Need list of "recent" good adventure games
I'm sure there's a list somewhere on these forums but I can't find a search phrase to come up with it. So, I'll ask:
Could some of you suggest some recent (like within the last 5 years or so) adventure games that could satiate my bloodlust for the Lucas Arts/Sierra games of yore (Like Monkey Island 3, Grim Fandango, and such).
These new Sam and Max Episodes have reawakened my adventure gaming demon and he's just craving a little more meat. You know, like lots of puzzles/items deal with. No adventure games that I've seen on shelves since those days have caught my interest or have garnered poor reviews and I just need a little assistance in my search.
Could some of you suggest some recent (like within the last 5 years or so) adventure games that could satiate my bloodlust for the Lucas Arts/Sierra games of yore (Like Monkey Island 3, Grim Fandango, and such).
These new Sam and Max Episodes have reawakened my adventure gaming demon and he's just craving a little more meat. You know, like lots of puzzles/items deal with. No adventure games that I've seen on shelves since those days have caught my interest or have garnered poor reviews and I just need a little assistance in my search.
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There's also the two Bone games from Telltale.
Keepsake, Al Emmo, Ankh, Samorost 2, The Moment of Silence, Still life, myst 3, Faust...
Best part? It'll be free!
Playing The Last Express is one of the greatest ideas I've ever heard. It's a classic all the way through, and it's also desperately underappreciated. Also manages to look extremely good, despite being a decade old.
It is! Not the greatest documentation/instructions though (either that or when I played I just jumped in) but I didn't figure out the save and rewind functions correctly until after I had beaten it--and I would probably have been a lot more impressed since it also is very innovative.
Besides the real-time scripting of everything, the whole "international flavor" of the Orient Express riders at the time was really done amazingly well, and I've never seen a better non-Bosco use of many foreign languages in a game.
(It's extremely easy, though, but the story and atmosphere are incredible, and it's also pretty long)
If you like inventory, you might like the Kheops games. Two of them have been mentioned already - Return to Mysterious Island and Voyage (also known as Journey to the Moon in Europe/UK). Their most recent release is Secrets of DaVinci (which has nothing to do with the book or game). I enjoyed all of those. They are first person perspective but there are other characters to interact with and dialogue. Their use of inventory is a lot of fun.
My favorite being the LucasArts inspired adventure game The Apprentice which can be found here: http://www.herculeaneffort.com/
Sanitarium was amazing, the second area in the game was by far the most disturbing. (The town with the deformed children) The "Don't go near the pumpkin patch" chant still haunts me
Runaway: The game that started the adventure-comeback a few years ago, at least in europe.
Runaway 2: released recently (not sure about an english version though), fantastic 2D graphics!
Ankh: Available here at telltale as a download. funny 3d adventure hich reminds me a lot of the lucas arts classics
Ankh 2: see above. but i think not yet available in english
the longest journey: now thats a game that does the title justice. very long an epic adventure game that switches between a futuristic and a fantasy world. great story, great game. graphics are still nice, despite the age of the game
secret files tunguska: one of the best adventure games of last year imo. at least the german original, i've heard some complaint about the english translation.
the black mirror: bad english translation as far as i know, but otherwise a good game.
undercover operation wintersun: once again, i liked the german original, but i don't know anything about an english translation
the moment of silence: and another lacking english translation. has a great story, but some gameplay issues. hopefully they will be removed in overclocked, the next game by house of tales (another german adventure game developer)
broken sword 1-4: i like em all. 1 is the best, but you porbably know it, it's quite old. 3 has too many crate moving puzzles and some control issues (i had no problem with it, but others had). 4 returns to point'n'click but still some people hat control problems... and the graphics are a bit bland. still a nice game though.
maybe you should also try
Syberia 1&2 and Still Life: few items, few conversations and a lot of empty screens (=there is nothing you can do, only watch the beautiful graphics) but beautiful designs, a great atmosphere and nice stories.
fenimore filmore in wanted: okay funny adventure game which was one of the first to utilize 3D graphics in combination with a point'n'click interface like telltale does. has some issues but i still liked it.
is that enough?
