Many thanks to all of the welcoming comments regarding my previous post. I'm Scott and this is my first night on this forum - currently in the looooong download process of Broken Sword 5. I'm a decades long Broken Sword fan so I was excited to find the new game available here for a nice price. While answering my questions about the site, several forum members suggested some of their favorite games available on the site. That inspired me to jot down a list of some of my personal favorites. Not an exclusive list (and not all of them are available on gog), but these are ones which come immediately to mind:

Favorite games or game series:

All of the "Gabriel Knight" games (unresolved cliffhanger -AAAAHH!)

The "Longest Journey" and "Dreamfall" games (unresolved cliffhanger -AAAAHH!)

All of the Broken Sword games

The old Space Quest games (hilarious)

Syberia and Syberia II

"Runaway" series

"Back to the Future: the Game" (extremely well done - I was pleasantly surprised)

Favorite Trek games

"Star Trek 25th Anniversary" and it sequel "Judgment Rites" (still the best trek games I have ever played)

Deep Space Nine "Harbinger" (engaging and underrated)

and Deep Space Nine "The Fallen" (an adventure/shooter in the same vain but far superior, IMO, to Elite Force (which is good, but The Fallen is much better)

Some Enjoyable Honorable Mentions:

Captain Morgane and the Golden Turtle (cute, not bad)

A Vampyre Story (humorous)

ALIAS (based on the TV series, starring Jennifer Garner, et al. - Did you know it existed? It's actually good!)

The X-Files Game (so sue me, I liked it!)

Most Disappointing Game ever:

NCIS (What the #%$@ was THAT?? I'm a huge fan of the TV series and I was pumped when I saw the NCIS game advertised on the show itself - advertised on CBS in primetime. Heck yeah, I bought it! I never thought Ubisoft, a respected gaming company, would drop the ball so *badly*. Some games are good, some are kind of "meh," but never before have I played a game I thought was so insultingly BAD that I actually wanted my money back. NCIS was that game. It felt like the game designers assumed that the NCIS audience probably skews "older" so we're not going to know anything about gaming, it needs to be dumbed down (because "old people" are stupid) - forgetting the fact that our generation INVENTED gaming!! Morons.)

Hehe, when you've hung around this forum for a while, you'll notice that Ubisoft is not particularly well respected here ;-)

Hehehe, yes, well, suffice to say, they've at least put out some recognizable (and even playable) titles over the years. Like...uh...I'll think of one.

Well, yes. They have made some good, even great, games over the years. The main reasons they are unpopular here have to do with their stance on DRM and game pricing.

Ah. I see. I own a number of Ubisoft psychical media games (and I bargain hunt), so I hadn't run into that issue a lot yet. Although, with NCIS, I didn't bargain hunt. I bought right away, full price. I was pumped. Then I was p-ssed.

But I've got some ubi games. Beyond Good and Evil is kind of goofy but enjoyable...come to think of it, I don't think I ever finished that game. That's the one I was playing when my laptop was stolen in Vancouver. Hmm, time to pull it out and see it'll run on Windows 7 or 8.

And the BUGS, the horrible, game breaking bugs :D.

We seem to have a similar profile :-D The first game I truly enjoyed and made a huge impact on me was Broken Sword - Shadow of the Templars, and has remained one of my all-time favorites ever since, and led me to love the adventure genre. Steps to its sequels, Gabriel Knight, Syberia, Runaway were small steps to take after that and helped consolidate my love for the genre.

Have you played Grim Fandango? I bet that would be right up your alley as well.

[url=https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Dreamfall_Chapters:_The_Longest_Journey]Not for much longer[/url].

Thank you! Glad to be here!

I think that might be a different one. The game titled "The X Files Game" was a full motion video (live action actors and film video action) in which you played a young FBI rookie joining Mulder, Skully, and Skinner in a case involving the black alien oil. And if you did something stupid, Skinner would look at you with this hilarious "What the--?" expression on his face and say something like "What's wrong with you?" Hahahaha!

