Adventure Games - Recommendations Please

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Can anyone recommend me any good adventure games? It's been hard to find any new games lately since this genre is getting a weaker heartbeat every year

I've played all the Monkey Island games, Grim Fandango and Gabriel Knight lll. I would really appreciate any recommendations you guys could give.

 

Anachronox - one of the best games I've played this last 5 years. It's really an adventure/RPG with turn-based combat, but far too good to pass up - it does have inventory & skill based puzzles, after all. The story and characters rank up there with PS:T, and it's funny as hell. Top of the list!

The Broken Sword series is good - they've just got a flashy 3D sequel, though the first two are better games.

Syberia is a great game too - it has some really emotional moments, but some people have seen what I thought of as artistic decisions to be design flaws - the lack of people, for example. A solid game, though. They ruined the second one though, ignore that.

Zork: Grand Inquisitor, if you know the rest of the series, is worth a shot as well. If only for the spell noises.

 

Indiana Jones and the Fate of Atlantis. The Dig. Pretty much anything by LucasArts pre-Monkey Island 4, really. Sam'n'Max and Day of the Tentacle are the two funniest games I've ever played.

Beyond Good and Evil...the combat is easy, making it more an adventure than anything.

The first Gabriel Knight game is also great; you'll likely need Dosbox though, since the old Sierra games have timing errors on fast PCs.

The Quest for Glory series.

 

Thanks for all the suggestions.

I remember that I played a demo for The Longest Journey some time ago but I can't remember if I liked it or not

Gonna have to see if I can find the demo.

 

Just an addendum, since so many games have already been listed: the Quest for Glory series are adventure/RPG hybrids rather than "pure" adventure games, so you might want to keep that in mind. They're all excellent though, and probably some of the best games Sierra ever did.

The Space Quest series is also a lot of fun to play.

The Dig is fantastic. Very underrated game, suffered several years of delay before it was released, and the graphics do look dated, but it's a great game to play. And the music is stunning.

And if you like text adventure games, there's zillions of them floating around on the internet

 

Text: Zork I-III, Planetfall. Planetfall is pretty hard though.

I don't think the Dig's graphics are dated. They're very nice

Don't play Myst, play Zork: Nemesis instead.

 

I'll have to mention The Dig also even if it has been mentioned a few times. It's one of those games that cease to be just a game and becomes more like art. Another one which doesen't seem to have been mentioned is Gabriel Knight (the first one I see you have played the third) which is also one of the best adventure games ever made. Even though it's more like an roleplaying game I'll still have to advertise Betrayal at Krondor which is freeware.

The Longest Joureny was a game I disliked, never really understood what was so good in it. It had a few good moments and the world was certainly colorful but overall I would say it reeked of mediocrity.

 

All my favorites are already mentioned except for Simon the Sorcerer, unless I am mistaken or visually handicapped.

Warnings:
I loved all King's Quests, except for KQ8.
Larry's are cool and funny, but the last one "Magna Cum Laude" is the worst game I bought. Full of stupid mini-games that will bore and annoy you within a very few hours played. Stay away from it.

 

If you want a good interactive fiction (as in: text) game have a look at City of Secrets by Emily Short - or browse the IF Archive: http://www.ifarchive.org/

 

You should really check out some of the old lucasarts adventures such as: monkey Island 1+2, Sam & Max:Hit the road, Indiana Jones and the fate of Atlantis, Full Throttle.
Very old and the graphics aren't all that to look at anymore, but the gameplay is superb. You can play these games with ScummVM, check http://scummvm.sourceforge.net
There you can find the emulator, it works like a charm for most old lucasarts adventures (and some others) You should get these games in a legit way, they're still not for free.