What the hell happened to the adventure genre???

Heavy Rain, Alan Wake and Zack & Wiki 2 are the ones I'm looking forward to the most.

I miss the Lucusarts Adventure games a lot though.

ya but those games are yet to come.Where are the adventure games I want them NOW.Bring the golden days of mist back I say ,I dont want more f***in shooters :cry:-hells-

The market is oversaturated with shooters because they're highly played both by hardcore and casual gamers. However (IMO) there only needs to be one truly great Adventure game and people will forget about shooters for a while.

Think about the reason Killzone 2 gets hype while Heavy Rain never did. Casual gamers said "How can we hype it when we know nothing about it?" They're noobs to the genre, that's all. Something needs to introduce them.

Having said that, the fact that Killzone 2 is receiving better hype than Heavy Rain is testimonial to how dominant casual gamers are.

Am unable to see a single good adventure game on consoles.Heavy rain is 2009 and alan waks is nowhere to be seen.Where the heck are all the good adventure games-hells-

Have you read any of the posts by so-called "hardcore gamers" here? Any game that isn't FPS, contain guns, or doesn't have explosions get bashed ENDLESSLY.

The FPS playing casual is now the main audience for gaming. ANd there are now so many of them that they have convinced themselves they must be "teh hardcore" and "teh real gamarz!!" Meanwhile, because of them, great original games get ignored, while every single half-arsed FPS that comes out is a huge seller.

[QUOTE="-hells-"]Am unable to see a single good adventure game on consoles.Heavy rain is 2009 and alan waks is nowhere to be seen.Where the heck are all the good adventure gamesZIMdoom

Have you read any of the posts by so-called "hardcore gamers" here? Any game that isn't FPS, contain guns, or doesn't have explosions get bashed ENDLESSLY.

Exactly! And those so called "hardcore gamers" are really just casuals who mostly started gaming one or two generations ago.

[QUOTE="-hells-"]Am unable to see a single good adventure game on consoles.Heavy rain is 2009 and alan waks is nowhere to be seen.Where the heck are all the good adventure gamesZIMdoom

Have you read any of the posts by so-called "hardcore gamers" here? Any game that isn't FPS, contain guns, or doesn't have explosions get bashed ENDLESSLY.

The FPS playing casual is now the main audience for gaming. ANd there are now so many of them that they have convinced themselves they must be "teh hardcore" and "teh real gamarz!!" Meanwhile, because of them, great original games get ignored, while every single half-arsed FPS that comes out is a huge seller.

Uh, not matter how much I wish this wasn't true, I have to agree >_>. Gamers like that are just killing everything I loved about gaming.

I would mention Mettroid Prime, but reading your sig I guess you don't have a Wii.EuroMafia

I forgot Metroid Prime actually. The third game had some damning environmental puzzles in it.

uncharted is pretty closebigLLL

Is it? I haven't played it. It looks like Tomb Raider to me.

[QUOTE="-hells-"]Am unable to see a single good adventure game on consoles.Heavy rain is 2009 and alan waks is nowhere to be seen.Where the heck are all the good adventure gamesZIMdoom

Have you read any of the posts by so-called "hardcore gamers" here? Any game that isn't FPS, contain guns, or doesn't have explosions get bashed ENDLESSLY.

The FPS playing casual is now the main audience for gaming. ANd there are now so many of them that they have convinced themselves they must be "teh hardcore" and "teh real gamarz!!" Meanwhile, because of them, great original games get ignored, while every single half-arsed FPS that comes out is a huge seller.

It's not even FPS anymore. Any game that's high polished, has cool explosions, shiny graphix, and lots of blood gets extremely high reviews and sells millions. Whereas games like Phychonauts get ignored. It's completely insane.

[QUOTE="-hells-"]Am unable to see a single good adventure game on consoles.Heavy rain is 2009 and alan waks is nowhere to be seen.Where the heck are all the good adventure gamesZIMdoom

Have you read any of the posts by so-called "hardcore gamers" here? Any game that isn't FPS, contain guns, or doesn't have explosions get bashed ENDLESSLY.

