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The List 2014
#965003
06/28/14 04:57 AM
06/28/14 04:57 AM
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Long Beach, Australia
flotsam
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Long Beach, Australia
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Now for list number 14 (can you believe that?)
Our annual list provides the answer to the question "If I want to play an adventure game, what would you recommend".
So long as you think a game you have played is worth recommending to someone else to play, put it on your list. But only if its an adventure game. There is some latitude for those fuzzy round the edges games that are hard to define.
As always, there are some rules:
1. Games in our Hall of Fame are ineligible, on the basis that we know they are worth playing else why would they be in there. Votes for those games won't be counted. Those games are:
Amerzone
Black Mirror
Dark Fall: The Journal
Gabriel Knight: The Beast Within
Grim Fandango
Longest Journey
Lost Crown
Myst
Riven
Sanitarium
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 5 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.
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)
10. I promise to count Corrosion this year!
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 post updates as we go. Also, avoid editing your lists after posting because Chief and I count as we go, and may miss a change.
As the umpy would say, play ball!
Quantity has a quality all of its own
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Re: The List 2014
[Re: flotsam]
#965009
06/28/14 07:48 AM
06/28/14 07:48 AM
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Québec
Chief
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Québec
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flotsam  Agon 4: Last Sword of Toledo Carol Reed: Bosch's Damnation Conspiracies 2 Dark Fall, Lost Souls Last Half of Darkness, Society of the Serpent Moon Lost Horizon Sherlock Holmes 4: Némésis Sherlock Holmes 5: Sherlock Holmes VS Jack the Ripper Sherlock Holmes 6: The Testament of SH. Silver Lining URU Yoomurjak's Ring Chief
Chief
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Re: The List 2014
[Re: Chief]
#965017
06/28/14 08:42 AM
06/28/14 08:42 AM
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Posts: 34,916
United Kingdom
Mad
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Thank you again, flotsam - and here's my selection  [It includes a lot of excellent oldies which are now playable on modern machines thanks to GOG  Cheers. Mad  Agatha Christie : Evil Under the Sun Broken Sword Black Circle {Carol Reed game} Dracula 3 : The Path of the Dragon Dragonsphere Flight of the Amazon Queen Gabriel Knight : Sins of the Fathers Kings Quest 6 Legend of Kyrandia Lost Horizon Murder in the Abbey Phantasmagoria Post Mortem Return to Zork Sanitarium Scratches Sherlock Holmes : The Awakened Simon The Sorcerer Tex Murphy : Under a Killing Moon Torin’s Passage
Time : The Most Precious Commodity
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Re: The List 2014
[Re: flotsam]
#965027
06/28/14 09:13 AM
06/28/14 09:13 AM
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Joined: Mar 2009
Posts: 8,379
Arcadia (twin world of Stark)
venus
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Arcadia (twin world of Stark)
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List time.  This just keeps getting harder every year, as several great games have to be eliminated. Here is my list, as satisfied as I'm going to be with it for now.  : Book of Unwritten Tales, The Broken Sword: The Shadow of the Templars Cat Lady, The Cognition: An Erica Reed Thriller Culpa Innata Dreamfall: The Longest Journey Edna and Harvey: The Breakout Gabriel Knight 1: The Sins of the Fathers Gabriel Knight 3: Blood of the Sacred, Blood of the Damned Gray Matter King's Quest VI: Heir Today, Gone Tomorrow Lost Horizon Memoria (The Dark Eye 2) Moebius: Empire Rising Moment of Silence, The Night of the Rabbit, The Runaway: A Road Adventure So Blonde Still Life Walking Dead, The Thanks, flotsam! 
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: The List 2014
[Re: flotsam]
#965028
06/28/14 09:16 AM
06/28/14 09:16 AM
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UK
Rushes
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flotsam. Agatha Christie: And Then There Were None Culpa Innata Dracula: Origin Dracula: Resurrection Dreamfall Last Half of Darkness: Tomb of Zojir Lost Horizon Return to Mysterious Island Safecracker 2006 Secret Files: Tunguska Secrets of Da Vinci Sherlock Holmes: The Awakened Sherlock Holmes: Case of the Silver Earring Sherlock Holmes: The Testament of Sherlock Holmes Sherlock Holmes vs Arsene Lupin (aka Nemesis) Sherlock Holmes vs Jack the Ripper Still Life
"Bleat, Watson -- unmitigated bleat!" ~ Sherlock Holmes
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Re: The List 2014
[Re: flotsam]
#965056
06/28/14 10:19 AM
06/28/14 10:19 AM
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Posts: 1,617
Denmark, Europe
Karsten
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Thansk flotsam Here's my 2014 list: Art of Murder FBI Confidential Art of Murder Hunt for the Puppeteer Art of Murder Cards of Destiny Black Mirror 2 Black Mirror 3 Book of Unwritten Tales Dracula Origin Keepsake L.A. Noire Nikopol Nostradamus Overclocked Post Mortem Sinking Island Sherlock Holmes: Awakened Sherlock Holmes vs. Jack The Ripper Sherlock Holmes: Testament Still Life 1 Still Life 2 The Dark Eye: Chains of Satinav Thanks again, flotsam...
