If this is your first visit, be sure to check out the
FAQ by clicking the link above. You may have to
register or
login before you can post: click the register link above to proceed. To start viewing messages, select the forum that you want to visit from the selection below.
| 27 JUL 2003 at 6:16am |
CarolineJA+ Overseer
Posts : 16540
Joined: 28 JAN 2007
Location: AU
Status : Offline | I'd like to make all game developers play Obsidian. It was a sublime game. It always crashed on my old pc when I changed discs until eventually it just wouldn't play. :'( I had to upgrade my pc for Exile anyway. Imagine my sheer delight when I loaded Obsidian and discovered that not only did it not crash, but that it ran better and looked better. When Daryl played it I loaded a save game and went back to the Spider. I just loved it when it moves and scoops you up into its mouth. Brilliant use of perspective. I got such a thrill out of the inventiveness and creativitiy of that whole joke. It took me a year to complete. I filled pages trying to crack the chemistry puzzle. The end game had me goggle eyed but I got there in the end. I loved every minute of it. Right up there with Riven and Timelapse in my mind. And to think I got it on a bargain table and only bought it because I had no game to play. HA! I spend ages looking for another such 'bargain'.
|
| 3 AUG 2003 at 7:25pm |
Dark ThursdayIntergalactic Janitor
Posts : 22
Joined: 5 JUL 2003
Status : Online | lol, nice little letter.
Currently Playing: bloody Traitors Gate&&&&Just finished: Syberia II
|
| 5 AUG 2003 at 2:39pm |
| Deleted User |
We adventure gamers are the biggest bunch of hair-triggered, provincial, neophobic, judgmental whiny babies since that huge group of southern American women who, sixty-five years ago, threatened to boycott the film of “Gone With the Wind” because David O. Selznick hired a Brit to play Scarlet O’Hara. |
LOL
|
| 6 AUG 2003 at 9:38pm |
| Deleted User | Originally Posted By Sir Funkenstein jr. (5 AUG 2003 2:39pm)
We adventure gamers are the biggest bunch of hair-triggered, provincial, neophobic, judgmental whiny babies since that huge group of southern American women who, sixty-five years ago, threatened to boycott the film of “Gone With the Wind” because David O. Selznick hired a Brit to play Scarlet O’Hara.
LOL I never new about this boycott. Interesting.
|
| 6 AUG 2003 at 10:00pm |
AnneGuild Master
Posts : 4800
Joined: 8 MAR 2003
Status : Online | But they banned booze.We might never have had `Guys and Dolls`
|
| 13 DEC 2003 at 5:28am |
jalexSchattenjger
Posts : 2503
Joined: 5 MAR 2003
Status : Offline | Well I think Ray missed the point slightly. There was some truth in what was said in that Quote. The problem was that if he would have kept some of the swaring out of it people might have payed more atention to the point he was trying to make. I am not agaist changes but a lot of these new games are changed so radicaly that they are no longer Adventure games or Action games either. I am afraid we are loosing some of the good things that belong in an adventure game in the process. It is now becomming a real job just to get through some on them and it's suposed to be fun and relaxing.
|
| 13 DEC 2003 at 7:40am |
jalexSchattenjger
Posts : 2503
Joined: 5 MAR 2003
Status : Offline | When I read letters like the one you quoted, I wonder what goes through their minds when they are proved wrong, for instance, when they finally see that George never weilds a gun in the whole game.
Steve,
You are missing one point. There are other things action game engines do besides shoot things that are not good for adventure games. I won't mention them as I am sure you know what they are.
|
| 13 DEC 2003 at 2:55pm |
| Deleted User | Originally Posted By jalex (13 DEC 2003 7:40am)
Steve,
You are missing one point. There are other things action game engines do besides shoot things that are not good for adventure games. I won't mention them as I am sure you know what they are.
Such as?
