The disturbing trend to me is toward casual portal/drm based gaming.
Casual portal/drm based games. I don't support DRM and will leave that to another discussion. Developers that are well loved such as Tex Murphy's creators have gone over to the casual type games instead of traditional adventures that I personally want to play.
I love the Blackwell series, but I would not support DRM based Emerald City Confidential... up until it was $2.99 on Steam... for 3 bucks, I figure'd who cares. The "game" was barely a game. Find sparkling object in the room, talk using all threads, move on... constant bombardment of "quests" interrupting the flow of gameplay, telling you exactly what to do next. I deleted it after less than an hour. If that is the future of adventures, I want no part of it!
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