The Beast Within
Police Quest 4: Daryl F Gates’ Open Season
The Adventures of Willy Beamish
Mean Streets
Martian Memorandum
Zork I: The Great Underground Empire
Zork II: The Wizard of Frobozz
Zork III: The Dungeon Master
The Legend of Kyrandia Book One: Fables and Fiends
The Legend of Kyrandia Book Two: The Hand of Fate
The Legend of Kyrandia Book Three: Malcolm’s Revenge
Monkey Island 2: LeChuck’s Revenge
Bad Mojo: The Roach Game Redux
Syberia
Zak McKracken and the Alien Mindbenders
Broken Sword: The Shadow of the Templars
Broken Sword II: The Smoking Mirror
Monty Python and the Quest for the Holy Grail
Leisure Suit Larry: Magna Cum Laude Uncut
Broken Sword III: The Sleeping Dragon
Black Dahlia
Maniac Mansion
King’s Quest Mask of Eternity
Amber: Journeys Beyond
Runaway: A Road Adventure
Yoda Stories
Myst


And yes I never really cared for myst or its clones.

Hammerite 10-27-2006 05:26 AM

i would never be bothered to craft such a MASSIVE LIST

Trumgottist 10-29-2006 01:21 AM

Grim Fandango
Discworld 1
Discworld Noir
Gabriel Knight 2
Indiana Jones and the Fate of Atlantis
Beneath a Steel Sky
Sam and Max Hit The Road
Eric the Unready
Zork Grand Inquisitor
Toonstruck
Sanitarium
Myst
The Longest Journey
Syberia and Syberia 2
Day of the Tentacle
Bone 1
Full Throttle
Road to India
Monkey Island 2
Monkey Island 3
Monkey Island 4
Monkey Island 1
Broken Sword 1
Broken Sword 3
King's Quest 7
Broken Sword 2
Largo Winch
The Dig
Keepsake
Flight of the Amazon Queen
Blade Runner
Stupid Invaders
Kyrandia 3 - Hand of Fate
Runaway
Down in the Dumps
Simon the Sorcerer 3
Simon the Sorcerer 2
Gilbert Goodmate and the Mushroom of Phungoria
Discworld 2
Simon the Sorcerer 1
Aztec

AFGNCAAP 10-29-2006 02:07 AM

Wow, I compiled a list in Excel a couple of days ago and completely forgot about it. Here's the most accurate ranking of my tastes I could come up with, then. I only took into consideration the (originally) commercial games I had completed:
  • Grim Fandango
  • Gabriel Knight
  • Gabriel Knight 3
  • Bad Mojo | Broken Sword | Death Gate | Longest Journey | Monkey Island 2: LeChuck's Revenge | Myst III: Exile | Riddle of Master Lu | Sanitarium | Voyage | Zork Grand Inquisitor
  • Loom
  • Shannara
  • Spycraft
  • Tex Murphy: Overseer
  • Toonstruck
  • Hitchhiker's Guide to the Galaxy
  • Fahrenheit
  • Space Quest 1
  • Secret of Monkey Island
  • Escape from Monkey Island
  • Black Mirror
  • Sherlock Holmes: Case of the Silver Earring
  • Dark Eye
  • Blade Runner
  • Dracula - Resurrection
  • Broken Sword 3
  • Orion Burger
  • Prisoner of Ice
  • Neverhood
  • Gabriel Knight 2
  • Atlantis
  • Curse of Monkey Island
  • Echo: Secrets of the Lost Cavern
  • Faust
  • Indiana Jones and the Fate of Atlantis
  • Beneath a Steel Sky
  • Journeyman Project Turbo
  • Leisure Suit Larry 7
  • Feeble Files
  • Broken Sword 2
  • Moment of Silence | Runaway
  • Atlantis 2 (aka Beyond Atlantis)
  • Ace Ventura
  • King's Quest 1
  • King's Quest 2
  • Leisure Suit Larry 3
  • Książę i Tchórz (aka "Galador: Curse of Prince"/"The Prince and the Coward", but to the best of my knowledge it was only released in Polish and German, so I'm reluctant to refer to it with an English title)
  • Simon the Sorcerer 2
  • Indiana Jones and the Last Crusade
  • Gilbert Goodmate
  • Jack Orlando | Pilgrim | Pompeii | Post Mortem | Torin's Passage
  • Thorgal: Odin's Quest (aka Curse of Atlantis: Thorgal's Quest)
  • Jazz and Faust

kostas 10-29-2006 03:57 AM

Monkey Island 3 - The Curse Of Monkey Island
Grim Fandango
Gabriel Knight 2 - The Beast Within
Monkey Island 1 - The Secret of Monkey Island
Discworld 2 - Missing Presumed
Broken Sword 1 - Shadow Of The Templars
Monkey Island 2 - Lechuck's Revenge
Still Life
Clandestiny
Syberia 1
Gabriel Knight 3 - Blood Of The Sacred Blood Of The Damned
Sam And Max Hit The Road
Broken Sword 2 - The Smoking Mirror
Broken Sword 3 - The Sleeping Dragon
The Last Express
Shannara
Monkey Island 4 - Escape From Monkey Island
Titanic - Adventure Out Of Time
Leisure Suit Larry 7 - Love For Sail
The Longest Journey
Camelot - Conquests For The Holy Grail
Myst
Atlantis 1
Lost Files Of Sherlock Holmes - The Case of the Rose Tattoo
Indiana Jones And The Fate Of Atlantis
Day Of The Tentacle
Tex Murphy 4 - Pandora Directive
Gabriel Knight 1 - Sins Of The Fathers
Syberia 2
Fable
Full Throttle
The Dig
Post Mortem
Redjack

