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I want to know what you guys/girls expect from a good adventure game, or a PPC game in general. The most important (ie. "Top-5") categories list would be more then helpful. I'll start by making one myself:<br><br>A good adventure game should have...<br>1. an interesting storyline<br>2. solid gameplay (eg. no crashing - this screws up the best of games)<br>3. a good mixture of action and adventure (eg. Diablo was a little too much hack-n-slash for me, and some other games (can't think of any offhand) were lacking the action element and over-focused on puzzles)<br>4. decent graphics and sound (the later should not be annoying)<br>5. flexible (this applies to a wide range of things, from changable control-configuration to environment interaction on some level)<br>6. humour (this is an important one for me)<br><br><br>

All of the above count for me.<br><br>I very much like adventures; especially the Larry / Space Quest kind. A bit on the adult side, not so much action oriented.

Hey Diablo was hack 'n slash for a reason...<br><br>its a hack 'n slash game!

Any more ideas? Perhaps a list of (in your opinion) the best adventure games made for PC?

Day of the Tentacle<br>Simon the Sorcerer<br>Monkey Island Series (except #4)<br>Indiana Jones 4

Quest For Glory 4: Shadows of Darkness

^-- What he said

I enjoyed Full Throtle.

Sam & Max<br>Day of Tentacle<br>Indiana Jones and the Last Crusade

Grand Theft Auto 2

lol. that's not an adventure game. I do like GTA though. I even created a few custom cars for the ORIGINAL GTA.

Hmm, let's see..<br>-Day of the Tentacle - never played, but heard it's good<br>-Simon the Sorcerer - same here (wow, these are old ! <br>-Monkey Island Series - played all of them, even started 4 but got bored and left it; the great thing about this series of game is the humour part - I was cracking up at every converstation<br>-Indiana Jones 4 - not sure, but I've played the 2 versions of the Indy Jones and the fate of Atlantis game; one came off being wayyy to focused on puzzles rather than action and another...I can't remember. I think I couldn't get past the point where you go out on the boat and look for a good diving spot.<br>-Gabriel Knight 1 and (especially) 2 - these are the absolute paramount of the adventure games myself. I never did finish GK1 because of some bug, but GK2 had me so involved I kept reading up on werewolf folklore for the next year and even ended up going to Munich *JUST* to see the places that took a part in the game.<br>-GTA 1,2- well, I wouldn't consider it an adventure game (more like action to me), but both games kept me busy for a while. The flexibility in missions and the freedom to roam the city and do what you like made the replay value so much higher<br><br>Strange though that most of these aforementioned games are rather old, 2-3 years and even older. What ever is happening to the current adventure game market? Last so-called 'adventure' I tried was Alone in the Dark 4 and I uninstalled it halfway because it sucked so bad. I suppose you could call Halflife or Deus Ex adventure games (in-part), but the 3d perspective sort of seperates them from the classical adventure genre.<br><br>Now, for the next question, what would you, as a gamer/player, would like to see in a PPC adventure game? This could be anything from the input to the story to the graphics/sounds. Please post your comments! And thanks for your help!

Games that I think lots of people would like and buy for the PPC are, Baldur's Gate 2 type of games.  I don't know if you guys and gals (If there are any PPC gamers who are gals) have ever played the Black Isle games (like Baldur's Gate, Icewind Dale, Fallout, etc.), but they are about the only games that I can play and play and play.  The key to there success is that they let the player pick there character instead of having a predefined character that gets old after a while.  And whats really cool is that your character's actions have an influence to the world around you. You can change the games world for the better or for the worse, you can be an angel or a devil or half and half. So basicly the key to making good games is lots of options and interactivity.  Games need to fullfil that childhood urge to play, and pretend, and be entertained.