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Old 04-30-2009, 03:47 PM   #7
imisssunwell
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Originally Posted by darthmaul View Post
If dead is 10-13 good to great games a year, then dead be it.

Dreamfall makes it not dead? It isn't even a game.. the GAME part was taken out! Please.. NO more "games" like dreamfall. If that is the future of adventures, I want no part in it!

Also, a copy and paste from another forum of good games since 2000:

Barrow Hill : 2006
Dark Fall : 2002
The Lost Crown : 2008
Diamonds in the Rough : 2008
TLJ : 2000
Myst 3 : 2001
Still Life : 2005
Return Mysterious Island :2004
Secrets of the Da Vinci : 2003
2 Last halfof darkness : 1989 & 2000
Black Mirror : 2003
Dark Fall 2(2004)
Sam and Max series(2007-2008)
RHEM 1-3(up to 2007)
Syberia 1-2(to 2004)
Blackwell series(2006-2008)
ECC(2009)
Runaway 1-2
Myst 4-5(to 2005)
Bad Mojo
Tony Tough
Agon 1-4
Voyage(2005)
Overclocked(2008)
Perry Rhodan(2008)
So Blonde(2008)
Nostradamus(2007)
Ceville(2009)
Culpa Innata(2007)
Moment of Silence
Vampyre Story(2008)
Schizm 1-2(2001-2003)
Overclocked
I can't agree on Dreamfall, I think its a really great game. I am not saying that there are no good adventure games anymore, but 10-13 per year sounds abit stretched imho.

Not too many of these games had high score reviews overall. I haven't played all of them but for some of them that I did, I ended up agreeing with the reviewers. I did really enjoy a couple of games present in that list but again these had received high score reviews from many sources.

It is not my intention to say which ones I didnt find fun to play, as this would degenerate the thread into opinions which is the worst/best game and possibly end up as a flame thread. However, I dont think a single source is enough to quantify how many of them were found appealing and how many weren't, very few games received high score reviews from many sources.

Of course having fun with a game or not is a matter of personal taste and I am not trying to argue if some people may find them fun or not. In most cases average lower review scores generally reflect lower acceptance by gamers and somewhat lower standards than most gamers expect (out of 20+ gaming years I have found reviews to be harsh only a couple of times). I dont think that many games from that list would be sufficiently calibrated to turn the tables for adventure gaming like e.g. Baldur's gate and Diablo did for the rpg genre, which was in decline after the last SSI games.
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