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10/20/2007, 05:08 pm
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What happened to the Adventure games?
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Yeah always been wondering what happened to the good old funny adventure games, why did lucas art suddenly go into a starwars frenzy and stopped making sequals or any new funny adventure games :P anyone know if any other company other that Telltale has any funny classic adventure games on the horizon. Been playing thru some of the good old classic games. Sam&Max, Day of the tentacle, Grim Fandango, Full Throttle, The Digg, Monkey Island, Stupid Invander. Think we get any hope of ever seen such good fun games again ? other than if telltale makes some? =) ofc it might be hard even for Telltale to get the humor of those games, they really were ahead of there time. |
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10/20/2007, 05:26 pm
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I Feel Fantastic
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You know that Dave Grossman, our design director, wrote or co-wrote several of the games you listed there, right?
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10/21/2007, 12:31 am
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I'm looking forward to A Vampyre Story and The Abbey, and you may also be interested in So Blonde, Jack Keane and Zack & Wiki. There are also a number of promising upcoming adventures in other subgenres (I'm especially looking forward to Once Upon a Time in Japan, Mata Hari, and Sherlock Holmes vs Arsene Lupin).
Adventure games have been in a slump for a while, but I think we're starting to see a resurrection of the genre.
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although we do still have a time machine, so I wouldn't completely rule out the possibility. |
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10/21/2007, 12:51 am
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What ever happened to predictability?
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10/21/2007, 02:59 am
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10/21/2007, 03:16 am
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What LucasArts really need to do, so they can still make adventure games and make silly money at the same time, is to make a Star Wars game but tack so many Monkey Island or Maniac Mansion references onto it, it might as well not even be a Star Wars game.
Lets say Darth Vader is using the force to make dinner one day, when he accidentally knocks over the time-transporter over with his elbow, teleporting him back to the 1800s Caribbean (or 1990s theme park if you believe that theory) and meeting the Cyborg-Ghost-Demon-Zombie LeChuck, who throws poor old Anakin into a mansion owned by possible maniacs. LeChuck then randomly and reluctantly decides to join forces with Guybrush and defeat Darth once and for all. Because bad guys and good guys joining forces is so original and shocking. It's not like Crash Bandicoot's ever done it or anything. Cue 30 hours of hilarious pointing and clicking, an almost complete absence of any Star Wars related material barring occasional cutbacks to Darth Vader being attacked by an evil-overlord-eating hamster trying to put him in a microwave, and jokes (yes, jokes. Haven't seen many of those from LA lately). As long as it has the Star Wars name tacked on the cover somewhere, it's a winner. |
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10/21/2007, 03:45 am
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10/21/2007, 04:45 am
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10/21/2007, 06:25 am
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Adventure games never died, guys. They just went more and more into the niche market for quite some time.
I like to quote this quote from our good friends at Double Fine: Quote:
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10/21/2007, 08:19 am
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You fight like a cow!
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All adventure games did was take a holiday. Some of them decided to stay there and never come back to the real world (*cough* Monkey Island).
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10/21/2007, 08:32 am
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hopeing to see more that kinda great humor and story get put into new adventure games
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10/21/2007, 09:44 am
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why is it that everyone seems to forget sierra? to me they were the cornerstone of advents.. LA just brought an easier interface and extra humor to the party.
I love the classics but fellas .. dont forget about old sierra! Advents are actually mostly dead.."this is a quote from the princess bride.. sigh im old ok?" Sad but the main thing keeping em down is just lack of people doing them.. I think they would get devoured.. but I guess devs have other ideas. Good thing telltale will step in :P We want visuals... loud noises.. and NO character depth or plot or humor.. can you do it johnny?! YES SIR! Here is halo and its 900 baby spawns bleh. Least if you make FPS make something like ALICE american mc version of course... Speaking of which when is that movie due out muahaha. |
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10/21/2007, 10:01 am
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couldn never dream about forgetting Sierra, but for me Lucas Arts really completed the mix, Humor, good story, Cartoonish looks. Great voice acting, they could made it all fit =)
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10/21/2007, 10:31 am
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10/21/2007, 05:14 pm
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10/21/2007, 05:44 pm
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All im thinking is.. Im screwed when im just a little older. My daughter is 7 in feb and grr I can only imagine the hell im in for! haha
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10/22/2007, 03:30 am
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the same market researcher that told Disney there was no european fanbase for the dvd release of gargoyles is responsible. I think we need to go postal on those dumbass market researchers. I mean seriously, if there wasn't a market for adventure games Telltale would have crashed and burned but here they are doing rather nicely for themselves.
|Fortunately, adventure gaming seems to be making a slow comeback, the european market are producing them still, so yeah! Hopefully the sucess of S&M and other similar titles will promt people to look to the genre once more.
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10/22/2007, 12:41 pm
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The one from Jane Jensen.. Actually, I'm also looking forward to the release of: "Treasure Island" Last edited by t_a_o; 10/22/2007 at 12:44 pm. |
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10/22/2007, 01:08 pm
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Oh, I wasn't trying to be exhaustive by any means. Too many of them for that.
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although we do still have a time machine, so I wouldn't completely rule out the possibility. |
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10/22/2007, 01:17 pm
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You fight like a cow!
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