Top 20 Greatest Adventure Games... (Retro Gamer Issue 84)

[soule187]

Real number one - Quest for Glory!

[Otageemeur]

I was very surprised by the number 1! Especially that I was thinking: "Dammit they will not have THIs game in the list and yet it is such a good game"... However, I thought this game (yeah I avoid to spoil the top 20...) would not be number 1 but a little below... Oh well, very great video with a lot of very good game. I would have love that list included Woodruff And The Schnibble of Azimuth too.

[pierrethenot]

Runaway 1? it's still an oldie and I love pendulo, always great quality.

[GoldenEyeRa]

What was that incredible music used during the recap?

[rogerpenna]

good list, too bad you didnt include Under a Killing Moon / The Pandora Directive in it.

[ASquared007]

I completely agree with 2 and 1...

[interted]

of course the list cannot contain more than 20 games, but one can add a game by "Divide by Zero" like this The Gene Machine

[interted]

wonderful review

[1978RonnyD]

As for Delphine fans, also check out Future Wars (adventure / action), which is amazing too. Especially for its time (although some of the action seq. could become annoying). One thing for sure: Delphine left us a timeless impression :-)

[blade004]

@1978RonnyD Future Wars was a wonderful game! :) I love the time travel element and it had such a great atmosphere :)

[blade004]

Its rather odd that for Operation Stealth and Cruise for a Corpse that you didnt present the Amiga versions to show them at their best due to better sonics? Still a wonderful video regardless :)

[blairdunedin]

What about shadow of the comet, one of the most spooky adventure games out. It would have been my number 1.

[MsMigue77]

Simon of the sorcerrer no.1? a copy of Monkey Island only with magic!?

[MsMigue77]

Where´s Legend of Kyrandia?

[HardWarUK]

Great video and commentary., but Simon The Sorcerer at No.1? Sorry, that's not right!

[newm1ke]

I enjoyed watching that, great vid great work :) remembered some classics and discovered some new ones :)

[DarkTenka]

Is there a full-talkie version of beneath a steel sky? .. that game sounds good.

[gamesessions]

@DarkTenka Yes, the Amiga CD and PC CD versions were both full-talkies, I think the recent iOS version has full speech too, though I've not played that version.

[DarkTenka]

@gamesessions thanks.. I'm gonna hunt this one down and play it over the holidays. Cheers, its been educational!

[blairdunedin]

@DarkTenka Beneath a steel sky is an epic game that you have to play, yes there is voice acting for the game too.

[Genryu83]

@DarkTenka

There is a site called GoG (Good old Games). That rereleases old classics, that have been tinkered with to work on modern computers, its all completely legal, they get full permission. The site also has a few free games available when you sign up, the full talkie version of Beneath a Steel Sky is one of the freebies.

[DarkTenka]

@Genryu83 Wow .. thanks man, you're a champ!

[Gendgi]

Steel Sky was amazing :)

[EdwardTheGreat54321]

Has anybody here played LBA 2?? That game with twinsen, that game marked my childhood!!!

[gamesessions]

@EdwardTheGreat54321 I played the first Little Big Adventure, never tried the sequel - it was an awesome game though :)

[EdwardTheGreat54321]

@gamesessions i played both already, but the sequel is the best game ever, you can't even compare to the other game!! i sugest you find it to download, it's a little hard to find but it's worth!!

[VikingFatty]

I once player a game where you (somewhere in a level) were in a hotel and you couldn't leave it until you throw some item out of the window. If you went out of the hotel with that item in your pocket you were taken by the guards of that hotel and thrown in the waters. Which game is this? I searched everywhere for it but I CANT find it. Anybody?

[63N713M4N]

@VikingFatty

This is Broken Sword

In my opinion one of the best adventure games .... on one level with

monkey island and toonstruck

[VikingFatty]

@63N713M4N THANK YOU! You sir are my hero! I really appreciate it!

[gamesessions]

@VikingFatty It's Broken Sword - I remember this part of the game really frustrating me as I was used to the LucasArts games where you basically couldn't die. Then I got to this point, got thrown into a river and realised that I hadn't saved it once! lol - Back to the start for me then, I learned my lesson the hard way :P

[TheMasterpiecePD]

@gamesessions Can you help me aswell? I remember, about 5-10 years ago I played a great adventure game off a CD my friend borrowed to me. I don't remember the full story. It had a part where there was this cave, where a troll or a giant lived and everytime he left the cave he put a giant boulder in the way of the entry. It also had a part where you were being mugged and you had to give the robber a ring which killed and turned the wearer into a skeleton. It was set in like the middle age or smth

[Reloaded211]

All the games are older than 10 years. No Syberia series, Dreamfall: The Lonest Journey, or Heavy Rain. Oh, it's sort of a response to Retro Gamer, then it actually makes sense.

