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Re: 2001 Gameboomer Recommendations #94413
06/02/01 06:41 PM
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I haven't played alot of the games listed, so this is not a comparison list, just games that I did play and did like.

1) The Longest Journey
2) Amerzone
3) Dracula Ressurection
4) The Curse of Monkey Island
5) Grim Fandango
6) Xiama
7) Faust (Seven games of the Soul)
8) Shivers
9) Lighthouse
10) Indiana Jones: Infernal Machine
11) Pandora's Box
12) The Dig
13) Dark Earth (adventure/action)
14) Prince of Persia 3D (adventure/action)
15) Broken Sword 2

Re: 2001 Gameboomer Recommendations #94414
06/02/01 07:52 PM
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Ontario, Canada
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- The Longest Journey
- Zork Grand Inquisitor
- Beyond Atlantis
- Real Myst
- Riddle of the Sphinx
- The Messenger
- Stupid Invaders

Re: 2001 Gameboomer Recommendations #94415
06/02/01 08:10 PM
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Ft. Lauderdale, Florida USA
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Boy oh boy, this was really tough for me. I did find out just how many, many games I have started and never finished, so my list isn't very much diff from last year. If that's due to not completing the games, or all the games I DID finish couldn't measure up to the oldies, uuummm ?????????

Journeyman 3-Legacy of Time
TimeLapse
Zork Nemesis
Riven
Myst
DiscWorld
Broken Sword 1
Broken Sword 2
Sanitarium
Zork - Grand Inquisitor
Atlantis 1 - Lost Tales
Legend of Kyrandia 2
Shivers
Faust
Ring

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Re: 2001 Gameboomer Recommendations #94416
06/03/01 02:12 AM
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Long Beach, Australia
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Hi there,
Over 100 games mentioned already, with almost 30 of them not being on last years list. Some of those are obviously new releases, but "non-new" ones include Rent a Hero, Fable, Secrets of the Luxor, Noctropolis, Dark Seed and Twinsens Odyssey.
Most recommended so far is The Longest Journey, with Myst, Riven and GK2 close behind.
I am away with work this week so will post the next up-date next weekend.

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Re: 2001 Gameboomer Recommendations #94417
06/03/01 03:50 AM
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Dracula Resurrection
Dracula The Last Sanctuary
GK1


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Re: 2001 Gameboomer Recommendations #94418
06/03/01 10:57 AM
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These are in my opinion the best games ever.

The Longest Journey
Discworld
Monkey Island 1
Monkey Island 2
Monkey Island 3
Sanitarium
Kings Quest 2
Gabriel Knight 2
Legend of Kyrandia 1
Malcoms Revenge Kyrandia 3
Simon the Sorcerer
Discworld 2
Kings Quest 7
Space Quest 1
Space Quest 2




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Re: 2001 Gameboomer Recommendations #94419
06/03/01 11:20 AM
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Santa Barbara, CA, USA
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Not sorted in any order:

Grim Fandango
Sanitarium
Circle of Blood
The Dark Eye
Faust
The Longest Journey
Feeble Files
Crusaders
Myst 3: Exile
Dracula: Resurrection
Gabriel Knight 3
Journeyman 3
The Quivering
Stupid Invaders


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Re: 2001 Gameboomer Recommendations #94420
06/03/01 03:14 PM
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Not necessarily in order of preference (the rules did not say that...)

1. Timelapse
2. Amber: Journeys Beyond
3. Byzantine
4. Myst
5. Faust
6. Sanitarium
7. Black Dahlia
8. Lighthouse
9. Grim Fandango
10. Ring
11. Riven
12. Circle of Blood
13. Celtica
14. Obsidian
15. Shivers

Re: 2001 Gameboomer Recommendations #94421
06/03/01 09:03 PM
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Gawd this is hard... I simplified the series dilemma by picking IMHO the best of the bunch - figuring if you play one - you'll seek out the rest (I did)

Sigh _ I hate limits

In no order of preference

1. GK2 - The Beast Within
2. Atlantis 2
3. Journeyman 3
4. The Dig
5. Curse of Monkey Island
6. The Longest Journey
7. Grim Fandango
8. S. Holmes: The Case of The Rose Tattoo
9. Black Dahlia
10. Pandora Directive
11. Zork Grand Inquisitor
12. Circle of Blood/ BS 1
13. Outcast
14. Spycraft (great realism game)
15. Exile (what was I thinking of - I left this off)




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Re: 2001 Gameboomer Recommendations #94422
06/04/01 01:28 AM
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I haven't (yet) played 15 games I'd recommend, maybe next year? I do have some of your recommendations on my shelves Anyway, here's my list in alphabetical order:

Day of the Tentacle
Myst
Obsidian (haven't finished playing yet but I'll still recommend it)
Riven
Simon the Sorcerer
Simon the Sorcerer 2
Zork Grand Inquisitor
Zork Nemesis

Wouldn't it be interesting to make a list with all the games we'd never ever recommend to our worst enemys?

