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Nocturnal
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Supreme Hero
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posted December 17, 2011 05:18 AM |
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Adventure Games
Let this be a tread about adventure games in general.
And this would be my first post on a tread about adventure games.
Last night I got curious over Batman: Arkham City, as it recieved insane reviews, is the universally highest rated game of 2011 now and also most people here seem to love it. I imagined it was a RPG but than I saw it is an adventure game and...prejudice, disappointment, call it whatever you like, but I loath adventures.
---Contains SPOILERS about Prince Of Persia: The Two Thrones and Darksiders---
Take Prince Of Persia for example. I've played The Two Thrones. There was a battle with 2 opponents in an arena both with HUGE swords, I have finished it in 4-5 hours, don't know restarted it how many times. Having an insane and long battle and then losing it and having to re-do it is just frustrating. Or that boss at the very end of the game. It was insanely difficult and when you die you just have restart that whole battle which is such a stressful match. I've dropped the game at that boss fight.
Or Darksiders. There was some act boss, a flying female giant. You just have to do the EXACT same thing over and over in that one single battle. You strike her, she waits with pain then continues. I even started to count it but gave up after 40. That one battle was nearly 45 minutes. I was bored out of my wits.
---spoilers ended---
Even in my childhood, there was this game Earthworm Jim 3D. It only saved the game at the beginning of each chapter! Each chapter is a 1,5 hours of gameplay. You've died? Do it again. And at the end of some chapter there was some huge stairs in a tower, and at the top there is the exit door. You have to double jump and then fly and grab the edge of each stair for all of them. And I have fallen from the LAST stair. I have gone mad. Took that CD out of the CD-rom and broken it with my barehands.
I played some others too of course. But I find them, you know, banale. The things you have to do are already decided in details. "You have to do that this way, do that other thing this way, and do this this way now" you cannot change anything, any player's game experience is a copy-paste of the other player's, the gamer is insignificant. You just go "I did it right" at the end. That's it.
Only Time Commando (1996) stands as the sole adventure game I love. And it was one of the nicest games I have played. It was frigging beautiful.
So what do you people think about this? Have I unluckily came across bad adventure games? Do you like this games I've mentioned or adventure games in general? What are your favourite adventure games? And has anyone played Time Commando?
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Vindicator
Supreme Hero
Right Back Extraordinaire
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posted December 17, 2011 05:22 AM |
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and I cannot find the game now
How come?
Or do you mean you don't want to buy it, you want to find it?
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Nocturnal
Promising
Supreme Hero
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posted December 17, 2011 05:31 AM |
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and I cannot find the game now
How come?
Or do you mean you don't want to buy it, you want to find it?
I've dropped looking for it years ago as it was nowhere to be found. I got excited for a moment then the comment below crushed my dreams, although it's normal:
"IT DOESN'T WORK ON WINDOWS XP, VISTA, OR 7! "
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Elodin
Promising
Legendary Hero
Free Thinker
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posted December 18, 2011 02:21 PM |
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I'm not big on adventure games but I play them from time to time. Recently I've been playing Trine 2 some (I never played Trine 1.) Most of the Trine 2 puzzles are physics based. There is a lot of jumping and figuring out how you are going to get from "here" to "there."
In Trine 2 you have 3 characters that you can chose between at any time. A warrior, a thief, and a wizard. There are no items in the game to be collected. You collect experience potions and skills as you level up.
I've played the wizard the most and have maxed his skills while switching to the thief or warrior as needed to solve puzzles or fight monsters. The wizard begins with the ability to levitate objects and to create one box. You can expand his abilities to create a total of 4 objects at a time and can learn to create planks. So you could have any combination of 4 boxes and planks out at once. The wizard can also learn the ability to levitate monsters. The wizard kills monsters by levitating them (one at a time) into the path of fire of a trap or dropping them on a trap or into a bottomless pit. The wizard can also kill monster with his boxes if he can manage to drop enough of them on a monster. The wizard's combat is not suited for multiple foes at once but his skills are the most flexible in solving the puzzles in the game.
The warrior has a sword and shield or can switch to a two handed hammer. I've only skilled him in frost shield so far (when a monster strikes his shield the monster is chilled.) He can learn skills such as fire sword, throwing hammer, explosive hammer, and charge. I switch to him when facing multiple foes.
The thief has various elemental archery skills (ice arrow is the only one I've developed so far) and a grappling hook. The grappling hook is really pretty neat. Once hooked, it can be easily extended or retracted, and the thief can swing back and forth to gain speed for a longer jump.
The game graphics are quite nice. It is an excellent game for the $15 price tag on STEAM.
Oh, I should also mention it has coop multiplayer though I've only played single player.
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