Thanks to all who participated, and without further adieu, here are the results!
#1
Coming in at #1, was really no surprise, The Monkey Island Series.
Vote wise we love the series just as it was released. Most of the votes came for the first one (The Secret of Monkey Island). 2nd most votes for 2 and 3rd most votes for 3. With 4 the runner up.
It is without a doubt an epic journey of lulz and just outright fun. A must play for any Adventure Game fan.
#2
Coming in at number 2, is the wacky and entertaining Grim Fandango.
The hero's name is Manuel "Manny" Calavera. We don't know much about his life; but we do know what happened to him after he died. In case you didn't know, the Land of the Dead is where all people are reincarnated after death, looking like puppet-like skeletons. The Land of the Dead is very similar to the world of the living: people work, have careers, fall in love, and can even die again, turning into flowers. And they all await their final destiny - a trip to the underworld. Depending on their deeds in life, they might get a good journey or be destined to walk there without any means. Manny works in a travel agency that takes care of such trips. But recently, something has been going wrong. Manny is unable to get good clients, and he suspects there is a scheme to falsify the dossiers of dead people and to offer the best trips to scoundrels for bribes. Manny's grand adventure begins as he steps into the world of corruption and intrigues.
This would eventually become the last of the great era of the classic Lucas Arts Adventure Games. But at least it went out with a bang.
#3
Coming into 3rd place, is yet another Lucas Art's Classic Game, Day of the Tentacle.
Purple Tentacle, one of the crazy Dr. Fred's creations, drinks contaminated water from Dr. Fred's Sludge-o-matic. He mutates into an insane genius and grows arms, and now he's plotting to take over the world. In an effort to stop him, Dr. Fred sends three friends, Bernard, Hoagie and Laverne back in time to yesterday, in order for them to turn off the Sludge-o-matic and stop the sludge from spilling into the river, thus preventing the whole incident. Naturally, the cheap doctor uses a fake diamond over a real one in his time machine, which blows up sending Hoagie 200 years into the past and Laverne 200 years into the future.
Now you must bring back Hoagie and Laverne, with the help of the time machine's ability to move objects between time periods, and then stop evil Purple from taking over the world.
#4 #5 #6
Our 4th, 5th and 6th place games all tied with exactly the same number of votes. So I wont really assign them a place, just know they all tied evenly:
The great archaeologist and adventurer has to solve a grand mystery once again, aided by his trusty whip, his sharp wit, and his courage. A man who calls himself Mr. Smith is interested in a certain ancient statue. When the unsuspecting Indy hands it over to the client, he finds out that Mr. Smith is in fact a colonel in the Nazi army! Why was he so interested in that statue? A girl who had once worked together with Indy, the pretty red-haired (and a bit troublesome) Sophia, tells him the whole thing must have a connection with the legendary lost continent Atlantis. Gathering clues from all over the world, Indy and Sophia embark on their greatest journey!
You all universally singled this one Indiana Jones game out singly. Apparently it represents the best of all the Indiana Jones games.
The player is cast as Max Laughton, a man who wakes up in a bizarre asylum, suffering from amnesia due to a car accident. He will have to find out who he is, and what he is doing there.
The Longest Journey is a third-person graphic adventure in which you play the role of April Ryan, a struggling student artist in the year 2209, recently arrived in the big city of Newport. April is afflicted with strange nightmares, but her nightmares are starting to affect her waking world as well. Only the strange old man Cortez seems to know what's happening. He sends April to another world where magic is real. There, April learns that what she thought were nightmares are real, and that she must save not just one, but two worlds.
#7
Coming in at 7th place is the wonderful Blade Runner.
The game is based on the famous movie bearing the same title. In the grim world of the future, cities lie in darkness, and nature gave its way to artificial, bio-mechanical production of all creatures - including human beings. Those "artificial humans" are called replicants, and are treated as servants unworthy of being "true" humans. You play the role of police officer McCoy, a Blade Runner, whose special job is to hunt down replicant rebels. But during your investigations, you also get to see their side, and your vision of the world and society begins to change...
Enjoy the wonderful setting that is Blade Runner, and uncover a mystery. Filled with a lot of choice and consequences. Because we love that here at fair Codexia. It is a wonderful and very fun game.
#8
At 8th place is the excellent Beneath a Steel Sky.
