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Re: 2001 Gameboomer Recommendations #94438
06/08/01 01:32 AM
06/08/01 01:32 AM
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Hi,
Allowing for a small margin for errors, there are 138 games recommended so far.
48 have at least 5 recommendations,, 18 have at least 10 recommendations, 10 have at least 15, and The Longest Journey, GK 2 and Myst all have 20 or more.
As an indication of the eclectic nature of the list, 58 games have a single recommendation.

flotsam


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Re: 2001 Gameboomer Recommendations #94439
06/08/01 08:43 AM
06/08/01 08:43 AM
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Well, I haven't played that many games, but out of those I've played the ones I would definitely recommend are:

1) Indiana Jones and the Fate of Atlantis
2) Broken Sword 1
3) Broken Sword 2
4) Monkey Island 1 (and probably the others, but I haven't played them yet!)
5) The Dig
6) GK1
7) GK2
8) GK3

And that's probably it: I have played other games which I enjoyed, but they weren't nearly as good as the ones above - and I suspect there are many games out there which I haven't played which I would have enjoyed more than the ones I have played but not listed here ... if you seee what I mean...

Re: 2001 Gameboomer Recommendations #94440
06/09/01 12:22 AM
06/09/01 12:22 AM
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Austin,Tx
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Without considering the following games that I have on the 'to play' shelf (TLJ, GK2/3, Broken Sword 2, Byzantine, Nightlong & Noir) and Exile which I haven't purchased yet, here is my list in the order that I played them:

Myst
Voyeur
Last Express
Zork Nemesis
Sanitarium
Riven
Titanic:Adventure out of Time
Black Dahlia
Dark Side of the Moon
Pandora Directive
Grim Fandango
Traitors Gate
Broken Sword 1
Amber
Nancy Drew: Message in a Haunted Mansion

Titan

Re: 2001 Gameboomer Recommendations #94441
06/09/01 06:22 AM
06/09/01 06:22 AM
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Here are some of my favorites:

Shivers
Neverhood
Timelapse
Beyond Time
Karma
Black Dahlia
Reah
Lighthouse
Zork Grand Inquisitor
Jewels of the Oracle I and II

Karen

Re: 2001 Gameboomer Recommendations #94442
06/09/01 08:01 AM
06/09/01 08:01 AM
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Stony Brook, New York, USA
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1. Myst III: Exile
2. RealMyst
3. Riven
4. Curse of Monkey Island
5. Escape from Monkey Island
6. The Longest Journey
7. Odyssey: The Search for Ulysses
8. Beyond Atlantis
9. Timelapse
10. The Neverhood
11. Ring
12. Amerzone
13. Zork Grand Inquisitor
14. Morpheus
15. The Last Express

June Twisty List Resolution: By this time next year, I will take a break from playing new games and finally try Grim Fandango and Tex Murphy: Pandora Directive.

Re: 2001 Gameboomer Recommendations #94443
06/09/01 09:27 AM
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Circle of Blood
Gabriel Knight 2
Grim Fandango
Longest Journey
Monkey Island 1
Monkey Island 2
Monkey Island 3
Monkey Island 4
Discworld 1
Discworld 2
Zak McCracken
Maniac Mansion
Day of the Tentacle
Kings Quest 7
Simon the Sorcerer

Re: 2001 Gameboomer Recommendations #94444
06/09/01 10:11 AM
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This was not easy and I had to leave off a bunch of what I thought were great games. But here in no particular order are the ones that made it:

Grim Fandango
Discworld 1
Discworld 2
Discworld Noir
Under a Killing Moon
The Pandora Directive
Dracula:The Last Sanctuary
Obsidian
Simon the Sorcerer 1
Simon the Sorcerer 2
GK1
GK2
Broken Sword 1 (Circle of Blood)
Broken Sword 2 (Shadow of the Templars)
The Longest Journey


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Re: 2001 Gameboomer Recommendations #94445
06/09/01 12:03 PM
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Secret Of Monkey Island
Monkey Island II
Curse Of Monkey Island
Grim Fandango
Gabriel Knight II
KQ7
Circle Of Blood
Simon The Sorcerer
Simon The Sorcerer II
Sanitarium
The Longest Journey
Discworld
Discworld II
Dracula's Last Sanctuary
Day Of The Tentacle

Re: 2001 Gameboomer Recommendations #94446
06/09/01 12:29 PM
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WOW! Is all I have to say!

I already did my list of recommendations a long time ago. I keep looking back at the updated post and find games recommended that I have never even heard of. Can anybody tell what Day of the Tentacle is about? It sounds interesting.


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Re: 2001 Gameboomer Recommendations #94447
06/09/01 12:33 PM
06/09/01 12:33 PM
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Upper Arlington, Ohio
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Mac Day of the Tentacle is Maniac Mansion 2 and is a crazy cartoonish style game. Very funny with excellent puzzles. At http://gamesdomain.com/gdreview/review_archives.html there is a great review of the game.

