The Grand List of Adventure Game Cliches

[Ponch]

Inventory.

[Cogliostro]

Maze. 
Timed Maze.
Timed Maze with limited or blocked option for saving.
Unscramble the picture / letter / sliding block puzzle.

- Cogliostro

[Turtiathan]

It is impossible to die unless one of the following is true:
- The occasional enemy shows up.
- A bomb or whatever is about to destroy the place.
- Your character dies at the end of the game.

[Knox]

It seems like the main character always has someone important in their life dying or dead in a tragic way...like a wife who died tragically a few years ago being shot by a mugger, or the main character's parents were killed in a car accident, or someone's dog expired after being hit over the head with a giant rubber anaconda stuffed with bacon bits and forced to drink industrial carpet cleaner while being hung around the neck by a custom-made rope made of human hair and bat dung, you know, old cliches like that.

[PatientRock]

Jokes for when the player clicks on their own character - joke about touching yourself a must.

[Igor Hardy]

Wearing the same clothes for days, weeks or even months!

[Wonkyth]

Ablution? Bowel evacuation? Bah!

[Ali]

It is impossible to die unless one of the following is true:
- The occasional enemy shows up.
- A bomb or whatever is about to destroy the place.
- Your character dies at the end of the game.

I think this holds true for life in general...

[Turtiathan]

I think this holds true for life in general...

Yes, adventure games are more realistic than say first-person shooters. In adventure games, it does seem characters are more helpless against enemies. You usually kill them in more creative ways like dropping a heavy box on them or releasing hot steam on them once they walk to a certain point.

The characters seem to not be good with hand-to-hand combat either. It is rarely that you have a gun. Yep, sounds like real-life unless you live in Texas where guns are popular.

[mkennedy]

You'd think the people who make retina/fingerprint scanners would fix it so that they only unlock the door if the eyes/fingers being scanned are still alive. Lose extra points if you have to kill the person to get their eyes/fingers.

Adventurer: What? You mean I sawed off some guy's hands and head and the door still won't unlock?!?

[Ponch]

It is rarely that you have a gun. Yep, sounds like real-life unless you live in Texas where guns are popular.

I have a gun everyday. But I also live in Texas.

[Buckethead]

Pick up something shiny.

[Turtiathan]

I have a gun everyday. But I also live in Texas.

so do I
However, I don't have a gun.

Apparently .50 cal sniper rifles are legal here too.
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=hioPReoo10A&feature=channel_video_title

[Eggie]

> This architect must have been very rich, very good at obtaining planning permission and been REALLY into his twiddle puzzles.

[TomatoesInTheHead]

Infinitely big pockets.

But I love to pocket everything I can, and love to steal everything from other people's rooms (only in the games, of course!), so please stick to the cliches, game developers!

[Wonkyth]

Hell yes, stick to them!

* Wonkyth goes off to see how many of these are documented tropes...

[EdLoen]

Hell yes, stick to them!

* Wonkyth goes off to see how many of these are documented tropes...

Adventure Game Tropes will become the new TV Tropes.

[ManicMatt]

I highlighted some apples in "Gray Matter", and clicked on them, and the character informed me that they are apples. Well, I'll be!!

[Igor Hardy]

I highlighted some apples in "Gray Matter", and clicked on them, and the character informed me that they are apples. Well, I'll be!!

Yes, GM has very lousy object descriptions. The most pathetic ones was the series known as "This *insert object name here* reminds me of Laura" and "Laura was radiant that day". Just how many times can you say the same thing!?

[m0ds]

When you're 1st person....a book of some kind will always zoom open into your face and defy the laws of physics by floating there whilst you have a good gander.