Adventure game

[matas]

Any good adventure games for pc? I am disappointed that Alan Wake or Heavy Rain are console exclusives. I have played Fahrenheit and Dreamfall the longest journey, both were epic.

 

[KaOTiK]

Sanitarium is good stuff, you can get it on GOG
The Whispered World is a new one that recently came out that looks pretty good as well.

 

[MrWizzard]

Any good adventure games for pc? I am disappointed that Alan Wake or Heavy Rain are console exclusives. I have played Fahrenheit and Dreamfall the longest journey, both were epic.

I know how you feel which is why I own the other systems also.

You may want to look into

Syberia 1 and 2

and Broken Sword: the Sleeping Dragon

Have not played them but they keep getting posted in forums where people are asking the same questions as you.

 

[Jesusthewererabbit]

Ben There, Dan That and Time Gentlemen, Please! Get em for five bucks off Steam. They aren't huge, epic adventures, they were made by pretty much two guys, but if you enjoy British humor they are great.

 

[Zenoth]

Alone in the Dark: The New Nightmare
American McGee's Alice
Asghan: The Dragon Slayer
Blade Runner
Broken Sword 2: The Smoking Mirror
Die by the Sword
Dino Crisis
Drakan: Order of the Flame
Earthworm Jim 3D
Ecstatica II
The Curse of Monkey Island / Escape from Monkey Island (Monkey Island 3 & 4)
Heavy Metal: F.A.K.K. 2
Heretic II
In Cold Blood
Legacy of Kain: Soul Reaver 1 & 2
Liath
Nightmare Creatures
Outcast
Resident Evil 2 & 3
Shadow Man
Summoner
The Longest Journey
Tomb Raider 2, 3, 4 & 5
Turrican 3D
Urban Chaos

Titles from a search I've done, I filtered the results for the period between 1997 and 2001 for the PC platform, a period I clearly recall when some of the best adventure games ever were released (and this list excludes many Consoles-specific jewels too).

 

[matas]

I want to play something more recent, but I will check out some of those games you guys suggested.

 

[VulgarDisplay]

Batman Arkham Asylum is an action adventure game, and actually one of the best games released last year. Do yourself a favor and play it even if you don't like batman. Amazing gameplay and art direction.

 

[clok1966]

Most of the games recomended in the last 2-3 posts are more action and less adventure (as compared to the ones he listed). Those games (adventure) are making a slight comeback. the Sam & Max games on STEAM are a good start. Machinarium is a good, The new Monkey island is suspose to be a good return. Not to many in the same style as the OP 2 he played. the two he listed are more action (wake and Rain), but if that is the style, i would suggest the newer Croft games, they are alot liek those in many ways, more action little less adventure.

 

[9mak9]

Definitely Syberia if you liked Longest Journey. Sam & Max is another modern adventure series. This will help also: http://www.gamespot.com/games.html?...=all&date_filter=all&sortdir=asc&official=all

It's kind of sad when you look at all the top rated games and how old most of them are. Only a few of the point and click and actual adventure games have done well in the last decade. Even in the past 5-6 years there has been nothing. I think a lot of the indie games that have been coming out have helped the genre but we haven't seen the Myst, TLJ, Grim Fandango, Monkey Island games in a long time.

 

[Martimus]

Alone in the Dark: The New Nightmare
American McGee's Alice
Asghan: The Dragon Slayer
Blade Runner
Broken Sword 2: The Smoking Mirror
Die by the Sword
Dino Crisis
Drakan: Order of the Flame
Earthworm Jim 3D
Ecstatica II
The Curse of Monkey Island / Escape from Monkey Island (Monkey Island 3 & 4)
Heavy Metal: F.A.K.K. 2
Heretic II
In Cold Blood
Legacy of Kain: Soul Reaver 1 & 2
Liath
Nightmare Creatures
Outcast
Resident Evil 2 & 3
Shadow Man
Summoner
The Longest Journey
Tomb Raider 2, 3, 4 & 5
Turrican 3D
Urban Chaos

Titles from a search I've done, I filtered the results for the period between 1997 and 2001 for the PC platform, a period I clearly recall when some of the best adventure games ever were released (and this list excludes many Consoles-specific jewels too).

All of the games you listed that I recognize are not adventure games.

