Taking a sick day

[AGA]

I kinda spent months thinking about this which resulted in http://www.sylpher.com/novomestro/blargh.htm

I can see how creating that 404 would have taken months of your time.

[Las Naranjas]

It was finely crafted, and I'd forgotton that I had moved it to my stuff directory.

[Rui 'Trovatore' Pires]

<sigh> I've run out of arguments, and actually everything you said about Syberia makes perfect sense... but somehow I still love it. But I've seen your point, and you're right.

And OK, maybe I get a little too optimistic at times, it's just that I can't bear to watch the genre die. And it really seems to me it keeps coming back with a few suprises in store. But then, I may be just an 18 year old boy with too many dreams in his head. But hell, the adventure game has been an old friend, now. I feel it my duty to defend what I feel - or maybe what I WANT to feel, what I WANT to be true, even though it's probably not. Some of the best experiences in my life I've felt while playing adventure games, inlcuding Syberia.

So that's why I was so passionate and, in a sense, so senseless about the whole matter. I apologise for all this trouble.

[Las Naranjas]

Hehe, I'm perhaps exagerating my hatred because I share an optimism with you about how stories can be told, and Syberia could have been done so well, but it wasn't.

Which was infinitely more depressing than just a bad game.

But thanks for listening to what I said.

* Las Naranjas buys Redrum a beer.

[Rui 'Trovatore' Pires]

Wow, my first bear! And a free one, at that!

Well, it's been a pleasure having this discussion, anyway. And besides, Syberia 2 is due on come out on April, and we can always hope.

Oh wow! The thread! The topic! Yes, I do sometimes feel the need to call in sick and work on my game all the time!  

[remixor]

For some reason, you keep equating my statement that "adventure games are past their peak" to "adventure games are dead."  Just because a genre is no longer at its greatest height does not mean it doesn't exist any more or something.

[bspeers1000]

Yeah, like, my dad's past his peak and he's not...

ah... hang on...

...



forget that.

[Rui 'Trovatore' Pires]

I tend to confuse both terms, and to fight against both in any case, since in my heart they're both wrong. That's what I feel. Or maybe what I believe. Or maybe what I WANT to believe. At any rate, it's not something I can justify, and it's probably wrong anyway, so I won't beat the dead horse any longer.

No pun intended.

[remixor]

Ok, this will be my last post on the matter.  To illustrate my point:  If you believe adventures are NOT past their peak, you're essentially saying the adventure genre wasn't at its strongest at some point in the past.  I understand that in the last several years we've had a few good adventure games, but to claim that the peak wasn't at some point between about 1988 and 1998 is sort of absurd in my opinion.  The fact that people have to keep referring to The Longest Journey as an example that the genre is thriving is in itself very indicative that the genre ISN'T thriving; the game came out in 2000, and it's now 2004.  Ten  years ago, you could list multiple great adventures that came out in a timespan of a several months.  Again, the genre isn't really DEAD, but it sure isn't jumping around and doing a jig.

[DGMacphee]

Adventures aren't dead. They ARE thriving!

See:

http://www.bradthegame.com/

Man, how many times do I have to post this link before people realise I'm right?!

[jetxl]

I'm taking a sick day right now!

[Robert Eric]

I played a new adventure game the other day.  It was called, "Where the hell did I leave my keys?"  The game had a lot of filthy language.

[Kweepa]

My favourite adventure:

www.jerking.com

[Haddas]

I got over 12000 points in Brad, the game