10-12-2008, 07:29 AM | #1 |
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What became of the adventure game
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10-12-2008, 09:28 AM | #3 |
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I totally refuse to comment.
Misinformation aplenty. Trash-bin material.
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10-12-2008, 10:41 AM | #4 |
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but... you just did?
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10-12-2008, 11:06 AM | #5 |
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Also obviously a LucasArts fan.
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10-12-2008, 11:57 AM | #6 |
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I know. Sorry. Sometimes it's hard to contain.
I know.
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10-12-2008, 08:19 PM | #7 |
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Here we go again....
Also, collector, yes he seems like a lucas arts fan (as most adventure gamers), what's wrong with that?
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10-12-2008, 08:46 PM | #8 |
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Nothing, I like the Lucas Arts games, too. I'm not going to get into a flame war. It just explains something about his tone about the Sierra games.
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Didn't notice anything bad about his tone about sierra games to be honest...Seems to me he liked them too.
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10-12-2008, 11:48 PM | #11 |
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I would say a junior High school level essay that would appropriately recieve a C+ for effort and an F for accuracy and value of content. Sigh.
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F for accuracy is somehow a good rank, compared to the severe misinformation of the article!
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10-13-2008, 07:53 AM | #13 |
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Really, I just read it 'diagonally'. I saw Lucasarts Lucasarts Lucasarts, one mention of Sierra and I thought: "OK, misinformed, not worth reading for real," and dismissed it.
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10-13-2008, 08:10 AM | #14 |
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so the golden years are behind us. fans of every genre you can put a name on is saying the same thing each and everyday. for every gem in a genre these writers don't seem to want to point out the dogs that are turning people off. not every fps is/was doom or halflife.
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Anyway, when mentioning your beloved GK 3, I believe the author was merely stating that the conversion to 3D has hurt the game, not that the game itself was bad in all aspects. Quote:
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10-13-2008, 12:51 PM | #16 |
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3D wrecked the adventure game in my opinion.
Not every other genre going to 3D - but adventure games trying to follow. I had high hopes for So Blonde but they appear to have made a mess of the install so i'm sending the damn thing back and just buying fifa 09 instead! |
10-13-2008, 02:12 PM | #17 | |
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Oh, and I don't think that me, or Collector, or Tsa were referring to actual number of times of each mention.
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10-13-2008, 03:45 PM | #18 | |
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One might make a case that Phantasmagoria was the first CD-only game ported to PC and not MYST. But MYST was a CD-only game only avaiable on Mac's 18 months earlier. It's a factual quibble. One can certainly argue the statement that Sierra regretted releasing GK3, but that's an argument of opinion rather than an argument of fact. The author may, in fact, be right. If one looks at the gnashing of teeth in another thread regarding Vivendi pulling the plug on the GK support forums, one might easily hear someone at Vivendi saying, "If we hadn't released that game, (GK3,) we could have been out of this business, and never had to look back!" Almost fifteen years after the original Sierra sale people are still clamoring for more of what came before, only better. (Thus the fan games.) If this was truly a Jr High School essay assignment, I would rate it an A and not an A+ because of some typos. An A- on facts, only because of the Phantasmagoria question. And certainly an A based on background being given by two of the big guys that were around at the time, Al Lowe and Ron Gilbert. That said, if this was a High School essay, or above, I might give it a C+. Al Lowe and Ron Gilbert do not define the adventure industry. There should have been more investigation. Where are the quotes from Ken and Roberta?
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Nahhh....you're better off with PES2009....fifa sucks!
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