 

[TwinsenTacquito]

I second Alice. There's also uhhh Twinsen's Odyssey. And I consider STALKER to be one as well.

 

[shingletingle]

Alone in the Dark: The New Nightmare
American McGee's Alice
Asghan: The Dragon Slayer
Blade Runner
Broken Sword 2: The Smoking Mirror
Die by the Sword
Dino Crisis
Drakan: Order of the Flame
Earthworm Jim 3D
Ecstatica II
The Curse of Monkey Island / Escape from Monkey Island (Monkey Island 3 & 4)
Heavy Metal: F.A.K.K. 2
Heretic II
In Cold Blood
Legacy of Kain: Soul Reaver 1 & 2
Liath
Nightmare Creatures
Outcast
Resident Evil 2 & 3
Shadow Man
Summoner
The Longest Journey
Tomb Raider 2, 3, 4 & 5
Turrican 3D
Urban Chaos

Titles from a search I've done, I filtered the results for the period between 1997 and 2001 for the PC platform, a period I clearly recall when some of the best adventure games ever were released (and this list excludes many Consoles-specific jewels too).

Those are not adventure games. Do you even understand this thread?

 

[Zenoth]

I guess we all have a different point of view of what an adventure game is then, no need to make such a fuss about it and wonder if I "understand the thread" or not. I for one would consider a game like the original Mass Effect for instance as an RPG-Adventure game, simply because what we are going through in the game is one heck of an adventure with obvious RPG elements, it's a great journey of sorts, same goes with Mass Effect 2, but ME2 for me would go within the Action-Adventure type of game.

And, if some of you really think that absolutely none of the games I have listed are "adventure" games then I for one really honestly wonder if you have any forms of definition of what is "adventure". I have listed games like Legacy of Kain, the Tomb Raider series, Shadow Man, The Longest Journey, American McGee's Alice... if some of you guys really think that none of them belong in any way, shape or form to the adventure genre then I can honestly not add anything to this discussion and rest my case, believe what you will, if you consider those games to be puzzle or beat-'em-ups and if that makes you a happy panda then I'll let that be.

 

[matas]

Batman sounds good, I liked all the batman movies as well. Played stalker, it was more of a rpg shooter but still an awesome game.

 

[VulgarDisplay]

Batman sounds good, I liked all the batman movies as well. Played stalker, it was more of a rpg shooter but still an awesome game.

Arkham Asylum is how Batman was supposed to be. It's amazing. Might have to give it another playthrough.

 

[JoshGuru7]

And, if some of you really think that absolutely none of the games I have listed are "adventure" games then I for one really honestly wonder if you have any forms of definition of what is "adventure".

I don't have a problem if you want to define it based on whatever it means to you, but under your definition couldn't you call absolutely anything an adventure game? A game with no adventure to it would hardly be a game at all.

"Adventure" used to be a very clearly defined genre that was really at it's peak in the early 90's opposed to the era you listed. Basically the games that evolved from Zork: King's Quest, Space Quest, Secret of Monkey Island, Day of the Tentacle, Myst, Grim Fandango, Maniac Mansion. Not much action per say, but a lot of picking up stuff and trying to combine it in your inventory in order to solve puzzles.

I recommend Machinarium and Tales of Monkey Island.

 

[motsm]

To be honest, the Myst series has always housed my favorite adventure games, I'd recommend them but I'd guess you know about em.

The Penumbra series is an interesting take on adventure gaming, as it does have a degree of danger to it. Even when confronted however, you don't exactly fight directly, you either avoid and hide or use environmental hazards and things of that nature to resolve the situation.

 

[Zenoth]

I don't have a problem if you want to define it based on whatever it means to you, but under your definition couldn't you call absolutely anything an adventure game? A game with no adventure to it would hardly be a game at all.

"Adventure" used to be a very clearly defined genre that was really at it's peak in the early 90's opposed to the era you listed. Basically the games that evolved from Zork: King's Quest, Space Quest, Secret of Monkey Island, Day of the Tentacle, Myst, Grim Fandango, Maniac Mansion. Not much action per say, but a lot of picking up stuff and trying to combine it in your inventory in order to solve puzzles.

I recommend Machinarium and Tales of Monkey Island.

