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| 2 MAR 2011 at 8:19pm |
HelenGuild Master
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Status : Offline | Originally Posted By panter (2 MAR 2011 7:43pm)
You are over 40 and still playing adventure games?
What is your favourite adventure game?
Hahahahaha! I believe most of us here are over 40......... or close to it.
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| 2 MAR 2011 at 9:41pm |
MarkGuild Master
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Status : Offline | Originally Posted By panter (2 MAR 2011 7:43pm)
You are over 40 and still playing adventure games?
You're a twelve-year-old punk and you're still alive? What am I supposed to play? Pinochile?
Originally Posted By panter (2 MAR 2011 7:43pm)
What is your favourite adventure game?
It's too old, you wouldn't recognize it.
Originally Posted By panter (2 MAR 2011 7:43pm)
Note: I also played Penumbra and it wasn't scary.
May I suggest Nintendogs? Now, that's scary. [smiley=zombie.gif]
Please proofread your posts carefully to see if you any words out.
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| 2 MAR 2011 at 10:53pm |
loobilooPrivate Detective
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Status : Offline | Originally Posted By panter (2 MAR 2011 7:43pm)
You are over 40 and still playing adventure games?.............
What a curious comment to make? I'm over 40 & wanting a slightly quieter life have given up nightclubbing & parties etc. But not quite ready for knitting & watching crass 'appeal to the lowest common denominator' TV programmes, I can't think of a better way to spend my time, when I can, than immersing myself into the absorbing world of an adventure game!
As for what's scarier - a film or a game? I've watched Suspiria, it was quite atmospheric & had quite a memorable soundtrack by 'The Goblins'? I know I watched Inferno too but don't remember it as it was such a long time ago.
Thinking of quality rather than quantity here - a film can be very absorbing & freak you out after it's e.g. 2 hour stint more than many 'horror' games. But at the same time you live in the world of a game much longer 10 -15 hours+, the atmosphere of which, may stay with you over the days that you spread your playing time over.
I don't think you can generalise whether a film is more scary than a game or vice versa as it depends on the film, game & your psyche!
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| 3 MAR 2011 at 3:33am |
FnordSchattenjger
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Status : Offline | You are over 40 and still playing adventure games?
While most people seem to think that the "average" gamer is somehwere between 15-25, and male, this is not entirely true. The "average" gamer is in his/her 30's, and the gender gap is rather small these days. I have met people in their 70's who play computer games (mainly online, there were several very active people in that age who played Ultima Online when I was still playing it).
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| 3 MAR 2011 at 6:30am |
DonaJourneyman
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Status : Offline | Originally Posted By Mark (2 MAR 2011 9:41pm)
Originally Posted By panter (2 MAR 2011 7:43pm)
What is your favourite adventure game?
It's too old, you wouldn't recognize it.
Keeping up with the times, I see.
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| 3 MAR 2011 at 6:54am |
TravellerGuild Master
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Status : Online | Originally Posted By panter (2 MAR 2011 7:43pm)
You are over 40 and still playing adventure games?
In fact, just a few blocks down the road is a site filled with retired ladies over 40 (some well over) who, instead of filling their retirement days with knitting socks and crochering doilies, sit in front of their PC screens playing RPG's. Quite a few retired gents there too, keeping them company.
People don't have to put down their ages when buying games, so yes, perceptions seem to be mightily skewed. The older gamers probly tend to be more solitary in their gaming habits, and probably don't participate as much in online gaming as their younger bretheren.
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| 3 MAR 2011 at 9:41am |
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Status : Offline | Originally Posted By Fnord (3 MAR 2011 3:33am)
You are over 40 and still playing adventure games?
While most people seem to think that the "average" gamer is somehwere between 15-25, and male.
20 years ago that might have been true...
But once a gamer, always a gamer. So it's obvious some of us are over 40
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| 3 MAR 2011 at 12:18pm |
MarkGuild Master
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Status : Offline | Originally Posted By Donna (3 MAR 2011 6:29am)
Originally Posted By Mark (2 MAR 2011 9:41pm)
Originally Posted By panter (2 MAR 2011 7:43pm)
What is your favourite adventure game?
It's too old, you wouldn't recognize it.
Keeping up with the times, I see.
I was being facetious, but it's really super-difficult to name just one.