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Re: 2001 Gameboomer Recommendations #94448
06/09/01 02:06 PM
06/09/01 02:06 PM
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Norden,Niedersachsen,Germany
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Hello flotsam ! Hello dear adventure gamers !

I also have make a little list with adventure game recommendations and hope that I can help a little bit in this way get a big and great collecton from recommendations :

Now here they are :


Adventure Game Recommendations 2001 from Moe Perry :

1.) : The Dark Eye ( my personal secret tip , with the deep , strange voice from William S. Bourroughs and real mystic atmosphere : you can read and hear thoughts from people if you lead the mouse over the forehead , after a story by Edgar Allen Poe ! )

2.): Myst 3 ( I have not finished the game , but it is wunderfull to play and makes me even more happier then Riven )

3.): Riven

4.): U.F.O.'s ( Gnap : the sweet bandit alien from out of space is really cool )

5.): Armed & Delirious ( the craziest grandmother in the whole universe )

6.): Stuipid Invaders ( very silly but with a nice sence of humor )

7.): The Feeble Files ( as Floyd would say here if he could read this tread : " have a good orbit , citizin "

8.): Necronomicon

9.): Dracula ( both parts )

10.): Amerzone

11.): Ring

12.): Atlantis ( both parts )

13.): The Final Curse

14.): Grim Fandango

15.): Escape from Monkey Island ( part 4 )


And now here is the most important point for me from a good adventure game :

Totally free 360 degrees turns ( like in Real Myst : pressure and hold down the left mouse button you go forwards : that was a great gameplay and sometimes I feel like I am flying through the Myst island )

Finnaly here comes a secreenshot from my all time favorite adventure game that i have ever played :

Guess what it is ? :



Oh yes you are quiet right :

Of course it is REAL MYST

Friendly greetings from

Moe Perry

P.S 1.: Dear flotsam : Do you will put the results form the recommendations collecton at some time anywhere in the world wide web online ? And if it is so can you plaese mail me or post the url from your results here on GAMEBOOMERS ?

I am really curious about the results and I think it is a great and fine idea from you !

P.S. 2 :

I juist become an link idea that I will give to all adventure gamers here :

Here is one link to an interesting adventure archiv with over 600 adventure games :

http://www.adventure-archiv.de/

It is a german website and I visit dailly this page , because there are lot of infos and good short discriptons of the games : what is good if you have to search fast for an certain game and has wunderfull screenshots there .

You can also read the whole adventure archiv in the english language on this link :


http://www.adventure-archiv.de/startenglish.htm

And please don

Re: 2001 Gameboomer Recommendations #94449
06/09/01 05:17 PM
06/09/01 05:17 PM
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Bass Lake,Ca. USA
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1.Pandora Directive
2.Overseer
3.Under a Killing Moon
4.Byzantine
5.Shivers
6.Riven
7.GK2
8.GK3
9.Zork Nemesis
10.Amber
11.Faust
12.TLJ
13.Dark Side of the Moon
14.Beyond Atlantis
15.Timelapse
I could name about 6 others but I will force myself to only list 15


Susie-Q
Re: 2001 Gameboomer Recommendations #94450
06/09/01 11:28 PM
06/09/01 11:28 PM
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Long Beach, Australia
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Hi,
144 games mentioned by 56 members so far.
Top 10 at the moment are:

The Longest Journey 30
GK2: The Beast Within 28
Myst 24
Riven 23
Broken Sword 1: Shadow of the Templars/Circle of Blood 20
Zork Nemesis 19
Grim Fandango 19
Timelapse 18
Shivers 18
Faust 18

flotsam



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Re: 2001 Gameboomer Recommendations #94451
06/10/01 06:50 AM
06/10/01 06:50 AM
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Fremantle, Western Australia
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Ok Flotsam,

You have caused some soul-searching in the Quandary household since you won't allow series or a top 50

Here is our list in alphabetical order:

Black Dahlia
Blue Ice
Broken Sword 1
Callahan's Crosstime Saloon
Day of the Tentacle
Discworld 1
Gabriel Knight 1
King's Quest VI
Monkey Island 2
Pandora Directive
Return to Zork
Riven
Shivers 1
Simon the Sorcerer 1
Woodruff and the Schnibble of Azimuth

Cheers




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Re: 2001 Gameboomer Recommendations #94452
06/10/01 02:41 PM
06/10/01 02:41 PM
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Pandora Directive
Sam and Max Hit the Road
Sanitarium
Discworld 1
Longest Journey
Circle of Blood
Azrael's Tear
Sherlock Holmes: Case of the Rose Tattoo
Kings Quest 6
Monkey Island 3
Gabriel Knight 2: The Beast Within
Shivers
Grim Fandango
Zork Grand Inquisitor
Zork Nemesis



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Re: 2001 Gameboomer Recommendations #94453
06/10/01 04:13 PM
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In no particular order, here goes:
1.Tex Murphy: Under a Killing Moon
2.Tex Murphy: Pandora Directive
3.The Longest Journey
4.Discworld Noir
5.Discworld 1
6.Sam and Max Hit the Road
7.Sanitarium
8.Grim Fandango
9.Gabriel Knight 2
10.Circle of Blood
11.Toonstruck
12.Black Dahlia
13.Simon the Sorcerer
14.Curse of Monkey Island
15.Indiana Jones and the Fate of Atlantis

There were 2 action adventure titles I really wanted to include but decided against it so I would keep the list as pure adventure titles.


