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| 16 JUL 2009 at 2:17pm |
ShanyGuild Master
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Status : Online | Not to sound mean, but why is JA putting up screenshots for upcoming hidden object games?
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| 16 JUL 2009 at 2:58pm |
| Deleted User | Why on earth not? So people interested in the game can see what it is going to look like, I would presume..
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| 16 JUL 2009 at 10:06pm |
SCiVPrivate Detective
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Joined: 22 OCT 2002
Status : Online | Originally Posted By Shany (16 JUL 2009 2:16pm)
Not to sound mean, but why is JA putting up screenshots for upcoming hidden object games?
So I could start moaning about it being a puzzle game instead of an adventure game (like I read elsewhere ). Shame, rather liked the idea of a Jessica Fletcher game, used to watch the show when I was a kid.
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| 17 JUL 2009 at 5:56am |
Lucien21Guild Master
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Status : Offline | Isn't that how she solved all her crimes, by finding random items hidden on the set
Jessica: I've found the toaster, the dog on the ceiling and the scratching of a crescent moon on the table leg.
Local Sherriff: Will you stop arsing about and solve the crime already.
Jessica: I can't i've 10 more objects to find before it gives me the next clue.
Fascinating TV. Just as I'm sure this "game" will be. :
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| 17 JUL 2009 at 8:02am |
| Deleted User | It IS sad though, isn't it, how everything has become casualties to HOG/casual puzzle... Agatha Christie, Murder She Wrote, 3 Cards to Midnight, Mata Hari -even my beloved Sherlock.
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| 17 JUL 2009 at 2:18pm |
SCiVPrivate Detective
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Joined: 22 OCT 2002
Status : Online | Originally Posted By TheTraveler (17 JUL 2009 8:02am)
It IS sad though, isn't it, how everything has become casualties to HOG/casual puzzle... Agatha Christie, Murder She Wrote, 3 Cards to Midnight, Mata Hari -even my beloved Sherlock.
and CSI... I remember seeing that Sherlock game and being all excited. Then I saw what it was. Though for a puzzlegame, it was still good
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| 17 JUL 2009 at 4:51pm |
ThaumaturgeJourneyman
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Status : Offline | Originally Posted By TheTraveler (17 JUL 2009 8:02am)
It IS sad though, isn't it, how everything has become casualties to HOG/casual puzzle... Agatha Christie, Murder She Wrote, 3 Cards to Midnight, Mata Hari -even my beloved Sherlock.
Why not, after all? It seems to me that there are plenty of adventure games - especially Sherlock-Holmes-themed ones, and there seem to be plenty of people who like hidden object and other casual games, so why not let both sides have a share of games? ^_^
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| 17 JUL 2009 at 5:05pm |
| Deleted User | Originally Posted By Thaumaturge (17 JUL 2009 4:50pm)
Originally Posted By TheTraveler (17 JUL 2009 8:02am)
It IS sad though, isn't it, how everything has become casualties to HOG/casual puzzle... Agatha Christie, Murder She Wrote, 3 Cards to Midnight, Mata Hari -even my beloved Sherlock.
Why not, after all? It seems to me that there are plenty of adventure games - especially Sherlock-Holmes-themed ones, and there seem to be plenty of people who like hidden object and other casual games, so why not let both sides have a share of games? ^_^
What you say is true, of course, Thaumaturge, if only it did not feel that we now get the HOG instead of the adventure.
For instance: I was so happy when CSI NY was announced, that I ordered it without checking reviews first.
I usually finish a CSI game within a day of purchasing it, and I loved the dark, twisted stories of especially the first 3, which included Miami. However, about 15-20 mins after I started playing CSI NY, I uninstalled it,- it was inferior in every way - very basic 2D graphics, no sound, no animation, no meaningful dialogue. Gameplay consisted of clicking on objects that had not the slightest bearing on the case at all.. -need I go on? I just felt pretty angry that I had already spent my cash on it, and now I look carefully before I leap.
Of course I do not begrudge casual games a place in the sun, and I wouldn't mind playing them even... -but I don't like it if they take the place of more adventure-like games and series.
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| 17 JUL 2009 at 5:21pm |
ThaumaturgeJourneyman
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Status : Offline | Ah, I can understand your frustration then, I think - to be disappointed by a beloved series is an unpleasant experience, I would say, and I'm sorry to hear that you had such an experience. :/
I'll admit that I haven't played the CSI games (I find the series fairly entertaining, Las Vegas more so than the others, as I recall, but haven't felt much attraction to the games, I don't think); what you experienced may, it occurs to me, just be sequelitis creeping in...
[edit](I will not follow any of the links on that page, I will not follow the links on that page, I will not get caught up on TV Tropes... ;P)[/edit]
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