What are the best Adventure/Roll Player games you ever played

[aftermath]

i used to like the command and Conquer games especially the very first one.
but the games that get me hooked on the atmosphere and puzzles has to be the Broken Sword games by revolution.

I managed to complete the first 3 without cheating , but the last 1 , i had to cheat.. it was too big and had some daft solutions.
But i am always looking out for Broken sword 5.

Deffo original software i will buy and keep.

[chroma]

Recently:
Machinarium by Amanita Design is by far the best adventure ive played lately in the vein of broken sword/beneath a steel sky.

Theres the free demo in my link although its available to download on the trackers id highly urge you to buy it, its just a small indy company and they could use the money. its fairly cheap anyway and you get access to the mp3's too

World of Goo by 2D BOY Software was imensely fun and one that i regularly go back to to have a tinker with.

As was Armadillo Run Armadillo Run a small homebrew game that really blew me away.

Audiosurf (via Steam) is another game thats genius, it turns your mp3's into tracks and you play through different modes competing for the highest scores, i play mostly ninja mono (collect colours avoid greys) and its a looooot of fun, especialy infuriating when you get to the highest score on some obscure track that noneone you know has ever heard of only to get an emil a month later telling you some jammy bastard has beaten you.

Ive been playing a lot more indy games recently and getting far more enjoyment from them than from any of the main publisher/studios

Past loves
From the past though ive got loads.
Myst and especialy Riven blew me away. takes a certain mentality to get into them though, if your wanting to run around "shootan couterterrorizts lulz" then its not going to give you anywhere near a boner. if you like relaxed logical sheer frustration that will torture you for weeks then its definately your bag.

Beneath a steel sky (precursor to Broken sword and i found it to be a lot more appealing than running around with george although 15 floppies was kicking the balls out of the amiga)

Lure of the temptress (precursor to beneath a steel sky)

Secret of monkey island.

Shadow of the beast (imho the best soundtrack ever)

Dune 2 battle for arrakis (precursor to Command and conquer)

Cannon fodder (i got sacked due to this incidentaly, im sorry i cant come in to work today ive got severe cannonfodderitis)

Dizzy games on the old ZX Spectrum, everyone hated those bastard oliver twins in the games media, i loved dizzy games though.

DISCWORLD and DISCWORLD2 (i never got noir to run unfortunately) think of broken sword set in medievil fantasy monty python land with eric idle as voice talent and your pretty close. "dear god the troll barely even knows his own name and hes a microbiologist! are they sciliate or non sciliate protozoas Detritus?"
"Umm well theyre mostly rottifers."

Lord of the Rings Text Adventure. hard core speccy action at its finest.
Blood of bogmole was also very good although seriously impossibly frustratingly infuriatingly hard.

The original tombraiders up till revelations.

Syndicate and Syndicate wars got me fired too :/ i hear Bethesda (fallout 3 and oblivion) are geared at making another syndicate, hopefully they dont gimp it.

Neuromancer.

RPG Wise

FF 7 and 8
Secret of Evermore on the Snes, seriously find this rom its made of win and awesome.

Suikoden

Mass Effect eagerly awaiting the sequel.

Fallout 1, 2 and the new one 3

Bioshock same as mass effect, needs more content asap.

Farenheit on the Xbox totaly blew my mind and is entirely worth the hassle of tracking down. (not strictly an RPG but its awesome)

There are a whole lot more, ive played games since i was old enough to hold a joystick on an atari and devoted waaaaaay too much time into gaming. even more than my jobs in some cases.

[opsmonkey]

i know this is about the PC but my all time fave adventure game was Shenmue and Shenmue II on the Sega Dreamcast

[C64]

That's a great post Chroma

I can't be arsed with RPG's myself, the last time I really played one was way back in the days of the Amiga when I would play The Settlers and Meglo-Mania for days on end. :-)

My son has just corrected me, he said that both these games are not RPG but Real Time Strategies - ~~~~ing kids.



Adventures, oooh now we're talking, I love them all. My love began in the early 80's with The Hobbit on the C64, I even wrote a few adventures in Commodore BASIC with my mate.

The 90's was, IMO, the glory days for the Adventure, Lucasarts, Sierra and Adventure Soft produced some amazing games.

I was lucky enough to work on the Neucleosis Horror Adventure 'Scratches', great game, set in a big haunted country manor, creepy as hell - I didn't program or anything. I was basically a Beta Tester but they incorporated a lot of my ideas into the game and gave me credits at the end for my work

[chroma]

i know this is about the PC but my all time fave adventure game was Shenmue and Shenmue II on the Sega Dreamcast

Loved the Dreamcast and almost cried when it went belly up, it was lightyears ahead of its time. (A modified Naomi arcade board with less memory was all it ammounted to, so porting over arcade games was fairly straightforward, the lack of a Z buffer in its graphics board upset a lot of devs though)

Wasnt really a fan of Shenmue though i hated having to drive that ~~~~ing forklift to get paid then have to wait around for hours for things to happen or places to open.

Graphicaly though it was groundbreaking.

I loved the settlers 2, used to spend ages on that, then something went wrong like stone ran out or a coal mine went kaput and the entire civilisation ground to a halt.

[[jobber]]

Sam and Max (original) or Lesuire Suit Larry

[Raven]

My favorite adventure games are most definitely the Monkey Island games and Grim Fandango. Mind you Syberia wasn't half bad though not in MI or GF's league....

My favorite RPG's if not Shenmue 2 or Oblivion is probably Chrono Cross.

