Amazing looking Graphical Adventure Games

**Compass** · 12 Dec 2007, 09:27 PM

Originally Posted by FirstBlood

Hey, you know what was a good post-lucasarts graphic-adventure?

Sanitarium.

Such a good setting/mood, interesting story and creepy as hell. Although it very well may have aged poorly. In particular I remember being impressed by how I was able to finish every single puzzle without consulting any FAQs or guides.

Good choice. Sanitarium was awesome. Every level was so different from the last, and I agree it was more than feasible to solve all the puzzles without resorting to a walkthrough. Way too many adventure games fail in this regard, and yet people continue referencing them as classics without even mentioning this major flaw.

**Frogacuda** · 12 Dec 2007, 09:35 PM

Originally Posted by Compass

I agree it was more than feasible to solve all the puzzles without resorting to a walkthrough. Way too many adventure games fail in this regard, and yet people continue referencing them as classics without even mentioning this major flaw.

I agree with this and I have mentioned it. There are plenty of adventure games with well designed puzzles, but some of them can be illogical and that is a flaw for those particular games.

I think Lucas' games are fairly reasonable in this regard and I remember beating Sam and Max and Day of the Tentacle. Sierra's were pretty brutal at their worst but I did beat all of the Space Quest games.

I think part of the problem was just that if you did get stuck, it would be too hard to get back on track or know where to go even when the solution wasn't that bizarre, just because you were thinking the wrong way. Under a Killing Moon and Pandora had a built in hint system that was really a fantastic solution to this.

**Chux** · 12 Dec 2007, 10:51 PM

Torin's Passage imo.

**Dyne** · 12 Dec 2007, 10:54 PM

Originally Posted by Compass

Good choice. Sanitarium was awesome. Every level was so different from the last, and I agree it was more than feasible to solve all the puzzles without resorting to a walkthrough. Way too many adventure games fail in this regard, and yet people continue referencing them as classics without even mentioning this major flaw.

GREAT game. i just reinstalled this last week.