where did the adventure go?

By Tiwi April 17, 2009 18 Comments

I was born in the early 1990s, and i was born into a family that adored games and films,

so it was natural for me to develop a taste for games in that decade, like everybody else.
my father was a born nerd, and as a civil-engineering he wanted me to evolve my taste for both the FPSs side, f.ex. doom and Wolfenstein 3d, and the adventure games side ex. Myst and MM:DOTT.
I soon fell over the fence and developed a special place for the adventure games when I fell in love with Myst at the age of 4.
I later found the game Simon the sorcerer, and I have to this date never seen a game that funny, intelligent and throughout beautiful.
It revealed a way to both be ironic and still drag some of the humor form both the present and the past together.
Now I sit here 10 years later and i feel somehow betrayed by the companies that made these fantastic games. everything seems to get swallowed by the FPSs and the RPGs and the casual games.
The last good adventure game was Syberia2 and it came out in 2004, 5 years ago!
The next big hope for me is Heavy rain and/ or Allan Wake, maybe they are enough to drag this horse out of the quicksand maybe not.

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