[Heccubus]

I'm going to talk about why adventure games are dumb.

THANK YOU. They're entertaining and all, but god...I'm so sick of people blubbering over them. And not just yours, adventure games in general.

[Chefelf]

I was just going to start this topic and I would have beat you to it if it weren't for my DAMN JOB!

I kinda miss Adventure games. Yahtzee's article, of course, refers specifically to the "Point and Click" sort. Adventure games have sorta taken on a new meaning (on consoles anwyay) to be more like Zelda or Beyond Good & Evil.

Sierra games, while they dominated my pre-teen years, kinda pissed me off. In the LucasArts variety you were usually pretty safe to explore your world and all you had to do was solve puzzles. In the Sierra variety you had to save before and after every action you performed. If you wanted to drink something there was a 75% chance it would be poison and then you'd see Ken William's shit-eating grin appear on the screen saying something like: "Hey, dummy! Do you always go around drinking soda that's poisoned? Better luck next time, chump!"

Bastard.

[Heccubus]

You've been calling a lot of people "bastards" lately...

I was referring specifically to the ones in Yahtzee's article, of course, but most any genre of game that I can think of is starting to get boring. Aside from rythm action, of course. I love those things.

[Chefelf]

was referring specifically to the ones in Yahtzee's article, of course, but most any genre of game that I can think of is starting to get boring. Aside from rythm action, of course. I love those things.

As was I. I just went off on a tangent as I am wont to do.

[Mist]

I love text-based adventure games.

"Look"
THERE IS A HOUSE ON A HILL IN FRONT OF YOU
"Go to the house"
WHAT IS HOUSE?
"Go to the building"
WHICH ONE?
"Go forward to the building."
YOU RUN FORWARD INTO A WALL BETWEEN YOU AND THE HOUSE. YOU'RE NOT THE BRIGHTEST OF GAMERS, ARE YOU?

>_<

And yet, I still love them.

With the text-based with graphic games, as chyld already mentioned, the saving did get old after a while. Especially when it wasn't even a choice you'd make, but rather a feat of dexterity. Traversing between poisoned thorns in a space that looks big enough for the character if the top of his head wasn't apparently scraping the ground to bump into something that, in real life, would be behind him, but in the game is on top of him. That may or may not make any sense, but it was something that always frustrated me about the older games. Especially since the responsiveness of the character was that of a dead camel locked in a steel box (which DOES make a difference).

[Chyld]

With the text-based with graphic games, as chyld already mentioned, the saving did get old after a while.

Chyld didn't comment! Chefelf did! Ones a Chef Elf, the other's a Stoner Dwarf...

[Mist]

Sorry. Sorry. I'm so used to seeing only one Ch* name, I automatically assume it's you, Chyld.

*hugs to Chefelf and the stoner dwarf*

[Chyld]

*responds in kind*

While I'm here, does anyone remember the Hugo games? They were just fun.

[Mist]

I do. I still have all those games. There were other fun ones too, but I need to find my old 5 1/4 inch floppy disk drive before I can play any of them. Yes. Back in the good old days. I hated the flipping elephant in the jungle one. It pissed me off because I could never type fast enough to shoot it with the tranquilizer or whatever you were supposed to do with it.

This post has been edited by Mist: 14 May 2004 - 12:56 PM

[Chyld]

I got totally stuck on the bit in Hugo 2 where Penelope had to cross the river without dropping the matches. I never got anywhere near the end of that game...

[Heccubus]

I remember them. I still can't forget Penelope's horrd accident with the enormous spider in #3.

[Chyld]

And what about the stupid guy in the riddles? Did he specifically follow Hugo and Penelope round in order to answer trivallous questions?

[Heccubus]

I figured he was just a jerk.