The FPS playing casual is now the main audience for gaming. ANd there are now so many of them that they have convinced themselves they must be "teh hardcore" and "teh real gamarz!!" Meanwhile, because of them, great original games get ignored, while every single half-arsed FPS that comes out is a huge seller.

hey hey hey do i go around bashing your favorite genre...whatever it might be?

whats so wrong with liking FPS exclusively?

[QUOTE="ZIMdoom"]

[QUOTE="-hells-"]Am unable to see a single good adventure game on consoles.Heavy rain is 2009 and alan waks is nowhere to be seen.Where the heck are all the good adventure gamesmlbslugger86

Have you read any of the posts by so-called "hardcore gamers" here? Any game that isn't FPS, contain guns, or doesn't have explosions get bashed ENDLESSLY.

The FPS playing casual is now the main audience for gaming. ANd there are now so many of them that they have convinced themselves they must be "teh hardcore" and "teh real gamarz!!" Meanwhile, because of them, great original games get ignored, while every single half-arsed FPS that comes out is a huge seller.

hey hey hey do i go around bashing your favorite genre...whatever it might be?

whats so wrong with liking FPS exclusively?

It's just the natural order of things.

We look down on you, and you look down on people who play Wii Fit and Wii Music.

:)

edit: I'm mildly serious.

2009 seems to be good for adventure games. The ones I am excited about is Vampyre Rain , Mata Hari (from creators of Fate of atlantis) and Gray Matter (from creators of Gabriel Kinghts).

[QUOTE="mlbslugger86"][QUOTE="ZIMdoom"]

[QUOTE="-hells-"]Am unable to see a single good adventure game on consoles.Heavy rain is 2009 and alan waks is nowhere to be seen.Where the heck are all the good adventure gamesTony-Harrison

Have you read any of the posts by so-called "hardcore gamers" here? Any game that isn't FPS, contain guns, or doesn't have explosions get bashed ENDLESSLY.

The FPS playing casual is now the main audience for gaming. ANd there are now so many of them that they have convinced themselves they must be "teh hardcore" and "teh real gamarz!!" Meanwhile, because of them, great original games get ignored, while every single half-arsed FPS that comes out is a huge seller.

hey hey hey do i go around bashing your favorite genre...whatever it might be?

whats so wrong with liking FPS exclusively?

It's just the natural order of things.

We look down on you, and you look down on people who play Wii Fit and Wii Music.

:)

edit: I'm mildly serious.

damn you...i really don't wanna sound biased but wii music and fit must be the most casual games ever...along with brain age

[QUOTE="Tony-Harrison"][QUOTE="mlbslugger86"][QUOTE="ZIMdoom"]

[QUOTE="-hells-"]Am unable to see a single good adventure game on consoles.Heavy rain is 2009 and alan waks is nowhere to be seen.Where the heck are all the good adventure gamesmlbslugger86

Have you read any of the posts by so-called "hardcore gamers" here? Any game that isn't FPS, contain guns, or doesn't have explosions get bashed ENDLESSLY.

The FPS playing casual is now the main audience for gaming. ANd there are now so many of them that they have convinced themselves they must be "teh hardcore" and "teh real gamarz!!" Meanwhile, because of them, great original games get ignored, while every single half-arsed FPS that comes out is a huge seller.

hey hey hey do i go around bashing your favorite genre...whatever it might be?

whats so wrong with liking FPS exclusively?

It's just the natural order of things.

We look down on you, and you look down on people who play Wii Fit and Wii Music.

:)

edit: I'm mildly serious.

damn you...i really don't wanna sound biased but wii music and fit must be the most casual games ever...along with brain age

Point made.

[QUOTE="mlbslugger86"][QUOTE="Tony-Harrison"][QUOTE="mlbslugger86"][QUOTE="ZIMdoom"]

[QUOTE="-hells-"]Am unable to see a single good adventure game on consoles.Heavy rain is 2009 and alan waks is nowhere to be seen.Where the heck are all the good adventure gamesTony-Harrison

Have you read any of the posts by so-called "hardcore gamers" here? Any game that isn't FPS, contain guns, or doesn't have explosions get bashed ENDLESSLY.

