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Old 01-04-2008, 03:12 PM   #6
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Theseis looks like an adventure game designed for those of us who, for whatever reasons, prefer to not limit ourselves to typical conventions arbitrarily imposed on this genre. As it is games like this (Indigo Prophecy, Dreamfall, etc.) are the minority if you lump them under adventure game. We need more of these games to offer different choices, not everyone likes to hover their cursor over a flat picture looking for a single pixel hotspot or point & click to get a character from one end of the screen to the other.

That stated, I really hope Theseis will give us high quality, original gameplay that's inventive. One main problem devs and publishers seem to have with 'progressive' games is eventual complacency - they pimp the fact that it's in real time 3D etc. etc., but it turns out to be as conventional as, if not worse than, the assembly line, pre-fab point & clickers we've all seen before.
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