THE best adventure game

[The Mighty M]

Pretty simple. What's your favourite? Mine is a toss-up between Broken Sword, Grim Fandango and the whole of Sam and Max

[Sarendor]

Mine would be a mixture between Bone, King's Quest and Conquests of the Longbow, with as many different solutions as possible without ruining the challenge.
(I hope I got the idea right.)

[JedExodus]

Broken Sword or The Longest Journey. I love an epic

[Secret Fawful]

The Secret of Monkey Island or Monkey Island II: LeChuck's Revenge, not just for best adventure game, but for my favorite video game of all time.

It's a cliche response, sure, but I love everything about Revenge. Overall I would say it's my favorite, but I love Secret a lot too, and I have to give it props for starting the franchise.

[Chyron8472]

tie between Curse of Monkey Island and Tales of Monkey Island.

Curse gave us Dominic Armato, Earl Boen and Murray.
Tales rescued us all from ending the series with Escape *shudder*, as well as giving us Treasure Crab. :)

TTG's Sam & Max come close second, but I'll always have a place for Monkey Island.

[adventureaddict]

I am in love with Ecoquest II(but perhaps thats mostly nostalgia talking? I do play it again once every so often.)
Same goes with the Kyrandia trilogy(order of favourites would go 2nd,1st,3rd)
And then of course Monkey Island!
And, and all of them :) My username speaks truth.

[der_ketzer]

Nothing tops Monkey Island 2.

[jeeno0142]

Monkey Island (If I have to be more specific, then MI2: LeChuck's Revenge), with Grim Fandango extremely close behind. Hit the Road gets third place.

[JedExodus]

with Grim Fandango extremely close behind. Hit the Road gets third place.

Grim Fandango's def my favourite Lucasarts title by far, moreso than the Monkey Islands...and 3's prolly my favourite MI. ...shush

[jp-30]

Day of the Tentacle is my all time favourite computer game.

[jmm]

Gabriel Knight: Sins of the Fathers

It was the first game I found myself immerse in the game world, the story was well written and you actually ended caring for the characters.
You have to ignore a few bad puzzles like pixel hunting and timing puzzles though and being a Sierra game, the necessity for saving the game like a madman (unless you want to be a victim of the infamous "Restore/Quit" dialog)

The music was excellent and the voice acting first class (though the sound dept was mediocre). Graphics were OK for the time (The High-res option for the DOS version certainly helped)

Still hoping for GK4

[linorn]

Broken Sword was the first adventure game I actually completed (played some rubbishy text-only ones, but constantly dying sucks :() so that's always going to be my favourite.
I loved the style and puzzles in Syberia (haven't got round to playing 2 yet).
Just recently completed MI for the first time and really enjoyed it. Currently playing MI2, enjoyed Part 1, just finished Part 2 and couldn't stand it! Hopefully Part 3's better.

[DAISHI]

I may change this later. I've played tons of games. But Curse of Monkey Island was the first time I was so totally enraptured in a game world that I couldn't get enough. I loved the first two MI games, loved King's Quest games, love Full Throttle... Sam and Max Hit the Road was amazing...

But that hand drawn art, the hilarity, the music... loved CoMI.

[DAISHI]

HOW did I forget Indiana Jones and the Fate of Atlantis? Yeaaaah I may have to put that pretty much tied with CoMI.

Also I have a sentimental love for The Black Cauldron. Mock if you will.

[Giant Tope]

Out of all the adventure games I've played, I can't deny MI2, but my sentimental favorite is Machinarium. It's just so pretty overall.

[Jen Kollic]

For me it's Secret of Monkey Island, mostly because it was my first adventure game. MI2, Curse, Hit the Road and Tales can share second place. And my favourite non-Lucasarts would be a cointoss between King's Quest VI and Discworld 2.

[doggans]

King's Quest VI is the greatest game in the history of ANY genre.

[corruptbiggins]

There are a lot of close contenders but my utmost favourite is the Longest Journey.

[nachtritter]

King's Quest III is the first graphic adventure I ever played (on a CoCo 3, woot), and it holds a special place in my heart, right next to King's Quest V, Secret of Monkey Island, and Monkey Island II: LeChuck's Revenge.

[Shauntron]

Chiming in with Day of the Tentacle. I play that game once a year.

[VeronicanPlay]

Tales of Monkey Island, it was the first adventure game I ever played and I fell in love with it right away.

[Hayden]

tie between Curse of Monkey Island and Tales of Monkey Island.

Curse gave us Dominic Armato, Earl Boen and Murray.
Tales rescued us all from ending the series with Escape *shudder*, as well as giving us Treasure Crab. :)


I mostly agree with this, except I'd make one small change:

Tales rescued us all from ending the series with Escape *shudder*

There we are ('Escape...' was by no means a bad game or even a mediocre game).

[GuybrushWilco]

I'll give my top 5:
1. Space Quest IV: Roger Wilco and the Time Rippers
2. Indiana Jones and the Fate of Atlantis
3. Curse of Monkey Island
4. Quest for Glory III: The Wages of War
5. Tales of Monkey Island.

[holmja]

Can't pick just one so: Grim Fandango, Indiana Jones & the Fate of Atlantis, King's Quest 6, Star Trek 25th Anniversary, Star Trek Judgement Rights, Gabriel Knight 1 & 2, and the Ben Jordan games.

[DAISHI]

I mostly agree with this, except I'd make one small change:



There we are ('Escape...' was by no means a bad game or even a mediocre game).


Just a mediocre ending.

[Andorxor]

1. Indiana Johnes and the fate of atlantis
2. Monkey Island
3. Day of the tentacle
4. The book of unwritten Tales
5. The whispered world

[puzzlebox]

When I saw the thread title, I immediately thought "The Last Express", then I saw people mention Broken Sword and was like oh yeah :p

There's just something about the Broken Sword series that I love. I play it when life gets hard and I want to go home. It never fails to make me feel better.

The Last Express also has a special place in my heart, even though I haven't played it for years. I guess my younger brothers and I played it together at some point, because we have a lot of repeated in-jokes around stuff in that game, and that probably accounts for about 50% of my love for it.

[adventureaddict]

1. Indiana Johnes and the fate of atlantis
2. Monkey Island
3. Day of the tentacle
4. The book of unwritten Tales
5. The whispered world

Loved the whispered world. Glad to see someone mention it. :)

[taumel]

The DIG, Broken Sword 1, Grim Fandango (I hated it for the steering and inventory.) and Machinarium (Look, at least i've finally mentioned it!).

Then there come adventures like Indy IV, Loom, The Blackwell 1, Bone 2, Star Trek 25th, Full Throttle, Chariots of the Dogs and i like the idea of Maniac Mansion.