Adventure gaming is actually slowly but surely climbing its way out of the stink-pit. We have psuedo adventure games like Beyond Good & Evil and Sam & Max has been acquired from Lucas, to be given a lovely treat.
Truth be told, though, I was always too young for adventure games until recently. The problem I see with them is simply that it gets incredibly frustrating at times. Some of them are well-done and only require you to stop and think logically or explore for a little bit (Grim Fandangom, Beneath A Steel Sky), but most of the ones I've tried have been pretty much crappy "think like the developers did" games, or even worse, they become enormous pixel-hunts, clicking everything on everything. One of the old ones I've been enjoying lately is I Have No Mouth And I Must Scream, which is based off a short story or something similar. Rather interesting, dealing with the redemption of five people who have been kept alive and tortured by a supercomputer who managed to annihilate pretty much the whole world.
And going on your subject of Second Life, I'm honestly a tad drawn. On one hand, I love making crap in it, and some things that have been made in it are awesome (go look at the giant Metroid-themed goon land plot, for example), but I pretty much hate most of the furries on it, for mixed reasons. Beyond the fact that they pretty much have the collective intelligence of an ostrich who's been guzzling drain cleaner, it just sort of irks me that, given the nearly infinite possibilities of Second Life, that with all the available talent, manpower, and money, that there isn't something huge and grand within SL, and it pisses me off to see them, instead of spending their time trying to do something totally awesome like, say, make an online graphical adventure game that's reguarly updated, they spend their time modeling realistic badger cocks and mashing the "Report" button whenever anything goes wrong in their fifth cyber-yiffing session in the past eight hours.
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Date: 2005-10-05 01:48 (UTC)Truth be told, though, I was always too young for adventure games until recently. The problem I see with them is simply that it gets incredibly frustrating at times. Some of them are well-done and only require you to stop and think logically or explore for a little bit (Grim Fandangom, Beneath A Steel Sky), but most of the ones I've tried have been pretty much crappy "think like the developers did" games, or even worse, they become enormous pixel-hunts, clicking everything on everything. One of the old ones I've been enjoying lately is I Have No Mouth And I Must Scream, which is based off a short story or something similar. Rather interesting, dealing with the redemption of five people who have been kept alive and tortured by a supercomputer who managed to annihilate pretty much the whole world.
And going on your subject of Second Life, I'm honestly a tad drawn. On one hand, I love making crap in it, and some things that have been made in it are awesome (go look at the giant Metroid-themed goon land plot, for example), but I pretty much hate most of the furries on it, for mixed reasons. Beyond the fact that they pretty much have the collective intelligence of an ostrich who's been guzzling drain cleaner, it just sort of irks me that, given the nearly infinite possibilities of Second Life, that with all the available talent, manpower, and money, that there isn't something huge and grand within SL, and it pisses me off to see them, instead of spending their time trying to do something totally awesome like, say, make an online graphical adventure game that's reguarly updated, they spend their time modeling realistic badger cocks and mashing the "Report" button whenever anything goes wrong in their fifth cyber-yiffing session in the past eight hours.
But then again, I'm unnaturally bitter.