I want to say Sanitarium, but then 3rd-person isn't my favorite mode. I would say Shivers, but then that's ridiculous. I loved Uru: The Complete Chronicles, but then there's always something else...
I know the ones I want to play: Gray Matter, Amnesia, the Last Half of Darkness trilogy. I want to drive Caroline crazy in Uru: Live (just you wait, Caroline)...
Let's just say that I'm happy to be back and can't wait to get started on (or pick up where I left off) a lot of Adventure Games.
Please proofread your posts carefully to see if you any words out.
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| 3 MAR 2011 at 5:32pm |
DonaJourneyman
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Status : Offline | I was just poking fun at hipsters who often say "It's too old, you wouldn't recognize it," not your game choice (or lack of thereof).
But do play Gray Matter, it's brilliant.
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| 3 MAR 2011 at 8:08pm |
karlaAdministrator
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Status : Offline | One of the games this over-40 person has played is The Void. I wouldn't say it's scary, exactly; I think unnerving is a better word for it. And bizarre. And disgusting. And creepy. And repulsive. It's also quite beautiful in spots.
The Void does have some "gotcha" scares, though. Let's see...predators can jump up out of the ground and right into your face without warning, and other predators wait at chamber portals so the very second you appear, they're (yep) right in your face. You never know when stuff like this is going to happen.
The Void also boasts, among other things, an enormous worm that roars through underground tunnels like a freight train (somehow, I ended up *inside* of this thing once but I didn't die; it was a thoroughly bizarre experience); another big creature that looks something like a deformed whale; and yet another creature that hangs down from tree branches and resembles a gigantic beetle.
The bosses in the game (The Brothers) are just about impossible to describe; words simply don't do them justice. You really need to see them in person. I'm posting a picture of Tyrant (my favorite) just before I fought him. He rolls around, babbles lofty-sounding nonsense, spins in place and throws acid.
The Void is one of the most imaginative, creative and genuinely disturbing games I've ever played. I seldom felt at ease with it. It's also stunningly difficult. I had to cheat my brains out to finish the thing, in fact. Now *that's* scary. :
[img]http://home1.gte.net/res0b8zk/VoidTyrantB4Challenge.jpg[/img]
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| 6 MAR 2011 at 11:07am |
semihSorcerer Apprentice
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Status : Online | The void is not an adventure game
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| 6 MAR 2011 at 1:12pm |
BrianSpace Cadet
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Status : Offline | ... This is also logic.
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| 6 MAR 2011 at 1:16pm |
karlaAdministrator
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Status : Offline | Originally Posted By panter (6 MAR 2011 11:07am)
The void is not an adventure game
In the case of The Void, I'd say it's definitely a matter of opinion.
Developer Ice-Pick Lodge calls it a survival adventure game.
Bitgamer refers to it as a first-person adventure resource management game.
Similarly, JA's review has it in the resource management adventure category.
Resolution Magazine reflects the genre as action-adventure.
On Steam, it's also referred to as action-adventure.
To be fair, there are other websites that classify The Void as being something other than an adventure game. To me, it's more survival horror with adventure elements than anything else, but I feel The Void is a game that doesn't fit precisely into any one genre.
I think Electronic Theatre sums the game up rather neatly when it says:
"There is little in The Void that could easily be compared to your standard genre fare. While suggesting the title as a First-Person Adventure title might appropriately score its basic premise, it far from achieves the distinction The Void manages with its invention. At almost every turn there’s an unexpected event or task and often even a new dynamic that should, within traditional videogame convention, immediately break the suspension of disbelief through its awkward juxtaposition, and yet here it simply adds to the overarching feel of endless struggle."
As I've already mentioned, The Void is extremely difficult -- no matter what genre it is. I resisted using cheats for a long time, but no matter what strategy I tried, I ended up dying. I lost count of the number of times I started over.
Then I discovered that Ice-Pick Lodge had admitted they got a little carried away with the difficulty level and that several ways to cheat had been posted in The Void forum. From the parts I'd seen, I really wanted to experience the full game, so I swallowed my pride and went for 'em (I've never cheated like that before, but I didn't feel guilty about it, either).
Even then, it took quite awhile to finish. In fact, between my stumbling around, dying and starting over (and over and over), putting the game down in frustration several times and picking it back up with cheats in place, making my way through to the end took over a year. But I think it was worth it. It's an experience I'll never forget.
