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Originally Posted by imisssunwell
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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All of these games scores 3/5 or higher from adventure gamers and B-A on the other sites... so I'm not sure what you mean by average low reviews.
I never said they would "turn the tables" for adventures, just that they are good to great games for adventure gamers. The genre will never "turn the table" because most people do not like using their mind, period, let alone in their downtime(free) hours. It won't happen. You can change the genre all you want, but it'll never get mass appeal.
Just like how Battlestar Galactica, Firefly, Farscape, and DS9 will never get mass appeal. It doesn't matter how good the writing of a sci fi show is, people would rather watch something familiar, brainless, or one of the 3 million police investigation shows.
