I just wish this genre had a more niche-d term, I suppose. Adventure has become too generalized and corrupted into the mainstream every-other-AAA-game sphere. Survival Horror, for example, is at least defined. Though I suppose even that is being broken down from it's classic classification by publishers who are desperate to provide mass appeal.

So I just came across this forum hoping to find like-minded classic adventure game fans and within the second post I jumped into I saw references to Assassin's Creed. Immediately my brain goes nuts saying that isn't an adventure game and I wish we could have our little point-and-click proper adventure haven of what these games used to be. I realise so many things are hybridized now but it's sad that adventure games seem to be losing their identity to 'action-adventures'.

/Rant

I love old adventure games. Here are my favourites:

The Longest Journey (by far)

Dreamfall

Syberia I and II

Still Life

Full Throttle

Monkey Island Series

Broken Sword Series

If you're looking for a Western RPG sort of experience (which is very, very different from JRPGs) I'd start with Knights of the Old Republic. It's very straight forward and the concept and exploration keep it from getting stale like the first Fable game or Amalur.

If you wanna go old school the Might and Magic games are really fantastic but they won't set you up very well for modern RPGs which are far simpler stat-wise. Torchlight I and II are easy RPGs to get into if you want to go for hack n slash instead of tactics and frequent pausing like Mass Effect and KOTOR.

I didn't think I would but Mass Effect 3 got me teary.

Nothing is as bad as To The Moon though. For a game that has like 20 pixels on screen it had me bawling for 70% of the game.

Completionist - 20% - I like to explore all of the map and find all items, but not so much into trophies/achievements & in-game 100% goal completion.

BARRICADE_28

I'm mostly an Introvert. I rarely enjoy multi player, I dont really even care for FPS games. The only game that I really liked multi player was in Red Dead Redemption. Anyway here are my stats.

Introvert 50%

Completionist 35%

Ghost 10%

Reader 3%

Character Builder 2%

jcopp72

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Ilovegames1992

Dreamfall is pretty cool. Currently have the longest journey in my collection but haven't completed it yet. Very good story.

April Ryan, and Jade from Beyond Good & Evil