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| 6 MAY 2006 at 7:26am |
CulturaJourneyman
Posts : 1337
Joined: 1 SEP 2004
Location: NL, Amersfoort
Status : Offline | That sounds really, really bad wowforce... I have been looking forward to Paradise!
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| 10 MAY 2006 at 2:29am |
SusanGuild Master
Posts : 5485
Joined: 13 OCT 2002
Location: 0
Status : Offline | Is it possible you're buying too many games?
If you buy all the games that come out, nothing seems exciting anymore, whereas if you bought fewer games, you might find them more enjoyable.
I miss my Bubba: 1986 - 2006.
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| 10 MAY 2006 at 6:13am |
| Deleted User | Buy too many games – Me? LOL.
Er, you caught me red handed. Today I bought Crime Stories, Auryn Quest, and Arthur’s Knights The Secret of Merlin, Jeckyll & Hyde, and In Cold Blood.
Loaded Crime Stories, played 5 minutes and unistalled it – too silly by half. LOL
Loaded Auryn Quest. Didn’t realize this is actually a ‘find the bubbles on the ledges’ so you can go to the next level and ‘find the bubbles somewhere else’ type of game. Sort of pre-schoolish. Uninstalled it too :-/
Loaded Arthurs Knights The Secrets of Merlin – and set the options to high end video and now it won’t load so I had to uninstall. :'( Will try again later.
LOL – too many games? Yes, that must be it. LOL
Guess I’ll replay DreamFall.
Or load Jekyll & Hyde. :-?
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| 11 MAY 2006 at 9:44pm |
nytimesguyPrivate Detective
Posts : 684
Joined: 14 OCT 2002
Status : Online | Originally Posted By Cultura (30 APR 2006 4:02pm)
I it just me, or have games changed?
I think really the games just are not as involving nowadays. Adventure games were for many years my favorite genre, and I would say to this day the majority of my favorite game experiences are from adventure games. But not recently. Since I have branched out and play all sorts of games now, you might think it's just that experience with other games makes adventure games simply pale in compariison, but when i hit on an adventure game that really grabs me it still pulls me in in a way nothing else does. But the last games to do that have been little homemade freeware games like Jessica Plunkenstein (or whatever it was called) and White Chamber (although if you have the Nintendo DS there is also the fantastic Phoenic Wright game). The major adventure games are simply not exceptional. Some are good, some are interesting, but there is nothing like Sanitarium or Obsidian or The Last Express or The Longest Journey that completely pulls me in. reamfall had an interesting story and worthless gameplay, which could also be said of Indigo Prophecy. I'm always underwhelmed by Benoit Sokal's games. There are a slew of generic games coming out, some of which I do enjoy but none of which really suck me in. The best commercial adventure games I have played in the last few years have just been okay games that in no way matched the great games of teh 90s. I think if a really great adventure game comes along I will be just as entranced as I was when I played Riven or Grim Fandango, but when or if that will happen I don't know.
Charles - Game Theorist
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| 14 MAY 2006 at 1:10pm |
ConMolSorcerer Apprentice
Posts : 396
Joined: 10 OCT 2002
Status : Online | Well said. I just finished Dreamfall and I liked it, but now I am going back and replaying Longest Journey. I am so much more emotionally invested in it - even a second time. There are so many environments. You CAN get immersed in a point n click. At E3, the marketing guy at Lucasarts was asked why not do a funny adventure game and go back to your roots? The guy said they will do it when and if they can find new and exciting ways to do it.
Gears of War for xbox 360 looks pretty neat, if you like that sort of thing. I laughed though, when Cliff B. ranted about how it's all new gameplay because you don't just run around shooting things - you can duck and cover and jump up to shoot things!
I really felt that E3 was missing comedic games. I was bummed out about how many depressing stories are being told - I mean they are making a Reservoir Dogs game....!
After Longest Journey, I'm replaying Grim Fandango, it holds up. Is there anything funnier than that clown making animal balloons?
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| 14 MAY 2006 at 7:48pm |
Jeroen StoutSchattenjger
Posts : 2798
Joined: 14 NOV 2003
Status : Online | Originally Posted By ConMol (14 MAY 2006 1:10pm)
Is there anything funnier than that clown making animal balloons?
The guy who guards the lift in Psychonauts. Possibly along with Napoleon in the very same game.
Tim Schafer is god, quite
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