[Wormsie]

At JA+ the land of Mordor, there is an article about "The State of Adventure Gaming The Middle Earth". Read it here, and find out how Randy Sauron completely... well, I can't even describe it... ROTLFLOF, anyway.

Originally Posted by JA+

CGM - What do you think killed adventure games?

Originally Posted by JA+

Tim’s response (and as you will read, he takes it at face value that adventure games are dead):

“Well, really, I would say graphics killed adventure games. The second we switched from text to graphic adventures, their days were numbered. When you’re playing a text adventure game, the most amazing worlds and actions are possible, because the budget is always the same. Doesn’t matter what the worlds are. But as soon as you have graphics, then they have to get better and better until it’s just not economically possible to do it anymore."


But, if you would like to respond to Tim’s comments, his email address at Doublefine – as provided in the CGM article – is [email protected]. Maybe the developers of the upcoming Dreamfall, Myst V, Still Life, Lost Paradise, Keepsake, Martin Mystere, Around the World in 80 Days, Nancy Drew & The Secret of the Old Clock, Runaway 2, Tony Tough in a Rake’s Progress, Agon, Agatha Christie’s And Then There Were None, Vampyre Story, Delaware St. John and others would like to write Tim and commiserate over the death of the genre.

[Intrepid Homoludens]

Why did you put this thread in Chit Chat?

[Wormsie]

For it to draw less attention.

[Intrepid Homoludens]

WHAT? I wanna move it, you spineless wimp!! We haven't had a good riling up in the Adventure forum for a while!

[Wormsie]

Originally Posted by Intrepid Homoludens

WHAT? I wanna move it, you spineless wimp!! We haven't had a good riling up in the Adventure forum for a while!

But this is SACRILEGIOUS! It is BASHING!

Go ahead and move it. Feel free to change the title to something more suitable and less cryptic.

[Intrepid Homoludens]

Dont' worry. I will take ALL the bashing and panning for you, hon.

{{{{Wormstud}}}}


(notice the very protective spiked hug)

[Maquisard]

Ok, so when the thread is moved, this entirely useless chit chat post will count for something? Yipeee!

[Intrepid Homoludens]

Don't get any ideas, hon.

[fov]

Originally Posted by Intrepid Homoludens

{{{{Wormstud}}}}


(notice the very protective spiked hug)

Kinda looks like he's being hugged by four bare-chested ladies, actually.

[Intrepid Homoludens]

Oh great. He'll truly appreciate that, then.

[Jake]

For a bit of further hilarity, check out the little "lets get the flame rolling" troll post Randy started anonymously over at LucasForums (yoyoman is Randy).

I enjoy the fact that Randy is basically a 100% rabble-rousing gossip-columney yellow journalist. It actually does spice things up a bit. The fact that he attempts these comedic smear campaigns under the banner of professionalism mars its awesomeness slightly, but on the whole, it's pretty entertaining.

[Wormsie]

Metallus said it best:

Originally Posted by Metallus

JA+ Sucks. Please don't e-mail Tim Schafer if you're mad about the genre not doing so well lately. He'll probably tell you to buy Psychonauts if he responds at all. And really, you should.

[Intrepid Homoludens]

LOL!! Wormsie, behave. I'm keeping an eye on this thread to make sure it doesn't resort to another site vs. site debauchery.

[Jackal]

All right, all right... I agree the article is way over the top, and intentionally misses Schafer's point, but let's get down to discussing the ideas, not hammering the author or site. JA has its own forums if you want to do that.

[Intrepid Homoludens]

LOL!! You are baaaaaaad little doggie.

*ahem*

Anyway, I do agree with Tim in many ways. The adventure genre HAD ITS CHANCE to take advantage of progression and improvements to gameplay and everything else, and it blew it.

Originally Posted by Intrepid Homoludens

Anyway, I do agree with Tim in many ways. The adventure genre HAD ITS CHANCE to take advantage of progression and improvements to gameplay and everything else, and it blew it.

I'm not convinced that Tim Schafer and your are talking about the same thing.

(No, no, I'm not going to start anything. It just wanted to be said.)

[Maquisard]

Why do I get the impression that Trep is about to bash someone's head in with a golf club each time I see his posts?

[Jake]

Originally Posted by Fienepien

I'm not convinced that Tim Schafer and your are talking about the same thing.

Agreed.

[Intrepid Homoludens]

Then could you please explain what he means?

[Jake]

Originally Posted by Jackal

JA has its own forums if you want to do that.

We can all go and yell at Schafer for his stupid completely off the mark statements! Doesn't he care about us, the adventure gamers, his true fans!?!

But if you follow his reasoning that graphics killed adventure games, then it only stands to reason that graphics will eventually kill all genres.

Publishers and consoles have marginalised adventure games to the state that they are in.

To quote kingzjester, "bah! yarbles!"