In futuristic Australia, there are giant cities owned solely by corporations, separated by a giant wasteland known as The Gap. When Robert Foster's Gap-dwelling tribe is killed by soldiers from Union City who capture him, everything changes for him. After a narrow escape from the helicopter bringing him there as it inexplicably crashes, Robert and his droid Joey must search the decaying city, attempting to befriend both the snobby rich and the frustrated poor as the two attempt to get out of the city, but in the middle of everything they uncover the dark truth about LINC, the bizarre computer which makes the city tick.
#9
At 9th place, you overwhelmingly voted Quest for Glory 4 as your favorite of the series.
Sierra's fourth Quest For Glory game is a journey into the land of Mordavia, a Transylvania-like setting. Our Hero had just begun to enjoy his victory in Tarna, when a spell zapped him into parts unknown, without a weapon, items, or even a source of light. Life has never been quite so dangerous for our Hero. He'll discover his quest soon enough; that is, if he lives!
4 had the most votes, with 2 coming in at second place.
#10
And at number 10, The Gabriel Knight Series.
Hands down you all loves the first installment of this series. Sins of the Father.
And that is all folks! Thanks again for voting! Now get out there and play these great Adventure games!
Final Vote Data (i ONLY counted games that had more than 4 votes):
Monkey Island series 65
Grim Fandango 36
Day of the Tentacle 31
Indiana Jones and the Fate of Atlantis 26
Sanitarium 26
The Longest Journey 26
Blade Runner 23
Beneath a Steel Sky 22
Quest for Glory Series 20
Gabriel Knight 19
Sam & Max Hit the Road 18
Broken Sword 16
Discworld Series 15
Full Throttle 15
I Have No Mouth and I Must Scream 14
Leisure Suit Larry 13
Space Quest Series 13
The Last Express 12
King´s Quest 10
Dreamweb 9
Fahrenheit - Indigo Prophecy 9
The Legend of Kyrandia 9
The Dig 8
Penumbra series 7
Simon the Sorcerer series 7
Bloodnet 6
Syberia Series 6
Death Gate 5
Loom 5
Maniac Mansion 5
Police Quest Series 5
Tex Murphy series(all) 5
#1
Coming in at #1, was really no surprise, The Monkey Island Series.
Vote wise we love the series just as it was released. Most of the votes came for the first one (The Secret of Monkey Island). 2nd most votes for 2 and 3rd most votes for 3. With 4 the runner up.
It is without a doubt an epic journey of lulz and just outright fun. A must play for any Adventure Game fan.
#2
Coming in at number 2, is the wacky and entertaining Grim Fandango.
The hero's name is Manuel "Manny" Calavera. We don't know much about his life; but we do know what happened to him after he died. In case you didn't know, the Land of the Dead is where all people are reincarnated after death, looking like puppet-like skeletons. The Land of the Dead is very similar to the world of the living: people work, have careers, fall in love, and can even die again, turning into flowers. And they all await their final destiny - a trip to the underworld. Depending on their deeds in life, they might get a good journey or be destined to walk there without any means. Manny works in a travel agency that takes care of such trips. But recently, something has been going wrong. Manny is unable to get good clients, and he suspects there is a scheme to falsify the dossiers of dead people and to offer the best trips to scoundrels for bribes. Manny's grand adventure begins as he steps into the world of corruption and intrigues.
This would eventually become the last of the great era of the classic Lucas Arts Adventure Games. But at least it went out with a bang.
#3
Coming into 3rd place, is yet another Lucas Art's Classic Game, Day of the Tentacle.
Purple Tentacle, one of the crazy Dr. Fred's creations, drinks contaminated water from Dr. Fred's Sludge-o-matic. He mutates into an insane genius and grows arms, and now he's plotting to take over the world. In an effort to stop him, Dr. Fred sends three friends, Bernard, Hoagie and Laverne back in time to yesterday, in order for them to turn off the Sludge-o-matic and stop the sludge from spilling into the river, thus preventing the whole incident. Naturally, the cheap doctor uses a fake diamond over a real one in his time machine, which blows up sending Hoagie 200 years into the past and Laverne 200 years into the future.
Now you must bring back Hoagie and Laverne, with the help of the time machine's ability to move objects between time periods, and then stop evil Purple from taking over the world.
