I tried playing that Grim Fandango and while I love the style and the story and find it really funny from the intro, I start playing and think to myself that the gameplay is really boring and pointless. I'd rather just watch it as a movie rather than being frustrated spending ages working out what to do or clicking to move about because the gameplay isn't fun, the story and script is.

So when people say adventure games are dying well....... yeh the gameplay is boring that noone really finds it fun and thats why they don't sell well. However the thing that made them so good which were the story is now being put into other genres like FPS and RPG where the gameplay is more action based and fun.

So really have they died? The boring gameplay has but the stories that made them so great in the first place have just been merged into other genres.

Every game... is an adventure. Let us set sail!

"I tried playing that Grim Fandango and while I love the style and the story and find it really funny from the intro, I start playing and think to myself that the gameplay is really boring and pointless. I'd rather just watch it as a movie rather than being frustrated spending ages working out what to do or clicking to move about because the gameplay isn't fun, the story and script is.

So when people say adventure games are dying well....... yeh the gameplay is boring that noone really finds it fun and thats why they don't sell well. However the thing that made them so good which were the story is now being put into other genres like FPS and RPG where the gameplay is more action based and fun.

So really have they died? The boring gameplay has but the stories that made them so great in the first place have just been merged into other genres."

Well I think traditional point and click games really require the inclusion of puzzles. That style of adventure game has become very rare. Action Adventure games are too different for me to compare them to old PC adventure games. So I do think that they are dying out.

Heavy Rain for the PS3 will be in the adventure genre, and the same developers made Ingido Prophecy (or Fahrenheit, the superior version). The Sherlock Holmes games are adventure, there's a couple Dracula ones out. There are so many cheap ones that came out the past two years for the PC, just look for them on the shelves.

Adventure has merged with all other genre's.

I always thought the simple gameplay allowed for Developers to focus more on the storylines which were always great.

Technically Gears is also an adventure game, afterall you go on an adventure.

Just what do you think is a good old regular adventure game?

Actually now you should use the term Point 'n click adventure becasue almost all of the games of various genres (excluding racing , RTS and straight shooters ) have some adventure elements to it . Point 'n click adventure games are not dead , there are still many games of high quality like Still life 2 being produced by the developers . gameplay wise these adventure games are all about engaging stories , dialogs and puzzles  . you should not expect more from these games .

"Actually now you should use the term Point 'n click adventure becasue almost all of the games of various genres (excluding racing , RTS and straight shooters ) have some adventure elements to it . Point 'n click adventure games are not dead , there are still many games of high quality like Still life 2 being produced by the developers . gameplay wise these adventure games are all about engaging stories , dialogs and puzzles  . you should not expect more from these games .
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"Technically Gears is also an adventure game, afterall you go on an adventure.

Just what do you think is a good old regular adventure game?"

"daniel_beck_90 said:

"Actually now you should use the term Point 'n click adventure becasue almost all of the games of various genres (excluding racing , RTS and straight shooters ) have some adventure elements to it . Point 'n click adventure games are not dead , there are still many games of high quality like Still life 2 being produced by the developers . gameplay wise these adventure games are all about engaging stories , dialogs and puzzles  . you should not expect more from these games .
"

I still remember that Pink Panther point and click game. It was awesome.

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"StaticFalconar said:

"Technically Gears is also an adventure game, afterall you go on an adventure.

Just what do you think is a good old regular adventure game?"

I think he means what is also called Point-and-Click.

Finding it boring is merely taste. I have fun playing this type of the, I don't think the gameplay is boring at all.
And the genre isn't necessarily dying, it's just not mainstream anymore. There's a huge indie community that makes said games. And bigger publishers have found a place for them in episodic content, like Sam & Max. A Vampyre Story just came out, and although it's critically aclaimed, no one even talks about it, let alone play. So, it's not dying, it's just hidden."

Dreamfall and Indigo Proph are both relatively new games, and you have Heavy Rain coming + a bunch of NDS titles so not dying, but certainly the age of Myst is over

They still make point and click adventures.  You're just not looking in the right places.

www.adventuregamers.com

Check it out.

I'm a huge fan of the genre and I still play any good ones that I find.

If you're talking about point-and-click adventure games, yes, the genre is pretty much dead. It's a real shame too - just look at the excellent Zack & Wiki for the Wii.

Adventure games are not dying, games genres that were not adventures before are being made into adventures.

They're mostly being merged into other genres. There are plenty of games with things from adventure games in them. Adventure games in general though, at their core, they are kinda near death I would say, though I still enjoy them plenty.

"I tried playing that Grim Fandango and while I love the style and the story and find it really funny from the intro, I start playing and think to myself that the gameplay is really boring and pointless. I'd rather just watch it as a movie rather than being frustrated spending ages working out what to do or clicking to move about because the gameplay isn't fun, the story and script is.

So when people say adventure games are dying well....... yeh the gameplay is boring that noone really finds it fun and thats why they don't sell well. However the thing that made them so good which were the story is now being put into other genres like FPS and RPG where the gameplay is more action based and fun.

So really have they died? The boring gameplay has but the stories that made them so great in the first place have just been merged into other genres."

Does Little Big planet count?


that game has the whole adventure nostalgia

count in the endless playback with user created content

everything else is being merged, because games are so advanced now... causes a creativity drought...

"They still make point and click adventures.  You're just not looking in the right places.

www.adventuregamers.com

Check it out.

I'm a huge fan of the genre and I still play any good ones that I find."

The point and click adventure genre isn't dead yet.  I brought all the new Sam and Max episodes as well as several other ones that were released last year.

I thought Starbreeze's games reminded me very much of the adventure games of old despite being action games. Both The Darkness and especially The Chronicles of Riddick: Escape from Butcher Bay had long stretches of just puzzle solving (though often in a violent way) between action sequences.