Adventure gaming is fun
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Re: The List 2014
[Re: flotsam]
#965092
06/28/14 11:44 AM
06/28/14 11:44 AM
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Posts: 125
Thrudvanger
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Venus, we have to play some of these games on your list. You have several listed that I haven't played. Okay here is my list -
Black Mirror 2
Black Mirror 3
The Cat Lady
Cognition
Culpa Innata
The Dark Eye: Chains of Satinav
Dreamfall
Gabriel Knight 3
Memoria
The Moment of Silence
Paradise
Runaway 1 - A Road Adventure
Runaway 2 - The Dream of the Turtle
Runaway 3 - A Twist of FAte
Secret Files: Tunguska
Secret Files 2: Puritas Cordis
Still Life
The Walking Dead
The Walking Dead Season 2
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: The List 2014
[Re: flotsam]
#965102
06/28/14 12:09 PM
06/28/14 12:09 PM
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Posts: 211
ergggo
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Thanks, flotsam. Here's my 2014 list:
AGON 4: The Lost Sword of Toledo
The Book of Unwritten Tales
Broken Sword 1: Shadow of the Templars
Culpa Innata
Disc World Noir
Dreamfall
Gabriel Knight 3: Blood of the Sacred, Blood of the Damned
Gabriel Knight 1: Sins of the Father
Gray Matter
Lost Chronicles of Zerzura
Machinarium
Moebius: Empire Rising
A New Beginning
Paradise
Rhiannon: Curse of the Four Branches
Secret Files 1: Tunguska
Sinking Island
Tex Murphy: Pandora Directive
Tex Murphy: The Tesla Effect
Yoomurjak's Ring
I point, therefore I click.
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Re: The List 2014
[Re: flotsam]
#965189
06/28/14 06:26 PM
06/28/14 06:26 PM
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Rivellon
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Hey, flotsam, here's my list and I see to my sorrow there isn't a new one on it! Black Mirror 2 Book of Unwritten Tales Broken Sword: Shadow of the Templars Broken Sword: The Smoking Mirror Dracula: Origin Dracula: The Last Sanctuary Dracula: Resurrection Gabriel Knight: Sins of the Fathers Jack Keane King's Quest III - Sierra King's Quest III remake- Infamous Adventures Last Half of Darkness: Tomb of Zojir Last Half of Darkness: Society of the Serpent Moon Lost Horizon Next BIG Thing, The Post Mortem Sherlock Holmes: The Awakened Sherlock Holmes vs. Arsene Lupin (Nemesis) Sherlock Holmes vs. Jack the Ripper Valhalla ?? Oh, darn, that's 20. There's no room for Isabelle.  Gil.
"Best not to think about it. I don't want to fall to bits 'cos of excess existential thought."
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Re: The List 2014
[Re: flotsam]
#965218
06/28/14 08:32 PM
06/28/14 08:32 PM
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Posts: 180
Barrackstadt, Arcadia
LeBelleRachael
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Barrackstadt, Arcadia
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Well it is ALL subjective! For what it is worth! Atlantis 2 Beyond Atlantis Black Mirror 2 Dark Fall, Lights Out Dark Fall, Lost Souls Gabriel Knight1 Gabriel Knight 3 Indigo Prophesy/Fahrenheit Keepsake The Last Express Longest Journey Dreamfall Moment of Silence Outcry Paradise Portal 2 Scratches Secrets of Da Vinci Sherlock Holmes VS. Jack the Ripper Still Life Tex Murphy, Under a Killing Moon Yoomurjak's Ring
Last edited by LeBelleRachael; 06/28/14 08:51 PM.
"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: The List 2014
[Re: smulan]
#965696
07/01/14 02:58 PM
07/01/14 02:58 PM
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Rockland, Ontario, Canada
Starcom
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Rockland, Ontario, Canada
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1. 1954 ALCATRAZ
2. ALTER EGO
3. ART OF MURDER F.B.I. CONFIDENTAL
4. ART OF MURDER HUNT FOR THE PUPPETEER
5. ART OF MURDER CARDS OF DESTINY
6. BARON WITTARD NEMSIS OF RANAROK
7. BLACK MIRROR 2
8. BLACK MIRROR 3
9. CHRONICLES OF MYSTERY: THE SCORPIO RITUAL
10. CHRONICLES OF MYSTERY THE TREE OF LIFE
11. COGNITION
12. CSI 4 HARD EVIDENCE
13. CSI 5 DEADLY INTENT
14. CSI 6 FATAL CONSPIRACY
15. CULPA INNATA
16. DRACULA 4
17. DRACULA 5
18. SECRET FILES 3
19. STILL LIFE 1
20. STILL LIFE 2
TY Jenny100 for the heads up, the Changes are in Bold
And again, thanks to all for taking the time to compile these wonderful lists.
