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Adventure Games so far this year that are Turkeys
For the holidays, let have a fun thread. Anyone play an adventure game so far this year that is a plane old Turkey? Just not that great and maybe you didn’t even finish it?
The main game I’ve played this year that is a Turkey is The Book of Regrets. Good part of this is that I got the game cheap, $4.99, so despite the crude graphics and very basic gameplay I was entertained. The story was slight and there was no character development at all.
So, how about you, have any Turkeys this year?
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“The Unholy Society”. Aesthetics looked great to me, but the game has almost 0 player’s agency - you only walk where they want you to, pick up something when they need you to etc., and the exorcism mini-game that started as fun got tedious really quick. Gave up on that one in the end.
Also not a new game (I just discovered it this year), “Anna’s Quest” that we played through CPT ended up not my cup of tea. It’s not a bad game, it’s just a game that is isn’t for me. I wouldn’t finish it if not for CPT, and the ending left me with a sense of total dissatisfaction.
There were so many good/great games this year, so I think it’s fair to have a longer list, even if many of these aren’t exactly terrible.
Roki - Maybe I just had high expectations because of the 4.5 star review. It wasn’t awful, just really tedious.
House of Da Vinci 2 - Similarly, I wasn’t impressed. I liked the first game a lot, and I can’t really say what this game did wrong, it just didn’t do a lot right.
Beyond a Steel Sky - Ok, “turkey” is quite harsh. It was a big let down though.
Beyond Blue - I was expecting something to challenge the intellect (like all edutainment should). Instead it was a vehicle for offloading scientific information via the completely wasted vocal talent of Mira Furlan.
The Flower Collectors - Just boring, really. Stand on the balcony and watch, that’s it. The game Fire Escape with a similar scenario shows how this can be exciting,
Beautiful Desolation - I didn’t play much of this, just enough to know I wanted a refund. Eye-candy is nice but I like there to be more to a came.
There were so many good/great games this year, so I think it’s fair to have a longer list, even if many of these aren’t exactly terrible.
The Flower Collectors - Just boring, really. Stand on the balcony and watch, that’s it. The game Fire Escape with a similar scenario shows how this can be exciting,
Ah, yes. Also didn’t enjoy The Flower Collectors. It started so promising, and I loved the setting and time period, but I didn’t warm up to either protagonists, and the gameplay did turn out quite boring.
I’m yet to try Fire Esape…
i dont about things going ‘turkeys’ unless they were cold
I hesitate to call any game a ‘turkey’ but games I tried that didn’t work for me or haven’t so far are:
Oneiros - I got so far & just got fed up (& it was a bit too whizzy for my eyes) in the ‘maze’ part. I might go back to it though.
The Flower Collectors - Actually I enjoyed the game but I hated the fact that the characters were animals with no perceivable reason/advantage for that decision. For me the game would have been enhanced with human characters & it annoyed me that they weren’t.
Heal - A very nice puzzle game with one puzzle which I couldn’t get past so I haven’t finished it.
I haven’t played many “new” games this year.
Mostly I’ve replayed older ones.
But of the “new” games I’ve played, I wouldn’t say any of them were “turkeys.”
At worst they were mediocre.
I almost always play older games, and if I play newer ones, I pick ones that I’m pretty sure I’ll like.
Of the new games I played this year (all three of them ), NONE of them were “turkeys”. Or even mediocre.
The truth can’t hurt you, it’s just like the dark: it scares you witless but in time you see things clear and stark. - Elvis Costello
Maybe this time I can be strong, but since I know who I am, I’m probably wrong. Maybe this time I can go far, but thinking about where I’ve been ain’t helping me start. - Michael Kiwanuka
Is this some kind of Turkish joke?
Am I the only one who is trying to figure out why the OP typed turkey with a capital T?
Thanks to the AG’s user rating feature I can safely say that the only turkey I played this year (and completely forgot about) was Willy Morgan and the Curse of Bone Town. It was so below-the-average that I can’t think of ANY reason to play it. Roki, Beautiful Desolation, Creaks had some redeeming qualities, but not this one, sadly.
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Thanks to the AG’s user rating feature I can safely say that the only turkey I played this year (and completely forgot about) was Willy Morgan and the Curse of Bone Town. It was so below-the-average that I can’t think of ANY reason to play it. Roki, Beautiful Desolation, Creaks had some redeeming qualities, but not this one, sadly.
I can’t agree at all. Willy Morgan was relaxing, non-violent and with no scares, with gorgeous artwork which comes close to the best seen in a 3rd person adventure. The story wasn’t memorable and the music just plain sucked and it’s probably overpriced but there are more than enough reasons to play it.
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I can’t agree at all. Willy Morgan was relaxing, non-violent and with no scares, with gorgeous artwork which comes close to the best seen in a 3rd person adventure. .
just imagine those great artwork scenes being filled with more, i mean much more objectives, NPCs, Thingamajigs….etc instead of one objective that what is needed they the whole game for each location, what a waste.
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