In looking over everyones selections I see that the older games are really holding up well. When I made my list I came up with 37 games. Narrowing it down is so hard. I feel so guilty taking games off my list.

Discworld 2
Curse of Monkey Island
Syberia 2
Sanitarium
Grim Fandango
Secret of Monkey Island
Circle of Blood
Black Mirror
Simon the Sorcerer
Syberia 1
Discworld 1
Runaway
Lechucks Revenge
Gabriel Knight Beast Within
Longest Journey

The Scroll
Harvester
Forever Worlds
Silverload
Gothos

Wrong List

Ahem ------- and in no particular order :

Discworld Noir
Voyage
Keepsake
Scratches
Syberia I
Broken Sword 1: Circle of Blood
Broken Sword 2: The Smoking Mirror
Under a Killing Moon
The Pandora Directive
The Black Mirror
Myst IV
And Then There Were None
The Longest Journey
Sherlock Holmes: The Rose Tattoo
Chewy: Esc from F5

Thanks for doing this again, flotsam.

There's only one change in my list from last year. Of the games I finished (some older, some newer), I only liked one (an older one) well enough to let it replace one of my other favorites.

The first 2 are my top two favorites, the others are alphabetical.

Myst I
Myst II: Riven
Amerzone
Beyond Atlantis (aka Atlantis II)
Broken Sword 1, Circle of Blood
Broken Sword 2, The Smoking Mirror
Kyrandia 1, Legand of
Monkey Island 1, Secret of
Morpheus
Myst III: Exile
Riddle of the Sphinx
Schizm (Mysterious Journey 1)
Syberia I
Syberia II
Timelapse

I haven't logged in such a long time! In no particular order :

1) The Curse of Monkey Island
2) Sam & Max Hit the Road
3) I Have No Mouth and I Must Scream
4) The Longest Journey
5) Full Throttle
6) Sanitarium
7) Eric the Unready
8) Day of the Tentacle
9) GK2 The Beast Within

Lesser known games
10) Pepper's Adventure in Time
11) Eco Quest
12) Harvest
13) Versailles 1685
14) Fatty Bear's Birthday Surprise
15) Duckman: The Legend of the Fall

Syd, if there is a gamers hell, everyone will be playing The Scroll.
Syberia and TLJ lead the way.
New games mentioned include Chewy (I think they play that in hell too), Riddle of Master Liu and Eric the Unready. Also Fatty Bear, which I confess I have never heard of.
Keep them coming!!

Simon the sorcerer
Simon the sorcerer 2
Simon the sorcerer 3d
Grim Fandango
Indiana Jones FOA
Monkey Island
Monkey Island 2
Monkey Island 3
Syberia 1
Syberia 2
The longest Journey
Dreamfall
Star Trek Final Unity
Gabriel Knight 3
Still Life

No particular order.

Discworld Noir
Dracula Resurrection
Dracula The Last Sanctuary
Gabriel Knight 1 Sins of the Fathers
Gabriel Knight 2 The Beast Within
Gabriel Knight 3 Blood of the Sacred, Blood of the Damned
Phantasmagoria 1
Rhem
Riven
Sanitarium
Shivers
Shivers 2 Harvest of Souls
Syberia
Syberia 2
Zork Nemesis

The games i'd recommemd for someone as follows :

• dark fall - the journal
• syberia
• grim fandango
• bad mojo redux
• return to mysterious island
• runaway
• agatha christie,and then there were none
• the black mirror
• barrow hill
• nick bounty,goat in the gray fedora
• hope springs eternal
• broken sword 2
• nancy drew -danger on deception island
• wanted:a wild western adventure
• gabriel knight 3

Syd, weren't Circle of Blood and Shadow of the Templars the same game? I'm pretty sure Broken Sword 2 was "The Smoking Mirror..."

WW

wysewoman you're correct. I blame The Scroll's evil influence (or the wine)

flotsam - you're besmerching Chewy???? I loved that little guy

Hi

Besmerching Chewy ?? Yikes !!

Had we'd better crack open another bottle, Syd ??

Cheers.

Mad

Hey, I actually thought Gothos was a hoot, so what do I know
But I will join you in a bottle and we can debate it

Hi

Fantastic !!

Always ready to open a bottle

Cheers.

Mad

Flotsam, this is so hard!

I have it down to 17.

I have mine to 20 and still agonizing what to remove.

Maybe this will help you guys: I just took the first 15 that popped into my head, because I figured if I were having a conversation with someone that's what would happen. I mean, I wouldn't be agonising over what to recommend, it would just be, "oh, I played this great game that you'd like!"

anyway, that's how I managed to limit my list...



WW

I found it really difficult to limit to 15 games! In the end, as they are recommendations, I missed out a few favourites, either because they had too much action for a lot of gamers or included too many puzzzles that relied on help to solve! I also missed out anything that I thought was too bug-ridden!!!

Here's mine! In no particular order-

Shivers
shivers 2
Dark fall
Dark fall lights out
Rama
Lighthouse
Myst IV
Myst III Exile
riven
Starship Titanic
Uru
that's it for me- thanks flotsam!

Oh this is fun. Thanks for doing this, Flotsam!

My top 15:

Syberia
Syberia 2
Myst
Myst Exile
Myst IV
Myst V
ND: Message in a Haunted Mansion
ND: Treasure in the Royal Tower
ND: Secret of Shadow Ranch
Black Mirror (despite hating the ending!)
Darkfall
Legend of Kyrandia
Alone in the Dark (first one)
Gabriel Knight 1
Simon the Sorcerer

Tis me top 10...

1.Atlantis 3
2.Atlantis 2
3.Syberia 2
4.ICO
5.The X-files
6.Jack the Ripper
7.The Cameron Files 2, Pharoh's Curse
8.The Cameron Files, Secret at Loch Ness
9.Dracula, Resurection
10.Dracula 2, The Last Sactuary

Appy Gamin!

Well, in between the World Cup I have managed to get up to here. Tonight is the big one though.
New games keep being added, which just lengthens the list of games I have to play.
My list is no closer to resloution

Good luck to Australia! Nice to be in control of your fate.

I will be rooting for the Italians today (in addition to the home team, of course).

I have my list. There is blood on my face from making these decisions, but here goes:


Uru
Riven
Ankh
Myst IV: Revelation
Shadow of Destiny
Tony Tough and the night of Roasted Moths
Agatha Christie

Good work, Becky. If you bandage your face right away, it won't scar. I hear marigold ointment works wonders

WW

1. Barrow Hill !!
2. Dark Fall: The Journal
3. Dark fall: Lights Out
4. Scratches
5. The Black Mirror
6. The Longest Journey

That's all I've got. I've gotta catch up on the genre. I have 10 adventure games on the shelf waiting to be played. I can't seem to pull myself from the darkside

Thanks WW. The soccer fans at my house are now sitting around feeling blue. Marigold ointment at least sounds cheery!