No-Action Jackson - Graphic Adventuring Up Geekdom

digitaltacoGSI writes "Fans of LucasArts-style adventure games (Monkey Island, Day of Tentacle, etc) would be wise to check out the brand-new, freely downloadable PC graphical adventure entitled No-Action Jackson, from independent developer Britton O'Toole. The story revolves around a young nerd -- Jackson -- who must escape the confines of his house and free his friends from their daily activities in order to make it to their D&D sessions at the local comic book store. It's very funny, very professional, has a great old-school look, and includes some very difficult puzzles." Judging by the positive reactions on AGSForums.com, this is well worth checking out.

Comments

Re:Lack of innovation

[Anonymous Coward]

Dude, you don't diss Grim Fandango. You... you just don't.

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Re:Lack of innovation

[th3walrus]

Any time lack of innovation in adventure games comes up, we have to point out Gabriel Knight 3.

Beautiful game in it's day. Took the Sierra style adventure game into a fully 3d environment and had an amazing story. However, it's release during the FPS/Action boom doomed it to failure. It came out even before the repopularization of RPG's, let alone adventure games. People saw "Sierra", "Gabriel Knight" and "Adventure" and said "Screw that, give me more FPS'".

So even though it was one of the best adventure games (if not THE best) to ever grace the screen of a PC, it's failure against the FPS/Action game boom told game makers that fully 3d adventure games don't work.

I was so excited when I played GK3, thinking of all the great 3d adventure titles that would be released in the future. What a let down...

Re:Um.. no thanks.

[codexus]

Yes it could very well be a trojan. But then that is true of any software you download. It's never going to be 100% safe.