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Adventure Gamers Top 100 (and more!) Graphic Adventures

GhaleonQ

GhaleonQ

Member
So. Adventure Gamers made a top 100 graphic adventures list. Basically, it includes anything published in the English language (so, very few European or Asian games). They offer similar follow-ups to placing entries to encourage people to explore more obscure titles.

The good things about the list are that they include non-placing follow-ups to specific games and that more than 1 entry per series is allowed.

The bad thing about the list is that they exclude similar entries in a series SOMETIMES and the list's point-of-view is, um (localized titles, not original titles):
http://www.adventuregamers.com/article/id,1401/p,1

001. Grim Fandango
002. The Longest Journey
003. Gabriel Knight: The Beast Within
004. Broken Sword: The Shadow Of The Templars
005. Myst II: Riven
006. Day Of The Tentacle
007. The Last Express
008. Monkey Island 2: LeChuck's Revenge
009. Tex Murphy: The Pandora Directive
010. Portal 2
011. Indiana Jones And The Fate Of Atlantis
012. Zork: Grand Inquisitor
013. King's Quest VI: Heir Today, Gone Tomorrow
014. The Secret Of Monkey Island
015. Syberia 1
016. Gabriel Knight: Sins Of The Fathers
017. Machinarium
018. Myst
019. Beneath A Steel Sky
020. Still Life
021. Blade Runner
022. The Lost Files Of Sherlock Holmes: The Case Of The Serrated Scalpel
023. Quest For Glory IV: Shadows Of Darkness
024. Police Quest 2: The Vengeance
025. Tex Murphy: Under A Killing Moon
026. Heavy Rain
027. Discworld Noir
028. Sam And Max Hit The Road
029. Phoenix Wright: Ace Attorney
030. Bad Mojo
031. Portal
032. Gabriel Knight: Blood Of The Sacred, Blood Of The Damned
033. L.A. Noire
034. Amnesia: The Dark Descent
035. The Neverhood
036. Sanitarium
037. Stacking
038. Full Throttle
039. Last Window: The Secret Of Cape West
040. Myst IV: Revelation
041. Ghost Trick: Phantom Detective
042. Conquests Of The Longbow: The Legend Of Robin Hood
043. John Saul's Blackstone Chronicles
044. Simon The Sorcerer
045. The Curse Of Monkey Island
046. The Journeyman Project 3: Legacy Of Time
047. Professor Layton And The Curious Village
048. Space Quest IV: Roger Wilco And The Time Rippers
049. Sam And Max Beyond Time And Space
050. Infocom's text adventures
051. Zork: The Forbidden Lands
052. Dreamfall: The Longest Journey
053. Return To Mysterious Island
054. Samorost 2
055. Syberia 2
056. In Memoriam
057. Indigo Prophecy
058. Star Trek: Judgment Rites
059. Myst III: Exile
060. Another Code: 2 Memories
061. Loom
062. Obsidian
063. Black Dahlia
064. The Book Of Unwritten Tales
065. Hotel Dusk: Room 215
066. Callahan's Crosstime Saloon
067. Pepper's Adventures In Time
068. Shadow Of Destiny
069. I Have No Mouth, And I Must Scream
070. Amber: Journey's Beyond
071. Leisure Suit Larry 7: Love For Sail
072. Maniac Mansion
073. Discworld: Missing, Presumed
074. Shadow Of The Comet
075. Kings Quest I: Quest For The Crown
076. Drawn: The Painted Tower
077. Silent Hill: Shattered Memories
078. Freddy Pharkas: Frontier Pharmacist
079. Gemini Rue
080. Sherlock Holmes: The Awakened
081. Quest For Glory II: Trial By Fire
082. The 7th Guest
083. Black Mirror 1
084. The Colonel's Bequest: A Laura Bow Mystery
085. The Dark Eye
086. Dark Fall
087. Penumbra: Black Plague
088. Simon The Sorcerer 2: The Lion, The Wizard, And The Wardrobe
089. The Journeyman Project 2: Buried In Time
090. Spycraft: The Great Game
091. The Feeble Files
092. The Dig
093. Toonstruck
094. Faust
095. Ripley's Believe it Or Not: The Riddle Of Master Lu
096. Gold Rush
097. Runaway: A Twist Of Fate
098. The Space Bar
099. Nancy Drew: Curse Of Blackmoor Manor
100. Titanic: Adventure Out Of Time

I won't editorialize too much in the original post, but I've soured on Adventure Gamers over the past 3 years. Here is one reason why!
 
