Posted By: flotsam
The List - It Begins 2023 - 07/06/23 02:08 AM
Hi all
As foreshadowed, it’s been a while (5 years or so) since we have done a list, and so (and based on some earlier consultation) we thought we would bring it back, but with a bit of a twist.
First things first: we are adding Tex Murphy: Tesla Effect to the Hall of Fame (HOF). It featured prominently in our earlier lists ever since it was released and came first more than once. Plus Tex deserves to be in there.
Our HOF is therefore:
Amerzone
Black Mirror
Broken Sword 1 (Circle of Blood, Shadow of the Templars)
Dark Fall: The Journal
Dreamfall
Gabriel Knight: Sins of the Fathers
Gabriel Knight: The Beast Within
Grim Fandango
Longest Journey
Lost Crown
Lost Horizon
Myst
Riven
Sanitarium
Still Life
Syberia
Syberia 2
Tex Murphy: Tesla Effect
Timelapse
Zork Nemesis
Zork Grand Inquisitor
Plus Isabelle of course, but that goes without saying
With respect to the lists, the idea behind them is to help other boomers work out what they might want to play next. The collective wisdom of all of us helps identify various possibilities. Essentially, you are answering the question "if I want to play an adventure game, what would you recommend." That is still the objective with this list, but between the HOF and the previous lists we have a lot of recommendations about what are essentially 'older' games. With this list we therefore want to try and unearth some more recent games.
On that basis the rules (there are always rules) are as follows:
- you can list up to 10 games
- 5 of those can be released whenever ('old' games - ignore the HOF games because we already know about them)
- the other 5 need to have been released in the last 5 years ('new' games)
You don't have to list 10 if you only want to recommend a couple, nor do you have to list equal numbers of old and new. Feel free to list 10 new games, or just 5 old games, or 5 old games and 3 new ones. Whatever suits, but no more than 5 old ones.
As far as "released in the last 5 years" is concerned, take it as being any game released in 2018 to the current date. That picks up a bit of overlap with our last list/s and everything since. The 'years' tab here and our own list of latest releases here will assist.
When you list, can you please try and list alphabetically as it aids in the tabulation. In doing so, ignore 'the' (so The Dark Eye would be listed under 'D' for dark). The list will stay open for about three weeks, and I will post updates as we go.
Who wants to go first?
As foreshadowed, it’s been a while (5 years or so) since we have done a list, and so (and based on some earlier consultation) we thought we would bring it back, but with a bit of a twist.
First things first: we are adding Tex Murphy: Tesla Effect to the Hall of Fame (HOF). It featured prominently in our earlier lists ever since it was released and came first more than once. Plus Tex deserves to be in there.
Our HOF is therefore:
Amerzone
Black Mirror
Broken Sword 1 (Circle of Blood, Shadow of the Templars)
Dark Fall: The Journal
Dreamfall
Gabriel Knight: Sins of the Fathers
Gabriel Knight: The Beast Within
Grim Fandango
Longest Journey
Lost Crown
Lost Horizon
Myst
Riven
Sanitarium
Still Life
Syberia
Syberia 2
Tex Murphy: Tesla Effect
Timelapse
Zork Nemesis
Zork Grand Inquisitor
Plus Isabelle of course, but that goes without saying
With respect to the lists, the idea behind them is to help other boomers work out what they might want to play next. The collective wisdom of all of us helps identify various possibilities. Essentially, you are answering the question "if I want to play an adventure game, what would you recommend." That is still the objective with this list, but between the HOF and the previous lists we have a lot of recommendations about what are essentially 'older' games. With this list we therefore want to try and unearth some more recent games.
On that basis the rules (there are always rules) are as follows:
- you can list up to 10 games
- 5 of those can be released whenever ('old' games - ignore the HOF games because we already know about them)
- the other 5 need to have been released in the last 5 years ('new' games)
You don't have to list 10 if you only want to recommend a couple, nor do you have to list equal numbers of old and new. Feel free to list 10 new games, or just 5 old games, or 5 old games and 3 new ones. Whatever suits, but no more than 5 old ones.
As far as "released in the last 5 years" is concerned, take it as being any game released in 2018 to the current date. That picks up a bit of overlap with our last list/s and everything since. The 'years' tab here and our own list of latest releases here will assist.
When you list, can you please try and list alphabetically as it aids in the tabulation. In doing so, ignore 'the' (so The Dark Eye would be listed under 'D' for dark). The list will stay open for about three weeks, and I will post updates as we go.
Who wants to go first?