Posted May 11, 2014
Hi to all, I would like to dedicate this thread to less known adventure games and adventure series that I would like to see here on GOG. I also hope it will help to raise awareness of these titles and maybe through voting helps to actually make it happen.
what we have already:
Sierra: pretty massive collection have we here already, though we still miss some titles. For me it's Laura Bow series and FMV stand-alone piece (fourth Sierra attempt after Gabriel Knight II and both Phantasmagorias), Lighthouse.
Myst series - except Myst III Exile the whole saga (though Steam has more of the older titles from Cyan)
Tex Murphy, ZORK, The Journeyman Project series - here I have to say just THANK YOU:-)
Cryo Interactive - apart from racing Megarace trilogy, one Dragon Lore and first three Atlantis games there unfortunatelly isn't anything from this French company. What about the row of educational adventures from various historical eras and lands (Egypt 1-3 + Egypt Kids, Versailles 1+2, Aztec (full title Aztec: The Curse in the Heart of the City of Gold aka The Secret Amulet), China (China: The Forbidden City). While this isn't my case since I'm not a fan of action adventures, I am sure plenty of people would enjoy the likes of The New Adventuers of Time Machine, The Devil Inside, Dreams: To Reality and plenty more. Not to mention Salammbo,
Dracula series from various studios +the first Return to the Mysterious Island (made by the authors of the third Dracula, Kheops Studio. Most of its 15 releases contain multiple-solutions approach, often draws from literary sources. Also notable for being successors of the Cryo Interactive, developing the third installment of Egypt series.
Slowly moving into what we don't have territory:
Arxel Tribe - for a time, frequent collaborant with above mentioned Cryo Interactive. Not only they developed some adventure games together (Ring - two part adaptation of Wagner's opera quadrilogy about Nibelungs, Siegfried and the whole bunch IN SPACE with hefty dose of classical music), modern re-imagining of the Faust/Mephisto story in Faust: 7 games of soul, but also produced two stand-alone series: Pilgrim: Faith as a weapon, The Secrets of the Alamut and The Legend of the Prophet and the Assassin being the first one (don't tell me that in the wave of Assassin's Creed it wouldn't find at least a few buyers) and Pompei: The Legend of Vesuvius/TimeScape: Journey to Pompeii + Jerusalem: The Three Roads to the Holy Land/Jerusalem: The Holy City being the other one. And then there is the Louvre: The Final Curse/The Messenger and half of a dozen other names (why to have different name for every region is beyond me), a cooperation with Index+, authors of the first also above mentioned Dracula series.
Coktel Vision - another French company, known in the USA thanks to Sierra. OK, we have Goblins, but what about Woodruf, Inca series (adventure/shooter/space simulator) or another FMV Urban Runner.
FMV games in general aren't really here in GOG much. Phantasmagoria 1+2, Gabriel Knight 2, Tex Murphy, TJP, late Zork games und some others... Unfortunatelly, no The Black Dahlia, no Ripper, no Dracula Unleashed, no The X-Files: The Game, no... Byzantine: the Betrayal, no Star Trek:Borg/Klingon, noThe Daedalus Encounter, no Tender Loving Care, no Latex: The Game (ok, now I'm getting into really bizarre waters)...
No Legend Entertainment adventures, no LucasArts adventures... well, those are known enought and asked for enough already, I guess:-) And the Discworld Trilogy...
Any thoughts?
EDIT: I've forgotten Rama!
what we have already:
Sierra: pretty massive collection have we here already, though we still miss some titles. For me it's Laura Bow series and FMV stand-alone piece (fourth Sierra attempt after Gabriel Knight II and both Phantasmagorias), Lighthouse.
Myst series - except Myst III Exile the whole saga (though Steam has more of the older titles from Cyan)
Tex Murphy, ZORK, The Journeyman Project series - here I have to say just THANK YOU:-)
Cryo Interactive - apart from racing Megarace trilogy, one Dragon Lore and first three Atlantis games there unfortunatelly isn't anything from this French company. What about the row of educational adventures from various historical eras and lands (Egypt 1-3 + Egypt Kids, Versailles 1+2, Aztec (full title Aztec: The Curse in the Heart of the City of Gold aka The Secret Amulet), China (China: The Forbidden City). While this isn't my case since I'm not a fan of action adventures, I am sure plenty of people would enjoy the likes of The New Adventuers of Time Machine, The Devil Inside, Dreams: To Reality and plenty more. Not to mention Salammbo,
Dracula series from various studios +the first Return to the Mysterious Island (made by the authors of the third Dracula, Kheops Studio. Most of its 15 releases contain multiple-solutions approach, often draws from literary sources. Also notable for being successors of the Cryo Interactive, developing the third installment of Egypt series.
Slowly moving into what we don't have territory:
Arxel Tribe - for a time, frequent collaborant with above mentioned Cryo Interactive. Not only they developed some adventure games together (Ring - two part adaptation of Wagner's opera quadrilogy about Nibelungs, Siegfried and the whole bunch IN SPACE with hefty dose of classical music), modern re-imagining of the Faust/Mephisto story in Faust: 7 games of soul, but also produced two stand-alone series: Pilgrim: Faith as a weapon, The Secrets of the Alamut and The Legend of the Prophet and the Assassin being the first one (don't tell me that in the wave of Assassin's Creed it wouldn't find at least a few buyers) and Pompei: The Legend of Vesuvius/TimeScape: Journey to Pompeii + Jerusalem: The Three Roads to the Holy Land/Jerusalem: The Holy City being the other one. And then there is the Louvre: The Final Curse/The Messenger and half of a dozen other names (why to have different name for every region is beyond me), a cooperation with Index+, authors of the first also above mentioned Dracula series.
Coktel Vision - another French company, known in the USA thanks to Sierra. OK, we have Goblins, but what about Woodruf, Inca series (adventure/shooter/space simulator) or another FMV Urban Runner.
FMV games in general aren't really here in GOG much. Phantasmagoria 1+2, Gabriel Knight 2, Tex Murphy, TJP, late Zork games und some others... Unfortunatelly, no The Black Dahlia, no Ripper, no Dracula Unleashed, no The X-Files: The Game, no... Byzantine: the Betrayal, no Star Trek:Borg/Klingon, noThe Daedalus Encounter, no Tender Loving Care, no Latex: The Game (ok, now I'm getting into really bizarre waters)...
No Legend Entertainment adventures, no LucasArts adventures... well, those are known enought and asked for enough already, I guess:-) And the Discworld Trilogy...
Any thoughts?
EDIT: I've forgotten Rama!
Post edited May 11, 2014 by Fingon