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1. Discworld: Noir - Machinarium is cute, but Disc is better.

2. Grim Fandango - I haven’t played GK3, but I don’t see it being better than one of my absolute favourites.

3. Gemini Rue - Broken Sword is good but overrated while Gemini Rue is the game that got me back to the genre after a few years of hiatus.

4. The Dig - Syberia is very good and it’d be a shame to see it go, but The Dig is a whole other level of awesome in my book.

El Manny - 15 January 2015 04:56 PM

2. Grim Fandango

Now there’s a surprise!

Iznogood - 15 January 2015 08:11 AM

I also don’t think the GK games will have much chance when it comes up against some of the heavyweights, if for no other reason than because no one agrees which is the best, and everybody hates at least one in the series. Only GK1 really stands a chance as no one only few seems to outright hate it.

Not true. I love all the GK games with passion and give them 5/5 stars. I used to think there were like half a star or so difference with the order from best to worst being 1,3,2 but replay session this decade made me put them into equal grounds. And there’s really not an aspect in any of the games that I would say I hate, just a couple of nitpicky things. I personally liked the FMV and thought the actors to be good enough (some better and some worse) and I definitely liked the whole 3D scheme in the 3rd game.

Bogi - 15 January 2015 09:41 AM

I think the thing with Monkey Island games is which one someone played first. I would say 9/10 people that played Curse first consider it the best in the series and on the other hand those who played original games first (especially when they were just released) tend to prefer them, but maybe not in such high percent. On the other hand there is even a minority that considers that Curse derived a way to much from the originals and that the change in tone was “betrayal” of the series in a way and still pray for the “true” Monkey Island 3 from Ron Gilbert

I played these games in order and still totally loved the 3rd game. I’m not sure if I think it’s better than the second but it might be. I just loved it and I’m not even a fan of its type of graphics really. I was just totally captivated by the plot and immersed in the world. The 4th game was a huge disappointment to me after that, and I never even finished the game because it crashed after the monkey dance crap and my last save was way back. I have yet to play the SE versions though (or the Tales), so I don’t know if a rerun with those and the third game would make me change my mind.

Discworld Noir
GK3
Gemini Rue
The Dig

Match 1 - Machinarium
Match 2 - Gabriel Knight 3
Match 3 - Broken Sword 1
Match 4 - Syberia

Some of these choices are getting seriously tough now!

Iznogood - 15 January 2015 08:11 AM

I also don’t think the GK games will have much chance when it comes up against some of the heavyweights, if for no other reason than because no one agrees which is the best, and everybody many members hates dislikes at least one in the series. Only GK1 really stands a chance as no one only few seems to outright hate it.

Fixed

The funny thing with the GK series is that even thought it is a series, then the three games are also very different, and in many ways more different from each other then from other games made at the same time.

FrasierCrane - 16 January 2015 06:21 AM

Yes, but I think this was one of the great things back in the day that often when they made a sequel to a game, they tried to mix things up and try to do something really new with it, not just making the same game over and over again with another numeral at the end of the title.

Sure, especially Sierra was always trying new things, and they deserve credit for that even if it didn’t always turn out well, I mean just look at KQ8

FrasierCrane - 16 January 2015 06:21 AM

I for one think it really worked out well for the GK games and I do love all three of them for different reasons.

Well this is where we disagree, I personally think that GK2 is a deeply flawed game, not because it is FMV, that can work very well if it is done right, like in the Tex Murphy series, but because they sacrificed too much in order to make it FMV, and ended up with a good story but a mediocre game (imo). GK3 on the other hand turned out much better as an adventure game, perhaps the best in the series, even though the graphics haven’t aged very well.