Ray
Last edited by Starcom; 07/01/14 10:44 PM.
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Re: The List 2014
[Re: Starcom]
#965709
07/01/14 03:54 PM
07/01/14 03:54 PM
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Posts: 40,644
southeast USA
Jenny100
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southeast USA
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1. 1954 ALCATRAZ
2. ART OF MURDER F.B.I. CONFIDENTAL
3. ART OF MURDER HUNT FOR THE PUPPETEER
4. ART OF MURDER CARDS OF DESTINY
5. BLACK MIRROR 1
6. BLACK MIRROR 2
7. BLACK MIRROR 3
8. CHRONICLES OF MYSTERY: THE SCORPIO RITUAL
9. CHRONICLES OF MYSTERY THE TREE OF LIFE
10. COGNITION
11. CSI 4 HARD EVIDENCE
12. CSI 5 DEADLY INTENT
13. CSI 6 FATAL CONSPIRACY
14. CULPA INNATA
15. DRACULA 4
16. DRACULA 5
17. LOST CROWN
18. SECRET FILES 3
19. STILL LIFE 1
20. STILL LIFE 2 Starcom, you might want to edit your post -- "The Lost Crown" and "Black Mirror 1" are already "Hall of Fame" games, so they aren't eligible (check Flotsam's opening post). You may want to choose two different games.
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Re: The List 2014
[Re: flotsam]
#965729
07/01/14 05:44 PM
07/01/14 05:44 PM
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Posts: 16,918
Upper Arlington, Ohio
Space Quest Fan
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Upper Arlington, Ohio
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Ankh 1
Broken Sword 1
Broken Sword 2
Dig
Discworld 1
Discworld 2
Dreamfall
Gilbert Goodmate
Kings Quest 7
Legend of Kyrandia 1
Maniac Mansion:Day of the Tentacle
Monkey Island 1
Monkey Island 2
Monkey Island 3
Runaway 1
Secret Files Tunguska
Simon the Sorcerer 1
Simon the Sorcerer 2
Tony Tough
Zak McKracken and the Alien Mindbenders
It's nice to be important but it is much more important to be nice.
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Re: The List 2014
[Re: flotsam]
#965892
07/02/14 07:20 PM
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Posts: 4,720
london uk
chrissie
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Thank you flotsam for organising this again! Here's my list: Blackwell Deception Broken Sword 5 Callahan's Crosstime Saloon Cat Lady, The Cold Case Summer (Carol Reed) Culpa Innata Diamonds in the Rough Gray Matter Last Half of Darkness: Society of the Serpent Moon Lost Horizon Moebius Overclocked Pandora Directive, The Resonance Secret Files of Da Vinci: The Forbidden Manuscript Shadow of Memories/Destiny Shady Brook Testament of Sherlock Holmes To the Moon Yoomurjak's Ring
Last edited by chrissie; 07/02/14 07:21 PM.
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Re: The List 2014
[Re: flotsam]
#965894
07/02/14 07:32 PM
07/02/14 07:32 PM
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Posts: 3,293
Rivellon
traveler
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Thanks for at least thinking of Isabelle traveler! Lol! How could I forget?  We're in the same boat, flotsam. You keep plugging for Isabelle, I keep plugging for Valhalla. I have a feeling we're destined to be disappointed yet again that they don't make it into the Hall of Fame. Speaking of which, how many times does a game have to come out high in the standings on the annual list to be retired as one of the best? Gil.
"Best not to think about it. I don't want to fall to bits 'cos of excess existential thought."
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Re: The List 2014
[Re: flotsam]
#966119
07/04/14 05:34 AM
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Posts: 876
Kentucky
Kayc
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Kentucky
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Thanks flotsam! Beyond Atlantis Black Mirror 2 Book of Unwritten Tales (Playing it now) Dracula Origin Dreamfall Gabriel Knight 1: Sins of the Father Gabriel Knight 3: Blood of the Sacred, Blood of the Damned Gray Matter Lighthouse: The Dark Being Lost Horizon Post Mortem Return to Mysterious Island Sherlock Holmes: The Testament Sherlock Holmes: case of the Silver Earring Sherlock Holmes: The Awakened Sherlock Holmes vs Arsene Lupin Sherlock Holmes vs Jack the Ripper Still Life Uru Yoomurjak's Ring
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