[BlackPaw]

Recently i have been playing some adventure games that I thought are gonna be epic long and mind blowing, but I was disappointed.

What i want to know is, based on your opinion what is the longest adventure game you have played or heard about?

By longest i mean:

- has a really long story, and lots of puzzles, maybe side stories not related to the main story
- lots of characters to interact with
- lots of locations
- long dialogues and lots of them

NOTE: don't tell me for ex. "x" game was the longest - just because you have been struggling to finish for days, or because you couldn't solve the super-hard puzzles.

[Fien]

The wonderful Discworld games were pretty long. And Black Dahlia. And the Tex Murphy games. And The Longest Journey and Dreamfall, that goes without saying.

But my vote goes to... The Feeble Files!

PS: Shame on me for not mentioning the recent Whispered World. Not nearly as long as the story of little Feeble though.

[D.C.]

Yeah, I think The Longest Journey fits your criteria exactly. Even when you replay it knowing all the solutions to the puzzles you can still expect to spend plenty of time just listening to the dialogue alone.

It's a great game too.

[Fantasysci5]

I'd have to say either "The Longest Journey" or "The Lost Crown". I was surprised by just how much backstory and depth these games had. My top two favorite games of all time, too.

[orient]

The Longest Journey took me a while to finish, maybe 18 hours or so. Dreamfall didn't seem as long, but was still lengthy. Collectively, Syberia I & II were fairly long; I point that out because I played them back-to-back and they seem more like one long game to me.

I'm still playing Another Code: R on Wii -- 14.5 hours and counting, so that's been a long game.

[SamandMax]

The most recent one I can think of is The Lost Crown, which is easily the longest and most fulfilling adventure game I played in the 00's. The town and surrounding countryside you get to explore are huge, and not only that, packed with the detail and atmosphere that most modern adventure games are missing. To sum up how expansive the game is, you stumble upon and explore not one but two different churches. The game just keeps opening up more and more as you go along, and just when you think you've seen everything, you stumble across another new area full of even more places to explore.

[Collector]

Originally Posted by orient

Collectively, Syberia I & II were fairly long; I point that out because I played them back-to-back and they seem more like one long game to me.

I consider them one game, too, even though I played I before II came out.

[-Infiltrator-]

Originally Posted by SamandMax

The most recent one I can think of is The Lost Crown, which is easily the longest and most fulfilling adventure game I played in the 00's. The town and surrounding countryside you get to explore are huge, and not only that, packed with the detail and atmosphere that most modern adventure games are missing. To sum up how expansive the game is, you stumble upon and explore not one but two different churches. The game just keeps opening up more and more as you go along, and just when you think you've seen everything, you stumble across another new area full of even more places to explore.

I agree, this is the longest game and the best i played for years.
Real scary one, the atmosphere of the game is awesome, hope the sequel "The Last Crown: Haunting of Hallowed Isle" will see the light

[gray pierce]

Don't know 'bout "The Lost Crown" but my Longest Jounrey was...well you can guess. Perhaps we should split this thread in a poll "Longest Journey vs Lost Crown"

I agree by the way that Dreamfall wasn't as lengthy as TLJ.

[Fien]

Originally Posted by gray pierce

Don't know 'bout "The Lost Crown" but my Longest Jounrey was...well you can guess. Perhaps we should split this thread in a poll "Longest Journey vs Lost Crown"

The Feeble Files would still win hands down.

[gray pierce]

Originally Posted by Fien

The Feeble Files would still win hands down.

Can't disagree with that since I haven't played it.

[eriktorbjorn]

Originally Posted by BlackPaw

- lots of locations

For sheer numbers it might still be the 1983 adventure game Snowball, which boasted that it had "over 7,000 locations". Though from what I've heard (I haven't actually played it myself, at least not past the very beginning), about 6,800 of them were part of a gigantic, colour-coded maze so that might not count.

(This was back when mazes were still considered a perfectly natural and healthy way of padding a game.)

[rayvio]

Originally Posted by Fien

The Feeble Files would still win hands down.

how I wish it worked in windows7, or at least XP

[Fien]

Originally Posted by rayvio

how I wish it worked in windows7, or at least XP

GOG.com is the answer to all your problems.
They make sure it works in XP, Vista, etc.
DRM free too.

http://www.gog.com/en/gamecard/the_feeble_files

[zobraks]

Originally Posted by rayvio

how I wish it worked in windows7, or at least XP

Feeble Files works on both, but you just have to install and use ScummVM. The compatibility of FF with ScummVM is 95%.

Many other old adventures can be played by using ScummVM, check the official site and (specially) their compatibility list.

[Bon]

Rose Tattoo (am I the only one who played it here? ). There aren't that much puzzles, but the story aspect is totally epic.

[zobraks]

Originally Posted by Bon

Rose Tattoo (am I the only one who played it here? ).

No, you're not.

Originally Posted by Bon

Rose Tattoo... the story aspect is totally epic.

Yes, it's epic but so are some bugs you encounter in Rose Tattoo .

[Mohlin]

Originally Posted by gray pierce

Perhaps we should split this thread in a poll "Longest Journey vs Lost Crown"

I'll throw in Riven (Myst II) in the poll to make it more interesting.

Edit : But there is no characters (sort of) and no dialoge.

[ozzie]

I agree that both The Longest Journey and The Feeble Files are two of the longest adventures out there, in terms of length, locations and characters to interact with.
Various issues padded out the games, though: with TLJ it were the overlengthy, extensive dialogues and some illogical, frustrating puzzles and with Feeble just some frustrating, "who would think of that?" kind of puzzles. Oh, and the arcade machine sequence. Damn, was that annoying!
If you consider Syberia 1+2 as one game, then it's also quite long, of course. I don't prefer to, though, because I dislike the second part.
Oh, and Zak McKracken is huge, too. And Grim Fandango is the biggest of the later LucasArts adventures.
Otherwise I can't think of any especially huge adventure game.

[cwapitm]

Murder in the Abbey has a lot of dialouge if you like that.