If anything, I'd say DS9 Harbinger was a little more Myst-like insofar as its presentation and feel. But in DS9 The Fallen, you've got to play all three characters to get the full story--and I think Kira is the most engaging of the three gameplays. Unlike Elite Force, where you simply choose a male or female character and the basic gameplay is the same, in The Fallen, each character follows his or her own path and storyline (no three are alike). Their environments are all very different - and Kira's task, as I recall, was the longest and most challenging. She does the greatest amount of combat (and the most difficult combat) and uncovers the majority of the clues in the overall mystery surrounding the Red Orbs. Kira is by far the most important character in the game, so if you haven't played Kira, you've missed most of the game. Sisko's part was a lot fun too, although it was little odd that the crashed Miranda-class starship seemed to have an interior ten times the size of a Galaxy class or...the Galactica - and that was just in the saucer section, lol! But it was great game, nonetheless. Of the three, Worf's adventure was the least memorable, and least important to the story, but I'm still very glad they included him - and you do get to swing a bat'leth around. :D

Woo-hoo! My reply finally posted. Been trying since last night. Connection and/or formatting issue.

Yes, I've been monitoring its development for years. Looks like it's finally going to happen. Can't wait. And from what wikipedia said (grain of salt) looks like it's actually going to be one full game rather than chapters over time. I hope that's accurate. I get annoyed by these episodic things stretched out forever. I always wait until the FULL game is complete before I buy it (i.e. Back to the Future: the Game and Broken Sword 5). Give me the complete game. Sounds like that's what they're going to do. Soooo...

Why is it still titled "Chapters?" Hmmm.

You'll so love "Undying" and Sierra On Line's "Manhunter" series.

Let the linking fest begin! :D

Some of my favorite games are ones you already mentioned, namely the Gabriel Knight trilogy, the Broken Sword series (even though The Sleeping Dragon and The Angel of Death are notorious low points in the series and that shouldn't be ignored), the two Syberias, The Longest Hourney and Dreamfall.

Having grown up playing a whole lot of point and click adventures, I have a deep fondness for them, and here are some of my favorites/recommendations, in no particular order:

- Sanitarium
- The Dark Eye
- The Dark Fall trilogy (The Journal, Lights Out and Lost Souls)
- The Legend of Kyrandia trilogy (Book 1, Book 2, Book 3)
- Loom
- Dark Seed (and, to an extent, Dark Seed II)
- Maniac Mansion
- Day of the Tentacle
- Grim Fandango
- the Monkey Island series
- The Residents' Bad Day On The Midway
- The Cat Lady
- Waxworks
- I Have No Mouth And I Must Scream
- Beneath a Steel Sky
- Gemini Rue
- Dragonsphere
- Primordia (!)
- the Secret Files/Geheimakte series
- Harvester
- Scratches
- Ether One (I have yet to play this one, but it looks SO FREAKING great!)
- Kentucky Route Zero
- the Deponia trilogy (, [url=http://www.gog.com/game/deponia_2_chaos_on_deponia]Chaos on Deponia, Goodbye Deponia)
- The Daedalic Dark Eye adventure games (Chains of Satinav, Memoria)
- The Whispered World (despite the appalling voice acting)

... and a few more. I think this should be enough, for now. :P

[EDIT] I tried to keep it as eclectic as possible but, alas!, the horror point and clickers I enjoy are still the vast majority. :P Some of these barely fit the point and click description, but I always got somewhat of a "general point and click" feel out of them.

Oh, and as honorable mentions, I'd like to include:

- Runaway: A Road Adventure
- Machinarium

I like the Myst games a lot, too, but I get really frustrated really soon every time I play one of them.

Because it's supposed to depict different chapters of life.

Ah, I see, grasshopper. :)
Someone mentioned Spycraft. Good one - I own it. I miss the FMV games.

Gabriel Knight 2: the Beast Within was FMV and, for me, the most enjoyable of the series.