What was your favorite non-tex adventure?

I would have to say that my favorite game of all times was, is and will always be Grim Fandango. One of the very few games that I actually had tears when I finished it. Great script, great characters, great graphics & music and great jokes. After that we have chaos... many games that I consider amazing but still GF is first in my heart.. here we go

INDIANA JONES AND THE FATE OF ATLANTIS (a movie would be a multi academy award winner)
LEISURE SUIT LARRY 7
THE CURSE OF MONKEY ISLAND (very funny game)
MAFIA (although it's considered action)
TITANIC

other games worth mentioning are BLACK DAHLIA, GABRIEL KNIGHT 3, THE DIG and probably a few others i forget now

ps.. i just remembered PRISONER OF ICE (the first game with speech I played) I haven't thought about it in 10 years.. omg..

McDonis wrote:Sam and Max
Space Quest III & IV
Monkey Island

Good choices. I'd like to chime in though that Space Quest 5 was pretty awesome, and easily as good as 3 and 4 (though I wish they did a talkie version with SQIV's voice actors).

I'd also like to toss out:
Day of the Tentacle
Hitchiker's Guide
Relentless: Twinsen's Adventure (though this one is an action/adventure)
Leisure Suit Larry
Zak McKracken
Snatcher
Beyond Good and Evil (again, action/adventure)

Some of the games being tossed out here show a pretty loose definition of "adventure"... I mean Doom? Black and White? These couldn't be further from adventure.

Since the thread has been revived, I guess I'll throw my two cents in

The game I started on, which can actually be labeled as my first PC game ever, was The Journeyman Project. I never did play the second one, but the first one broke me into adventure gaming on the PC. I bought Pandora Directive shortly after.

Some others, all consoles supported ... some of them being RPGs (I really love them too, for their story element)

Final Fantasy VII - That was my first playstation game, and I bought it based on the commercial viewing at the time. In the commercials it showed no gameplay, only video. I was put off by the gameplay at first, but found myself suffering through the battles to get to the meaty story parts. eventually I came to love the battle system, and completed the game. That is the only game I ever completed on the playstation all the way through without the help of cheat codes .. (I use them in action games when I keep dying ... I mainly play games for the stories anyhow .. )

Dragon Warrior - My first RPG on the NES, and really the first game I played with an actual (albeit very small) story to it. The thing I remember most about the game was spending hours on it to build up enough money to buy the Flamesword, and telling the princess that I didn't love her ... (Princess: But thou must!)

Escape From Monkey Island - This was my post tex days, after I thought adventure games were dead. This game, without a doubt, made me laugh more than any game to date. Guybrush Threepwood had just as many hilarious lines than any other character to date ... some of my favorites ...
Guybrush: Grog me!
Barkeep: Sure .. just as soon as you show me some I.D.
Guybrush: What? Don't I look like I'm 15?
Barkeep: Actually you look more like 10 ... but we're I.D.ing everybody that looks under 30 just to be safe ...
Guybrush: No really, Grog me ..
Barkeep: No really ... I.D.!
Guybrush: I.D. .. I aien't gotta show you any stinkin I.D.!
Barkeep: You do if you want any Grog ...

Guybrush: Hey Otis ...
Otis: Yes ...
Guybrush: Picked any good roses lately ...
Otis: Ha-freakin-Ha

Girl: What pray-tell will you be offering to us this time around ...
Guybrush: Well how bout ... A Brand New Car! ... I have no idea why I just said that ...

Guybrush: Oh .. Oh yeah?!? Well you ... Fight like a Cow!

Broken Sword: Sleeping Dragon - This was my last completed adventure game, and although I was happy to have another one come down the pike that I played and enjoyed, it seemed a little too easy to me.

Fatal Frame - I haven't played the second game, but the first was top notch, and scary as hell

Silent Steel - Most people probably dismissed this with a glance, but I really enjoyed it. It's not really an adventure game, as much as it is an interactive choose your own adventure movie, but you're a submarine commander, and you have to make all the decisions. Many, many branching storylines in this one made it replayable. All played out in glorius FMV!

A Fork in the Tale - Poorly acted, repetitive, and over all a badly made game ... that I seemed to complain about all the time I was playing it, which was a lot.

Beavis and Butthead(Sega Genesis) - Another great adventure game I played a whole heck of a lot growing up.

Star Wars: Knights of the Old Republic 1 and 2 - I'm currently working on the darkside version of the second in this series, and I must say, these games are simply amazing if you like the mythos ... The dark side, light side story arcs are the closest I've seen to a Pandora Directive like story flow, only there less options, but more situations.

And finally

The Pandora Directive - Greatest game I've ever played, hands down

After Tex, my favorite is Black Dalia and then Zork Nemesis.

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