Perfect adventure

[Nude]

If you had to rescue one adventure game from your burning house (couldnt come with another idea) which one would it be... After a long thinking I decided to pick Pandora directive (I also thought of The beast within, overseer, and the longest journey :confused: )

[Intrepid Homoludens]

Ultimately it wouldn't be an adventure game. It would be.........Deus Ex, or some other deep, involving title that I would never get sick of because there's always something new to discover.

This is the same scenario as "If you were stranded on a desert island...".

[mag]

Wow. You certainly put a lot of thought into putting a new twist on the "Favorite Adventure Game" thread. You get an A for effort! ;)

Anyway, I think I'd go with Gabriel Knight 3. Not that I would be very likely to run into a burning building for a video game, mind you. But just to play along.

mag

[BacardiJim]

I suppose I'd end up saving whatever happened to be in my CD-ROM drive at the time of the fire, since I'd be more concerned about saving my CPU than any games. :D

[Nude]

ok ok... I couldn find something better :sad:

[RLacey]

I'd cheat, and grab the CD that has all my old disc games backed up onto it...

[Intrepid Homoludens]

Um, I'd call the fire department first? http://instagiber.net/smiliesdotcom/contrib/edoom/heh_heh.gif

[TigerShard]

Since I keep my adventure games in a 200 disc binder, I'd just grab the binder :)

[The Seed]

This is madness. I wouldn't go back into my burning house to save my Cat, let alone any of my adventure games. I'd let them all burn!

Anyway, i could just buy them all again for like a tenner apeice.

[Intrepid Homoludens]

I'd go back in and save you, Seed. :kiss:

[Henke]

I would stay in my burning apartment and die together with all my adventuregames, records and movies.

Or I would grab Sanitarium and run like the wind.

[jjacob]

I'd go back to save my cat, but games? :eek: Wouldn't I be somehow entitled to download every game I had bought after my house burns down :P

[Skinkie]

If my copy of Curse of Monkey Island got hurt, I would cry myself to sleep every night. Actually its kinda scratched up as is, curses to my younger siblings!

[Fienepien]

I would grab Laurie Anderson's fascinating Puppet Motel, without a doubt. Very rare for the PC and after my house burned down I would need to be reminded what's really important in life.

Oh wait, that's a performance, it's art, not an adventure... :D
Okay, so I would save unique and beautiful Alice: An Interactive Museum. Very rare and my best ebay catch ever. The rest of my Haruhito Shono collection will not be hard to replace.

Oh wait, that's not really an adventure either by AG standards, is it... :D
Okay, so I would not take anything with me.

PS: On second thoughts, I might take Obsidian with me to remind me that only a touch of genius is needed to create a great game. Forget about unimportant stuff like technology, interface, form, etcetera.

[Fienepien]

I'd go back in and save you, Seed. :kiss:

What's he doing in your apartment...? :devil:

[The Seed]

What the Seed does in other people's homes is no ones business but the Seed's...and the police I suppose. :shifty:

[Fienepien]

What the Seed does in other people's homes is no ones business but the Seed's...and the police I suppose. :shifty:

Have fun, Mr. Irritant Forum Virus! :devil:

[Bobske]

Man, I wouldn't know what I would do if there was a fire in my house. Man I have so many things I love... My games, my movies, my Transformers collection... Man I would be depressed for the rest of my life!

Totally of topic: If there was a fire in my house and I did lose my games, how much would my insurance company pay out? A friend of mine recommended that I take a picture of all my belongings and keep it in a safe, just in case. I've paid a fortune for my games (Sierra and Lucas Arts games were like 150 Guilders, about 70 euro's, in the old days in Holland). Now they aren't worth crap. Except to me...

[Robert_Cath]

I would stay in my burning apartment and die together with all my adventuregames, records and movies.

Or I would grab Sanitarium and run like the wind.

I would probably do that, too

[mag]

This is madness. I wouldn't go back into my burning house to save my Cat, let alone any of my adventure games. I'd let them all burn!

I'd go back to save my cat, but games? :eek:

What is it with you people who think that cats are somehow more important than video games?

mag

[The Seed]

What is it with you people who think that cats are somehow more important than video games?


Well, I have a super special Cat.

It can open doors and jars, and it does tricks, and it can even talk, and it plays video games, and it can drive.

Yet somehow it just wouldn't be able to save itself from a fire. :shifty:

[bigjko]

What the Seed does in other people's homes is no ones business but the Seed's...and the police I suppose. :shifty:

"What the seed are you doing in my house?!" :crazy:

*more random non-meaning blabbermajib!*

[Brushguy]

If I could only rescue one game, it would have to be...um....Monkey Island 1. It's not my favorite - Day of the Tentacle is. But don't get me wrong, I really love MI1, it's just that I have never had such a hard time (in my ebay experiences) winning an auction on a vintage game.

If I lost all the others, I could probably find them all again in about a year's time....;)

[fov]

Well, my hamsters are on the first floor and my games are on the second... but I could carry many more games in one trip than I could hamsters. Hamsters have a pretty short lifespan, anyway...

I can't say there's any one game I'd grab over any other, though. Truth be told, I'd probably grab one of my dollhouses first - I've put a lot more work into them and they'd be much harder to replace.

Oh, and I got Alice: An Interactive Museum at a thrift shop for $1.50...

Okay, I didn't answer the question at all, did I?

:D emily

[Fienepien]

Oh, and I got Alice: An Interactive Museum at a thrift shop for $1.50...


So? Would you miss it if it got lost in the fire? You posted at GB at least half a dozen times about this find of yours. You know it is rare, but I don't remember you saying you actually played it and like it.

PS: If you're not interested in playing it, you could give it away and make someone else very happy, or you could sell it on ebay for 200+ dollars. 8-)

[Sanjuro2]

I would save my DVD Collection. :P For games, I'd save Gabriel Knight: The Beast Within.

[fov]

So? Would you miss it if it got lost in the fire? You posted at GB at least half a dozen times about this find of yours. You know it is rare, but I don't remember you saying you actually played it and like it.

Haven't played it yet. I guess my point was that it wouldn't occur to me to grab it in a fire. *shrug*

To look at the question from a different angle (since I clearly can't get past the "worldly possession" aspect) - if I could only play/replay ONE adventure game for the rest of my life, the game I'd choose would be GK2.

-emily

[ragnar]

About the title of this thread: The Perfect adventure must be the one game that makes you never play another adventure, since you've already seen perfection everything else will look bland and boring.

[Nude]

ok I have screwed up totally on this question... lets forget it (about the fire in the house part especially) :frusty: :D

[maladroid]

I'd run out of there with my cat who's always holding my Pandora Directive install disk between her teeth (the other 5 I keep with me at all times).


Keep the copy, throw the cat back in.

Only the disks are scratched beyond repair.

Now where did I throw that cat...?