Hey, I didn't say which was better. I only mentioned the games that come to mind when saying (as in pronouncing) the word "adventure". Though I must admit that most of the titles I referred to individually are in fact better than the MI series. As for Runaway, I'm still waiting for the third part (Q4 2009) to come out and make a conclusive opinion.

For me Runaway is one of the ugliest adventure game of the last 10 years.
Putting it close to MI1 is an horrible mistake :no:

TotalAnarchy, I hope you have big ears, because you need to cover you head with them in shame. :perv:

Why?! Did you people even play the Runaway series? The games are decent, not extraordinary, but decent. Plus, Monkey Island is really overrated. Unless you understand this, you'll never get the "point" in modern point-and-click adventures.

Heck, I saw sites where people are boasting the return of the Adventure genre with the Tales of Monkey Island... :hihihi: Like the genre was dead in the first place. There are too many adventure games better than MI. Let's admit it, the only reason why it was and is so popular it's because it's very simple to play and directed toward the casual masses.

Could you elaborate on what exactly you mean by "very simple to play"? And when, except for cases like Myst and similar phenomenons, did "adventure games" and "masses" (compared to other genres) ever go together?

Ok, this isn't going to work. I think it's enough that we all agree:

-Monkey Island is a great series of adventure games (and I liked all of them, not only 1 and 2, or 1 and 3; all of them)
-Runaway is worse than Monkey Island (even though I think that it's still a decent game)

No need to get defensive. I really was just curious about your answers to my questions. Pity you don't seem to feel like giving them, but your call entirely, of course. :)

I love Monkey Island, but it sometimes seems to me that there is a lot of fanboyism about it. It has it's flaws. And for all that it was fun, the first two, for example, has the kind of thing that we would hate to see in a modern game (I mean, use a monkey to close a pump? What kind of "logic" is that?).

C'mon, the world has moved forward, and there were some great adventures developed after Monkey Island. And though the genre was dead, it was in the commercial sense: there still were some people making adventure games, and now more than ever with the tool there are out there.

So please, let's enjoy the good games, not only the old games.

P.D: Yes, I know this is a site about abandoned games, but not all abandoned games are old games (although they tend to be). But that a game is old doesn't necessarily means that a game is good. And it's getting on my nerves the growing number of game-snobs that says a game is good just because it's old and to try to be oh, so old skool and hardcore and shit.

I have played an adventure game where one needs to bind dynamite to a rat to open a door... and there is a certain critically acclaimed adventure game which featured a rubber ducky & an iron clamp... :doh:

Use the monkey as a wrench to turn off the pump. You never heard of a monkey-wrench? :perv: