Re: 2001 Gameboomer Recommendations
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06/08/01 12:32 AM
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Hi, Allowing for a small margin for errors, there are 138 games recommended so far. 48 have at least 5 recommendations,, 18 have at least 10 recommendations, 10 have at least 15, and The Longest Journey, GK 2 and Myst all have 20 or more. As an indication of the eclectic nature of the list, 58 games have a single recommendation.
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Re: 2001 Gameboomer Recommendations
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06/09/01 08:27 AM
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Circle of Blood Gabriel Knight 2 Grim Fandango Longest Journey Monkey Island 1 Monkey Island 2 Monkey Island 3 Monkey Island 4 Discworld 1 Discworld 2 Zak McCracken Maniac Mansion Day of the Tentacle Kings Quest 7 Simon the Sorcerer
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Re: 2001 Gameboomer Recommendations
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06/09/01 09:11 AM
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This was not easy and I had to leave off a bunch of what I thought were great games. But here in no particular order are the ones that made it:
Grim Fandango Discworld 1 Discworld 2 Discworld Noir Under a Killing Moon The Pandora Directive Dracula:The Last Sanctuary Obsidian Simon the Sorcerer 1 Simon the Sorcerer 2 GK1 GK2 Broken Sword 1 (Circle of Blood) Broken Sword 2 (Shadow of the Templars) The Longest Journey
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Re: 2001 Gameboomer Recommendations
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06/09/01 11:03 AM
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Secret Of Monkey Island Monkey Island II Curse Of Monkey Island Grim Fandango Gabriel Knight II KQ7 Circle Of Blood Simon The Sorcerer Simon The Sorcerer II Sanitarium The Longest Journey Discworld Discworld II Dracula's Last Sanctuary Day Of The Tentacle
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Re: 2001 Gameboomer Recommendations
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06/09/01 11:29 AM
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WOW! Is all I have to say! I already did my list of recommendations a long time ago. I keep looking back at the updated post and find games recommended that I have never even heard of. Can anybody tell what Day of the Tentacle is about? It sounds interesting.
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Re: 2001 Gameboomer Recommendations
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06/09/01 11:33 AM
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Mac Day of the Tentacle is Maniac Mansion 2 and is a crazy cartoonish style game. Very funny with excellent puzzles. At http://gamesdomain.com/gdreview/review_archives.html there is a great review of the game. ------------------ It's nice to be important but it is much more important to be nice. [This message has been edited by Space Quest Fan (edited 06-09-2001).] [This message has been edited by Space Quest Fan (edited 06-09-2001).]
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Re: 2001 Gameboomer Recommendations
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06/09/01 01:06 PM
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Hello flotsam ! Hello dear adventure gamers ! I also have make a little list with adventure game recommendations and hope that I can help a little bit in this way get a big and great collecton from recommendations : Now here they are : Adventure Game Recommendations 2001 from Moe Perry : 1.) : The Dark Eye ( my personal secret tip , with the deep , strange voice from William S. Bourroughs and real mystic atmosphere : you can read and hear thoughts from people if you lead the mouse over the forehead , after a story by Edgar Allen Poe ! ) 2.): Myst 3 ( I have not finished the game , but it is wunderfull to play and makes me even more happier then Riven ) 3.): Riven 4.): U.F.O.'s ( Gnap : the sweet bandit alien from out of space is really cool ) 5.): Armed & Delirious ( the craziest grandmother in the whole universe ) 6.): Stuipid Invaders ( very silly but with a nice sence of humor ) 7.): The Feeble Files ( as Floyd would say here if he could read this tread : " have a good orbit , citizin " 8.): Necronomicon 9.): Dracula ( both parts ) 10.): Amerzone 11.): Ring 12.): Atlantis ( both parts ) 13.): The Final Curse 14.): Grim Fandango 15.): Escape from Monkey Island ( part 4 ) And now here is the most important point for me from a good adventure game : Totally free 360 degrees turns ( like in Real Myst : pressure and hold down the left mouse button you go forwards : that was a great gameplay and sometimes I feel like I am flying through the Myst island ) Finnaly here comes a secreenshot from my all time favorite adventure game that i have ever played : Guess what it is ? : Oh yes you are quiet right : Of course it is REAL MYST Friendly greetings from Moe Perry P.S 1.: Dear flotsam : Do you will put the results form the recommendations collecton at some time anywhere in the world wide web online ? And if it is so can you plaese mail me or post the url from your results here on GAMEBOOMERS ? I am really curious about the results and I think it is a great and fine idea from you ! P.S. 2 : I juist become an link idea that I will give to all adventure gamers here : Here is one link to an interesting adventure archiv with over 600 adventure games : http://www.adventure-archiv.de/ It is a german website and I visit dailly this page , because there are lot of infos and good short discriptons of the games : what is good if you have to search fast for an certain game and has wunderfull screenshots there . You can also read the whole adventure archiv in the english language on this link : http://www.adventure-archiv.de/startenglish.htm And please don