Pernilla

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Re: 2001 Gameboomer Recommendations #94423
06/04/01 06:16 AM
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Hi!
Here is my list!I even tried to make a good order with the best first IMHO.
1.Riven
2.Black Dahlia
3.Myst
4.Gabriel Knight 2
5.Atlantis 2, Beyond Atlantis
6.Gabriel Knight 3
7.Gabriel Knight 1
8.The Longest Journey
9.Byzantine
10.Broken Sword 2
11.Broken Sword 1
12.Grim Fandango
13.Amerzone
14.Faust
15.Ring

Just now I am playing two great games Myst3Exile and Under a Killing Moon.They will both have their places high up on the list after I have finished them. But where?
This is difficult!!!
Christina


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Re: 2001 Gameboomer Recommendations #94424
06/04/01 09:32 AM
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Here's my list (it was a difficult thing to do, since I had to let off some great games...)

THE DIG
INDIANA JONES IV
BROKEN SWORD (a.k.a. Circle of Blood)
PRISONER OF ICE
Tex Murphy: UNDER A KILLING MOON
AMAZON QUEEN
BLADE RUNNER
NIGHTLONG
BROKEN SWORD II
MISSION CRITICAL
RINGWORLD
ARK OF TIME
Tex Murphy: OVERSEER
Gabriel Knight III
BLACK DAHLIA

This list coincides very closely with my favorites, since I recommend them in the basis of the fun I had playing them...

Re: 2001 Gameboomer Recommendations #94425
06/04/01 10:42 AM
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My list of favorites:

1-Myst
2-Zork Nemesis
3-Shivers 1
4-Lighthouse
5-Longest Journey
6-Gabriel Knight: The Beast Within
7-Tex Murphy: The Pandora Directive
8-Faust
9-Curse of Monkey Island
10-Grim Fandango
11-Morpheus
12-Sanitarium
13-Amber: Journey Beyond
14-Broken Sword: Circle of Blood
15-The Dark Eye


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Re: 2001 Gameboomer Recommendations #94426
06/04/01 01:04 PM
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Man oh Man - I'd have been so happy to see just ONE vote for Cracking the Conspiracy. <G> Well - that's my vote anyway.

And Grim Fandango and Curse of Monkey Island 3...


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Re: 2001 Gameboomer Recommendations #94427
06/04/01 01:12 PM
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Ok...I have to weigh in with this one My all time favs not in any particular order...

1. Myst (it started me on this path of destruction <grin>
2. Riven
3. Exile
4. Journeyman Project 2
5. Journeyman Project 3
6. Rama
7. Timelapse
8. Obsidian
9. Shivers 1
10. Jewels of the Oracle
11. Jewels of the Oracle 2
12. Karma
13. Zork Nemesis
14. Zork Grand Inquisitor
15. 7th Guest

I didn't realize how hard it was to narrow my choices down to 15 ...also just realized just HOW MUCH money I have spent over the years

Andee


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Re: 2001 Gameboomer Recommendations #94428
06/04/01 01:16 PM
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Wow, this one is hard.
I guess for me it would be more of the older games.
GK1
GK2
Tex Murphey Overseer
Curse of MOnkey Island
Discworld Noir
Kings Quest 6, 7
Fate of Atlantis

Re: 2001 Gameboomer Recommendations #94429
06/04/01 07:43 PM
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Hi I'm new and have always just read the board but this topic has made me want to post. My favorite list in order is Gabriel Knight2,Secret of Monkey Island,Discworld,Simon the Sorcerer,Kings Quest7,Monkey Island2 LeChuck,Day of the Tenacle,Kyrandia1,Curse of Monkey Island,Dracula Last Sanctuary,Space Quest3,Simon the Sorcerer2,Discworld2,Zak McKracken,and The Longest Journey.

Did anybody else ever play a game called Neuromancer? It was my first game ever.

Re: 2001 Gameboomer Recommendations #94430
06/04/01 07:48 PM
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Hi Shadow.....Just wanted to say to GB. Glad you decided to post....