The FPS playing casual is now the main audience for gaming. ANd there are now so many of them that they have convinced themselves they must be "teh hardcore" and "teh real gamarz!!" Meanwhile, because of them, great original games get ignored, while every single half-arsed FPS that comes out is a huge seller.

hey hey hey do i go around bashing your favorite genre...whatever it might be?

whats so wrong with liking FPS exclusively?

It's just the natural order of things.

We look down on you, and you look down on people who play Wii Fit and Wii Music.

:)

edit: I'm mildly serious.

damn you...i really don't wanna sound biased but wii music and fit must be the most casual games ever...along with brain age

Point made.

yeah you figured me out to be a rambo wannabe:x

and just so you know...i actually have brain age:shock:

[QUOTE="-hells-"]ya but those games are yet to come.Where are the adventure games I want them NOW.Bring the golden days of mist back I say ,I dont want more f***in shooters :cry:Tony-Harrison

The market is oversaturated with shooters because they're highly played both by hardcore and casual gamers.

[QUOTE="Tony-Harrison"]

[QUOTE="-hells-"]ya but those games are yet to come.Where are the adventure games I want them NOW.Bring the golden days of mist back I say ,I dont want more f***in shooters :cry:Koba123

The market is oversaturated with shooters because they're highly played both by hardcore and casual gamers.

I think we should plan a revolt against generic shooterware.

[QUOTE="Koba123"][QUOTE="Tony-Harrison"]

[QUOTE="-hells-"]ya but those games are yet to come.Where are the adventure games I want them NOW.Bring the golden days of mist back I say ,I dont want more f***in shooters :cry:Tony-Harrison

The market is oversaturated with shooters because they're highly played both by hardcore and casual gamers.

I think we should plan a revolt against generic shooterware.

you could, but we have all the guns!:twisted:

[QUOTE="ZIMdoom"]

[QUOTE="-hells-"]Am unable to see a single good adventure game on consoles.Heavy rain is 2009 and alan waks is nowhere to be seen.Where the heck are all the good adventure gamesmlbslugger86

Have you read any of the posts by so-called "hardcore gamers" here? Any game that isn't FPS, contain guns, or doesn't have explosions get bashed ENDLESSLY.

The FPS playing casual is now the main audience for gaming. ANd there are now so many of them that they have convinced themselves they must be "teh hardcore" and "teh real gamarz!!" Meanwhile, because of them, great original games get ignored, while every single half-arsed FPS that comes out is a huge seller.

hey hey hey do i go around bashing your favorite genre...whatever it might be?

whats so wrong with liking FPS exclusively?

You can't call yourself a football fan if you hate all but one team. You aren't a football fan in that case...you are a team fan. What hobby or interests do you have other than FPS/games. Anything at all that you are passionate about and devote time to? I can provide a more suitable comparison than the football analogy above.

If you like FPS exclusively, I would argue that you aren't a real "gamer" or a hardcore gamer"...you are a FPS fan or a hardcore FPS player.

Maybe I'm nitpicking, but as someone who has played games since consoles were invented, grew up in an arcade, and can't remember a single time in my life when games weren't around...I find it a little insulting to hear people calling themselves "hardcore gamers" but then bashing almost every game. No self respecting gamer would bash a game because it dared to have a story and character development, dared to try something new or differnet or because it doesn't have the best graphics, explosions or is single player only. I'm sorry, but these people are not REAL gamers. To me, real gamers care about great games of all types. If you only care about one type of game, or bash games based on anything other than the experience they offer and how well they acheive what they are trying to accomplish...you aren't a real or "hardcore" gamer. You are just someone who plays games. A casual.

There is nothing wrong with that. I just feel people need to accept what they are instead of spending so much time convincing everyone they are "hardcore" about everything all the time. Going back to my original comparison, just accept that you aren't a "football fan", you just like the home team and couldn't care less about the sport as a whole. Again, there is nothing wrong with that.

If people like this were around 20+ years ago, then the majority of the best games that this industry was built on never would have existed in the first place.

Am unable to see a single good adventure game on consoles.Heavy rain is 2009 and alan waks is nowhere to be seen.Where the heck are all the good adventure games-hells-

True..

