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Late but not forgotten - the list 2018
#1159506
08/09/18 12:55 AM
08/09/18 12:55 AM
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Posts: 6,704
Long Beach, Australia
flotsam
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Hi there Real life can get in the way sometimes, including with gaming, but having now moved jurisdictions, changed jobs, semi-retired, (finally) unpacked and most importantly restored the interweb, the list for this year can commence. In case you have forgotten or are new, our annual list provides the answer to the question "If I want to play an adventure game, what should I play?". I started it originally for the self-serving purpose of knowing the answer to that very question. It still helps, and is fun. In the 18 (really  ) or so years it has been going we have increased the recommendations and introduced the Hall of Fame. There are rules: 1. Games in our Hall of Fame are ineligible, as we know they are worth playing else why would they be in the Hall of Fame. Votes for those games won't be counted. Those games are: 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 Timelapse Zork Nemesis Zork Grand Inquisitor 2. You can recommend a maximum of 20 games. You can choose to recommend less. 3. You cannot recommend a series. If you want to recommend all the Tex Murphy games, that will take separate recommendations, one for each game. 4. Episodic adventures will be counted as one game, regardless of where they are up to in the series. 5. Uru and its add ons will be counted as one game. 6. BadMojo and the Redux version are one game. Ditto any other spruced up releases (eg RHEM 4) 7. Directors cuts and Special Releases will be counted as the same game. 8. Adventure games only (Dark Side games and Casual games get their own lists). 9. PC games please (although if you sneak a console game in I won't tell) If at all possible, please list in alphabetical order - it makes counting so much easier. In doing so, ignore "the" (so The Dark Eye would be under "D" for Dark) The thread stays open for about 3 weeks, and I will (endeavour to) post updates and insights as we go. Please avoid editing your lists after posting because Chief and I count as we go, and may miss a change. Batter up (and go Red Sox!)   (aka Green Monster!!)
Quantity has a quality all of its own
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Re: Late but not forgotten - the list 2018
[Re: flotsam]
#1159525
08/09/18 08:19 AM
08/09/18 08:19 AM
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Joined: Dec 2003
Posts: 11,834
Québec
Chief
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Québec
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flotsam, ready to count.  and my list: Barrow Hill The Dark Path Carol Reed Profound Red Dreamfall Chapters Obduction Prominence Quern: Undying Thoughts Sherlock Holmes: The Testament of SH Syberia 3 Text Murphy, Tesla Effect Xing: The Land Beyond Yoomurjak's Ring Chief 
Chief
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Re: Late but not forgotten - the list 2018
[Re: flotsam]
#1159545
08/09/18 12:41 PM
08/09/18 12:41 PM
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Joined: Mar 2009
Posts: 8,379
Arcadia (twin world of Stark)
venus
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Great, glad to see the list is back!  I'm also happy to have 3 new games to add, The Council, Unavowed and The Pillars of the Earth. All 3 are fantastic. Here is my list this year: Cat Lady, The Cognition: An Erica Reed Thriller Council, The Culpa Innata Dig, The Dreamfall Chapters (!) Gabriel Knight 3: Blood of the Sacred, Blood of the Damned Gray Matter Last Crown: Midnight Horror, The Life is Strange King's Quest (episodic) King's Quest VI: Heir Today, Gone Tomorrow Memoria Moebius: Empire Rising Moment of Silence, The Oxenfree Pillars of the Earth, The Technobabylon Unavowed Walking Dead, The
Last edited by venus; 08/09/18 12:44 PM.
Interrogator: [True or false?] All mangoes are golden. Nothing golden is cheap. Conclusion - all mangoes are cheap.
Helena: Where are these mangoes?
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Re: Late but not forgotten - the list 2018
[Re: venus]
#1159555
08/09/18 04:03 PM
08/09/18 04:03 PM
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Joined: Nov 2000
Posts: 34,916
United Kingdom
Mad
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Sonic Boomer
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United Kingdom
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Here We Go !! [With lots of oldies on mine, as per usual.] And a big Thank You to you both, flotsam and Chief Agatha Christie : Evil Under the Sun Ark of Time Art of Murder II : Hunt for the Puppeteer Black Dahlia Blackstone Chronicles Black Mirror III [The] Blade Runner Carol Reed .. Birdwatcher [The] Dig [The] Dragonsphere Flight of the Amazon Queen Journeyman Project III : Legacy of Time King’s Quest V1 Lighthouse : Dark Being [The] Mystery of the Druids [The] Noctropolis Post Mortem Return to Krondor Return to Zork Riddle of Masterlu [The]
Time : The Most Precious Commodity
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Re: Late but not forgotten - the list 2018
[Re: flotsam]
#1159613
08/10/18 08:26 AM
08/10/18 08:26 AM
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Joined: Nov 2017
Posts: 288
Eindhoven, The Netherlands
Lion_1251
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Eindhoven, The Netherlands
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Here is my list: Amerzone ASA Catyph Ether-One Homesick Lake Ridden Lumino City Reah Rhem 1 SE Rhem 2 Rhem 3 Rhem 4 SE Riven RoonSehv The House of Da Vinci The Painscreek Killings The Room 1 The Room 2 URU Xing There are more but only 20 are allowed. Lion_1251  
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Re: Late but not forgotten - the list 2018
[Re: flotsam]
#1159631
08/10/18 09:58 AM
08/10/18 09:58 AM
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Posts: 710
The Netherlands, Groningen
FlyingDutchman42
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Posts: 710
The Netherlands, Groningen
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My list for 2018 is as follows: Agon Barrow Hill Black Mirror 3 Blackstone Chronicles (my number 0ne) Broken Sword 2 Broken Sword 3 Dark Fall 2 Darkness Within I have no Mouth etc etc Inherent Evil Jack the Ripper Nibiru Post mortem  Runaway 1 Runaway 2 Sherlock Holmes (Testament of) Sherlock Holmes (The Awakened) Scratches Secret Files Tunguska
Last edited by FlyingDutchman42; 08/10/18 10:00 AM.
