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[Szilvio]

1. ALBION!!!! - forever
2. ALBION
3. Far, far away after Albion Monkey Islands

[cjk1995]

My Best Adventure Games ...

Secret of Monkey Island
Monkey Island 2 : LeChuck's Revenge
Loom

[red_avatar]

I like several things in an adventure game

- the setting
- the story
- the characters
- the puzzles
- the interface

My favourite adventure game is Beneath A Steel Sky. Has the best interface an adventure game could have (especially when you realise LucasArts only started copying it with The Dig several years later), wonderfully sinister story, a brilliant setting, great and memorable characters, puzzles that are spot on and .. well it's hard to beat this game except it's maybe a tad too short. And did I mention the graphics are truely brilliant?

Second comes Broken Sword. It shares everything with Beneath A Steel Sky - brilliant characters, story, interface, even better graphics and ... now it comes with terrific MUSIC!

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=zwETUXYVzIk

The Hotel Ubu scene is my favorite scene of ANY adventure game. The music still makes me shiver after 12 years and I even had that as a Windows intro sound.

Third .. this is harder. Day of the Tentacle had great and clever puzzles but I didn't like the fact that it revolved around a single house and it was a bit too short. Plus, it uses the old SCUMM interface which felt a bit slow and annoying.

Sam & Max, on the other hand, had a great many different locations and amazing humour and characters and was long enough but ... the puzzles were too abstract and wacky (pulling a beard? really?) and the interface was crap.

Then there's The Dig, which is hugely underrated. Great graphics, great setting, great story, interface nicked from Beneath A Steel Sky. But it was a bit too serious for some and the puzzles were a bit too abstract.

And then there's ... Full Throttle which did everything right except it was too short. If they had made it twice as long, it would have been number 3 easily but you can finish it in an afternoon. It took me one weekend without a walkthrough - maybe 8 hours in total?

So, if I have to choose, I'll go for ... the Monkey Island trilogy . It's funny, clever, puzzles that aren't too weird, more than long enough to complete, brilliant characters, brilliant locations, great music, etc.

So ... other mentions:

- Tex Murphy series: brilliant games. Under A Killing Moon was a technological marvel. Forget the FMV clips - the real innovation was the 3D world that was so detailed in VESA and would even run well on a 386.

- The Longest Journey: a very long game, with hard puzzles but a brilliant story, great characters, great graphics, great interface, etc.

There's many more but, well, I think I typed enough

[Simoneer]

Not sure. I like Beneath A Steel Sky. Sam & Max: Hit the Road is sweet as well. I have beaten neither of them, though.

[Maxor127]

Off the top of my head... Quest for Glory 1, Quest for Glory 4, Gabriel Knight 2, King's Quest 3, King's Quest 6, Police Quest 1, Space Quest 2, Conquests of Camelot, Indiana Jones and the Fate of Atlantis, Star Trek 25th Anniversay, Star Trek Judgment Rites, Maniac Mansion, Journeyman Project 2: Buried in Time, Deadline, Witness, Suspect, Beyond Zork, Return to Zork, the Legend of Kyrandia, the Hobbit text adventure, Sanitarium.

I'm sure there are a ton I'm forgetting. I saw someone mention Zelda, so I guess I can throw in Ocarina of Time since I consider it one of the greatest games ever.

[Josefsson]

Best adventure game? Simple. The Neverhood!

edit: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Sqzsj...eature=related

[CaitSith]

The CHZO Mythos. Hands down.

[susie the goldfish]

I always liked Monkey Island I and II, Loom, Zak McKraken, and Tex Murphy. Since I found like site, I've discovering some gems I never heard of.

[Fubb]

Um...I liked....

I liked.....uh.....Just Cause......Left 4 Dead...

and...oh...this game; http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=SSU0J...layer_embedded

[riccso]

Monkey Islands(except 4,haven't played the new ones)
Sanitarium