As I said, we obviously all have different definitions of what is or can be an "adventure" game, so ultimately there's no need to debate about it and my list wasn't wrong in my book, and what's important about that list is to allow the OP to have choices of games to experience, if he doesn't want to try them nor "know" anything about them then it's all fine, I don't personally care much, all I wanted to do was to provide a couple of games that I thought would fall within the category "adventure", no more and no less, but of course there's always people disagreeing on our opinions and point of views, that's a given and I guess it's alright, it's part of our nature.

But I still honestly fail to see the "lack" of adventure in the games I've listed. And obviously not all games can be called an adventure game, I wouldn't call fighting or racing games adventure games, I wouldn't call Tetris or World of Good an adventure game... but games like Legacy of Kain, Tomb Raider, Shadow Man, Outcast... seriously guys, am I the only one here thinking that they are at least part adventure games, and then perhaps part "something else" too? Have any of you even played those games? Where in those games is the "adventure" absent exactly? As far as I know I'm not racing a car in Tomb Raider and I'm not trying to place blocks on top of each others to fit themselves in with the same color to win in Oucast.

But anyway... this is a useless and irrelevant debate. I provided a list of games and I guess that's enough, if that list isn't welcome because absolutely none of the titles on it have anything to do with having an "adventure" then I fear I am powerless in trying to change the ideas around. And, by the way, as I mentioned in my original post with that list I had done a research with filters, and that research was done on Universal Videogame List (UVL), a known web-site with lots of database concerning 66,000+ games and 150+ platforms, and it is from that web-site that I found the titles, it is that web-site that gave me those results under the checked "Adventure" category with the added 1997 to 2001 years filter, if that web-site, if that database is also entirely wrong then I guess I fell in a very well crafted trap of some sort and should have never dared pretending that the Tomb Raider series amongst others has something to do with being an adventure game, what kind of heretic thought is that?!

And if this isn't proof enough then here's the direct link of the results of that research:

http://www.uvlist.net/search?sort=n...frati=&fshop=&fyear=1997&fyear2=2001&fplat=-4

Now, to conclude, OP, if you ever want to search for games I highly suggest UVL, it will certainly help you better than I could do apparently, because ultimately I don't seem to "understand this thread".

 

[jedc53]

There are lots of games like that. My personal favorite is The Witcher.The other list of games are here.

Blade Runner
Heretic II
The Longest Journey
Nightmare Creatures

 

[JoshGuru7]

As I said, we obviously all have different definitions of what is or can be an "adventure" game, so ultimately there's no need to debate about it and my list wasn't wrong in my book

I don't see why you feel so defensive about this. I only pointed out that the "adventure game" genre already has a specific definition that means something to most classic PC gamers(http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Adventure_game). How does coming up with your own definition of adventure game provide benefits equal to the added cost of everybody needing to learn your definition to communicate well with you?

 

[Zenoth]

I don't see why you feel so defensive about this. I only pointed out that the "adventure game" genre already has a specific definition that means something to most classic PC gamers(http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Adventure_game). How does coming up with your own definition of adventure game provide benefits equal to the added cost of everybody needing to learn your definition to communicate well with you?

Simply because I never based my views of what makes an adventure game what it is on the definition that is being described on Wikipedia, because I simply never "thought" that an "adventure game" can be and only be that very specific type of games in which you try to solve puzzles and play under a textual interface, and I never thought that the definition in question was actually based on a single game from the 1970's after which the term seem to have never evolved along with the games over the years, I guess you can call that ignorance if you want, I wouldn't mind, because I don't feel guilty of having never heard of such a very specific definition (and believe me or not, it doesn't matter, I honestly never heard nor read about that very definition until this very day by reading your reply and going on that Wiki page, and if that makes me a monster so shall it be).

My own definition of an adventure game goes pretty much with what UVL has under that category, and of course is mostly based on what I myself have played over the years that I believed had the shape of an "adventurous game", If I can put it this way, to me an adventure game is simply a game in which your character(s) "have an adventure", a "journey", needs to overcome obstacles and of course usually needs to solve/figure out puzzles of some sorts, and perhaps another important point (for me) is that the view point is in third-person (obviously not all third-person games are adventure games, I wouldn't consider Gears of War an adventure game by my own views of it), I do have my own criteria and I grew up with it, it is just a natural reaction to be defensive about it because it's the only definition I have that is carved in my mind and my perception of games like Legacy of Kain, Shadow Man or the Tomb Raider series, and many more (from list I provided and beyond), those types of games are more than just "action", you need to solve puzzles, you need to understand the story and read what you find or what NPC(s) tell you to complete specific quests, not just going around and shooting everything that isn't you or your allies.