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Re: 2001 Gameboomer Recommendations
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06/09/01 04:17 PM
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1.Pandora Directive 2.Overseer 3.Under a Killing Moon 4.Byzantine 5.Shivers 6.Riven 7.GK2 8.GK3 9.Zork Nemesis 10.Amber 11.Faust 12.TLJ 13.Dark Side of the Moon 14.Beyond Atlantis 15.Timelapse I could name about 6 others but I will force myself to only list 15
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Re: 2001 Gameboomer Recommendations
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06/09/01 10:28 PM
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Hi, 144 games mentioned by 56 members so far. Top 10 at the moment are:
The Longest Journey 30 GK2: The Beast Within 28 Myst 24 Riven 23 Broken Sword 1: Shadow of the Templars/Circle of Blood 20 Zork Nemesis 19 Grim Fandango 19 Timelapse 18 Shivers 18 Faust 18
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Re: 2001 Gameboomer Recommendations
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06/10/01 05:50 AM
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Ok Flotsam, You have caused some soul-searching in the Quandary household since you won't allow series or a top 50 Here is our list in alphabetical order: Black Dahlia Blue Ice Broken Sword 1 Callahan's Crosstime Saloon Day of the Tentacle Discworld 1 Gabriel Knight 1 King's Quest VI Monkey Island 2 Pandora Directive Return to Zork Riven Shivers 1 Simon the Sorcerer 1 Woodruff and the Schnibble of Azimuth Cheers ------------------ Rosemary & Gordon Quandary
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Re: 2001 Gameboomer Recommendations
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06/10/01 03:13 PM
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In no particular order, here goes: 1.Tex Murphy: Under a Killing Moon 2.Tex Murphy: Pandora Directive 3.The Longest Journey 4.Discworld Noir 5.Discworld 1 6.Sam and Max Hit the Road 7.Sanitarium 8.Grim Fandango 9.Gabriel Knight 2 10.Circle of Blood 11.Toonstruck 12.Black Dahlia 13.Simon the Sorcerer 14.Curse of Monkey Island 15.Indiana Jones and the Fate of Atlantis
There were 2 action adventure titles I really wanted to include but decided against it so I would keep the list as pure adventure titles.
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Re: 2001 Gameboomer Recommendations
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06/11/01 09:21 PM
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1. Black Dahlia 2. Longest Journey 3. Timelapse 4. Pandora Directive 5. Under a Killing Moon 6. Zork Grand Inquisitor 7. Discworld One 8. Discworld Two 9. Simon The Sorcerer One 10. Secret of Monkey Island 11. Clue Chronicles Fatal Illusion 12. X-files the Game 13. Callahans Crosstime Saloon 14. Gabriel Knight One Sins of the Father 15. Gabriel Knight Two The Beast Within
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Re: 2001 Gameboomer Recommendations
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06/11/01 10:05 PM
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Hi all,
Guess I'll throw in my list also.
Kings Quest 2 Kings Quest 6 Space Quest 6 Quest for Glory 4 Gabriel Knight 2 Gabriel Knight 1 Phantasmagoria Puzzle of Flesh Under a Killing Moon Pandora Directive Tex Murphy Overseer The Longest Journey Kyrandia 2 Broken Sword Circle of Blood
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Re: 2001 Gameboomer Recommendations
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06/12/01 09:50 PM
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Hi there, We are halfway through the alloted time period. If you are holding off to finish a game to see if it qualifies for your list, you have about 10 days left flotsam
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Re: 2001 Gameboomer Recommendations
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06/14/01 02:22 PM
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Hi everybody this is my first post at this site. I am voting for my all time best favorites so here goes: Discworld 2 Simon the Sorcerer Curse of Monkey Island The Beast Within a Gabriel Knight Mystery The Longest Journey Discworld The Revenge of Lechuck second Monkey Island game Circle of Blood Sanitarium Kings Quest Seven Simon the Sorcerer Two Day of the Tentacle Secret of Monkey island Kings Quest Two Legend of Kyrandia Volume One a Fables and Fiends game.
I wish we could vote for more than fifteen games . I fell like I had to leave alot of fine games off my list.
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