Groundbreaking Adventures

[SamNMax]

Which adventure do you think raised the bar the highest?

King's Quest: Quest for the Crown obviously...


There's not even a discussion on this one. What was I thinking?

[kitzingmarko]

For me it was URU - Ages beyond Myst.
There is still no other AG that came close.

[fook_yu]

Grim Fandango all the way. The story was amazing, the music splendid, the graphic stylized. Every single caracters was lovely too. Grim Fandango is easily in the top of my chart.

[samIamsad]

Waxworks.. all those zombies breaking through the cemetery ground. :D

[captain Nemo]

IMHO, Eric the unready & Legend of Kyrandia

[Tobbe]

Grim Fandango all the way for me too..First 3d adventure game i played..The style the game is made in, the plot, the unforgettable characters, everything is groundbreaking ´bout that game..

[SakSquash]

I think groundbreaking adventure is an oxymoron, but if I have to pick, i'd say Return to Mysterious Island because it actually gave you multiple options.

[Antoinetta]

What else than the original Myst, which got more people addicted to Adventure games than any other game ever made?

Antoinetta

[JHousequake]

Hard to tell. In terms of technological advancements it's not really the best adventure games that raise the bar. i.e. Mystery House, King's Quest V, The 7th Guest...

I'd probably vote for something like Alone In The Dark if that can be counted.

[SirDave]

What else than the original Myst, which got more people addicted to Adventure games than any other game ever made?

Antoinetta

I agree. For those who are too young to remember, the period around Myst's release was magical. Computer's were starting to be advertised as 'multimedia' -sold with a 1x or 2x CDROM and EGA or VGA boards/monitors. There weren't many games available to show off one's new system. Early on, 7th Guest was one, Monkey Island & Loom were okay, but they didn't knock anyone's socks off. Then came Doom, Myst & not too long after, Descent. You would go into computer & software stores (Egghead Software, now defunct, comes to mind) and see Doom & Myst running on demo machines.

No-one had ever seen anything like Doom. No-one had ever seen anything like Myst.

[Intrepid Homoludens]

I'd say Myst.

[100ja a.k.a. mr_mitja]

As hard as it is for me to say it, I too think Myst would be numero uno. :)

[Agustin]

Hhmmm if the point was to show off one's system, then I'd say The 7th Guest wins over Myst by a generous margin. Not only it was one of the very first CD-ROM games, it actually got shipped on two CD's. It had much more FMV and a breathtaking intro. And as far as I recall the soundtrack was used to benchmark whether your MIDI card was state-of-the-art or a pile of crap. When Myst came out, T7G was still technologically superior. Case in point: Cyan used Quicktime, a rather poor compressor at that time. Trilobyte had their very own in-house compressor.

Even so, I'd say THE CD-ROM game was Rebel Assault. Still a novelty when Doom came out.

[Elaine]

Which adventure do you think raised the bar the highest?


In what way? technology/gfx/gameplay/adventure story wise?

Grim Fandango was absolutely brilliant but can be grouped in the Lucas Art gameplay/sense of humour category with DOTT and Monkey Island, so not exactly groundbreaking to me. All of them where great and unforgettable tho, don't get me wrong!

To me, all the Zork games have been very unique in their approach to things and personally Zork: Nemesis - wow. There will never again be a game like it.

[squarejawhero]

I remember going round to a mates house to play Rebel Assault, or was it the second one? So much fun, but basically sod all gameplay! But it was one of the best games out there, plus Tie-Fighter, Wing Commander... all those were fantastic...

Agus, you always bring out the memories. :)

[Agustin]

BTW some credit should be given to the game that everyone (including me) seems to forget sometimes: The Journeyman Project. Released not one, but two years before Myst (and hence one before T7G and Rebel Assault), it featured a similar navigational system and solitary type of gameplay with pre-rendered artwork. It may have been truly the first game ever to fully make use of the CD-ROM.

Which doesn't necessarily mean it was good, mind you!

[squarejawhero]

I missed out on a lot of these, thanks to a poor IBM laptop with CGA and onboard sound... :\

[syntheticgerbil]

I somehow think this was a joke thread and I don't know why you guys are responding seriously.

But...

Wasn't the Hitchhiker's Guide to the Galaxy game more groundbreaking for being the original game to attract users, then Leisure Suit Larry next?

Of course IMO IMGOMIMDIM IMOHOIMIO IMOIMO IMHO IMOHOOHOHO