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Just adding my 2 cents to the subject.
First, I read the review to the Movie, The X-Files: I Want To Believe (I saw the first movie, I liked it!) and it said there are no alien invaders or evil monsters or even sinister government conspiracies - it just features a guy who plays a defrocked psychic priest accused of child-molesting who is used by Mulder to find a murderer. When I read that, I felt rather down-hearted, what happened to the thrilling paranoid TV show I grew up with? No matter.

On the subject of aliens. I've watched some documentaries on the SPACE Channel (A Science Fiction Station in Canada). There are many theories about aliens and UFOs. They say that the US Government has Top-Secret Military Technology that is way ahead of ours and they've been experimenting on cattle and humans for quite some time. Another, more strange, is that there are actually aliens, but from another dimension, able to appear and disappear in a second. Some pilots have seen strange lights that fly around and then...poof! Gone!

Heh. Ditto man. If I want a lecture on "serious" things like that, I'll google up a website, Wikipedia  or go to a Library. Personally, I play Adventure Games, to escape from reality, not experience it better! LOL!

Similar to what you guys are saying...

There should be no hard and fast rules for Adventure Games.
1. If the Game Creator wants a Family Friendly Puzzle Adventure, that's fine.
2. If the Game Creator wants a Thrilling Danger Filled Quest, that's good as well.
3. If the Game Creator wants an Adventure Game for Mature-Adult Audiences, that's his/her right.

All I'm saying, there should be special Game Ratings for each kind to warn parents and sensitive Gamers.

And, from the list above, I prefer #2.

  You make some interesting points. I personally LOVE to play Adventure Games. They remind me somewhat of the classic Choose-Your-Own-Adventure Books etc of the 80's.

Like other genres of video games (and movies too!), there should be Adventure Games with ESRB Ratings on them to warn parents and sensitive gamers if the games have brutal violence, mature content, nudity, disturbing scenes, etc.

Personally, I don't enjoy playing brutally violent or vulgar games, however, I do enjoy a thrilling Adventure Game where the hero embarks on a dangerous journey where one false move good mean his/her death. I don't fully enjoy adventure games where there is no real sense of danger, sorry. I love the thrill of knowing that hazards are "real", so to speak. The occasional battle is nice. Something like the Indiana Jones Adventures, King's Quest, or Ben Jordan etc...