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Do you meet adventure gamers much in real life?..

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..and when you meet never-adventure-gamers how do you explain to them what are you playing, that is of course after they asking you?


my ex-ex job was in an in-door business-flat and as I was the owner my computer was always open on two things, time-reservations-cost-excel-sheet and an adventure game, but once a hear a door is opening, a close by footsteps or someone is coming near my desk and he/she is gonna see my adventure game/computer-screen i minimize the AG in an instant, exactly like a teenager hiding a porn movie/photo, exactly! i mean it.

in the beginning, i had the patience to explain and i ve been rewarded like 0.01 outta it; by meeting ppl/gamers who the word Monkey island clicked with them, but later at the time, i could not waste time explaining…. i knew had had a business to run and a sheet to fill, money to collect and reservations to also fill-in for the next reservations
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Funny this topic should come up just now. I chat a lot with my clients about my hobbies and occasionally mention I play computer adventure games. After a 5 minute explaination on how they are not ‘Grand Theft Auto’, very few are intrigued. But just last month one stopped me cold and said, you mean like the Myst games? Well, I was flabbergasted. Since then, I have introduced him to some of the newer games, and how to get the older ones online from GOG.

     
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Of all the people I have interacted with online over the 40-plus years I’ve been playing games, I’ve only had the opportunity to meet five or six of them in person.

I’ve also had the opportunity to talk on the telephone with another fifteen or twenty people. E.g. talking with Josh about an FPFP sequel.

And there’s another group of people who I interacted with on various gaming venues who are no longer active gamers, but, because of other mutual interests, e.g. pets, I still am in contact with on other social media. They probably number somewhere in the teens.

I think I answered the question I think you are asking. If not, feel free to disregard.

     

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I realized I answered the topic headline, but not Advie’s actual question of explaining an Adventure game.
I say it is non violent, no killing, no sneaking around ......... sort of like visiting someplace virtually and exploring around. Nowadays, people are familiar with ‘Escape the Room’ venues, so I will base some of my description on that - looking for clues, codes, etc.
As for meeting Adventure gamers from the online community, I have had the good fortune to meet 2 in person, and a few in URU live back in the day when I had it installed on my computer. There was a group of us that would meet in the city and talk in real time. I miss those days.

     
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For me the answer is no although way back my mother, sister & sister-in-law all played AGs at the time.
I did go to an Adventure Gamers meet-up in the past with an AG fan who doesn’t live too far away & met a few people who were involved in some way with development of games + 2 Peters one of whom maintains the very informative Pagoda Games website.

Other than that the only adventure gamer I’ve met in the last 3 years is Lady Kestrel when she comes over to London.  Smile

The way I try to get other people interested (who like books & films) is to tell them (usually to no avail) that AGs are the perfect interactive experience to ‘jump in’ to the visuals of a scenario & get involved with unravelling a story having to use your brain rather than being just an observer ........I’ve obviously been describing it wrongly!    Smile

     
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Nope. That well has run dry. About 10-15 years ago, you could find quite a few people who had grown up playing something like Space Quest or Full Throttle and talk to them at length from a nostalgic perspective. There was also a moment where I spoke with specific “hardcore” gamers about Heavy Rain, The Walking Dead and Alan Wake and how they were impressed by the novelty of it. Now, nothing.

     
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sorry for this looong post but i think its Intense and you wont be disappointed reading it, thanks

rtrooney - 28 January 2018 02:08 PM

Of all the people I have interacted with online over the 40-plus years I’ve been playing games, I’ve only had the opportunity to meet five or six of them in person.

wow, It doesn’t matter if you met them 2 or 20 times, it matters that there is a is a connection about adventure gaming with some people you actually know out there.

little off-topic, but bear with me..

i see rock and Adventure gaming had (at least to me) very very common definitions.
in general, they blew up at the same (almost) years they bloomed together again the same almost together 80s and mid-90s, and i am talking Hard rock, White Snake, gun n Roses, and Bon Jovi.

Subjectively, or personally, meeting/seeing a person at a music/gaming shops people who are
1.standing at the row of the adventure gaming….
2.holding a new G’n R-album/GK2-pack-screaming-pack, ....
3.Asking the shopkeepers about -slip of the tongue-/space quest 3 release date.

were like an open invitation to not just talking to them but to be-friend them straight away!!!
it was like finding a person who has the same interest in 190 years old thing (that people not just stopped being interested in but of knowing about) as you.

rtrooney - 28 January 2018 02:08 PM

I think I answered the question I think you are asking. If not, feel free to disregard.

colpet - 28 January 2018 02:30 PM

I realized I answered the topic headline, but not Advie’s actual question of explaining an Adventure game.

