Adventure Games

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11 Jan 2008, 8:39 pm

I grew up watching my dad play adventure games (I was more than slightly terrible at puzzles). As time went on, I ended up leaving the games to him entirely. But now he's pretty much quit, and I'm the one who's interested in adventure games again. I thought games like Myst (I can't stand wandering around cluelessly in a game) had soured me off this genre forever, but playing Indigo Prophecy made me realize several things: that kind of focus on a cool story was exactly what I'd been looking for, that I'd enjoyed games like the 7th Guest before, and that suddenly the adventure games I'd told Amazon I wasn't interested in 12,000 times were looking very alluring, though sadly not qualifying for free shipping.
So, getting to the point... what do the rest of you think of adventure games?
(And do you have any recommendations?)

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11 Jan 2008, 9:33 pm

This kind of goes without saying, but The Legend of Zelda games are greatness.
Especially OoT and Wind Waker.
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Okami too. Play it. It's crazy fun. (:

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12 Jan 2008, 6:46 am

Metroid games are brilliant too.

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12 Jan 2008, 7:58 am

There's another thread for recommendations on adventure games here:

http://www.wrongplanet.net/postt50242.html

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13 Jan 2008, 1:05 am

Oh wow... I love them...

I've played

King's Quest 1-8 including remakes
Space Quest 1-5 including remakes
Leisure Suit Larry 1-6 including remakes
Police Quest I-3
Phantasmagoria 1 and 2
Quest for Glory 1-4 including remakes
Lara Bow 1 and 2
Legends of Kyrandia 1-3
Loom
The Dig
Monkey Island 1-3
Indiana Jones and the Last Crusade
Indiana Jones and the Fate of Atlantis
Gabriel Knight 1
Necropolis
Quest for Camelot
Manic Mansion and Day of the Tentacle
Sam and Max hit the Road
Zork
HitchHiker's Guide to the Galaxy

Lots more, just can't remember offhand.

Anyway ---- there are lots of FREE ones on the Internet that work with WinXP - Check out the King's Quest Remakes...

KQ1 and KQ2 http://www.agdinteractive.com/
KQ3 http://www.infamous-adventures.com/inde ... age=kq3vga

and the online BBC version of Hitch-Hiker's guide to the Galaxy
http://www.bbc.co.uk/radio4/hitchhikers ... drew.shtml

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13 Jan 2008, 4:56 am

I've tried to find some fan made Metroid games online but with no success. I know you can find fan made Zelda games but I'm not sure about Metroid ones.

And yes, Enigmatic_Odditty, I do remeber the other thread, but that one I think has dissappered off the page.

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