Adventurish games
Dec. 20th, 2007 12:12 amI've played, with great enjoyment, graphical adventure games from Day of the Tentacle to Discworld Noir, by way of Grim Fandango and Curse of Monkey Island. Are such things still made?
A cursory look around GAME at the weekend failed to show me any games of that form, and I couldn't even work out what there was that would be a single-player first-person not-pure-shoot-em-up game with a plot - Little Big Adventure, Flashback were ones of those that I liked, in what is I fear now the far past. Half-Life 2 had too little plot and too much shooting for my taste; Oblivion sounds as if it might appeal, but I've often had trouble finding the plot-line among the universe in that kind of free-flowing RPG, and got bored. I might well like a big-world lots-of-little-missions game, if any existed with a more pleasant world-view than the GTA series or Canis Canem Edit: do they?
A cursory look around GAME at the weekend failed to show me any games of that form, and I couldn't even work out what there was that would be a single-player first-person not-pure-shoot-em-up game with a plot - Little Big Adventure, Flashback were ones of those that I liked, in what is I fear now the far past. Half-Life 2 had too little plot and too much shooting for my taste; Oblivion sounds as if it might appeal, but I've often had trouble finding the plot-line among the universe in that kind of free-flowing RPG, and got bored. I might well like a big-world lots-of-little-missions game, if any existed with a more pleasant world-view than the GTA series or Canis Canem Edit: do they?