zeogold: Out of curiosity, what do you consider to be one of the best you've ever played?
I'll limit myself to adventures since this is the relevant genre here:
From the 90s classics, I think Indiana Jones and the fate of Atlantis has held up pretty well, a pretty great game with mostly logical puzzles.
Personally I find some of the other Lucasarts classics overrated (e.g. Monkey Island 2 is pretty tedious imo; I like the first game though). Broken sword is also overrated imo.
I've probably missed many of the other adventure game classics...I did play the remake of the first Gabriel Knight game though...I mostly liked it (despite some problematic puzzles).
But in my view many of those 90s adventure games just have severe design flaws, with painfully illogical puzzles. Beneath a steel sky is a really egregious offender here imo, definitely not equal in quality to the major Lucasarts games.
I like many of Wadjeteye's games which in my opinion have improved on the genre's formula and provide challenging puzzles (I'm thinking especially of Primordia, Resonance and Technobabylon). On the other hand, I have to admit I find most of the stuff actually created by Dave Gilbert himself (The Shivah, Blackwell games, Unavowed) rather meh...those games are actually too easy and in risk of turning into walking simulators or visual novels.