The Definitive LucasArts Adventure Game List from Bad To Great

[@AdventureGameGeek]

Keep forgetting how there's just over a dozen LucasArts adventures, feels like more than that!

[@YakWaxLips]

There seemed so many more didn’t there.

[@swede7581]

PC Games Published by LucasArts These are 38 PC games published by LucasArts, listed in the PCGameBenchmark system requirements database But how many that are actually games like we all love that are a little "OLDER"..games like-Moneky island and Grim Fandango also Indiana Jones series that i sadly never played back when they released(no money and when i got nowhere to be found where i lived) But The games i play i will probably remember for the rest of my life and how great they were so many years ago!

[@sombra1111]

The Dig is one of my favorites. The atmosphere is perfect.

[@Panzer_the_Merganser]

Same here, the first seconds of the intro, standing on the edge of the museum spire…. All fantastic moments that cannot be rivaled. And the music of course.

[@sombra1111]

@@Panzer_the_Merganser Agree 100%.

[@mikecass8306]

Thanks!

[@YakWaxLips]

Thanks for all your support Mike! You rock

[@blurontree]

Great vid. When you’re finished with the Broken Sword series, would love to see you do a play through of one of these, Fate of Atlantis maybe?

[@YakWaxLips]

I’m on the fence of what’s next

[@FocusHillGames]

Nice to see Monkey Island coming out on top (and also MI2 being close)... In a lot of ways it's simpler than some of the others, as it doesn't have extensive animated cutscenes, or voices, and the puzzles are mostly quite simple... But it totally nails it where it counts - amazingly atmospheric locations and top notch comedy writing.

[@YakWaxLips]

Atmosphere, music, characters. To me this is always number 1

[@JonLeung1]

Monkey Island 2: LeChuck's Revenge is probably the very first LucasArts point-and-click computer game I ever played. (Though I did play Maniac Mansion on the NES before that and still love that.) I'd certainly played some of Sierra's games before that, but Monkey Island 2 felt like something special at the time, and still enjoyable now. The Secret Of Monkey Island is also incredible. No arguments here, seeing the first two games at the top of this list! I've seen many point-and-click games imitate these games, but nothing beats the originals!

[@philipchurch8772]

I often quote Monkey Island 4 with the line "Your heart is in the right place but your mind is someplace cold and dark and covered in spiders."

[@KoushaTalebian]

Let's do a video on ALL top adventures game of all time, across all developers!

[@YakWaxLips]

Omg that would be both epic and terrifying (for me to make!)

[@awakeningcry]

Common misconception, regarding the intent for The Dig script to be made into a film, when the idea actually was for it to be part of his "Amazing Stories" TV series (TV, Film... semantics lol). The 1987 (actual) film Batteries Not Included was also intended to be part of the same series.

[@YakWaxLips]

Yeah as I was editing this I realised what I said. I purposely didn’t write a script for this video like I usually do as I wanted more of a relaxed feeling and there are a few things I could have recorded again but thought, huh, nevermind.

[@BadLuckLuke]

Loom @ no 9 is my all-time favourite!!! (sorry Hob's Barrow) ...

[@YakWaxLips]

Loom is amazing I agree

[@cm8011]

I would have thought Curse of Monkey Island would rank higher…for Murray alone. Thank you for putting this together!

[@YakWaxLips]

Yes me too! That one was very close

[@Svalbaz]

Shows how well made Grim Fandango was that despite the terribly clunky controls it’s always so highly regarded What a Story, what a setting! Good list Shame MI2 wasn’t top though!

[@YakWaxLips]

Yes when I was getting the edit together I watched loads of Grim Fandango as I got sucked into it again 😆

[@Cowclops]

Interesting that zak mckracken came in that low, I personally enjoyed it because back when this game was like half to 25% of the lucasarts adventure game library, it was worth playing. But compared to what came after, yeah its no fate of atlantis or day of the tentacle.