G

Grimmy

Banned
Gabriel Knight II over Gabriel Knight I???
Whut.

And any version of Broken Sword and Myst over Monkey Island 1/2/3 is a joke.

Where the heck is Leisure Suit Larry 1???
 
Z

Zeal

Banned
My all time favorite genre. Nothing will ever take away the memories of playing Full Throttle, Monkey Island and Grim Fandango as a teenager.
 
S

StoppedInTracks

Member
GhaleonQ said:
001. Grim Fandango
002. The Longest Journey
003. Gabriel Knight: The Beast Within
004. Broken Sword: The Shadow Of The Templars
005. Myst II: Riven
006. Day Of The Tentacle
007. The Last Express
008. Monkey Island 2: LeChuck's Revenge
009. Tex Murphy: The Pandora Directive
010. Portal 2
011. Indiana Jones And The Fate Of Atlantis
012. Zork: Grand Inquisitor
013. King's Quest VI: Heir Today, Gone Tomorrow
014. The Secret Of Monkey Island
015. Syberia 1
016. Gabriel Knight: Sins Of The Fathers
017. Machinarium
018. Myst
019. Beneath A Steel Sky
020. Still Life
021. Blade Runner
022. The Lost Files Of Sherlock Holmes: The Case Of The Serrated Scalpel
023. Quest For Glory IV: Shadows Of Darkness
024. Police Quest 2: The Vengeance
025. Tex Murphy: Under A Killing Moon
026. Heavy Rain
027. Discworld Noir
028. Sam And Max Hit The Road
029. Phoenix Wright: Ace Attorney
030. Bad Mojo
031. Portal
032. Gabriel Knight: Blood Of The Sacred, Blood Of The Damned
033. L.A. Noire
034. Amnesia: The Dark Descent
035. The Neverhood
036. Sanitarium
037. Stacking
038. Full Throttle
039. Last Window: The Secret Of Cape West
040. Myst IV: Revelation
041. Ghost Trick: Phantom Detective
042. Conquests Of The Longbow: The Legend Of Robin Hood
043. John Saul's Blackstone Chronicles
044. Simon The Sorcerer
045. The Curse Of Monkey Island
046. The Journeyman Project 3: Legacy Of Time
047. Professor Layton And The Curious Village
048. Space Quest IV: Roger Wilco And The Time Rippers
049. Sam And Max Beyond Time And Space
050. Infocom's text adventures
051. Zork: The Forbidden Lands
052. Dreamfall: The Longest Journey
053. Return To Mysterious Island
054. Samorost 2
055. Syberia 2
056. In Memoriam
057. Indigo Prophecy
058. Star Trek: Judgment Rites
059. Myst III: Exile
060. Another Code: 2 Memories
061. Loom
062. Obsidian
063. Black Dahlia
064. The Book Of Unwritten Tales
065. Hotel Dusk: Room 215
066. Callahan's Crosstime Saloon
067. Pepper's Adventures In Time
068. Shadow Of Destiny
069. I Have No Mouth, And I Must Scream
070. Amber: Journey's Beyond
071. Leisure Suit Larry 7: Love For Sail
072. Maniac Mansion
073. Discworld: Missing, Presumed
074. Shadow Of The Comet
075. Kings Quest I: Quest For The Crown
076. Drawn: The Painted Tower
077. Silent Hill: Shattered Memories
078. Freddy Pharkas: Frontier Pharmacist
079. Gemini Rue
080. Sherlock Holmes: The Awakened
081. Quest For Glory II: Trial By Fire
082. The 7th Guest
083. Black Mirror 1
084. The Colonel's Bequest: A Laura Bow Mystery
085. The Dark Eye
086. Dark Fall
087. Penumbra: Black Plague
088. Simon The Sorcerer 2: The Lion, The Wizard, And The Wardrobe
089. The Journeyman Project 2: Buried In Time
090. Spycraft: The Great Game
091. The Feeble Files
092. The Dig
093. Toonstruck
094. Faust
095. Ripley's Believe it Or Not: The Riddle Of Master Lu
096. Gold Rush
097. Runaway: A Twist Of Fate
098. The Space Bar
099. Nancy Drew: Curse Of Blackmoor Manor
100. Titanic: Adventure Out Of Time
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Bolded some of the underrated ones. PLAY THEM PEOPLE. They are really good games.
 