 

hold on, maybe i do not understand what making a topic in a public forum is!, (since this site’s forum is my first experience in emerging into the forum scoop or school, Tongue )
seriously i am talking sometime smilies could make the post be taking lightly   or

when i make a topic, i dont think of it as myyy topic/thread, and answers MuST be around the ToPIC, FUCK damn hell NO!... when i do wht i do, and i get post/ replies, these replies are a big favours to me, i think of them , the whooole thing ..

as a kinda big group in bus traveling to a beach, a kinda vacation, and i open a SUBJECT not ASKED a question, so if nobody in the bus answered, i do NOT feel like there is nothing wrong has happened, but if one answered -kind one-  and then another and another, they are now exceeded the concept of doing favors to me, they started even doing favor to each other..

and if/when someone gets nasty, keeping in mind that they all have this polite (in sound vol description, and each waiting for people to finish their sentences, and get emerge but no one is provoking anyone even if they have a kind of that history) so to the point this nasty sentence takes the bus’s reaction to either 3 three options:
all stop talking as this sentence has had ruined the emerge and any more talking might not end up well…/ 2.someone talks nasty back to him and we all now how these this end, they might get grasped into physical action, or the last option, 3.the bus driver/leader stops it (the bus) and says enough maybe gets everybody off the bus for better attention and says i will not be fucking driving you anywhere, unless you get fucking polite


o that is my imagination to the whooole thread/topic/forums thingy that is i am in here and taking part with some very old and great developer that i never thought in my whole life that i could be getting them hear me saying HI to them.

sorry about swearing which i wouldnt call swearing but that we not Egyptians thing totally, but on general habits of speaking mentioning bad words with a people you know its always welcomed and very very funny.
like really someone Origami asked me in the football thread when Salah scored a goal i called him motherfucker, because this on general very general speaking mean he is over the top but with the ‘the’ like he is motherfuck, not ‘the’ mother fucker there are big differences to them or A MF also okay.
anyway that is all but forget about the 1/3 part of the post it irrelevant anywyas if one only told to please stop it because it is kinda OFFENCE him.HER in a bad way, i WILL do it in the next second.
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I rarely bring up gaming to people I don’t know well, mainly because they seem to get this glazed look in their eyes when I try to explain it.  I also haven’t convinced any of my non-gaming friends to try adventure games, but at a Christmas Eve family gathering, I did connect with the teenaged daughter of one of my cousins.  She loves to draw, and as I looked through her drawing tablet, I commented that one of the characters reminded me of Fran Bow.  She looked amazed and said, “You know Fran Bow?  I love Fran Bow!” (Chalk up a coolness point for this old broad!)  Thumbs Up 

As Chrissie mentioned, we have met up in London these past 3 years, and I had lunch with Becky last summer when she was on vacation with her family in New Jersey.  I have spoken on the phone with several gamers over the years and keep in touch with others via email.  It’s very satisfying to connect with someone who has a mutual passion for ignoring housework in favor of playing.  Grin

     

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No, I don’t meet them in real life, but, I have made some really good friends that love the games.  I had a neighbor’s son that loved the shoot-em-up first person games and he always tried to talk to me about his games and I kept telling him that I liked exploring and doing puzzles, not to try and figure out how to escape someone or kill them.  And people do get that glazed eye look when I try to explain how much I love adventure games. I used to buy adventure games for our godson but, he never talked about them so I think they weren’t appreciated very much. Oh well, they are missing out on a lot of fun if they don’t play them!

     
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Don’t know any adventure gamer, most I know in real life that plays videogames it’s either FIfa, CSGO or DOTA. When I do explain my favorite genre I usually use “do you remember Monkey Island?” and if they are old enough that usually does the trick.  Out of the people that I played adventures with growing up and I still maintain contact don’t think anyone still plays them.

     
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In my last job, I worked with a bunch of teammates in a social/mobile gaming company, and lots of them played games, but very few played adventure games. The few who did played the more recent non-puzzly ones like The Walking Dead or Heavy Rain.

