Unofficial Tex Murphy

Hi all, just throwing out the question of what are your top 5 point and click adventures ever (excluding Tex games). I have played so many over the years it's hard for me to nail down 5 but at the moment I would say the following -

Grim Fandango
Day of the Tenticle
Sam and Max
Discworld
Blade Runner
Honerable mentions to - Monkey Island, Full Throttle.

For some reason I feel that I am missing some but I am sure you will jolt my brain

Syberia
Syberia II
The Longest Journey

Since I can't list any Tex games:

Indiana Jones & the Fate of Atlantis
Syberia
Sam & Max Hit the Road
Journeyman Project 3
Star Trek: Judgment Rites

Honorable mention to Broken Sword. Never played the Monkey Island series, but hope to do that in the near future, maybe next year.

Hammerhead

You guys definitely need to play the Monkey Island Series. Those point and click adventures were awesome. Such witty humor. Such adventure. You are missing out.

Grim Fandango - who would have guessed a story about dead people would have been so entertaining.

The Longest Journey

Full Throttle

Must say that I thought LucasArts made lots of great games.

I wouldn't call Grim Fandango a point and click adventure. It's a keyboard adventure

Ripper and Spycraft were Point and Click and both were excellent games...

I feel like I'm repeating myself, I just mentioned these games in another Thread... lol

Favorite ones were...

Day of the Tentacle
Maniac Mansion
Full Throttle
Indiana Jones and the Fate of Atlantis

sam10100 wrote: Must say that I thought LucasArts made lots of great games.

My thoughts exactly. It seems they could do no wrong in the adventure scene. Every single one of their games had an amazing atmosphere. Now they've gotten back to raping the Star Wars cash cow.

-Cub. =o)

In regards to Lucas Arts dominating the adventure game scene back in the 90's I totally agree. I used to get so excited when they were releasing a new one and finished each game they brought out during that time. I still remember waiting outside my local games shop back then called Dragon's Lair to get The Dig on day one They really did a great job on all those games through that time.

Also I saw someone mention a game called Ripper a bit earlier. I loved that game but it received the rankest reviews here in Australia. It had some rock hard puzzles that had me stumped for sometimes a week or two and I still have the game sitting in my collection right next to a game that was truly dreadful, Phantasmagoria! I shall never forget those times of changing disks over and over especially for those two games.

(trying not to repeat what has already been said)

The Dig was really awesome.
One often forgotten (and underrated) is: Loom

High on my list (of games that haven't been mentioned already):
Sanitarium
The Neverhood
Call of Cthulhu: Shadow of the Comet
Prisoner of Ice

Series:
King’s Quest series (definitively not the 8th, 6th being my favourite)
Broken Sword 1-3
Space Quest series

Hey, Old Murphy! Nice avatar! I just watched a re-run of Blade Runner last night (from my Comcast DVR).

agatha christie - murder on the orient express
the lost crown

Jim the old guy wrote:Hey, Old Murphy! Nice avatar! I just watched a re-run of Blade Runner last night (from my Comcast DVR).

Thanks, it's my favourite movie! (I prefer Final Cut, and before that it was Director's cut)

My Top 5 point 'n' click adventure games apart from Tex is as follows:

1. Monkey Island series
2. Syberia series
3. Still Life series
4. Simon the Sorcerer series (except the 3D game)
5. Leisure Suit Larry series

As for the Larry series I especially thought that no. 7 (Love for Sail) was fun to play - and of course the first installments were classics.

I have played a lot of great Sierra titles but only a few have been mentioned so far. Apart from the games that oldmurphy mentioned (Kings Quest & Space Quest), I can also mention old 80's and 90's classics such as:

Police Quest series
Gold Rush
Peppers Adventure In Time
Codename: ICEMAN
Gobliiins series
Freddy Pharkas: Frontier Pharmacist
Lost in Time

All of which were titles from Sierra Entertainment (and branches such as Coktel Vision).

Also - apart from the great titles already mentioned (Lucasarts especially), here are a few more titles of awesome games I've played through the years:

The Moment of Silence
Beneath a Steel Sky
Flight of the Amazon Queen
Cruise for a Corpse (a classic from the Amiga 500)
The Legend of Kyrandia series
Future Wars
Operation Stealth
Plan 9 from Outer Space
Zak McKracken and the Alien Mindbenders

There's no way I can some up my top 5 so i'll just list everything that pops into my head:

- Sam & Max

- Indiana Jones and the Fate of Atlantis

- Day of the Tentacle

- Full Throttle

- Blade Runner

- Broken Sword

- Broken Sword 2

- Flight of the Amazon Queen

- Beneath a Steel Sky