And no one "needs" to learn my definition to communicate well with me. Did I force anyone here to believe in it? Just look at the posts in chronological order, what did I do exactly? I posted a list that comes from UVL and said that the games from those years are amongst the best adventure games, and of course even though it sounds like a "fact" perhaps because I never typed the word "opinion" anywhere that automatically it means that I was trying to force my own definition of what an adventure game is even though I never typed the word "fact" either.

It's fun how much people can assume things on their own and pretend that I was trying to do something beyond the obvious, and the obvious was just that I was giving my opinion because obviously the games I played and I liked and chose from that list at UVL means that I myself appreciated those games when I played them which means that it's my own tastes. No one needs to understand my definition to communicate well with me, and in fact this whole debate came to be due to one person who believed that none of the games I had given in the list had anything to do with an adventure game, and of course if the definition in question is the same from the one given on Wikipedia then yes it is understandable that someone posts something like that about my list of games I provided, but because I myself never heard about such a specific definition of what is an adventure game I was sincerely surprised and I had to "defend" my thoughts (again, it can be viewed as a foolish defensive move from an ignorant prick against a well defined thought amongst most gamers, so of course I was wrong from the start anyway, but I just keep coming and trying to defend and that which can't be defended).

But I did not make up that list, perhaps most of you here forgot that part. It ultimately comes from UVL, I made the research there and thought: «alright, the OP wants suggestions of adventure games, I know that UVL has tons of games and many platforms including Windows and has a good search system, let's go there and filter the research within the years I fondly remember having fun with adventure games». Then the research's results came, and from the games given by the result I selected the ones I remembered having fun with and the ones I certainly thought were of the "Adventure" genre like UVL given, even though some of the games in the results from UVL didn't necessarily fall within the definition I had of what makes an adventure game being just that. It comes to my observation that if a web-site like UVL has those specific titles under the specific "Adventure" genre that MAYBE... just maybe I wouldn't be wrong in choosing some of the games from that filtered research result and that MAYBE... just maybe what makes a game being an adventure game MAY have... you know... "changed" over the years? Just a thought...

I sincerely but perhaps naively believed that everything I typed here so far and that my explanations of all this were obvious, but it isn't, so yes I feel the need to explain it, but each time I'm being told I'm wrong, so of course when we firmly believe that were are right what do you think happens exactly? We try to defend ourselves until perhaps by some spark of maturity we finally understand that we were wrong because we weren't part of the big crowd of people who agreed upon another definition, A.K.A the majority, but I've often been part of minorities and I try to live anyway. But, here, I will admit that my own definition of an adventure game isn't "correct" and seemingly goes "against" the majority and against a definition that has been carved in the minds of most gamers since the 1970's and that Mr. Zenoth Joe Everyone doesn't have the right to have his own definition, not because he wants to piss off the rest of the populace or wants to be "different"' but simply because he never grew up with the decades-old pre-defined definition of what is an adventure game, perhaps because he wasn't born during the good era of gaming or simply was guilty of having never heard of it before, but who's going to believe that huh?

So, alright, I was wrong, I'm sorry, my sincere apologies, please OP ignore my list, as for me I'll try to rethink of "my definition" of what makes an adventure game what it is (and no, none of this is sarcasm, I will honestly try to do so and I do honestly apology if I offended anyone with my definition and my thoughts on what makes an adventure game what it is).

 

[linkgoron]

Machinarium is great. I also had fun with Runaway (1 and 2) and Sam & Max.

The new Monkey Island games are also fun, but I stopped playing at the begining of episode 4. Don't know why, I just felt that I had enough.
They've also re-released The Secret of Money Island (Monkey Island 1) with a new engine. It's kind of cool actually, and still a lot of fun.

 

[NoSoup4You]

I couldn't get into the re-released Secret of Monkey Island, but Machinarium is solid.