At the risk of taking this further off-subject
, I think that one of the key "problems" that reviewers in traditional gaming magazines have with adventures stems from their love for all things multi-player. I read PC Gamer each month and multi-player takes up a greater part of it all the time. Games are routinely chastised for poor multi-player support even when the single player experience might be fantastic.
It's going to be very someone who's big love is for shooting someone up over the Internet to get into the pace of an adventure game.
OK, so who's going to produce the first cooperative adventure game!
Andy.