recommend me an adventure game

[DrSpike]

Syberia is a great game! Not for LotM though.

[Boris Godunov]

How about the Monkey Island games?

[FrostyBoy]

Monkey Island 1 2 and 3 is a must try.
The Longest Journey is a must.
Syberia 1 and 2 are ok adventure games.
Space Quest 3 is a real goodie.
Lesiure Suit Larry 1 2 3 and 5 are great for a laugh and some fun.
Any Kings Quest series would be an interesting try.
Grim Fandango is a great adventure.
Loom is quite good.
Sam and Max is a lot of fun.
Full Throttle is a must.
The Dig is also a must.
Zak McKracken and Maniac Mansion are oldies but goodies.

Most of these are point and click with the usual push, pull, walk to, open, etc commands

[snoopy369]

King's Quest

[Kuciwalker]

Originally posted by DrSpike
Syberia is a great game! Not for LotM though.

The controls are enough to make me vomit.

[FrostyBoy]

The controls are fine but the simplicity of it make the game unfun.

I prefer text (like space quest) and then monkey island 1 style interface.

Really adds to the adventure.

[Hueij]

Best adventure ever: Indiana Jones and the Fate of Atlantis.

And if you are lucky enough to find The Last Express: buy it! Political intrigue, murder and love on the last trip of the Orient Express before the outbreak of WW 1.

[Adagio]

Grim Fandango

Originally posted by Sn00py
Lesiure Suit Larry 1 2 3 and 5 are great for a laugh and some fun.

I've only played 6 and 7 and enjoyed them both

[Urban Ranger]

Text commands are almost a must. "Get all" beats walking about at a location and click on every single pixel.

[FrostyBoy]

lol I always forget about the get all command. but makes it too easy

Adagio, you will love the other Larry's if 6 and 7 are the only ones you played.

Hueji is right on the nose with Indiana Jones and the Fate of Atlantis, it is probably the 3rd best adventure game I can think of. Monkey Island 1 being first and Longest Journey second.

There's also Indiana Jones and the last Crusade, which is also very very good.

[Adagio]

Originally posted by Sn00py
Adagio, you will love the other Larry's if 6 and 7 are the only ones you played.

I have downloaded them, but I haven't got around to play them yet...

[Boris Godunov]

Originally posted by Sn00py
Monkey Island 1

Did you play 3 (Curse of Monkey Island)? It's pretty much universally regarded as the best of the series. I certainly think it's easily not only the best Monkey Island game, but the best adventure game I've ever played.

Lotm, also check out, if you can get it cheap, "Titanic: Adventure out of Time." It's not perfect, but it's pretty cool to have the virtual Titanic to walk around, and the adventure itself is engrossing enough for some diversion.

[FrostyBoy]

I've played all Monkey Island games. Yes, Monkey Island 3 is extremely good, but Monkey Island 1 holds a special place, because it was my first experience with a strange named game called Monkey Island 1.

I was only about 12. So you see, when MI3 came out, I wasn't exactly curious or interested as I was with MI1.

Monkey Island 1 is also the opening of a great story. So in comparison of time and technology, I would say that Monkey Island 1 still beats Monkey Island 3, but only by an inch.

[DrSpike]

Well it depends.

In absolute terms Curse may be the best game. However Monkey Island 1 was such a breath of fresh air to the genre, and such an influence on the games to come that it is rightly regarded as the classic, not Curse.

But anyway, for LotM's requirement other games are more appropriate.

[Boris Godunov]

Nah, I think Curse is to the MI series as Civ II is to the Civ series. Not the ground-breaker, but the one where everything culminated and "got it right." It improved greatly on the mechanics (not to mention graphics) of the first two. It trumps all the others in terms of gameplay, music, writing and dialogue. The voice acting was also top-notch. So I think Curse is the apex of the series.

Honestly, I enjoyed Escape From Monkey Island as well. It had a good story, it was just the mechanics that were a real bummer. The 3D engine just didn't work the way it should have. That, and the puzzles pushed the limit of obscurity. Without a guide, it's very difficult to beat the game.