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R64 Bracket 5 - The Big AG VS Tournament
1) Larry 7
Machinarium is a cute little game, but… its Larry Laffer for Christ sake, our all time favourite anti-hero. And not just Larry but one of the best games in the series, and one of the funniest games ever made.
2) Discworld Noir
I really really like Simon, my second favourite all time anti-hero and everybody’s favourite brat, but I’m a huge Disc fan and Discworld Noir is not only the best of the Disc games, but also one of my all-time favourite games. So… sorry simon, you deserved better, but you are simply over-matched here.
3) Gabriel Knight 3: Blood of the Sacred, Blood of the Damned
In many ways the best of the GK games, and a very underrated game imo. Jane Jensen at her best and at the height of her story-telling, and even if the 3D graphics haven’t withstood the test of time very well, it still managed to get me completely immersed when I originally played it.
4) Grim Fandango
No contest - Few games can beat GF and this is not one of them.
Edit: I’m surprised to see so much love for Machinarium… or hatred towards Larry, whatever might be the case. Not all state reasons for their votes.
And.. Who doesn’t like Noir?!?
Especially when it is Discworld Noir 
The way it mixes the story from three of the most classic Bogart movies, The Maltese Falcon, The Big Sleep and Casablanca, add some werewolves and a mad scientist wizard that wants to destroy the world, and have it all take place in the Discworld universe… is simply pure brilliance imo.
You have to play the game, to find out why you are playing the game! - eXistenZ
Wow. It keeps stunning me how different our tastes are.
I tried Discworld 1, but it was so ridiculously impossible, and with so little direction of where to go and what to do next, or why I’d even want to do these things, that I just couldn’t get into it at all. Whereas Discworld Noir instantly had me hooked.
But it makes sense because you said you don’t like any modern noir. I didn’t even know not liking noir was a thing that was possible.
And as good as classic Noir is, so many of the best Noir-ish things were made much later. (Chinatown, Blade Runner, Tex Murphy games, etc.)
By looking at the scores in all groups it’s clear that Noir is so universally loved and cherished that I think I can already guess what the final may be 
Everything after Bogart and Cagney haven’t sat well with me (I’m not counting Blade Runner as neo-Noir per se). So that’s probably a reason why my taste differs a lot from the most people here.
Match 1
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Machinarium 16
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Match 2
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Simon the Sorcerer 4
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Match 3
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Gabriel Knight 3: BotS, BotD 18
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Match 4
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Grim Fandango 23
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I enjoy playing adventure games on my Alienware M17 r4 and my Nintendo Switch OLED.
1. Machinarium
4. Grim Fandango
The way it mixes the story from three of the most classic Bogart movies, The Maltese Falcon, The Big Sleep and Casablanca, add some werewolves and a mad
scientistwizard that wants to destroy the world, and have it all take place in the Discworld universe… is simply pure brilliance imo.
Don’t forget the Lovecraft they snuck in there. 
The truth can’t hurt you, it’s just like the dark: it scares you witless but in time you see things clear and stark. - Elvis Costello
Maybe this time I can be strong, but since I know who I am, I’m probably wrong. Maybe this time I can go far, but thinking about where I’ve been ain’t helping me start. - Michael Kiwanuka
Match 1 - Machinarium
Match 3 - GK3
Match 4 - Grim Fandango
M2: Discworld Noir
M3: Gabriel Knight 3
Discworld Noir
Grim Fandango
1) Larry 7
Machinarium is a cute little game, but… its Larry Laffer for Christ sake, our all time favourite anti-hero. And not just Larry but one of the best games in the series, and one of the funniest games ever made.Edit: I’m surprised to see so much love for Machinarium… or hatred towards Larry, whatever might be the case. Not all state reasons for their votes.
I also noticed that there is extreme lack of love, even hatred towards Larry in recent years. It seems he doesn’t have place in this new, “politically correct” world 
1) Larry 7
Machinarium is a cute little game, but… its Larry Laffer for Christ sake, our all time favourite anti-hero. And not just Larry but one of the best games in the series, and one of the funniest games ever made.Edit: I’m surprised to see so much love for Machinarium… or hatred towards Larry, whatever might be the case. Not all state reasons for their votes.
I also noticed that there is extreme lack of love, even hatred towards Larry in recent years. It seems he doesn’t have place in this new, “politically correct” world
From my point of view the LL series is childish, puerile, pathetic and not worth the time of day. Yes, I know what was apparently intended but, for me anyway, it failed miserably. And that was from the very first game at the time of release and not me re-reviewing from modern perspectives. You might understand why I didn’t vote for LL7
Life is what it is.
From my point of view the LL series is childish, puerile, pathetic and not worth the time of day. Yes, I know what was apparently intended but, for me anyway, it failed miserably. And that was from the very first game at the time of release and not me re-reviewing from modern perspectives. You might understand why I didn’t vote for LL7
I have to admit that’s always been very much my impression too, gathered over 20+ years; hence I’ve never really played them. It would be nice if some people would accept that not everyone likes that type of humour rather than denigrating those of us who don’t as just polically correct people showing “hatred” towards LSL.
I didn’t mean to generalize, of course there are many people that never liked LSL, it only seems to me that Larry was much more liked 10-20 years ago.
And in the meantime we must admit that the type of humor that LSL games have became dramatically less desirable in the mainstream media. Especially now when some journalist find misogyny even in the games like Quest for Infamy.
I liked Larry games and LSL7 is pretty good gameplay wise too but it’s not close being a 5 star game which I’d require if I were to vote against a game I haven’t played (and assume I like).
I’d definitely enjoy a similar game where you could hunt a bunch of hunks, and in general I’m not that worried about the roles of the two sexes in games that obviously humorous and Larry himself is portrayed as pretty pathetic guy instead of some stud that conquers object-like women.
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I’d definitely enjoy a similar game where you could hunt a bunch of hunks, and in general I’m not that worried about the roles of the two sexes in games that obviously humorous and Larry himself is portrayed as pretty pathetic guy instead of some stud that conquers object-like women.
That sums it up nicely.
I just can’t believe Sierra will fall to only GKs and eventually KQ6!
It`s extremely hard to choose between Larry 7 and Machinarium. They are both great games, but here it goes:
- Machinarium
- Simon the Sorcerer
- Space Quest IV
- Grim Fandango
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