Erwin_Br 10-29-2006 05:27 AM

Monkey Island 2
Sam and Max: Hit the Road
Day of the Tentacle
Curse of Monkey Island
Grim Fandango
Monkey Island
Indiana Jones and the Fate of Atlantis
Full Throttle
Flight of the Amazon Queen
The Dig
The X-Files Game
Duckman
Simon the Sorcerer 2
Simon the Sorcerer
Discworld
The Longest Journey
Leisure Suit Larry 7: Love for Sail
Broken Sword
Broken Sword 2
The Last Express
Runaway: A Road Adventure
Gilbert Goodmate
Beneath a Steel Sky
Innocent until caught
Loom
Guilty
Phantasmagoria 2
ToonStruck
Legend of Kyrandia 2
Space Quest 6: Spinal Frontier
Titanic: Adventure out of time
Little Big Adventure
Little Big Adventure 2
Bone 2: The Great Cowrace
Bone: Out from Boneville
Normality
Zak McKracken
Maniac Mansion
Inherit the Earth
Legend of Kyrandia 3
Legend of Kyrandia
Discworld Noir
Space Quest 5: Next mutation
Blade Runner
Space Quest 1: Sarien Encounter
Escape from Monkey Island
Bud Tucker in Double Trouble
Ace Ventura
Star Trek: 25th Anniversary
Bureau 13
Space Quest 4
Dreamweb
The Orion Conspiracy
Down in the Dumps
Hopkins FBI
Police Quest 3
Gabriel Knight 2: The Beast Within
Gabriel Knight 3
Indiana Jones and the Last Crusade
Kings Quest 3
Jack Orlando
The 7th Guest
The Crystal Key

--Erwin

Suiton! 10-31-2006 11:46 AM

Well since I never liked old school adventure gamers,And I have a picky taste, the list won't be that long, in order from bestest to best:

1. Still Life (best A.Game ever)
2. The longest jouney 1
3. Syberia 2
4. CSI 2
5. Scratches
6. SafeCracker

Well thats what I can remember for now.

daikatana_ 11-02-2006 03:48 AM

I cant believe it, none of you guys ever played Bioforge????

Trumgottist 11-02-2006 01:46 PM

Quote:

Originally Posted by daikatana_ (Post 360487)
I cant believe it, none of you guys ever played Bioforge????

I haven't. Is it an adventure game? Wikipedia calls it an RPG.

(If it counts, it currently holds the place as the #1 adventure game ever in this thread, since only you have mentioned it, and you rank it above everything else.)

Mordalles 11-02-2006 02:10 PM

Quote:

Originally Posted by Suiton! (Post 359728)
Well since I never liked old school adventure gamers,

why don't you like us? ;(

Erwin_Br 11-02-2006 03:17 PM

Quote:

Originally Posted by daikatana_ (Post 360487)
I cant believe it, none of you guys ever played Bioforge????

I did! And I totally forgot about it!!! :crazy:

--Erwin

daikatana_ 11-02-2006 10:52 PM

Quote:

Originally Posted by Trumgottist (Post 360694)
I haven't. Is it an adventure game? Wikipedia calls it an RPG.

(If it counts, it currently holds the place as the #1 adventure game ever in this thread, since only you have mentioned it, and you rank it above everything else.)

Ufffff, RPG? I just checked wiki and you are right... Actually it can be almost anything, but RPG :)

Check this:
http://www.mobygames.com/game/bioforge

Solid Snake 11-03-2006 05:10 AM

Well Ign and Gamestats also consider it an RPG and even Mobygames you linked consider it an Action Adventure in short it is apparent that Bioforge is not a "pure" adventure as the other games listed here so don't fret about it.

Mordalles 11-03-2006 10:24 AM

Quote:

Originally Posted by Erwin_Br (Post 358591)
Little Big Adventure
Little Big Adventure 2
--Erwin

its interesting, since i never really considered lba an adventure game. its one of my all time favourite games, but more of an action rpg. :D
i can understand why adventure gamers would want to include it in the adventure genre, since it's so good, but then we should include a whole lot of other games as well, maybe even tombraider. :D

Jelena 11-03-2006 10:38 AM

Quote:

Originally Posted by Trumgottist (Post 360694)
(If it counts, it currently holds the place as the #1 adventure game ever in this thread, since only you have mentioned it, and you rank it above everything else.)

If that was the case this is a strange way of ranking games. I'd better read your links again to understand this better.

AFGNCAAP 11-03-2006 11:07 AM

Post your list, woman! You'll have plenty of time for reading the links later! ;)

Captain Blondebeard 11-03-2006 11:42 AM

I wish I had the time but I will go 10 deep.

1)BS Shadow of The Templars
2)MI2
3)MI3
4)S&M
5)MI1
6)KQ6
7)Dott
8)Full Throttle
9) Tierra's version of KQ2
10) GK1

So close) LSL7

Erwin_Br 11-03-2006 04:19 PM

Quote:

Originally Posted by Mordalles (Post 361071)
its interesting, since i never really considered lba an adventure game. its one of my all time favourite games, but more of an action rpg. :D
i can understand why adventure gamers would want to include it in the adventure genre, since it's so good, but then we should include a whole lot of other games as well, maybe even tombraider. :D

Well, adventures and RPG's have a lot in common.

RPG purists (if they even exist) would probably not count LBA as an RPG either, I think. It lacks certain characteristics that are common in these games. It's not a traditional adventure either, I give you that. But enough to make it to my list, though.

--Erwin


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