[After a brisk nap]

If you're sick of adventure games where you're always trying to save the world... I think you're playing the wrong adventures. For a game with an everyday objective, done in a humoristic style, how about No-Action Jackson? (Jackson, a geeky kid, tries to get his friends to come over to play an RPG with him.)

Something innovative: It would be interesting to do an adventure where your character is confined to his room (maybe in a hospital, maybe just suffering from agoraphobia), and his adventure mainly involves talking to people on the phone and doing research over the Internet.

I'm also curious about the potential of RTS/adventure game hybrids, where you would play as an officer in the military, and intersperse battles with interaction with your fellow officers, to gradually uncover the story and its secrets.