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| 29 MAY 2009 at 5:28am |
KaylIntergalactic Janitor
Posts : 30
Joined: 5 MAY 2009
Status : Online | 4 words
Three cards to midnight; according to all the previews that I remember reading, this game was to be an epic adventure game to remember.
Turned out to be a casual object hunting game and a bad one at that :r
My scythe--I like to keep it next to where my heart used to be.
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| 29 MAY 2009 at 8:32am |
| Deleted User | Yup, I had thought that CSI new York would be similar to the previous CSI games, who are even already labeled by some as "Adventure Lite" . Well, if you had always thought the previous CSI games were not full-blooded Adventure (I actually liked the first 3 very much for the stories and twisted plots), then honestly and truly do not bother with CSI New York.
The objects are not even hidden, and there is no rhyme or reason to the object you have to click on. As long as you can click a mouse, you do not even have to be able to read , or even, for that matter, be able to understand language to get throught this game.
Yup, I reckon Bo-bo the monkey could click through the whole thing in no time, if he has the patence for all that clicking!
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| 29 MAY 2009 at 8:53am |
CulturaJourneyman
Posts : 1337
Joined: 1 SEP 2004
Location: NL, Amersfoort
Status : Offline | More and more casual games make it to the shelves, and have written 'adventure' on them, and even borrow heavely from classics, such as Myst (Dream Chronicles looks like a total clone).
I think it is very confusing, and they should not be marketed as adventure games - they are puzzle games, nothing more. Nothing adventerous about playing these.
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| 29 MAY 2009 at 1:53pm |
AndromusGuild Master
Posts : 5540
Joined: 6 NOV 2002
Status : Offline | I too was underwhelmed by what 3 Cards to Midnight ended up being, after all the hype. "Oh, it's just another zarking casual game", was my reaction when I first looked over a page of screenshots.
I fear this is the future of adventure games, and possibly the PC game market in general. Completely overwhelmed by somewhat entertaining, but very lightweight and simplistic games like these.
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