Best adventure games for PC and controller

bastic · 14 Jan 2011 at 09:30

Looking for some good adventure games to play with a controller.
Will get Batman AA, but was thinking about games like old rayman and such....

What do you play ?

npjnpj · 14 Jan 2011 at 09:39

I think there must be a bit of confusion here concerning the term 'adventure game'.
Do you mean action adventure? I don't think a controller would give you much joy with Monkey Island or Still Life, for instance? Could you give an example or two of what games you mean?

d_brennen · 14 Jan 2011 at 09:40

You can pick up Tomb Raider Anniversary dirt cheap. It's a good port and works great with a 360 pad. If you loved the original in 96, or even if you didn't, it's a great game

TR: Legend is ok and is equally cheap.

Otherwise get the Project 64 emulator and play Mario 64

Also works great with a 360 pad, and the game is still amazingly good, IMO

Podmonkey · 14 Jan 2011 at 10:44

Psychonauts
Beyond good and evil

Both very original and very good games.

Edit: scrapland is a pretty decent little game too if you can find it cheap.

orderoftheflame · 14 Jan 2011 at 10:45

npjnpj said:
I think there must be a bit of confusion here concerning the term 'adventure game'.
Do you mean action adventure? I don't think a controller would give you much joy with Monkey Island or Still Life, for instance? Could you give an example or two of what games you mean?

IMO:

Adventure = point and click story driven, e.g monkey island.
Action adventure = Third person, action platformer/shooter.

I think the OP is after action adventure games.

Podmonkey · 14 Jan 2011 at 10:59

Also since you mentioned old Rayman then how about the Abe games? Oddysee and Exoddus.

Alex74 · 14 Jan 2011 at 11:16

Podmonkey said:
Psychonauts
Beyond good and evil

These two. Both amazing games. Psychonauts is also found very easily on steam. If you havent played it already, buy it!

bastic · 14 Jan 2011 at 15:45

orderoftheflame said:
IMO:

Adventure = point and click story driven, e.g monkey island.
Action adventure = Third person, action platformer/shooter.

I think the OP is after action adventure games.

thats the ones

action adventure

but mostly platformer ones

Podmonkey said:
Also since you mentioned old Rayman then how about the Abe games? Oddysee and Exoddus.

forgot about Abe

Alex74 said:
These two. Both amazing games. Psychonauts is also found very easily on steam. If you havent played it already, buy it!

never heard of Psychonauts so will go and have a look

cheers

Hedge · 14 Jan 2011 at 19:07

Not so much adventure but you cant go wrong with Super Meat Boy

Xelene · 14 Jan 2011 at 19:50

bastic said:
never heard of Psychonauts so will go and have a look

cheers

Psychonauts is brilliant. I quite liked mini ninjas.

Kosmiche · 14 Jan 2011 at 20:25

Prince of Persia Forgotten Sands is very similar to tomb raider, its not quite as stellar as the ps2 outings however.

Frame352 · 14 Jan 2011 at 20:40

Darksiders! Picked it up in the Steam sale, and it's great!

bastic · 14 Jan 2011 at 23:25

Forgot that I have Star Wars :the force unlashed 2

will give it a go tomorrow

WingZero30 · 14 Jan 2011 at 23:28

Just Cause 2. Massive open world but has a weak and short story.

davewhite04 · 15 Jan 2011 at 00:25

Podmonkey said:
Psychonauts
Beyond good and evil

Both very original and very good games.

Edit: scrapland is a pretty decent little game too if you can find it cheap.

I had bother getting Psychonauts working with the controller.

Also, Beyond Good and Evil had terrible tearing issues.

Great games though.

marc1024 · 15 Jan 2011 at 09:30

minecraft? best adventure game ever.

Deadbeat · 15 Jan 2011 at 10:42

Beyond Good & Evil is fantastic - strongly recommended. As mentioned I find it does have some stability & graphical issues on the PC, but it's a great game if you can deal with that. If not, buy it for a console instead - a must-play.

I haven't tried Darksiders yet, which I picked up in the Steam sale recently, but it seems to be in a similar vein to Devil May Cry so I'm looking forward to giving it a punt - that series went bad fast.