I wouldn't go so far as to call Phantasmagoria a dream adventure game.
it was pretty good (except for the entire rape thing which was quite misplaced)
well... compared to phantasmagoria 2, I guess phantasmagoria 1 was good.

"the house awaits your return"
I still have that black box around here somewhere

I brought Phantasmagoria up because it uses a lot of CD's, not because it was ever a good game. (Even if it scared the living daylight out of me when I played it right after its release).

My point was that people stormed game shops around the world when these games hit the streets, because of their lenght. I remember many who were jealous of me after I bought The Beast Within. :wink:

If you guys are mourning the loss of Adventure Games, and want to go back to that nostalgic age of point and click adventures, I suggest you check www.adventuregamestudio.co.uk . Most of you have probably heard of AGS, but if you havn't theres quite a few professional quality amatuer games there. And you can make your own (with alot of work, planning etc...).

Yeah, who needs commercial adventures when you have got amateur ones.

phantasmagoria was scary indeed
my personal favourites are the "first mirror movie" (when you look at the mirror in the dinningroom and you see a different woman in the painting
wasn't scary... just creepy (I didn't know what was wrong with it first and why she was acting sos trange, until I finally noticed what was wrong) and the "Greenhouse murder" is quite insane aswell... oh and ofcoarse that old movie thing on the stage where you see what happened.

To me, Gabriel Knight 2 - The beast within, is the best movie-adventure that sierra produced... but thats just my opinion :)

Yeah! I'll have to agree and I still play it from time to time.

I've only played Gabriel Knight 3
but I do remember seeing the box of Gabriel Knight 2 when it was just released.

Funny... I owned all of those sierra games but I didn't buy gabriel knight 2

I think that there are fewer adventure games now because back when there were lots of adventure games technology was not very advanced and adventure games do not need good graphic to be good while other genres need good graphics so they look interesting (and scary, for example). Also, a lot of the good puzzles have been "used up" in earier games so it is hard to think up puzzles that do not boil down to "pick up the red key, find the red door and put it in". Plus, stories tend to be more vague now then a few years ago because it now takes far many more people to make a game so it is hard to keep one single idea focused in the minds of an entire company.

Glad to get that off my chest. :)

I heard and saw that they were making Larry for Playstation 2...

Did they abandon that too?