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Posted: Jul 20th 2009 10:02AM Snow Leopard said

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Bleh. I don't know why people enjoy this genre so much. There's nothing adventurous to me about point and clicking on objects in a room like its some magic school bus for cd-rom game from 1993.
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Posted: Jul 20th 2009 10:28AM MystileArmor said

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Kids like you are the reason we haven't had any good adventure games in so long. You lack the attentionspan to sit there for more then 5 minutes to figure out one puzzle. Have you ever played Secret of Monkey Island or Day Of The Tentacle? My guess is that if you've ever touched them at all, you gave up in 5 minutes cause you didn't know what the fuck to do.
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Posted: Jul 20th 2009 10:54AM (Unverified) said

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@MystileArmor

I know for me personally, Adventure games were fun somewhat. I was probably too young to enjoy them fully, but I had my share of the police quests and kings quests. (My favorite one being the Police Quest where it was mixed with live actors IV i think).

But the tech of the time doesn't seem to hold up. I played the first couple of new Sam & Max games. And although it brought back that fun for a while, I hated it because all you can do is run back and forth trying to click every little thing that you might have missed. The controls are just too counter intuitive to hold up to the control schemes today.

P.S. There are just my opionions and in no way factual or intelligent
P.P.S Just woke up.
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Posted: Jul 20th 2009 11:06AM MystileArmor said

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Ok, well I can respect that. I loved the new Sam & Max episodes. It just felt "right", atleast to me.

The Secret of Monkey Island took me a little bit to get used to, as far as the new control scheme went. But after 5 minutes of pressing the wrong buttons when I wanted to open my inventory, I got passed that.

I hope Sierra follows LucasArts example and releases some remakes of their great games. Police Quest was one of my favourites as well.
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Posted: Jul 20th 2009 11:46AM (Unverified) said

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I would cry tears of happyness if they made a modern day Police Quest. I think that is the game that I fell in love with the idea of the little details. Like having to drive to work go to the locker room and change, get your keys and go to the meeting room. Then you get to drive around town and pull people over. Get to go to crime scenes and do all the proper things.

Damn it the nostalgia hit.
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Posted: Jul 20th 2009 10:09AM Quark said

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Bleh. I don't know why people enjoy first-person shooters that much. There's nothing adventurous to me about pointing and shooting at objects in a world like it was fun to pull a trigger.

See what I did there? It's all about STORIES, and most shooters are really bad at them. Still - people buy them. Why?
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Posted: Jul 20th 2009 10:10AM Nook said

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noone of this is quenching my thirst for some ShadowGate action.

wth happened with that IP? i even enjoyed the four towers on n64 as the FIRST fpa adventure on a n system. (sorry samus, you weren't first...sloppy seconds FTW!)

and to further hijack.....shadowgate would work really really well on wii. come on, you know it's TRUE!!!!

well, i'm outta gas to really take this anywhere else.
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Posted: Jul 20th 2009 1:31PM Jrinswand said

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No. Shadowgate 64 was not the first first-person adventure game on a Nintendo console. The infinitely superior Shadowgate came out for the NES in 1989.

The NES also saw the release of the similarly awesome Déjà Vu.

To my knowledge, there weren't any FPA games on the SNES.
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Posted: Jul 20th 2009 4:23PM Nook said

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true, true - but being on the original you didn't move your character around and instead used your command options to navigate puts it out of FPA in the manner I am referring to it as, FPS...now I'm getting lost, but you know what I mean, eh?

I'd love to play either one again, would really love a new one or a remake.
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Posted: Jul 20th 2009 10:14AM GeorgeMcBain said

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Awesome, more good adventure games! This year has been great so far, hope it keeps going.
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Posted: Jul 20th 2009 10:38AM (Unverified) said

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I for one am doing my part, buying up the quality adventure games that have come out. All the Telltale games, the new SE of Monkey Island. Time, Gentleman Please. This is great - I hope Brutal Legend does well enough for Schafer to do a new old-school style adventure game.
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Posted: Jul 20th 2009 1:32PM Jrinswand said

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I doubt he'd want to. Tim Schafer has never really been one to rest on his laurels.
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Posted: Jul 20th 2009 12:47PM Courtney said

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The pentagram-cut pizza is fantastic! Sadly, given all the other adventure games I intend on playing, I don't know if this one will make the cut.
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Posted: Jul 20th 2009 3:08PM Author X said

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I like the idea and all, but the graphics... just look terrible. I don't like the style, and the way it's shaded is horrible.

Of course, it doesn't really matter since, judging by the trailer, it looks more like a Freddi Fish than a Monkey Island. Nothing wrong with that in and of itself, but it's far out of my range of interest, and I'm far out of its demographic.
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Posted: Jul 20th 2009 10:18PM freaparn said

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Yikes. That narrator, those production values... this smacks of edutainment software, not adventure gaming.
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Posted: Jul 21st 2009 11:02PM New Waster said

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Well, there it is. The Adventure Game genre is dead again.
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