I would say that at this point adventure gaming is going through its Silver Age, and there are definitely plenty of modern adventure games worthy of being checked out.
Most of my personal favorites have already been mentioned, but here's another one: Sherlock Holmes: the Case of the Silver Earring. Very classic-feeling interface and superb writing. It does have a single timed sequence and sneaking sequence (both skippable by downloading savegames from the developer's site), and a few logic puzzles. The difficulty is also quite high at times, especially when you have to answer questions to show you're keeping up with Holmes.
Yes, I know. But I've heard the translation is really bad...
Here's the demo that way Syn can try it out and not be out anything if he/she doesn't like it:
http://www.gamershell.com/download_7396.shtml
Of course older you have lots... Nightlong (not humoristic but very cool, very... calm ^^), Sanitarium (very disturbing, I made nightmares of it when I was younger, and it has great puzzles and a very well written story), I won't talk about LucasArts one, you surely already know them, so I'll just talk about Down in the dumps (totally absurd... but buggy, I wasn't able to finish it
Hyper bonus : three tracks from the nerverhood game ^^
The Neverhood Theme
Dum da dum dum doi doi
Olley Oxen Free
(Except for the music, links shows a small screenshot of the game)
Stupid Invaders I've never played, but I remembered something really strange regarding this game - I once found a review on the internet that really criticized this game for having very bad humor. The thing is, for some reason to illustrate how bad the humor is, they compared it to an interactive fiction Space Quest fan game I made when I was 11... I was shocked to see a mention of my interactive fiction in a review, since even though it was released on the net, I just assumed no one ever played it. Also, it's funny that someone compared a commercial game to a silly game an 11 years old kid wrote in a few days...
Really? If that's because of the
Well... maybe because Stupid Invaders is a french cartoon, french reviewers has not criticized too much this game... I think it's a very special humour, with cow factory to reach poo, snail races and rabbit dressed pervert, and it can not make laugh everybody. As a fan of the first season of the cartoon, I loved the game (even if it was for me too empty). I gave lots of critics by mail to the developers, we discussed a lot about it (and about the soundtrack) because they would make a sequel... then... the creator died, and now it's useless to hope. But it's just a funny game, with jokes that sometimes can appears a bit "hmm... ok" but it's not a bad game at all... there was a demo on the net, you can try it if you find it, just to have an opinion
And about neverhood, it can also be
If you're feeling cheap, The Longest Journey has been re-released on budget at last, after spending a long time missing from the shelves.
I'm near-obsessive about all things Neverhood, and even I couldn't finish the game lol, there's a puzzle late in the game that reeeeally tested my patience... Doug TenNapel remains my personal god though
(And the soundtrack is indeed amazing, I'd kill to find a copy of Imaginarium, it has the soundtracks for Neverhood, Skullmonkeys, AND Boombots)
It is still one of my favourites.
ShaggE, if you're seeking for The Neverhood soundtrack, just let me know and I'll sent it to you
Yay! somebody who knows The Neverhood!
Yay! Another person who knows The Neverhood!
I found it disturbing right when
But found it amazingly hilarius when
Too sad the creator died (didnt know about it), though resently i saw an adventure game from a french company where the character had a similar design to those of Stupid Invaders, but it was 3D and the character's arms draged behind the character while it moved (cant remember the game, dont know if it was released either >_<)
Definitely glad read this thread and got the idea to buy it. Even with the flaws ( I had to use the UHS system quite a few times because of pixel hunting & some seriously flawed puzzles ), I'd say that was probably the best adventure game released since 2002.
http://www.genereavventura.com/eng/index.asp
hotel dusk and another code(both on the DS) Japanese point and click which i enjoyed a lot
dreamfall the longest journey didnt like it at first but i got into it eventually and enjoyed it