08-21-2005, 01:46 PM | #1 |
Can I get a what...what!?
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Vampyre Story Screenshot
Man that last screenshot from Vampyre Story has me excited. The artistic direction reminds me of Nightmare Before Christmas.
I was looking at the background, and the town architecture reminded me of the town in Curse of Monkey island. Definately my most anticipated upcoming adventure game!
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Ah, The Nightmare before Christmas, my favorite film of all time.
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Now there would be a good adventure game adaptation - i could imagine a shitty platformer coming out of it, but all the different environments. Building christmas, and then the girls trying to sabotage jack's plans... mmmm... so many opportunities for contextual, environmental puzzles.
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(1) They are games from the same developer which gave us masterpieces like TLJ and Nomad Soul; (2) They have been in development for years, and they are finally going to the market soon. Very soon. (3) The release dates, being ever so close, also spur up more marketing effort to hype them up with trailers and demo released. Thus, they are definitely much more hyped up in relation to the development in progress Runaway 2 and Vampyre Story. Vampyre Story may however take the rightful space at #1, when these spot-hoggers are released, and when the developer finally find a publisher. Actually, I'm more excited with Bone than anything else, being Telltale Games first adventure and whatnot.
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As for Farenheit, it also doesn't seem to be a real adventure (and it's not surprising, since Omikron wasn't either) and even if it was, this new idea of a "TV series instead of a feature film" thing doesn't appeal to me at all. Adventure games SHOULD be like feature films, and not a serialized TV show. That covers Bone too. So I guess the only thing I agree with is the release date factor. And as for the rest of the Hype-o-Meter, I see that #3 is taken by another of Benoit Sokal's horrible attempts at an adventure game, and #4... oh no... not that one... I should stop here. This Hype-o-Meter is obviously an abomination to adventure gamers. |
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08-22-2005, 12:51 PM | #8 |
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Not another "purist/traditional" adventure gamer.
Look, the only new thing to adventure games is the words "pure and traditional", as "pure and traditional" didn't exist up until 1999/2000. Games like Sam and Max, Bad Mojo, Future Wars, Indiana Jones, Hero Quest and a billion others were neither "pure" or "traditional". Those two words are used as a reaction to the introduction of 3D via action games and the dissapation of the AG genre as it was known then back in 1999. They were coined by frustrated AG'ers who decided to define the genre into a really restrictive umbrella and be damned anyone who argued with them. As much as I like a good few of the non-action or direction control based point and clickers after this period, there was nothing "pure and traditional" about them. Don't get me started.
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Then games like Myst and Alone in the Dark started coming out (befre 1999, as you must know), and later, 3D action/adventures. Those weren't "the real thing" anymore. And they shouldn't dominate the Hype-o-Meter. A genre can evolve, but it can also CHANGE. And that's not good. |
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Everybody has a right to dislike "non-pure" adventures, however senseless that term is. But I think you did the biggest disservice to yourself and only yourself, Aurebesh, by having made up your mind about all those games long ago. Why not learning more about them: checking the previews, or the demo if it's already available, and then deciding they are not for you? You might be pleasantly surprised.
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But if you choose to be ignorant of the most exciting flood of adventure releases since the beginning of the century (IMO), your loss.
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But just for the record, this is a Hype-o-Meter, not a "List-Our-Favourite-Games-o-Meter". It's meant to demonstrate which games are causing the most buzz in the adventure community. If you honestly think Runaway 2 is generating a much hype as Dreamfall, or Vampyre Story as much as Indigo Prophecy, you can't be paying much attention. |
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