#4 #5 #6
Our 4th, 5th and 6th place games all tied with exactly the same number of votes. So I wont really assign them a place, just know they all tied evenly:
The great archaeologist and adventurer has to solve a grand mystery once again, aided by his trusty whip, his sharp wit, and his courage. A man who calls himself Mr. Smith is interested in a certain ancient statue. When the unsuspecting Indy hands it over to the client, he finds out that Mr. Smith is in fact a colonel in the Nazi army! Why was he so interested in that statue? A girl who had once worked together with Indy, the pretty red-haired (and a bit troublesome) Sophia, tells him the whole thing must have a connection with the legendary lost continent Atlantis. Gathering clues from all over the world, Indy and Sophia embark on their greatest journey!
You all universally singled this one Indiana Jones game out singly. Apparently it represents the best of all the Indiana Jones games.
The player is cast as Max Laughton, a man who wakes up in a bizarre asylum, suffering from amnesia due to a car accident. He will have to find out who he is, and what he is doing there.
The Longest Journey is a third-person graphic adventure in which you play the role of April Ryan, a struggling student artist in the year 2209, recently arrived in the big city of Newport. April is afflicted with strange nightmares, but her nightmares are starting to affect her waking world as well. Only the strange old man Cortez seems to know what's happening. He sends April to another world where magic is real. There, April learns that what she thought were nightmares are real, and that she must save not just one, but two worlds.
#7
Coming in at 7th place is the wonderful Blade Runner.
The game is based on the famous movie bearing the same title. In the grim world of the future, cities lie in darkness, and nature gave its way to artificial, bio-mechanical production of all creatures - including human beings. Those "artificial humans" are called replicants, and are treated as servants unworthy of being "true" humans. You play the role of police officer McCoy, a Blade Runner, whose special job is to hunt down replicant rebels. But during your investigations, you also get to see their side, and your vision of the world and society begins to change...
Enjoy the wonderful setting that is Blade Runner, and uncover a mystery. Filled with a lot of choice and consequences. Because we love that here at fair Codexia. It is a wonderful and very fun game.
#8
At 8th place is the excellent Beneath a Steel Sky.
In futuristic Australia, there are giant cities owned solely by corporations, separated by a giant wasteland known as The Gap. When Robert Foster's Gap-dwelling tribe is killed by soldiers from Union City who capture him, everything changes for him. After a narrow escape from the helicopter bringing him there as it inexplicably crashes, Robert and his droid Joey must search the decaying city, attempting to befriend both the snobby rich and the frustrated poor as the two attempt to get out of the city, but in the middle of everything they uncover the dark truth about LINC, the bizarre computer which makes the city tick.
#9
At 9th place, you overwhelmingly voted Quest for Glory 4 as your favorite of the series.
Sierra's fourth Quest For Glory game is a journey into the land of Mordavia, a Transylvania-like setting. Our Hero had just begun to enjoy his victory in Tarna, when a spell zapped him into parts unknown, without a weapon, items, or even a source of light. Life has never been quite so dangerous for our Hero. He'll discover his quest soon enough; that is, if he lives!
4 had the most votes, with 2 coming in at second place.
#10
And at number 10, The Gabriel Knight Series.
Hands down you all loves the first installment of this series. Sins of the Father.
And that is all folks! Thanks again for voting! Now get out there and play these great Adventure games!
Final Vote Data (i ONLY counted games that had more than 4 votes):
Monkey Island series 65
Grim Fandango 36
Day of the Tentacle 31
Indiana Jones and the Fate of Atlantis 26
Sanitarium 26
The Longest Journey 26
Blade Runner 23
Beneath a Steel Sky 22
Quest for Glory Series 20
Gabriel Knight 19
Sam & Max Hit the Road 18
Broken Sword 16
Discworld Series 15
Full Throttle 15
I Have No Mouth and I Must Scream 14
Leisure Suit Larry 13
Space Quest Series 13
The Last Express 12
King´s Quest 10
Dreamweb 9
Fahrenheit - Indigo Prophecy 9
The Legend of Kyrandia 9
The Dig 8
Penumbra series 7
Simon the Sorcerer series 7
Bloodnet 6
Syberia Series 6
Death Gate 5
Loom 5
Maniac Mansion 5
Police Quest Series 5
Tex Murphy series(all) 5
It's not so much the idea that Lucasfilm made these 'uber' games and everyone else made shit, it's just that apart from them and Sierra there was little else at the time that wasn't swamped by the deluge of Sierra and Lucasfilm titles. Lucasfilm games were popamole compared to the 'die a thousand deaths' of Sierra titles in that you rarely 'died', and I bet that helped their popularity for a broader audience no end as well.