S

Sqorgar

Banned
Maniac Mansion at 72? That's so absurd that the laws of physics must not apply here. Up is down, left is right, and parallel lines are dancing a tango.
 
I

inky

Member
Minor comment: LA Noire I can understand, but Portal and Portal 2? The seem more like story driven puzzle games to me, if that distinction can be made. Lots of good stuff there anyways. Grim Fandango deserves that spot.
 
ULTROS!

ULTROS!

People seem to like me because I am polite and I am rarely late. I like to eat ice cream and I really enjoy a nice pair of slacks.
Glad Laura Bow 1 made it.
 
A

Alrus

Member
I wish I picked up Grim Fandango as a kid... Now it's kinda hard to find and it still isn't on any DD service :(
 
G

Grimmy

Banned
To me these are the underrated games:

035. The Neverhood
036. Sanitarium
067. Pepper's Adventures In Time
069. I Have No Mouth, And I Must Scream
084. The Colonel's Bequest: A Laura Bow Mystery
096. Gold Rush
 
B

bubnbob

Banned
This is one uneven list... why is there a Nancy Drew game on there? Guess I better see if they explain that one.
 
G

Gianni Merryman

Member
No Zack & Wiki?

By the way I played some of the games listed, and it seems to me like a nice selection overall, and for one Grim Fandango is a very nice game as far as I'm concerned.

Glad to see Blade runner up there too!
 
T

The Technomancer

card-carrying scientician
Riven in the top 10?

everything_went_better_than_expected.jpg
 
T

The Technomancer

card-carrying scientician
El Pescado said:
I do not understand how Portal is on this list.
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Why shouldn't it be? Its a game with a strong emphasis on travelling through an environment/experiencing a story. Replace the Portal puzzles with randomly trying every inventory item on every other object and add in an ability to backtrack to the last two or so rooms and you've got a classic point and click.
 
O

Omikaru

Member
The_Technomancer said:
Why shouldn't it be? Its a game with a strong emphasis on travelling through an environment/experiencing a story. Replace the Portal puzzles with randomly trying every inventory item on every other object and add in an ability to backtrack and you've got a classic point and click.
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Agreed. Never really thought of the Portal games as point and click adventures beforehand, but I didn't second guess them putting it on this list. It felt right at home with the other games on the list.
 
N

nincompoop

Banned
LMAO @ Heavy Rain and LA Noir. A lot of these games aren't even Graphic Adventures. Low placement and exclusion of classic Sierra games is pathetic. Where's Zack & Wiki?
 
B

Berto

Member
I like where The Last Express is, don't like where Gabriel Knight: Sins of the Fathers is.

Omikaru said:
Agreed. Never really thought of the Portal games as point and click adventures beforehand, but I didn't second guess them putting it on this list. It felt right at home with the other games on the list.
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An adventure game doesn't need to be point n click =)
 
T

The Technomancer

card-carrying scientician
Omikaru said:
Agreed. Never really thought of the Portal games as point and click adventures beforehand, but I didn't second guess them putting it on this list. It felt right at home with the other games on the list.
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Yeah, wasn't really saying "Portal is a point and click" so much as pointing out the structural parallels.
 