Also im starting to get bored of FPS genre all the time... WAY too many of em for consoles this gen..

blame microsoft for overdoing the fps on their consoles...darn halo...back when goldeneye was around there was still a great balance and variety and goldeneye satisfied anybodies shooter fix

i mean seriously you've played one shooter ....you've played them all...

Goldeneye is way better than halo!...only thing halo added is the ability to have online...put goldeneye online and fugged a bout it

I would mention Mettroid Prime, but reading your sig I guess you don't have a Wii.EuroMafia

Nah I dont.And considering that I want about just 6 games on it(smg,loz:tp,ssbb,zack and wiki,re4,mp3).I will buy it when the next ninty system comes out so that I can get the games and the system for cheap.But leaving that aside thats just 1 game plus it isnt the true kind of adventure game I want .Am talking about games like myst and sam and max.Only involving puzzles and interaction no shooting elements at all

This.Verge_6

Sad but true.SCREW YOU QUAKE

you mean the point 'n click adventures? or action/adventures? like zelda and suchkillerfist

Point and click adventures man. Like myst. But seing that in my original post I have mentioned heavy rain it should be obvious what I am getting at

Tomb Raider?JIT93

That's an action-adventure game. A true adventure game is something like Indigo Prophecy.

• Mata Hari
• So Blonde
• Vamprye Story
• Gray Matter
• Sam and Max
• Heavy Rain

Those are six games coming from vets of the adventure genre (many from Lucasarts, one from Jane Jensen, maker of Gabriel Knight), if you can't wait for them though, just look at the freeware adventure games, including Nelly Cootalot, A Tale of Two Kingdoms, Kings Quest 2 remake and many, many more.

GS lists of Adventure games for 360 - problem solved ?

Bionic Commando

Release Date: TBA

Bionic Commando features a hero with a grappling hook arm used to navigate levels, to take out enemies, rappel down sheer surfaces, and more.

Genre: Sci-Fi Adventure

Naruto: The Broken Bond

Release Date: November 2008

Naruto: The Broken Bond is an all new action-adventure game featuring 25 characters to play alongside or against and features online multiplayer.

Genre: Adventure

The Godfather II

Release Date: TBA

The second game based on the ****c Mafia films will incorporate both top-down strategy and Grand Theft Auto-****street-level action.

Genre: Adventure

Lego Indiana Jones: The Original Adventures

Release Date: Jun 3, 2008

Build, battle, and brawl your way through favorite cinematic moments in Lego Indiana Jones: The Original Adventures.

Full Review »

Genre: Adventure

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Penny Arcade Adventures: On the Rain-Slick Precipice of Darkness

Release Date: May 21, 2008

This comic adventure game is based on the web comic strip characters Tycho Brahe and Jonathan "Gabe" Gabriel.

Full Review »

Genre: Adventure

Prison Break

Release Date: February 2009

Genre: Adventure

Prince of Persia ****c

Release Date: Jun 13, 2007

Prince of Persia ****c is a remake of the 1989 Prince of Persia game and features updated visuals, new puzzles, and new enemies.

Full Review »

Genre: Adventure

Leisure Suit Larry: Box Office Bust

Release Date: Q1 2009

The king of womanizing lounge lizards is back and spending his summer working on a Hollywood movie lot.

Genre: Adventure

Marvel Super Hero Squad

Release Date: Q4 2009

Genre: Adventure

The Chronicles of Narnia: Prince Caspian

Release Date: May 15, 2008

This game inspired by the next movie in the Narnia series has the Pevensie children travelling back to Narnia, which is now ruled by another evil tyrant.

Full Review »

Genre: Adventure

CSI: Crime Scene Investigation: Hard Evidence

Release Date: Sep 26, 2007

CSI: Crime Scene Investigation: Hard Evidence is a crime solving adventure and is based on the characters and storylines from the television series.

Full Review »

Genre: Adventure

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The Spiderwick Chronicles

Release Date: Feb 5, 2008

This game is based on the movie made from the best-selling book, The Spiderwick Chronicles.

Genre: Adventure

Beyond Good & Evil 2 (working title)

Release Date: TBA 2008

Genre: Sci-Fi AdventureIncarnate

Release Date: TBA

Track down the re-incarnated souls of history's most evil people in your capacity as an agent for a shadowy organization of dubious intent.

