I Am A Dumb Sucker
February 23rd, 2009I desperately want the genre of “adventure games” to have a comeback. Even though I knew it was going to be disappointing, I downloaded and PAID MONEY for this, mostly symbolically so someone will see that it made money and say “Let’s bring back adventure games.”
I finished it in less than two hours. And a lot of the backgrounds got messed up and were all artifacty.
I think I should be more discriminating and campaign for a return to good adventure games.
February 23rd, 2009 at 3:50 pm
Just wondering – have you tried the Sam & Max “episodes” that Telltale Games has been cranking out lately? They’re a bit short – probably longer than Emerald City Confidential took you – but there’s 11 of them at present, and the writing and gameplay is pretty good. Certainly took me back to the days when Lucasarts was cranking out the good stuff.
(Windows or Wii only, admittedly.)
February 23rd, 2009 at 4:35 pm
I’ve seen the site, but I’m Mac-only.
February 24th, 2009 at 5:39 pm
There’s a program for Mac called “Crossover Games” that you can use to play normally Windows-only stuff on Mac, though the performance is a little choppy. I actually haven’t tried the Sam and Max stuff on my MacBook Pro yet—they’re not really all that graphics-intensive. I’ll test it out and get back to you.
Apparently the same company makes other episodic adventure games, but I haven’t tried any of those yet.
February 26th, 2009 at 6:16 am
It would be cool if you wrote one of these adventure games.
February 26th, 2009 at 11:31 am
I have been wanting to try out Dangerous High School Girls in Trouble. It looks like it has a lot of RPG influences (skill checks, etc.), but still a lot of exploring. I have loved Professor Layton and the Phoenix Wright games on my Nintendo DS. DIG IT!
February 26th, 2009 at 5:16 pm
The art is really inconsistent in “Dangerous High School Girls in Trouble”—some of the character designs look like they were doodled in the notebook of a middlingly talented high school student.
I played the demo for a couple hours and found it mildly diverting, but not really very interesting in terms of puzzles or stories despite the unusual setting (1920s Girls Reformatory School)
February 28th, 2009 at 6:13 am
There’s a site called Big Blue Cup with a fanmade program called Adventure Game Studio, that allows people with a lot of time to spare to create their own adventure games. I admit I tried it about 4 years ago, doing a test “room” and conversation. Dialogue writing was fun. Lots of people are doing retro adventure games over there. Nothing amazing, but nice for fan efforts.
Wish the big guys would give us some new Monkey Island type classics.