a really cool Adventure Gamers article/interview:
http://adventuregamers.com/article/id,1370
Really enjoyed this, thanks.
That was an interesting article for me, considering I don't really follow any adventure game press (or any game press, generally)...
Especially how, as Ascovel mentioned in its comments, it contrasted the mainstream approach to the "adventure gamer" approach...even years ago, when I someone said stuff like how they detested action segments in adventure games, or that they disliked the implication that adventure games need to evolve, or talked about some "pure" adventure ideal that has to be compromised with less (or easier) puzzle gameplay and more action gameplay to make it anywhere big... I never thought it was the mainstream adventure gamer's line of thought...just a few people.
Have things been pushed further and further into a corner since then? As I said, again, I don't really follow the (adventure) game press, so there's no real adventure game that I was anticipating through press and then feeling annoyed that it got bad ratings when it came out.
I'd like to think a good game is a good game, no matter what genre, and treating a game less harshly because it is an adventure game is counter-intuitive. Of course, on an adventure game website (where the games are limited to adventure games only, as opposed to all the other genres that any other game website would follow), the ratings for adventure games would be slightly higher than on other websites..so I'm not sure how problematic getting lower ratings is...
I'm not too worried for adventure games.