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Modern Maniac Mansion
Wired.com is reporting on a Modern remake of classic adventure game Maniac Mansion. From the article: "The new game is almost identical to the original, except for the graphics and sound. Like the original, it has seven characters you can assemble in groups of three to play the game, and the puzzle-filled adventure has eight different solutions, which vary based on which characters you choose."
http://games.slashdot.org/article.pl?sid=04/06/07/ 1015212&tid=202&tid=156&tid=10
Typing got cumbersome sometimes, but the later games where you could point/click were a great improvement.
Police Quest? Gold Rush?
Check out the older stuff here:
http://www.if-legends.org/~adventure/Sierra_On-Li
Even independent games like Hugo were a ton of fun.
Slashdot - posting yesterdays news three weeks from now! This friggin' article was published a WEEK ago! And, if you ever visit Home of the Underdogs, you would have known about this a LONG time ago!
In spite of the fact that this is a dupe, you could at least provide a link to the actual game website.
You probably shouldn't click this.
Ahem Syberia came out 2003, Syberia 2 came out 2004 and the reason why part two did not sell too well was because it simply was not good.
Adventure games are not top sellers (The longes journes sold to my knowledge around 300.000 worldwide) but they still have their nieche market. They currently are done mostly by smaller studios who dont go after a million copies sold. Some of those studios are only 2-3 people and the games can be produced rather cheaply, due to the fact that the tools have become very good and very cheap.
So for those small teams, the still existing core market of around 30.000 - 300.000 copies worldwide seems to be enough to make a living.
Of course you wont see any adventure games anymore done by Lucasarts or done by Blizzard you cannot simply sell a million copies of such a game anymore and those companies never even touch an idea without having a remote chance of reaching that, but the adventure game genre is very vivid, with more games being released 2004 than the years before, they have found their audience and their audience is very happy that so many of them come out again.
The adventure game scene currently pretty much resembles the golden era of pc gaming around the early nineties, many small development studios, no real megasellers but lots of quality titles and developers who operate on a shoestring budget but can make a living out of it most times if the quality is right.
And from the Freeware side of things probably around 10-20 others many based on AGS (I am not even counting the text adventures in here) some of them with very good production values.
Almost twice as many releases than in 2003 sounds like a dead genre to me. Adventure games are as dead as BSD.
Yup, in a commercial sense, Adventure games are dead. In a freeware sense, however, it has never been easier to create your own adventure games. Sure, there may be another old-school, official Monkey Island, or King's Quest, but independent developers are churning out more high-quality AGS titles than ever, most of them completely free.
THANK YOU! finally someone who got the point of the post!
Magna cum laude 3d was a waste of time, Im not even going to argue there, go to gameranking or rent it if you dont believe me, the jokes werent that funny and most of them were too juvenile, crude and oftenly involved potty jokes (press Y to fart ! amazing!) the history was.. well there wasnt actually an history you just tried to get laid with girl A get her interested eventually get rejected by an idiotic reason (who the fuck come with the idea of a jew cowgirl?) do the same with girl B repeating ad nauseum. And the mini games, seriously I can do better games in flash and they are far more interesting. I dont know about you but my copy is back at the e-shop by now.
If you are interested to see what Larry was actually like go and look up Larry VGA and Larry 1-6 not only they are quite funny most puzzles are mind challenging as well believe it or not!
Favorite quote from Larry 3: Passionate Paty in pursuit of the pulsating pectorals. (try to say that really fast twice in a row) when Paty locks herself of her apartment completely naked: "I never felt so EMBAREASSED!" (I still use that one in special ocassions)
Go ahead MOD my day!
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