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Ariel Type · 08-14-2009, 12:22 PM

I love adventures, love hard puzzles and play most of the games released nowdays, but I still think they are rubbish and not worth of the genre. That's simply because adventure developers lost their imagination somewhere. And money has nothing to do with it. Boaks still makes great low-budget games.
But most of the so-called modern adventure developers are not only untalented in many ways - they seem to know nothing about the genre itself. For example, the developers of Dead Mounteneer's Hotel might've only played Syberia. Once. In a work break. You can write hundreds of paragraphs on how detailed the graphics is, there's still nothing for adventure gamer there. Nor for the fans of Strugacki brothers, if there are any. EP not only unable to think of something for their own - they managed to ruin the book. And that 's typical for 90% of developers.
So, adventure games are dead. Not completely, but the situation in late 90th was far better than nowdays, even if there were 10 or so games per year.

08-14-2009, 12:22 PM	#11
Ariel Type LA-S-LE Join Date: Sep 2003 Location: Snow Country Posts: 549	I love adventures, love hard puzzles and play most of the games released nowdays, but I still think they are rubbish and not worth of the genre. That's simply because adventure developers lost their imagination somewhere. And money has nothing to do with it. Boaks still makes great low-budget games. But most of the so-called modern adventure developers are not only untalented in many ways - they seem to know nothing about the genre itself. For example, the developers of Dead Mounteneer's Hotel might've only played Syberia. Once. In a work break. You can write hundreds of paragraphs on how detailed the graphics is, there's still nothing for adventure gamer there. Nor for the fans of Strugacki brothers, if there are any. EP not only unable to think of something for their own - they managed to ruin the book. And that 's typical for 90% of developers. So, adventure games are dead. Not completely, but the situation in late 90th was far better than nowdays, even if there were 10 or so games per year.