[@YakWaxLips]

Yes I get that. Played it a lot in early 90s but by the time Full Throttle was out I hardly touched it

[@fabrizio-6172]

Can include the list with timeline?

[@mikecass8306]

The secret of monkey island, grim fandango and the fate of atlantis for me Michael 😀

[@YakWaxLips]

Nice! I think at some point I’m going to make my own top 14 video. And Escape wouldn’t be bottom!

[@donjohnson7768]

Growing up in Canada in the early-mid 90's maniac mansion was always on TV! Such a strange show.

[@YakWaxLips]

Wow that’s great. I’ve only ever seen clips on KZbin

[@guybrushthreepwood2910]

Beautiful memories!

[@YakWaxLips]

Yes they are!

[@raintorust7162]

The Dig is criminally underrated.

[@diondewet8522]

That was fun. And very interesting.

[@YakWaxLips]

Glad you enjoyed it!

[@alexblackburnproducer]

A great video. Nice work

[@YakWaxLips]

Thanks! Took me a while this one

[@Enchurito]

The Dig should be number 2 just behind Curse of Monkey Island. It's amazing. Then loom should be 4th

[@askakwas8028]

The Dig was absolutely fantastic!

[@YakWaxLips]

If you haven’t, you really need to watch that cannot be tamed video of The Dig

[@askakwas8028]

@@YakWaxLips That was an awesome rec - I watched it and found out a lot of stuff I previously didn't know about the game - Thank you!

[@everygamersdream72]

Excuse me Maniac Mansion ranks where????

[@YakWaxLips]

I thought it’d be higher too

[@artimise99]

Full throttle part of my top games of all time

[@RamonRa1978]

Where is loom?

[@henrik747]

Great video, even though I disagree with the list 😅. For me, Fate of Atllantis is No1. It has great replay value! But I'm glad to see Sam & Max in the middle (kind of). I think it's a bit overrated with its insane puzzles! But MI4 at dead last? Below Zak and Maniac Mansion? That's just insane...

[@YakWaxLips]

I think I’m going to do my own list, as I agree with you!

[@voiceoverhistories]

What?! I was sure The Curse of Monkey Island would be higher! And I'd have put money on Indiana Jones and the Fate of Atlantis being in the top three!! 😮

[@YakWaxLips]

I was surprised by the results too. Except Escape from monkey island. 🙈

[@TNJX]

Very surprised that The Dig is so low down the list. (and Loom, too, to be honest)

[@TurianShepard]

Escape last? I’m not having it! 😂

[@42paparia42]

Ah, I would expect Loom to be higher, but the people have spoken...

[@kegluneq6306]

Some controversial choices here! But I can't really argue with the top choice.

[@YakWaxLips]

Yeah thought Curse would be higher, and Maniac Mansion too

[@Svankmajer]

@@YakWaxLips Curse is a weird one since it wasn't made by Ron Gilbert and graphically is so different, and arguably is more "comedy" than the other two. But remembering how many disliked it when it came out I've been astonished how beloved it is. Seems most who played Curse first prefer it.

[@Enchurito]

Curse of Monkey Island is by far the best in the series.

[@Svankmajer]

@@Enchurito Not for me, but I like it too.

[@PostcastFromFiretopMountain]

My favourite game is Labyrinth.

[@dielel9268]

Loooom!!! 🏆

[@helgamarie2008]

No timestamps???? -1

[@azrhyga]

Great video, also looks like the community made a good chooses

[@YakWaxLips]

Thank you, and I agree.

[@azrhyga]

@@YakWaxLips You're welcome!!

[@ModestlyAmazing]

Top 3 is Day of the Tentacle Curse of Monkey Island Full Throttle For me I loved all these games some of the earliest I played although I've played them all now. Fate of Atlantis I hated because some of the puzzles were just too obscure 😂 especially that feckin hot air balloon

[@YakWaxLips]

I think every LucasArts game at some point had a stupidly obtuse puzzle! Monkey Wrench being the obvious one.