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Originally Posted by Pellaz

Beyond Good & Evil is similar to the 3-d Zeldas only as much as any other modern adventure game, imo, and it's far, far superior to both MM and WW. It's fair to say, if you wanted to place it in terms of other games, that it's 3 parts zelda, 2 parts metal gear, 1 part pokemon snap, and 1 part mark of the kri. A truly wonderful game, which just also made me think of...

The Longest Journey- Quite possibly the best dramatic point and click adventure ever made, you can still find this one floating around in gameshops, and probably more so in the upcoming year as the sequel gets closer. The character models are very dated at this point (and probably were when it first came out, to be honest), but the eviroments are jaw dropping beautiful. And the story and gameplay are top, top notch.

Thanks Pellaz, that's helpful. BG&E sounds like it has everything I like. I'll have to pick that up.

My friend loved The Longest Journey, especially in an era where adventure games are going to the wayside. He's also been looking at Syberia and some more of those types of games, which seemed to be price pointed at bargain bin levels. Any other adventure game suggestions?

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Originally Posted by FngKestrel

My friend loved The Longest Journey, especially in an era where adventure games are going to the wayside. He's also been looking at Syberia and some more of those types of games, which seemed to be price pointed at bargain bin levels. Any other adventure game suggestions?

I'm going to preface this statement by saying that some people have found Syberia to be enjoyable, and it *has* garnered decent reviews.

With that said, it's crap. I say this without having finished the game, which I might always become desperate enough to do some day. While the story seemed decent, it wasn't anymore engaging than adventure games I've played on a Palm. The graphics are indeed wonderful and whimsical, and I could easily have a table book of the designs in the game. All the pretty in the world can't save an adventure game that has this ones flaws though. The voice acting is ear-bleeding awful, which is punctuated sadly by the fact that it appeared the game was about 10% text and 90% voice over (I played about 5-6 hours, iirc). The pacing is dreadful, the characters fail to provoke any emotion from the player other than irritation, and it carries huge penalties in terms of time for, say, clicking on a lock without fetching the key out of your inventory first, which starts a dialogue from the character about how she can't open it without a key, which takes 30 seconds or so, and that time debt adds up fast. It's the pinnacle of a game designed by people who have read everything a game should be and never played one.

Sorry that was so massive, but I wanted to try and be as fair as I could.

The age of point and click is in it's death throws, and that's sad. Even TLG2 will be in the style of console adventurers. For me, there hasn't been a passable one since TLG, and there was a long drought before that. :(

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Originally Posted by Pellaz

It's fair to say, if you wanted to place it in terms of other games, that it's 3 parts zelda, 2 parts metal gear, 1 part pokemon snap, and 1 part mark of the kri.

WTF, pokemon snap? I need to see what that looks like, combined with everything else.

And don't be (too) sad about adventure games dying; just play some Monkey Island and you'll feel better. Kinda. :(

Oddworld: Abe's Exodus...sometimes challenging...but goofy and fun..especially if you're going for the "kill all mudokens" prize :)...I bought it a couple years ago for 5.99 it's probly only a buck or two now for the psone.