Re: 2001 Gameboomer Recommendations #94431
06/04/01 08:36 PM
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Ah, the list: I have been asked to edit my
list and not include series so here goes <gumble, grumble>
The Pandora Directive
Under a Killing Moon
Tex Murphy Overseer
Gabriel Knight Sins of the Fathers
Gabriel Knight The Beast Within
Gabriel Knight 3 (senior moment)
The Dig
Realms of the Haunting
Dark Side of the Moon DVD
Cydonia
Shannara
Death Gate
Mission Critical
Zork Grand Inquisitor
The Longest Journey

If we could do honorable mention and I know
we can't I would have chosen these, too. <grining as she's being passive-aggressive>
Sherlock Holmes and the Rose Tattoo
Ark of Time
Timelapse
Riddle of the Sphinx
The Monkey Island Series
Planescape Torment (felt like an adventure)
Callahan's Crosstime Saloon
Great, great games!

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Re: 2001 Gameboomer Recommendations #94432
06/04/01 08:46 PM
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I'm working on it, I'm working on it - have it down from 30 to 25.

Flotsam since some folks didn't list a full 15 - could I borrow their extra slots hummmmmmm?????? Puleeeeeezzzee???????

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Re: 2001 Gameboomer Recommendations #94433
06/05/01 03:01 AM
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1. Faust
2. Myst
3. Gabriel Knight II
4. Zork Nemesis
5. Riven
6. Blackstone Chronicles
7. Amber - Journeys Beyond
8. Morpheus
9. Obsidian
10.Shivers
11.Timelapse
12.Exile
13.Riddles of the Sphinx
14.Secrets of the Luxor
15.Rama

Whew!

Re: 2001 Gameboomer Recommendations #94434
06/05/01 03:57 AM
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1. Journeyman Project 3: Legacy of Time
2. Temujin
3. Zork Grand Inquisitor
4. Dark Side of the Moon
5. Nightlong
6. Egypt 2
7. Exile
8. Monkey Island 1
9. Day of the Tentacle
10. Faust


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Re: 2001 Gameboomer Recommendations #94435
06/05/01 04:11 PM
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These are the some of the ones that stick in my memory, even though I haven’t played some of them in ten years. There are many other worthy candidates mentioned in other’s lists, and some yet unmentioned that I haven’t completed yet.

1. Broken Sword : Circle of Blood
2. Byzantine: The Betrayal
3. The Dig
4. Gabriel Knight: Sins of the Fathers
5. Gabriel Knight: The Beast Within
6. Gabriel Knight: Blood of the Sacred, Blood of the Damned
7. Grim Fandango This one made me upgrade my video card and buy a new joystick.
8. Indiana Jones and the Fate of Atlantis I played the floppy version. The CD version talks now.
9. The Journeyman Project 3: Legacy of Time
10. The Longest Journey
11. Monkey Island, The Secret of My first adventure game. Although dated, it will always have an honored space on my game shelf.
12. Tex Murphy: Under a Killing Moon I bought a new computer to play this one. It was worth it.
13. Tex Murphy: The Pandora Directive
14. Tex Murphy: OverSeer The first DVD game I know of.
15. Torrin’s Passage

The Tex games are my favorites of all time. I’m also pleased to see that many of the games in my To Play Pile (I’m only a semi-BAAGer, about 25) are somewhere in these lists. It will be interesting to see what the list looks like next year.

Albert

Re: 2001 Gameboomer Recommendations #94436
06/07/01 04:16 PM
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My first four votes all go to Monkey Island games cause it is my all time best game series.
Monkey one
Monkey two
Monkey Three
Monkey Four
Discworld one
Discworld two
Les Manley Search fot the King
Simon the Sorcerer
The Beast Within
Longest Journey
Rex Nebular and the Cosmic Genderbender
Space Quest four
Kings Quest seven
Day of the Tentacle
Countdown

Re: 2001 Gameboomer Recommendations #94437
06/07/01 09:58 PM
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I had to defer posting my list of 15 top games until I had a chance to do enough of MYST EXILE to know whether it would get in the list. Yes, although I have only completed the Voltaic Age, I am sure that it would make it. Since only the presence or absence on the list counts, i.e., no weighting as to order of merit, I will list them alphabetically.

BLACK DAHLIA
BLACKSTONE CHRONICLES
BYZANTINE
CYDONIA
FAUST
MYST
MYST EXILE
OBSIDIAN
RAMA
REAH
RING
RIVEN
SHIVERS
TIMELAPSE
ZORK NEMESIS

Ah, it is hard to stop there. The trouble is, I have enjoyed almost all the games that I have played, thanks to taking advantage of the recommendations of knowledgeable Boomers. Thank you kindly!


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