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First, I look at the reviews for the game. I like a game with good artwork, interesting story, and believable dialog. Good voice acting (or so terrible that it's hilarious) is a plus.

As for puzzles, I prefer it if important objects were not too difficult to spot. You end up wasting time if you didn't notice an important item from some previous area. Regardless, I see it as good training since the ability to pick out small details in any given picture or location can be useful.

I am still new to adventure games but I like the following:
- Making a makeshift gun with a metal pipe, nails, and gunpowder.
- Using chewed bubble gum to fix a broken piece of pottery.

Let's not forget the most important one.
- Wasting time trying to figure out a puzzle/problem only to find out that you missed an important item/object.

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=9Zv97P65kT4&feature=channel_video_title

Creating an energetic rock song actually isn't that hard. Shredding for a heavy metal song is more difficult than most people think unless you just want a generic sound.

That is a nice looking game. I am interested in trying it out.

My head just exploded with awesomeness. Can't wait to try it out!

sounds violent

barefoot is trying to create one. Although there is still a lot of problems that need to be fixed.
http://www.adventuregamestudio.co.uk/games.php?action=detail&id=1474

I think an optimized PC costs about $2000 but I heard it is cheaper to make your own. You must also remember that technology develops quickly so you want to make sure the investment is worth it.

ok
I just beat the game.

Don't think there's a walk through for the game, but as far as the wand goes...

The spells work off the movement of the mouse.  Hold down the right button on the mouse, while the tip of the wand is over some poor helpless test subject, like the rat.  Move the mouse straight left, and release the right button after the mouse has moved an inch or so.  No effect.  Try the same thing to the right... now the poor defenseless rat has been turned blue?!  Go back and try the to the left now.  He's back to red.  Now try up, the rat goes semi-transparent.  Try down and he's back to normal.

Now the curse that's effecting the princess is also effecting the land, and you need to get the weather to act like it's spring.  So....

- Cogliostro
(aka the voice of the rat)

Thanks for the clear description on how the wand works. I used to just wave it around randomly. Anyway, I am not sure about how to get through the summer season.

Spoiler

I know you are supposed to ripen the fruit but what would ripen fruit look like. I am able to change the colors of the fruit from using the wand. Nothing happens though. Is there a specific pattern that I have to do?

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Most misogynists I know are around women quite regularly (and on top of, beneath, etc).  Their attitude is typically reinforced by such
encounters, though they're too hypocritical to just stop associating with them.

It's pretty ludicrous to assume a man would develop negative feelings for women for no reason and with no exposure.  It's quite the opposite really, and while for some I know it's just a string of bad luck that has given them the impression that women are all shallow and manipulative emo-vampires, others seem to swear by it -- but again -- continue to associate with women and sometimes the very ones they're complaining about.  It's like doing heroin and hating that you do it, but you can't stop because for a few moments you get 'something' out of it, a high, a relief, before the pain sets in.

true
The best way to get rid of their attitudes is for them to get to know females rather than use them for a "quick relief."

I could care less about labels like "mainstream" or "indie" blah blah blah ... it's all nonsense to me.  If I enjoy a game I don't care what anybody else considers it!

agreed
Don't judge something unless you try it.

Sure this mass-production-of-generic-games might stifle some innovation but imagine if every game that came out tried to innovate?  Scratch that... if every game being made tried to be innovative very few games would actually come out!

If every game designer tried to be innovative, we would also get a lot of games that won't feel like games. I don't mind playing the same style multiple times if it works.

Over here in Austin, we have a well-known live music scene. The people here are also interested in being weird and creative so we get a lot of bands that try to innovate. A lot of them fail badly and produce something that doesn't sound like music. I remember one band just made sounds of glass cracking. : It's all a desperate attempt to be unique.

I rarely play 'mainstream' games anymore.  Not that I have anything against them... It's just an expensive passtime and I'm not willing to spend £50 on a game that I probably won't finish.  I quite often see a game trailer and think 'if I had a PS3, I'd buy that', but I don't have a PS3 and unless I win won, or get given one, I probably never will.

same here
I stopped playing on consoles anyway. I mainly just play PC games. I like how I can buy games on Steam rather than flood the home with clutter.

1) What happened to real-time strategy?
Only classic-feeling mainstream RTS over last 5 or so years is Starcraft II which is basically not much more than Starcraft with modern looks.
Which is even more tragic because Company of Heroes showed a way to revolutionize genre without losing any fun... I was expecting great things after this... And then... it just halted?

Dawn of War 2 has a gameplay similar to that of Company of Heros. I haven't play Company of Heros but I have heard good reviews on it.

Personally my main worry is how, in many mainstream games, the importance of story and character developement is diminishing, and how singleplayer elements are being shunned in favor of multiplayer-heavy high-profile games.

I know it's a useless ideal to think "the good old days" of gaming, namely early 90's, should come back with their infernally hard but somehow rewarding games, but one can hope, right?

I think the quality of the stories peaked sometime around the mid-90s to the mid-2000s.

Older games actually don't have that much of a plot either. I know this is true for a lot of side-scrolling games from the Super Nintendo. For example, UN Squadron had a really basic ending where the pilot just said, "Well that was a tough battle. Let's go home now." No character development was done for the three different pilots that you can pick. You just know their advantages in combat. Something is similar for the Gradius series as well. However, they were fun.

I agree that older games are harder too. I am still not able to beat the original Command and Conquer and Red Alert 1. At the same time, Tiberium Wars and Red Alert 3 were easy. Even Tiberian Sun and Red Alert 2 were easy games. Then I heard the original Metroid game was very challenging.

Multiplayer does seem to be more of the focus in games today. Personally, I just play games for the story and/or the gameplay.

In case you missed it, I posted some suggestions in your original topic.
http://www.adventuregamestudio.co.uk/yabb/index.php?topic=44077.20

Stargate Adventure
Automation - It was a short game but it had some funny monologues.

The only way to handle this issue is for the following things to happen:
1. More females get involved in the gaming industry.
2. More male gamers get girlfriends. They wouldn't make so many misogynistic posts if they had more interactions with females.

I was told about it by a poster on here. Her name is Saren. She pretty much introduced me to the adventure game genre. It is a good balance to all the shooting/waging war/simulation games that I have played in my life. Anyway, this seems to be the best place to get some video game design experience without working for a company.

[Turt]

Turtle + Leviathan = Turtiathan

The first AGS game that I played was A Woman For All Seasons:
http://www.adventuregamestudio.co.uk/yabb/index.php?topic=41647.msg551029#msg551029

The first one that I beat was Stargate Adventure:
http://www.adventuregamestudio.co.uk/yabb/index.php?topic=23288.0

brain or gtfo
That is the only appropriate response. 8)

So true. I have participated in a lot of different online forums and I always get so much crap for being female. It's almost like these guys don't meet women often.

If a pervert says "t*** or gtfo," just post a picture of a really fat guy. What? They didn't specify what kind of breasts they want.