[fakeouch]

if amde by lucas arts : Monkey island 1-3great games so great

[wadehjb]

I'm assuming that's the PC version of Cruise for a Corpse. The music is way inferior to the Amiga version, yet the graphics are so much better.

As with a lot of classic adventures, it would be great to have the Amiga music with the PC graphics.

[ElegyForTheMasses]

This video convinced me to purchase Sanitarium on gog along with re-installing all of my Sierra adventure classics! I'm going to be pretty busy for the foreseeable future. :)

[gamesessions]

@ElegyForTheMasses busy but entertained :)

[ElegyForTheMasses]

@gamesessions For sure! Great list! By the way, I was wondering if Simon the Sorcerer was going to make this list, then noticed it was ranked #1! God I loved that game. Haven't played part 2 yet. Were parts 3-5 really that bad?

[Dechorus]

Great list! I'm so glad Policenauts made the cut. It would have been an easy one to miss. Your commentary also described the game perfectly. You truly play the story in Policenauts, and nothing more. There are no puzzles for the sake of puzzles.

[THEGOODFREDD]

Good list actually, I'd guess whoever compiled it was around 25-32 years old, because I remember playing (or owning) 15 of them.

Just 3 games which I feel should have AT LEAST got an honourable mensh

1 - 7th guest - PC

2 - Shadowrun - SNES

3 - Toonstruck - PC

Fully enough though 'Broken Sword' would've been my personal no. 1 which coincidentally semi-buried Toonstruck which was released at about the same time in 1996.

Finally, blade runner was good, but had pretty big gaming issues

[iopend4thestones]

i havent played most of these, but definitely agree with longest journey being in the top 10. such an amazing game!

[Ljungman42]

Umm..you mixed up. #11 should be #1 and #1 should be #11

King's Quest 6 is, and will always be the best adventure game ever made. And no menshion of Kings Quest 5?

[Adrian22Frets]

@Toops144 lol it stroke me too at certain points in the game! Being it so unpredictable and mixing the macabre with the childish..that's the perfect match to freak people out! High artistic value as far as I'm concerned :D

[Adrian22Frets]

Sanitarium?! Man that game kicked ass! Had a major bug tough and I couldn't finish it..maybe it won't give me problems with windows 7..mmm

It had some grotesque and uber-artistic imagination, I really loved it. Add the dark humor and it's perfect

[pixotica]

nice job, enjoyed this review alot.

[Cr1msonCh1n]

I really enjoyed this. Great ideas for games to seek out. I feel Riven and Myst should have made the list however (or are these considered another genre?)

[OfficialAmberSHIZZLE]

BROKEN SWORD :)

[TheAbridgedGamer]

@OfficialAmberSHIZZLE

OH GOD!

Yes, i played it for so long when i was a kid.

Damn hard game, but was fun solving puzzles.

Amazing classic game :D

[OfficialAmberSHIZZLE]

@TheAbridgedGamer yeaaah, i only played 3 tho.. over and over and over again, haha :)

[Vanilakiller]

what about darkseed?? :/

[Shazbut01]

Really enjoying this. I've only seen up to #14 so far. Last Express, I Have No Mouth, and Discworld Noir are brilliant I think, especially Last Express. Didn't like Flight of Amazon Queen though.

[changegames]

all these adv gems *g

[bigfoxxiii]

my adventure game is dreamfall! :D

[cupididi]

really a good review. in the past the ppl took more time for story and everything it seems to me :)

[1984Feliz]

I really enjoyed this video, I was really hoping you weren't going to skip over Bladerunner, one of my favourite games of all time.

I was also hoping you would include Douglas Adams's Starship Titanic, maybe I'm just looking at it through Nostalgia goggles but I really enjoyed the art style of the game.

[DDGreyfox]

really good work here, it must of taken allot of time for you to produce such a lenghtly video, and i think Retro gamer Magzine should do something like this as a treat to the loyal supports of the magazine, but we've more chance of seeing the two moons of Endor before they'd get off there back sides.

subb'ed ;)