[simpson_yellow]

I just picked up a copy of PC Powerplay from my local newsagent, mainly because it was running a major feature on F.E.A.R. I'm pretty sure it's an Australia-only mag but it has a very big circulation here.

Anyway, I get it home and out of its cellophane cover to find:

1. a two page feature on Myst V which included the phrase "we can hardly wait"; and
2. a four page retrospective on Beneath a Steel Sky!

The same magazine has also recently salivated over Fahrenheit, is highly anticipating Dreamfall, and even ran a column on A Vampyre Story a few months back.

I guess I'm just impressed / encouraged that such a mainstream publication (this is very much in the PC Gamer league as far as content goes) seems to be taking the genre on board with some enthusiasm of late.

Is this a developing trend with other publications or pretty much an isolated situation?

[Steve Ince]

Originally Posted by simpson_yellow

a four page retrospective on Beneath a Steel Sky!

That's really cool.

[Maquisard]

Hmmm....fascinating.

[Shodan]

Originally Posted by simpson_yellow

a four page retrospective on Beneath a Steel Sky!

EEEEEEEEEEEEEE!!!!!!! (That's a squeal of joy.)

Thanks for bringing attention to this, dude - I'm so hitting up the local newsagent this Monday.

[Jazhara7]

Originally Posted by simpson_yellow

I just picked up a copy of PC Powerplay from my local newsagent, mainly because it was running a major feature on F.E.A.R. I'm pretty sure it's an Australia-only mag but it has a very big circulation here.

You mean this magazine?



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[RLacey]

Originally Posted by Jazhara7

You mean this magazine?



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I want the DVD that comes with that issue...

Oh for magazines that covermount full games in the UK .

[RLacey]

Incidentally, there used to be a magazine called CD Powerplay in the UK which, in those heady years before the internet was available from almost every home, used to covermount a huge number of demos. I only bring this up because they once dedicated an entire issue to adventure games. And you don't see that anymore .

[Filmman]

Adventure are the best I do not wqant tem to die Please

[simpson_yellow]

Originally Posted by Jazhara7

You mean this magazine?

Hmm, I suppose so. It's presented differently here and the title font is considerably different, although caps are in the same place so I'm guessing that's more than coincidence .

As RLacey said, that's a fine cover disc on your version.

So, is it at all Adventure friendly?

Originally Posted by Shodan

EEEEEEEEEEEEEE!!!!!!! (That's a squeal of joy.)

Ahhh,... still got it

[vazel]

there is still a good flow of adventure games. i never understood why people said adventure gaming was dead. sure the genre may not get as many games as the fps shooter but niche doesn't mean dead.

[Dannyyou]

Wouldnt it be cool if there was a full sized magazine about adventure games The inventory is ok, but a magizine with a demo disk and stuff that would be ausum

[Intrepid Homoludens]

Sounds like a great idea, but it could never happen. The worldwide demand isn't high enough.

[Animan]

Simpson, is that Myst article a preview? Is there anything new in it? Pics, perhaps? Info?

[AFGNCAAP]

"Fantastyka", a Polish mag devoted to (you'd never guess ) sci-fi and fantasy literature and - to a lesser extent - films, has just recently realised that there is another medium delving more than often into the fantastic - computer games. Perhaps to compensate for this omission, they made games the main theme of their latest issue. Amongst other things, it features the article called 7 masterpieces of scorned art: the best sci-fi and fantasy games ever, which lists:

I Have No Mouth and I Must Scream
Blade Runner
The Longest Journey
Fallout 1&2
Planescape: Torment
The Nomad Soul
Gabriel Knight 3

So I'd say, the adventures weren't exactly forgotten in this case either.

[NemelChelovek]

EEEEEEEEEEEEEE!!!!!!! (That's a squeal of joy.)

It's also the battle cry of the Crimson King, incidentally.

[Jazhara7]

Originally Posted by NemelChelovek

It's also the battle cry of the Crimson King, incidentally.

I prefer the battle cry: "Tasty Bananas!!!" from Fallout 2, though...'tis truly churns your enemies blood.

(I have a suspicion that Vic was the one who used that battle cry...you cannot trust those merchants.)


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[Intrepid Homoludens]

I swear, Jaz, from now on I should call you Lady Of The Seven Annoying Grins.




* Can you tell I'm a huge Jade Empire slut?

[simpson_yellow]

Originally Posted by Animan

Simpson, is that Myst article a preview? Is there anything new in it? Pics, perhaps? Info?

Yeah, it's a preview and I've seen all the screenshots before. There's an interview with Rand Miller, mostly about the trials and tribulations of the transition to real-time - nothing especially exciting.

There was a 15MB trailer on the cover disc which I hadn't seen before, although I assume it's done the rounds and I've just missed it previously. It mainly focuses on some guy with a beard scribbling symbols on a tablet before the tablet is taken from him by some weird creature. Shows some of the realtime weather effects. Does this sound familiar?

Oh, and by the way, I don't think the genre is dying. The thread title is kind of tongue in cheek.

[smashing]

Originally Posted by simpson_yellow

Oh, and by the way, I don't think the genre is dying. The thread title is kind of tongue in cheek.

Genre dying? Huh? Where did you hear that from in the first place?

[simpson_yellow]

I think gilly might've mentioned it.