Now for those who don't know, their are few games that truly qualify as adventure games. To name a few their is The Monkey Island Series, Grim Fandango, and Full Throttle. I cant really describe exactly what makes a game an Adventure game but I can say that I really enjoy playing them. Escape from Monkey Island would have to be my favorite. It's exciting and also very funny. If anyone has anything to say about adventure games, this is the place.

There seems to be a pretty huge following for adventure games, a genre which has been in serious decline for the last 4 or 5 years. However, to accommodate thost rabid fans, I've added the following sites to our games lineup (all of which focus exclusively on the genre):

Quandary
Adventure Gamers
Just Adventure

If you haven't explored these, I think you'd like them.

Cool, I'll do that.
Thanks for the tip.

I love adventure games, but when I say my favourite by a long way is "The Longest Journey" (came out in 2000) you can tell I think that Adventure gamers are being let down by publishers who think they can publish any crap because we are desperate for an adventure fix. This does not help the 100,000's of adventure gamers who feel they are being fobbed off, and that the lack of adventure titles means publishers do not have the pressure to release quality adventure games.

I agree with you, big time, humorguy. They shell out crap like "Dark Fall: Lights Out" It's a function of developers wanting to play with new technology. Point & Click stuff is dinosaur style, but done right, can be so much damn fun!

my personal favorite is the brilliantly satiracle "Peasant's Quest" which you can all find at www.homestarrunner.com

Granted, it's the only one I've actually played, but it's free and it's funny.

If I put a post saying graphics artists wanted. Contacted FunCom to buy their Randy and Sandy game engines used in "The Longest Journey" and then said to everybody interested "no shooting, no dying, no aliens or space invasions" even though we all wanted to work on a point and click adventure, I don't think there would be more than one other person than me left in the room. That's why FunCom deserve a lot of credit and why it will be so hard to do great "real" adventures. The greatest point and click in the world that is about alien invasion and you being a super hero male with a big gun will not interest me. Done to death. And yet even if more quality adventures are released, I think these will be the type of stories. TLJ has sold 3/4 million copies worldwide and been translated into 11 languages. So why has there not been others in the last 5 years? It all makes me wonder what's going to happen to PC gaming as a whole, not just adventures. It's quite sad really.

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Originally posted by CompmanJX3:
my personal favorite is the brilliantly satiracle "Peasant's Quest" which you can all find at http://www.homestarrunner.com

Granted, it's the only one I've actually played, but it's free and it's funny.

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Ah Yes! I recently beat Peasant's Quest. It's challenging yet exciting and funny. I'd reccomend it to anyone!

My favortie would be Sanitarium. It was very sureal and fun to play.