When I was back in high school, I was introduced to Day of the Tentacle by my friends back then, and I have fond memories of discussing solutions during lunch breaks.  Remember, that was a time before the internet, so checking solutions online wasn’t an option. I remember buying Full Throttle when it first came out, and finishing it with my close friend in one sitting. He also told me what to write on that darn grave in Gabriel Knight. We bought Phantasmagoria together, and being the wusses we were, we tried to play it with the lights out, but were freaked out. Grin

Alas most of my high school friends have moved on with their lives and they now have kids or are married and don’t play games anymore. I am probably the only one who still does. 

     
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rtrooney - 28 January 2018 02:08 PM

Of all the people I have interacted with online over the 40-plus years I’ve been playing games, I’ve only had the opportunity to meet five or six of them in person.

It’s interesting that my experience is similar to Lady K’s. The total number of people I’ve met in person is, in retrospect, probably closer to ten or fifteen. Almost all involving travel. A friend I had never met would mention he/she was going to have a five hour layover at O’Hare, and would I like to get together for a drink at the airport Marriott. Sure! Or I would have a layover in Denver, (back in the days when the Denver airport, Stapleton, was actually in Denver,) and we’d get together for a drink and a “such a pleasure to meet you.” conversation. I’ve met a fellow gamer when I was flying to Newark. And several others when I was in San Francisco on business. One of the moderators on the old CompuServe TEG forum and I became online friends because of my activity there. I was going to be in Detroit on business the day before she was going to get married to another TEG forum member. I was able to change my air reservations, and attended their wedding. An two other forum acquaintances, one from Oklahoma and another from DC were there as well. Four meetings at one event! The equivalent of a triple-double in basketball.

A really close missed opportunity happened when a gamer from Germany, who was a die-hard Chicago Blackhawks hockey fan, was flying in to catch a game and experience some Chicago night life. I was flying out the day she was flying in. We probably could have waved to each other in the terminal.

I don’t know. Maybe living in the US makes it more convenient to meet people in one-off situations. There are a lot of people spread across the country, and the possibility of interacting with them because of intersecting travel plans is, thus, greater.

Sorry for the ramble. Advie - this is a GREAT topic.

     

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to explain and i ve been rewarded like 0.01 outta it ...Monkey island clicked with them

 

colpet - 28 January 2018 02:30 PM

There was a group of ....I miss those days

 

chrissie - 28 January 2018 02:30 PM

I try .....I’ve obviously been describing it wrongly!    Smile

 

thejobloshow - 28 January 2018 03:24 PM

Nope….run dry. About 10-15 years ago… Now, nothing.

 

Lady Kestrel - 28 January 2018 03:58 PM

to get this glazed look in their eyes when I try to explain it.

 

mbday630 - 28 January 2018 04:20 PM

they weren’t appreciated very much

 

mbday630 - 28 January 2018 04:20 PM

they are missing out on a lot of fun if they don’t play them!

 

i did not really want to comment, felt depressed a bit but i need to say sumthing so i did what i do best, i wrote this poem, maybe lyrics, but just poem for now but it took off that stone of my chest ...anyways ...i hope you like :-

i called it - little big secret -


all I have said that’s enough no more ...comments..
closed my eyes built a wall over this thread contents.
pulled the sheet closed my games and prepared myself for bed
but i remembered how flat true different the word said by colpet.

we are seeing a world differently than a majority that never retreads
their glazed eyes when you show them beauty they cannot explain ..it. 
what they eat is just what the mainstream media feeds them, from a to zed
....  uh look at them there, yeah!...those with them big fatheads.

who said we need them to understand,... they’r rotten’n misled
go on kill the monster, shoot em up and tell me how great you did.
our empathy is fed up, mainstream victims for me ur gainsaid…..
......but you can not say or dare we one day never try to help.

our’s little big secret we learn to keep deep downs our heart its hid
like our beautiful devs our thanks to them and their dreams they shed

i am there at my adventure gaming world if ye need me,
... look me up. high above. and faaaaaar
aaaaaar ahead.

     
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Heart Advie.

     
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dumbeur - 28 January 2018 08:46 PM

Heart Advie.

thanks, dumbeur, isn’t relieving after all those negative quotes, at least a bit hmmmh?

     
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Last post from me. I think previous posts have pretty much said all I have to say. But:

“Do you meet adventure gamers much in real life?”

Answer is rarely.

“Have you ever met fellow online adventure gamers in real life?”

Answer is a lot more frequently than I thought.

     

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