Looking for some adventure games to play

[OneHitWonder]

As seems to be my calling every summer, I'm looking at buying up some adventure games to play. I'm scouring the site and hoping that you guys can give me some suggestions.

I prefer 3rd person point and clicks, so tailor your responses to that if possible. Really I just want it to be 3rd person as for some reason I have problems getting interested in first person adventures.

This is what I've played:
LucasArts: Sam&Max 1, Entire Monkey's Island Series, Grim Fandango, Dig, Full Throttle, MM/DoTT, Fate of Atlantis
The Neverhood
The Longest Journey
Runaway
Beneath a Steel Sky/Flight of the Amazon Queen
Syberia (didn't like it)

Any and all suggestions are welcome. Thanks.

[Once A Villain]

Well, if you haven't played the Gabriel Knight games I completely envy you and want to trade places with you right now. To play all of those again for the first time would be...just WOW. They are third person and quite brilliant. I think you should get all three games and play them in order. There is no better experience in all of adventure gaming in my opinion.

[KriD]

I would recommend the Broken Sword games, Black Mirror and The Moment of Silence.

Oh, and Still Life, of course.

[Ryan]

I say stay away from NiBiRu It's horrible.
Since you've played the longest journey you should try it's sequal Dreamfall
Myst games are fun although they're not everyones cup of tea.
Csi games are good (they're the crime drama games)
Riddle of the Sphinx

[Melanie68]

But Dreamfall isn't point and click so unless OneHitWonder is OK with direct control, some combat and some stealth, it may not work out. ;) There are may threads in the Adventure forum dealing with Dreamfall.

http://forums.adventuregamers.com/search.php?searchid=392813 (the threads that contain spoilers should say so.)

[Ryan]

Ther's not a lot of combat and most of the stealth is pretty easy there is ony one stealth seqence that is really hard. But for the most part it's an interactive story. Also most of the combat is avoidable. I think that there's only three instancesa where you have to fight and they're easy.

[Melanie68]

That's why I directed OHW to look at some other Dreamfall threads. For some, the combat and stealth weren't a big deal but for others, it was a deal breaker and it's very much dependent on the gamer. OHW was asking for more point and click games but it's good to put Dreamfall on the radar too. :)

[OneHitWonder]

I plan on getting Dreamfall whenever I get a new computer.

Thanks for the suggestions so far, keep em coming.

[BerserkerTails]

I'd suggest looking at Sierra's catalogue of games. There's dozens of them, and almost all of them are third person. I know they get a lot of bad talk, especially on Lucasarts-fueled boards such as these, but there's some real gems in there. The Gabriel Knight series has already been mentioned, but you've got all the "Quest" games, and even more.

I'm sure you can find websites that list them all off, and from there you can just pick one that interests you, and track it down.

[Tom Bombadil]

Black Dahlia an old FMV adventure
as mentioned before The Moment of Silence
Gabriel Knight series

[pandanaz]

hi -

i am a seasoned gamer and like you i mainly only play 3rd person point and click adventures. here is a list of all of the adventures i have played. please bear in mind that i have put farenheit, dreamfall and broken sword 3 down because i have played them and are quite enjoyable - even though they are not completely point and click games and they have some sort of action in them - they are 3rd person games. Shadow of memories is not a point and click game -but it is an adventure game that is quite addictive.
highlighted red - games you have played
GAMES PLAYED

1. Syberia 1
2. Syberia 2
3. Broken sword
4. Broken sword 2
5. Broken sword 3
6. Grim fandango
7. Monkey island
8. Monkey island 2
9. Monkey island 3
10. Monkey island 4
11. Sherlock holmes the sliver earrings
12. Legacy – dark shadows
13. Still life
14. Martin mystery
15. The moment of silence
16. Runaway: a road adventure
17. The longest journey
18. The dig
19. Kings quest 7
20. Toonstruck
21. Mystery of the druids
22. Gabriel Knight
23. Grim Fandango
24. Blade Runner
25. Sam and Max hit the road
26. The Black Mirror
27. Fahrenheit
28. Discworld
29. Discworld 2
30. Discworld Noir
31. Little Big Adventure
32. Legend of Kyrandia 3
33. Simon the Sorcerer
34. Indiana Jones and the Fate of Atlantis
35. Beneath a Steel Sky
36. Journey to the Center of the Earth
37. Full throttle
38. Midnight Nowhere
40. Shadow of memories
41. Flight of the amazon queen
42. Nibiru:Age of secrets
43. The dagger of amen ra
44. The watchmaker
45. space quest 1
46. space quest 2
47. space quest 3
48. space quest 4
49. Kyrandia 1
50. Kyrandia 2
51. Agatha Christie: And Then There Were None
52. Ankh
53. Dreamfall
54. Keepsake
55. Paradise

enjoy.

here is a list of games which will be coming out in the future - all of them i believe are 3rd person point and click adventures.

Runaway 2
A vampyre story
Al emmo and the lost dutchman’s mine
Rise of the Hidden Sun
Destinies
Fenimore Fillmore 3
The City of Metronome
Reprobates
Juniper Crescent - The Sapphire Claw
Sherlock Holmes: The Awaken
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SECRET FILES: TUNGUSKA
Ankh : heart of orisis
JACK KEANE
Undercover: Operation Wintersun
Alice's Journey
Simon the sorcerer 4
Belief and betrayal
Culpa Innata
Murder on the orient express
Evenings on a farm near Dikanka

[OneHitWonder]

I'm noticing a trend with Gabriel Knight, I'll definitely have to check it out.

Thanks for all the suggestions, this should keep me occupied for awhile.

[GoT]

may i recommend keepsake? im a little way thru and enjoying the challenge of the cogs and pulleys type puzzles.

[maladroid]

Gabriel Knight games are a safe bet (especially the magnificent first installment of the series) but I would also recommend checking out:

Loom (a snack time-wise but a wonderful and memorable experience in every other aspect)
Discworld: Noir
Simon the Sorcerer 1 & 2
Toonstruck
The Feeble Files (nothing awesome but still very cute point and click)