Many people automatically assume that a 1st-person adventure = Myst-like. But there were already 1st-person adventures before Myst, like Maupiti Island, Fascination, Heart of China, AD 2044. I could make a long list of 1st-person games with dialogues, inventory puzzles, strong stories, protagonists with a name, a face, a voice and a character. Some became real classics, like the last 3 Tex Murphy games and the Journeyman series. And what about the Nancy Drew games, Black Dahlia, The Last Express, the X Files, Dark Side of the Moon, Return to Mysterious Island, Dark Eye, and all the wonderful adventures by Legend Entertainment...
No humor? HA!
Off the top of my head: Callahan’s Crosstime Saloon, the Quivering, the Space Bar, GAG, Return to Zork and my beloved Zork Grand Inquisitor.
I count myself lucky because I love both perspectives.