Genre: AdventureHeroes

Release Date: TBA

A game based on the popular TV series that features ordinary people with extraordinary powers, like flight, time travel, and invulnerability.

Genre: Adventure

....SecretPolice

Very few of those are true adventure games, however. Most of them are Action-Adventure.

[QUOTE="SecretPolice"]....organic_machine

Very few of those are true adventure games, however. Most of them are Action-Adventure.

Though to my knowledge has kind of poor sales. :?

Uncharted?sam280992

Action-adventure.

Point and clicks died when people discovered the ability to render 3d visuals. They found much more interesting, and actually fun games, like Quake, doom and Starcraft. (And Duke Nukem =D)

Face it, you can bash FPS all you want, but it really is hardcore, I played shooters on the NES with my light gun and moved onto windows shooters. As long as you only get the good ones, you shouldn't get sick of them.

FYI Adventure games are boring as hell.

Point and clicks died when people discovered the ability to render 3d visuals. They found much more interesting, and actually fun games, like Quake, doom and Starcraft. (And Duke Nukem =D)

Face it, you can bash FPS all you want, but it really is hardcore, I played shooters on the NES with my light gun and moved onto windows shooters. As long as you only get the good ones, you shouldn't get sick of them.

FYI Adventure games are boring as hell.

loganh92

People who like to think don't find them boring at all.

Sam & Max Season 1 and 2.

• Mata Hari
• So Blonde
• Vamprye Story
• Gray Matter
• Sam and Max
• Heavy Rain

Those are six games coming from vets of the adventure genre (many from Lucasarts, one from Jane Jensen, maker of Gabriel Knight), if you can't wait for them though, just look at the freeware adventure games, including Nelly Cootalot, A Tale of Two Kingdoms, Kings Quest 2 remake and many, many more.

gingerdivid

This. What people don't realize is they're alive and well, just not in the spotlight.

[QUOTE="mlbslugger86"][QUOTE="ZIMdoom"]

[QUOTE="-hells-"]Am unable to see a single good adventure game on consoles.Heavy rain is 2009 and alan waks is nowhere to be seen.Where the heck are all the good adventure gamesZIMdoom

Have you read any of the posts by so-called "hardcore gamers" here? Any game that isn't FPS, contain guns, or doesn't have explosions get bashed ENDLESSLY.

The FPS playing casual is now the main audience for gaming. ANd there are now so many of them that they have convinced themselves they must be "teh hardcore" and "teh real gamarz!!" Meanwhile, because of them, great original games get ignored, while every single half-arsed FPS that comes out is a huge seller.

hey hey hey do i go around bashing your favorite genre...whatever it might be?

whats so wrong with liking FPS exclusively?

You can't call yourself a football fan if you hate all but one team. You aren't a football fan in that case...you are a team fan. What hobby or interests do you have other than FPS/games. Anything at all that you are passionate about and devote time to? I can provide a more suitable comparison than the football analogy above.

If you like FPS exclusively, I would argue that you aren't a real "gamer" or a hardcore gamer"...you are a FPS fan or a hardcore FPS player.

Maybe I'm nitpicking, but as someone who has played games since consoles were invented, grew up in an arcade, and can't remember a single time in my life when games weren't around...I find it a little insulting to hear people calling themselves "hardcore gamers" but then bashing almost every game. No self respecting gamer would bash a game because it dared to have a story and character development, dared to try something new or differnet or because it doesn't have the best graphics, explosions or is single player only. I'm sorry, but these people are not REAL gamers. To me, real gamers care about great games of all types. If you only care about one type of game, or bash games based on anything other than the experience they offer and how well they acheive what they are trying to accomplish...you aren't a real or "hardcore" gamer. You are just someone who plays games. A casual.

There is nothing wrong with that. I just feel people need to accept what they are instead of spending so much time convincing everyone they are "hardcore" about everything all the time. Going back to my original comparison, just accept that you aren't a "football fan", you just like the home team and couldn't care less about the sport as a whole. Again, there is nothing wrong with that.

If people like this were around 20+ years ago, then the majority of the best games that this industry was built on never would have existed in the first place.

True and I like playing all the genres