Huevos de Oro

Huevos de Oro

Member
GhaleonQ said:
So. Adventure Gamers made a top 100 graphic adventures list. Basically, it includes anything published in the English language (so, very few European or Asian games). They offer similar follow-ups to placing entries to encourage people to explore more obscure titles.

The good things about the list are that they include non-placing follow-ups to specific games and that more than 1 entry per series is allowed.

The bad thing about the list is that they exclude similar entries in a series SOMETIMES and the list's point-of-view is, um (localized titles, not original titles):
http://www.adventuregamers.com/article/id,1401/p,1

001. Grim Fandango
002. The Longest Journey 6.24 on Steam bundled with Dreamfall.
003. Gabriel Knight: The Beast Within
004. Broken Sword: The Shadow Of The TemplarsBroken Sword Triple pack 2.49 on Steam = Shadow of the templars, Smoking Mirror, Sleeping Dragon
005. Myst II: Riven2.99 on Steam. Not XP compatible, though.
006. Day Of The Tentacle
007. The Last Express
008. Monkey Island 2: LeChuck's Revenge5.99 on Steam.
009. Tex Murphy: The Pandora Directive
010. Portal 214.99 on Steam.
011. Indiana Jones And The Fate Of Atlantis2.99 on Steam
012. Zork: Grand Inquisitor
013. King's Quest VI: Heir Today, Gone Tomorrow
014. The Secret Of Monkey IslandSpecial Edition 5.99 on Steam.
015. Syberia 14.99 on Steam
016. Gabriel Knight: Sins Of The Fathers
017. Machinarium4.99 on Steam
018. Myst
019. Beneath A Steel SkyFREE ON GOG
020. Still Life4.99 on Steam
021. Blade Runner
022. The Lost Files Of Sherlock Holmes: The Case Of The Serrated Scalpel
023. Quest For Glory IV: Shadows Of Darkness
024. Police Quest 2: The Vengeance
025. Tex Murphy: Under A Killing Moon
026. Heavy Rain
027. Discworld Noir
028. Sam And Max Hit The Road
029. Phoenix Wright: Ace Attorney
030. Bad Mojo
031. Portal4.99 on Steam
032. Gabriel Knight: Blood Of The Sacred, Blood Of The Damned
033. L.A. Noire37.49 on Steam
034. Amnesia: The Dark Descent9.99 on Steam
035. The Neverhood
036. Sanitarium
037. Stacking
038. Full Throttle
039. Last Window: The Secret Of Cape West
040. Myst IV: Revelation
041. Ghost Trick: Phantom Detective
042. Conquests Of The Longbow: The Legend Of Robin Hood
043. John Saul's Blackstone Chronicles
044. Simon The Sorcerer
045. The Curse Of Monkey Island
046. The Journeyman Project 3: Legacy Of Time
047. Professor Layton And The Curious Village
048. Space Quest IV: Roger Wilco And The Time Rippers
049. Sam And Max Beyond Time And Space
050. Infocom's text adventures
051. Zork: The Forbidden Lands
052. Dreamfall: The Longest Journey6.24 bundled with TLJ on Steam.
053. Return To Mysterious Island
054. Samorost 22.49 on Steam
055. Syberia 24.99 on Steam
056. In Memoriam
057. Indigo Prophecy
058. Star Trek: Judgment Rites
059. Myst III: Exile
060. Another Code: 2 Memories
061. Loom2.99 on Steam
062. Obsidian
063. Black Dahlia
064. The Book Of Unwritten Tales
065. Hotel Dusk: Room 215
066. Callahan's Crosstime Saloon
067. Pepper's Adventures In Time
068. Shadow Of Destiny
069. I Have No Mouth, And I Must Scream
070. Amber: Journey's Beyond
071. Leisure Suit Larry 7: Love For Sail
072. Maniac Mansion
073. Discworld: Missing, Presumed
074. Shadow Of The Comet
075. Kings Quest I: Quest For The Crown
076. Drawn: The Painted Tower9.99 on Steam
077. Silent Hill: Shattered Memories
078. Freddy Pharkas: Frontier Pharmacist
079. Gemini Rue4.99 on Steam
080. Sherlock Holmes: The Awakened4.99 on Steam
081. Quest For Glory II: Trial By Fire
082. The 7th Guest
083. Black Mirror 1
084. The Colonel's Bequest: A Laura Bow Mystery
085. The Dark Eye
086. Dark Fall4.99 on Steam
087. Penumbra: Black Plague3.99 on Steam
088. Simon The Sorcerer 2: The Lion, The Wizard, And The Wardrobe
089. The Journeyman Project 2: Buried In Time
090. Spycraft: The Great Game
091. The Feeble Files
092. The Dig2.99 on Steam
093. Toonstruck
094. Faust
095. Ripley's Believe it Or Not: The Riddle Of Master Lu
096. Gold Rush
097. Runaway: A Twist Of Fate9.99 on Steam
098. The Space Bar
099. Nancy Drew: Curse Of Blackmoor Manor3.49 on Steam
100. Titanic: Adventure Out Of Time