Have you actually played Broken Sword 3?
|
| 13 DEC 2003 at 5:07pm |
jujigatameSchattenjger
Posts : 1976
Joined: 14 FEB 2003
Status : Online | Ah, the joys of posting on a 4 month old post as if it had been started yesterday.
|
| 13 DEC 2003 at 6:39pm |
| Deleted User | Originally Posted By jujigatame (13 DEC 2003 5:07pm)
Ah, the joys of posting on a 4 month old post as if it had been started yesterday.
From our point of view, it's four months old. If jalex missed it the first time, it's new for him, and it's not his fault we're sick and tired of the thread.
|
| 14 DEC 2003 at 6:54am |
jalexSchattenjger
Posts : 2503
Joined: 5 MAR 2003
Status : Offline | Such as?
Have you actually played Broken Sword 3?
Flickflack
No, Have you?
I do have it ordered though. And I do know a lot about using Action game engines or keyboard control for adventure games as I used to write them for the Amiga.
|
| 14 DEC 2003 at 11:15am |
Lucien21Guild Master
Posts : 4876
Joined: 9 JUL 2003
Location: 0
Status : Offline | Originally Posted By jalex (14 DEC 2003 6:54am)
Flickflack
No, Have you?
I do have it ordered though. And I do know a lot about using Action game engines or keyboard control for adventure games as I used to write them for the Amiga.
I really wish people would stop with the 3D engine=action crap. BS3 is pure adventure that happens to use a different interface. Whether you like the interface or not is your own personal preferences, but don't dismiss it as an action game just because you can't move the character around. Pandora Directive one of my favourite games was direct control and it's held up as one of the best adventures created.
Grim Fandango uses an identical control system and it is superb.
It's just a different way of presenting adventures.
Rays article was spot on and makes for fantastic reading.
Dear Diary, My teenage angst bullsh*t now has a bodycount.
|
| 15 DEC 2003 at 1:47am |
| Deleted User | Originally Posted By jalex (14 DEC 2003 6:54am)
Flickflack
No, Have you?
I do have it ordered though. And I do know a lot about using Action game engines or keyboard control for adventure games as I used to write them for the Amiga.
I haven't, so I'm not going to make blanket statements about it.
My only point is that you shouldn't prejudge it based on the interface. Also, my name is not Flickflack.
|
| 15 DEC 2003 at 7:54am |
| Deleted User | Sneeze! Atttchoo!!! Something is getting up my nose
|
| 16 DEC 2003 at 11:21pm |
DJ SouzaJourneyman
Posts : 1452
Joined: 19 OCT 2002
Status : Online | Gesundheit!
[center]DIEGO J. SOUZA&&Consulting Detective for Hire[img]http://www.justadventure.com/public_html/YaBBImages/smilies//detective.gif[/img]&&&&[img]http://img78.photobucket.com/albums/v249/Fairygdmther/Avatars/A-G-E-S_SIG.jpg[/img][/center]
|
| 16 DEC 2003 at 11:35pm |
DJ SouzaJourneyman
Posts : 1452
Joined: 19 OCT 2002
Status : Online | Originally Posted By Fickfack (15 DEC 2003 1:47am)
My only point is that you shouldn't prejudge it based on the interface. Exactly! Just because the interface is direct control does not mean a game will be an action game.
Remember that there was a time when computers didnt have a mouse at all!
Some examples of direct control adventures: Kings Quest 1-4, Space Quest 1-3, Quest for Glory 1-2, Leisure Suit Larry 1-3. And we cant forget more recent games like Grim Fandango and Monkey Island 4.
Some adventures that combine direct control with mouse control: GK3, Amazon: Guardians of Eden, Tex Murphy series.
[center]DIEGO J. SOUZA&&Consulting Detective for Hire[img]http://www.justadventure.com/public_html/YaBBImages/smilies//detective.gif[/img]&&&&[img]http://img78.photobucket.com/albums/v249/Fairygdmther/Avatars/A-G-E-S_SIG.jpg[/img][/center]
|
