Your Top 3 Adventures

By bas2888 on Fri Jan 23, 2009 at 2:23PM

I love top 3's! Played some of the greatest adventuregames just looking at the ones others love, so please put your Top 3 of best adventure games in this topic....

My top 3:
1. Grim Fandango
2. Blade Runner
3. Maniac Mansion

Hi bas2888!
I'll get the ball rolling. This is one of my favourite threads when someone asks this. The trouble is I find it absolutely impossible to narrow it down to three. A top ten I might - just might - manage, but they'd nearly all be equal first place! :-D. Anyway, here's a set of three of my favourites, picked randomly from my top 10.

Broken Sword: The Shadow Of The Templars
The Longest Journey
The Secret of Monkey Island . . . . and (sorry to cheat), I'll sneak in some of my other equal favourites if that's okay . . . .

Gabriel Knight 3: Blood of the Sacred, Blood of the Damned
Discworld Noir
Gabriel Knight : Sins Of The Fathers
Monkey Island 3: The Curse of Monkey Island
Grim Fandango
The Lost Files of Sherlock Holmes: Case of the Rose Tattoo
Broken Sword 2: The Smoking Mirror

By bas2888 on Fri Jan 23, 2009 at 10:30PM

Your right, 3 is to narrow... But when I make a top 10 I surely will forget a lot.
Played just so many games in the past few years, sometimes I even forget the best ones.

Like now, just when I began typing this, I was thinking that Syberia had to appear in my top 3 as well.

By Le Rêveur on Sat Jan 24, 2009 at 7:29PM

Yeah I must agree top 3 games is pretty hard but I'll say:

Syberia
Discworld Noir
And definately The Longest Journey

By greyfuss on Mon Jan 26, 2009 at 4:14PM

Here are my three games which coincidently cover 3 different type of adventure...

Syberia 1 & 2 ( counts as one game, sorry my rule) (Story/Quest)
Rhem 3 (Puzzle/Exploration)
Phantasmagoria: Prey its Only a Nightmare (FMV/Horror)

By danyboy_ on Sat Feb 14, 2009 at 9:27PM

Syberia 1 and 2 and the Longest Journey.

CU

danyboy

I have so many top favorites that it's really hard to limit it to just 3. So here are my top 3 plus a few more.

Gabriel Knight: The Beast Within
Conspiracies
Riddle of the Sphinx

Post Mortem
The Moment of Silence
Gabriel Knight: Blood of the Sacred Blood of the Damned
Scratches
Barrow Hill
Mummy Tomb of the Pharaoh
NiBiRu

Since I answered my top 3 above I would like to add my Top Ten. Each game gave me a different type of enjoyment.

In alphabetical order the Top Ten

Black Dahlia
Dark Side of the Moon
Gabriel Knight: The Beast Within
Lighthouse: The Dark Being
Myst III: Exile
Myst V: End of Ages
Phantasmagoria: Prey its Only a Nightmare
Phantasmagoria: A Puzzle of Flesh
Rhem 3
Syberia 1+2

The Almost Made the Top Ten List:

Blackstone Chronicles
Lost Crown, The
Myst IV: Revelation
Rhem
Rhem 2
Riddle of the Sphinx
Riven
Sherlock Holmes vs Arsene Lupin
Shivers
Zork: Nemesis

Ohhh top 3-- let's see.....
Syberia 1 and 2
Black Dahlia... now if I can add
Twinsens Odyssey and Rhem just cause 3 is hard.

The 3 games that come on the strongest in my memory bank are:
1. Indiana Jones and the Fate of Atlantis (That opening with the credits is the funniest ever and the rest is equally great. Played it 6 times.)
2. King's Quest 4: The Perils of Rosella (So many scenes still replay in my mind. This was one of the early games that I actually finished, even played a second time.)
3. Syberia (After a hiatus of almost 5 years, this is the game that brought me back in April, 2005. I played the 2 parts back-to-back as one big, fantastic adventure!)

Wow, the top 3 is hard.

GK 1 and 2 (is that cheating?)
Simon the Sorcerer 1 and 2 (boy, I am a cheat)
Broken Sword 1 and 2

lol no it's not cheating. I think only a few of us could keep it to only 3 games. Some pretty good games you picked too

hatshepsut

I haven't chimed in as yet, but I'd have to say"

Syberia 1 and 2
The Longest Journey...an incredible adventure and so memorable!
Still Life...although I never could get by that robot laser puzzle.

jkeerie that robot laser puzzle in Still Life was one of the hardest I've ever done. It had me pulling my hair out for days in frustration
I think I finally had to print out a map to get past it.

hatshepsut

Oh, I will never forget that robot laser puzzle. I did it over so many times I was half-expecting to run out of robots! I found a map somewhere that helped me, too. Another problem I had with that robot was not always knowing which way it was facing, so that accounted for some wrong moves, sometimes even before I reached the laser beams. I stayed with it though and even managed to get it right finally. Only to reach that strange ending. I thought I missed something, but then I read that others had the same questions about it that I did. Otherwise it was a really neat game.

I had alot of trouble with which way those robots were facing too.

hatshepsut

I ended up getting a saved game to just get past that part...the only one I ever needed. I found the diagram later and the advice to use the arrows on the keyboard. I just haven't had the desire to replay it.

The robot puzzle has kept me from doing a replay or wanting to do a replay also. I've never understood why developers feel the need to put an almost unbeatable puzzle like that in an otherwise enjoyable game.

hatshepsut

Since the puzzle was near the end of the game, I'm thinking they had cash flow problems and just didn't have enough money to finish the game properly, considering how up-in-the-air it ended. I seem to have read they went bankrupt or something right around that time. It was a great game up to that point. I am willing to give them the benefit of the doubt about making the robot puzzle deliberately hard, which is more than I give some other game-makers.