I won't editorialize too much in the original post, but I've soured on Adventure Gamers over the past 3 years. Here is one reason why!
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Did a search on Steam, the bolded are available there and many of them with discounts because of the current holiday sale. Many of them have already seen time as daily deals, sadly, but nevertheless are a good pick if you are into the genre.
 
RPGCrazied

RPGCrazied

Member
I miss the old Sierra and LucasArts days. ;/ Seems like the genre is dying. I'm more a 3rd person adventure gamer. Can't stand the first person ones. My top 5 probably would be:

1.) The Dig
2.) Full Throttle
3.) Day of The Tentacle
4.) Siberia 1 & 2
5.) King's Quest and Space Quest series
 
O

Omikaru

Member
nincompoop said:
LMAO @ Heavy Rain and LA Noir. A lot of these games aren't even Graphic Adventures. Low placement and exclusion of classic Sierra games is pathetic. Where's Zack & Wiki?
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I think they're adventure games, all told, just not like the older ones. I think they have every right to be on the list from a genre list, but from a "are they a good game" right to be on this list, then no, they don't.

Though to be honest, I don't think Zack & Wiki deserves to be on this list either. I hated that game.
 
B

bubnbob

Banned
Broken Sword 1 and 2 along with Myst and Riven (edit: 7th Guest as well) (edit2: Simon the Sorcerer 1 & 2) are on iOS as well for anyone interested

070. Amber: Journey's Beyond
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I'm really surprised to see this on here. I thought I was the only one who played this. It's a really old game, wont run on most new machines without wizardry, but very good atmosphere.

Two I would add to this list as a personal addition:

Shivers
Scratches (available on Steam)
 
T

The Technomancer

card-carrying scientician
nincompoop said:
LMAO @ Heavy Rain and LA Noir. A lot of these games aren't even Graphic Adventures. Low placement and exclusion of classic Sierra games is pathetic. Where's Zack & Wiki?
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Dude, I love Zack and Wiki, but Heavy Rain and LA Noire, regardless of your feelings about overall quality, are far more of adventure games then Z&W. Z&W is essentially a series of isolated (awesome) puzzles with barely any thread connecting them.
 
ULTROS!

ULTROS!

People seem to like me because I am polite and I am rarely late. I like to eat ice cream and I really enjoy a nice pair of slacks.
RPGCrazied said:
I miss the old Sierra and LucasArts days. ;/ Seems like the genre is dying.
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Don't think it's dying now. Sure it's not as great during the 90's era, but it's definitely better now as compared to the early 2000s thanks to Telltale, the porting people, the indies, and digital distribution.
 
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