Just out of curiosity, semih, have you played The Void? If so, how would you classify it?
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| 6 MAR 2011 at 1:41pm |
TravellerGuild Master
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Status : Online | Originally Posted By breadbox (6 MAR 2011 1:12pm)
... This is also logic.
Heheh - good to see you have good memory, Brian.. 8-)
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“Despite my ghoulish reputation, I really have the heart of a small boy. I keep it in a jar on my desk.” - Robert Bloch
"They are not reciprocally sublated--the one does not sublate the other externally--but each sublates itself in itself and is in its own self the opposite of itself" (Hegel, from The Doctrine of Being)..."
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| 6 MAR 2011 at 3:39pm |
semihSorcerer Apprentice
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Status : Online | Originally Posted By karla (6 MAR 2011 1:15pm)
Originally Posted By panter (6 MAR 2011 11:07am)
The void is not an adventure game
In the case of The Void, I'd say it's definitely a matter of opinion.
Developer Ice-Pick Lodge calls it a survival adventure game.
Bitgamer refers to it as a first-person adventure resource management game.
Similarly, JA's review has it in the resource management adventure category.
Resolution Magazine reflects the genre as action-adventure.
On Steam, it's also referred to as action-adventure.
To be fair, there are other websites that classify The Void as being something other than an adventure game. To me, it's more survival horror with adventure elements than anything else, but I feel The Void is a game that doesn't fit precisely into any one genre.
I think Electronic Theatre sums the game up rather neatly when it says:
"There is little in The Void that could easily be compared to your standard genre fare. While suggesting the title as a First-Person Adventure title might appropriately score its basic premise, it far from achieves the distinction The Void manages with its invention. At almost every turn there’s an unexpected event or task and often even a new dynamic that should, within traditional videogame convention, immediately break the suspension of disbelief through its awkward juxtaposition, and yet here it simply adds to the overarching feel of endless struggle."
As I've already mentioned, The Void is extremely difficult -- no matter what genre it is. I resisted using cheats for a long time, but no matter what strategy I tried, I ended up dying. I lost count of the number of times I started over.
Then I discovered that Ice-Pick Lodge had admitted they got a little carried away with the difficulty level and that several ways to cheat had been posted in The Void forum. From the parts I'd seen, I really wanted to experience the full game, so I swallowed my pride and went for 'em (I've never cheated like that before, but I didn't feel guilty about it, either).
Even then, it took quite awhile to finish. In fact, between my stumbling around, dying and starting over (and over and over), putting the game down in frustration several times and picking it back up with cheats in place, making my way through to the end took over a year. But I think it was worth it. It's an experience I'll never forget.
Just out of curiosity, semih, have you played The Void? If so, how would you classify it?
I didn't play it. But I watched it.
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=l_nnl5JS0cI
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| 18 MAR 2011 at 6:37pm |
ZanderatIntergalactic Janitor
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Status : Offline | Hmm.
Agree about that furnace in Scratches.....
Although, I give the edge to Amnesia....not any one scene, it's the whole damn game that gave me the willies....
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| 19 MAR 2011 at 6:54pm |
tincup2Journeyman
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Status : Offline | The first trip to the basement in Scratches was almost Psycho-like, and the furnace scene was pretty scary too...
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| 30 MAR 2011 at 10:51pm |
eaglesIntergalactic Janitor
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Status : Online | the void circle rock monster isnt that scary. I've seen one of those things working at arby's before... best damn fry cook ever.
scratches indian mask made me jump.. in a game like that you dont expect anything to move at all.. just stationary photos.. so when something movies !!ahh.. .. damn.
also the agres picture in the cat house in the lost crown.. more creepy... than anything
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| 31 MAR 2011 at 3:36am |
karlaAdministrator
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Status : Offline | Originally Posted By eagles (30 MAR 2011 10:50pm)
the void circle rock monster isnt that scary. I've seen one of those things working at arby's before... best damn fry cook ever.
[smiley=rofl.gif] [smiley=rofl.gif] [smiley=rofl.gif]
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| 31 MAR 2011 at 4:25pm |
tincup2Journeyman
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Status : Offline | scratches indian mask made me jump..
same here!
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