About the Dreamcast, it was a travesty that thing went under - but there just wasn't enough exclusives out for it for whatever reason but there was far too many arcade ports and crappy games and that's why it went under - though the head guy at the time who now works for EA (I think) still likes to pin the blame on the PS2....which of course didn't help any but they chose to release when they did and it still didn't change the fact that good exclusives were always thin on the ground for the Dreamcast. If it had a lot more exclusive games of the calibre of Shenmue, Skies of Arcadia and Jet Set Radio you know a quantity of great exclusives as opposed to mostly arcade ports and crappy games then that console would have survived and probably been a success. It's as simple as that, any console lives and dies off the back of the number of it's good exclusive games. It's really that simple. Unless your name is Nintendo because the Wii is an anomaly to this - hell the Wii's an anomaly full stop!

[Stuart 0366]

One that I have played myself (but I am not big in the genre...my son swears by it though) is World of Warcraft.

Personally I am a driving game man but I have been known to play the odd rpg/adventure game or two.

Homeworld original and II,Delta Force (all issues), Rainbow Six, Tron, etc

[ruudvandan]

My gaming days were also on the Amiga, and I too played lots of Mega-lo-Mania, but the first gaame I ever got hooked on was the Secret of Monkey Island. I spent days at a time on that thing. Only thing is though, once I completed it I never picked it up again.

Another Amiga game I was addicted to was Pirates! This was updated and released on the PC as Sid Meier's Pirates about 5 years ago I think and it was just as addictive.

[mes king]

my older brother had an amiga liked playing space harrier on it i have the myst collection which is a classic on the pc.

[C64]

Loved the Dreamcast and almost cried when it went belly up, it was lightyears ahead of its time. (A modified Naomi arcade board with less memory was all it ammounted to, so porting over arcade games was fairly straightforward, the lack of a Z buffer in its graphics board upset a lot of devs though)

Wasnt really a fan of Shenmue though i hated having to drive that ~~~~ing forklift to get paid then have to wait around for hours for things to happen or places to open.

Graphicaly though it was groundbreaking.

I loved the settlers 2, used to spend ages on that, then something went wrong like stone ran out or a coal mine went kaput and the entire civilisation ground to a halt.

I loved my Dreamcast too, Shenmue blew me away when I first played it. Resident Evil Code Veronica was another highlight, but I was even more excited of the ultra hyped PS2, so I dashed out and grabbed one of those as soon as it was released - approx 2 years later.

I honestly couldn't see any reason why the PS2 should survive yet SEGA's machine went under, the difference in audio and GFX was minimal at best, to me there was very little between the 2 machines.

The PS2 was a dissapointment for me, if it had arrived before the Dreamcast then things might have been different, but considering it came out almost 2 years later, it offered nothing that the Dreamcast wasn't already doing.

Don't get me wrong, I love/d the PS2, but it just wasn't any better than a machine released 24 months earlier by SEGA.

[manxspud]

i bought the dreamcast for 1 reason... virtua fighter... i used to love playing that game in the arcades. i'v played lots of games on different platforms... my 2 favs for the pc were ghost recon, not sure why. however freelancer was just addictive... flying round the universe playing the hero 1 minute and the rouge the next just really appealed to me.

[chroma]

I loved my Dreamcast too, Shenmue blew me away when I first played it. Resident Evil Code Veronica was another highlight, but I was even more excited of the ultra hyped PS2, so I dashed out and grabbed one of those as soon as it was released - approx 2 years later.

I honestly couldn't see any reason why the PS2 should survive yet SEGA's machine went under, the difference in audio and GFX was minimal at best, to me there was very little between the 2 machines.

The PS2 was a dissapointment for me, if it had arrived before the Dreamcast then things might have been different, but considering it came out almost 2 years later, it offered nothing that the Dreamcast wasn't already doing.

Don't get me wrong, I love/d the PS2, but it just wasn't any better than a machine released 24 months earlier by SEGA.

Reasons the DC failed where the PS2 succeeded.

1. PS2 had backwards compatability so you didnt loose your back catalogue of titles
2. The dreamcast required absoloutly no modifications to the hardware to run illicit code. making it extremely easy to pirate.
3. the SEGA Suturn was an entire flop, there was still a lot of resentment at the time over this and this lost a margin of sales, early fanboys felt spited by the company.
4. SEGA didnt have the backing of licensed titleholders, so no FIFA, Madden and the likes with real players.
5. The PS2 had DVD Capability, this helped push units out from sony and closed the early sales gap.

Even at the PS2 launch the titles where meagre, backwards compatability and dvd playback helped stem this by a noticable degree. this meant you could watch movies and play older titles whilst waiting for the killer app.

Dreamcast software always seemed to me to be graphicaly superior to the PS2, but thats just down to personal opinion.

[Gumbo]

Finders Keepers by Mastertronic, never did get past that bloody cat though, I never played played another RPG ever again.

[Raven]

I honestly couldn't see any reason why the PS2 should survive yet SEGA's machine went under, the difference in audio and GFX was minimal at best, to me there was very little between the 2 machines.

I think it's fair to say that Shenmue was the Dreamcast's best looking game - though nearly all of the proper Dreamcast exclusives looked good, they were also blocky as hell. Compare that to what the PS2 did in later years like with God Of War 2 and I'd say there was quite a difference in audio and graphical capabilities.

The main reason the Dreamcast went under aside from piracy was because they didn't have enough quality exclusives and yet far too many arcade ports. That's why it died. It's failure had nothing to do with the PS2.

Also witchy m8 I'm not sure how you can say the PS2 was a disappointment for you and then in the next sentence say you loved it - bit of a contradiction don't you think ?

Don't get me wrong, I love/d the PS2, but it just wasn't any better than a machine released 24 months earlier by SEGA.

It was, if not for anything else other than the fact that lots of quality exclusives were released for it and that it didn't have a crap load of arcade ports on it.