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Re: Late but not forgotten - the list 2018
[Re: flotsam]
#1159686
08/10/18 06:02 PM
08/10/18 06:02 PM
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Joined: Apr 2000
Posts: 6,704
Long Beach, Australia
flotsam
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Nice start - have already found some more to play!
Quantity has a quality all of its own
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Re: Late but not forgotten - the list 2018
[Re: flotsam]
#1159690
08/10/18 06:20 PM
08/10/18 06:20 PM
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Posts: 11,834
Québec
Chief
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Québec
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Lion_1251, please replace the games Amerzone and Riven, if you want to, as they are Hall of Fame games, as per the presentation text. Just add a post for two more games so that flotsam and I can see your addition. Thanks. Chief
Chief
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Re: Late but not forgotten - the list 2018
[Re: flotsam]
#1159699
08/10/18 08:40 PM
08/10/18 08:40 PM
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Joined: Jun 2010
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Thrudvanger
Thorsgoats
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Thrudvanger
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The Book of Unwritten Tales
The Cat Lady
The Council
Culpa Innata
Dreamfall Chapters
Firewatch
Gabriel Knight 3
Gray Matter
The Last Crown Midnight Horror
Life is Strange
Primordia
Resonance
Runaway A Road Adventure
Secret Files Tunguska
Secret Files 2 Puritas Cordis
Soma
Syberia 3
Unavowed (I haven't finished it yet, but it's really good so far.)
The Walking Dead
The Wolf Among Us
"Is there anybody there? Am I alone . . . in this place? Can you see me? Can you hear me? SHOW me you are here!"
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Re: Late but not forgotten - the list 2018
[Re: flotsam]
#1159794
08/11/18 02:21 PM
08/11/18 02:21 PM
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Posts: 180
Barrackstadt, Arcadia
LeBelleRachael
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Barrackstadt, Arcadia
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OMG here we go again!!   Discworld Noir Grey Matter Indigo Prophesy/Fahrenheit Life Is Strange Morpheus Atlantis 2 Beyond Atlantis Baron Wittard: Nemesis of Ragnork Blade Runner Dark Fall, Lost Souls Gabriel Knight 3 Keepsake The Last Express Moment of Silence Monkey Island Curse Paradise Sherlock Holmes Rose Tatoo Shivers Testement of Sherlock Holmes Vanishing of Ethan Carter Yoomurjak's Ring   
"Nobody murdered me. Or put me in a potato. Or fed me to birds. I had a pretty good life."
GLaDOS
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Re: Late but not forgotten - the list 2018
[Re: flotsam]
#1160338
08/16/18 07:02 AM
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ergggo
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My list for this year hasn't changed:
AGON 4: The Lost Sword of Toledo
The Book of Unwritten Tales
Broken Sword 5: The Serpent's Curse
Culpa Innata
Disc World Noir
Dreamfall Chapters
Gabriel Knight 3: Blood of the Sacred, Blood of the Damned
Gray Matter
The Inner World
Machinarium
Memoria
A New Beginning
Paradise
Primordia
The Raven
Rhiannon: Curse of the Four Branches
Sinking Island
Tex Murphy: Pandora Directive
Tex Murphy: The Tesla Effect
Yoomurjak's Ring
I point, therefore I click.
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Re: Late but not forgotten - the list 2018
[Re: flotsam]
#1160485
08/17/18 10:59 PM
08/17/18 10:59 PM
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Long Beach, Australia
flotsam
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Here is mine:
Armikrog
Blackwell: Epiphany
Crows Eye
Dream Machine
Eyes of Ara
Fran Bow
Layers of Fear
Loom
Mysterious Journey Schizm
The Neverhood
Outcry
Oxenfree
Stasis
Tales of Cosmos
Tesla Effect
Thimbleweed Park
Tormentum
Wolf Among Us
Xing: The Land Beyond
Yesterday
Quantity has a quality all of its own
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Re: Late but not forgotten - the list 2018
[Re: flotsam]
#1160694
08/20/18 02:58 AM
08/20/18 02:58 AM
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Joined: Aug 2018
Posts: 2
Seattle, WA, USA
Amerzona
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Junior Boomer
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Seattle, WA, USA
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The Longest Journey
Space Bar
Firewatch
Life is Strange
Seven Games of the Soul
Reah
Nightlong: Union City Conspiracy
Runaway: A Road Adventure
The Moment of Silence
The Book of Unwritten Tales
Deponia
Ankh
Gilbert Goodmate and the Mushroom of Fungoria
The Night Of the Rabbit
The Whispered world
Moebius: Empire Rising
Edna and Harvey
Gray Matter
The Inner World
Amber: Journeys Beyond
Last edited by Amerzona; 08/20/18 03:14 AM.
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Re: Late but not forgotten - the list 2018
[Re: flotsam]
#1160744
08/20/18 11:47 AM
08/20/18 11:47 AM
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Posts: 11,834
Québec
Chief
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Amerzona, the game The Longest Journey is a Hall of Fame game and per the presentation text, it can't be added to a list. If you want to replace it, please make another post so that flotsam and I can see the game you added. Thanks and welcome to GB. Chief
Chief
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Re: Late but not forgotten - the list 2018
[Re: flotsam]
#1160880
08/21/18 07:04 PM
08/21/18 07:04 PM
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Joined: Apr 2000
Posts: 6,704
Long Beach, Australia
flotsam
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About a week to go.
You can't keep Tex and Gabe down!!
Quantity has a quality all of its own
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