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Re: 2001 Gameboomer Recommendations #94454
06/10/01 04:56 PM
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La Puente, CA, USA
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Here are my top 15 and it was really difficult to narrow it down to only 15! I enjoyed playing a lot of other ones, too, but these are my favorites! :-)

Myst
Riven
Shivers
Shivers II
Myst 3: Exile
Gabriel Knight 2 - The Beast Within
Gabriel Knight 3 - Blood of the Damned...
Tex Murphy - Under a Killing Moon
Tex Murphy - Pandora Directive
Tex Murphy - Overseer
Traitor's Gate
Obsidian
The Dig
Timelapse
Faust - Seven Games of the Soul

Re: 2001 Gameboomer Recommendations #94455
06/11/01 10:21 PM
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1. Black Dahlia
2. Longest Journey
3. Timelapse
4. Pandora Directive
5. Under a Killing Moon
6. Zork Grand Inquisitor
7. Discworld One
8. Discworld Two
9. Simon The Sorcerer One
10. Secret of Monkey Island
11. Clue Chronicles Fatal Illusion
12. X-files the Game
13. Callahans Crosstime Saloon
14. Gabriel Knight One Sins of the Father
15. Gabriel Knight Two The Beast Within


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Re: 2001 Gameboomer Recommendations #94456
06/11/01 11:05 PM
06/11/01 11:05 PM
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Hi all,

Guess I'll throw in my list also.

Kings Quest 2
Kings Quest 6
Space Quest 6
Quest for Glory 4
Gabriel Knight 2
Gabriel Knight 1
Phantasmagoria
Puzzle of Flesh
Under a Killing Moon
Pandora Directive
Tex Murphy Overseer
The Longest Journey
Kyrandia 2
Broken Sword
Circle of Blood


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Re: 2001 Gameboomer Recommendations #94457
06/12/01 12:06 AM
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Annapolis, Md, USA
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I might as well add my little list:

Black Dahlia
Curse of Monkey Island
Faust
Gabriel Kinght: The Beast Within
Journeyman Project: The Legacy of Time
Myst
Rama
Riven
Seventh Guest
Shivers I
Shivers II
Timelapse
Zork Grand Inquisitor

Sorry I can't come up to the 15 game standard, but I haven't been at this very long.

Re: 2001 Gameboomer Recommendations #94458
06/12/01 10:50 PM
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Long Beach, Australia
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Hi there,
We are halfway through the alloted time period. If you are holding off to finish a game to see if it qualifies for your list, you have about 10 days left

flotsam


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Re: 2001 Gameboomer Recommendations #94459
06/13/01 05:55 PM
06/13/01 05:55 PM
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Hi, here's my list:
the longest journey
riven
atlantis II
myst exile
myst
riddle of the sphinx
xiama
comer
lightbringer(cydonia)
sanitarium
egypt II
lighthouse

Re: 2001 Gameboomer Recommendations #94460
06/14/01 12:07 PM
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Here are my Recommendations:

Black Dahlia
Ripper
Tex Murphy: Overseer
Tex Murphy: Under a Killing Moon
Tex Murphy: Pandora Directive
Myst 3: Exile
Riven
Myst
Zork Grand Inquisitor
Zork Nemesis
Blade Runner
The X-Files
The Longest Journey
Gabriel Knight: The Beast Within
Gabriel Knight: Sins of the Fathers
Timelapse
Sanitarium

I can`t beleive that only one person put down "Ripper" for one of their recommendations. Ripper is one of the best adventure games out there!

Re: 2001 Gameboomer Recommendations #94461
06/14/01 03:22 PM
06/14/01 03:22 PM

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Hi everybody this is my first post at this site. I am voting for my all time best favorites so here goes:
Discworld 2
Simon the Sorcerer
Curse of Monkey Island
The Beast Within a Gabriel Knight Mystery
The Longest Journey
Discworld
The Revenge of Lechuck second Monkey Island game
Circle of Blood
Sanitarium
Kings Quest Seven
Simon the Sorcerer Two
Day of the Tentacle
Secret of Monkey island
Kings Quest Two
Legend of Kyrandia Volume One a Fables and Fiends game.

I wish we could vote for more than fifteen games . I fell like I had to leave alot of fine games off my list.

Re: 2001 Gameboomer Recommendations #94462
06/15/01 03:15 AM
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My top ten - in the order played:

Riven
Myst
Tex Murphy - Overseer
Black Dahlia
Journeyman 3 - Legacy of Time
Zork Nemesis
Tex Murphy - Under a Killing Moon
Gabriel Knight 2 - The Beast Within
Tex Murphy - The Pandora Directive
Byzantine




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