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Nintendo To Be the Hero of the Adventure Genre?

Posted by ryuzaki0 on from the riding-to-the-rescue dept.

DreamWinkle writes "If you've spent the last few years playing old King's Quest VGA updates and longing for Space Quest and Day of the Tentacle, you'll be interested to know that the Adventure genre might be facing a resurgence — at Nintendo's hand. The adventure game was killed off by the console (poor controls and too much competition), and so it's ironic that Nintendo might be able to pull it from the grave. An article at About.com looks at how Nintendo could use its virtual console to make adventure games profitable again." From the article: "The reason that adventure games are disappearing is because they don't compete well with other genres. Trying to create an adventure game that meets the graphical standards of an audience taught to expect Elder Scrolls IV makes the whole endeavor far less appealing. However, building a product to compete with Geometry Wars might be more doable. Adventure games are not disappearing because no one is buying them; they're disappearing because people are buying other types of games far more often. "

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  1. Re:I GUESS it's possible... by AKAImBatman · · Score: 2, Informative
    Considering that the internet has existed as a distribution method for adventure games for...oh, over a decade now and that there hasn't been a huge resurgence, I've got my doubts here.
    There hasn't?

    I'm not sure what it'll take to revive the genre, but we haven't hit on it yet.
    How about a nice letter to SciFi Channel Productions saying that we love this game and we want an official one created just like it? Preferrably with the humor intact, and without all the Three-Dee crud all the game companies try to shove down our throats. Far too many attempts at reviving the genre tend to throw away the very elements that made it entertaining to begin with.
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  2. Re:Graphical quality? by Das+Modell · · Score: 2, Informative
    Haven't played them so I can't really comment. I remember it being pretty easy to tell what was 3D and what was 2D in the PS1 Resi games.

    Have a look at this, this or this. The characters blend very well. The difference between the original and the remake are pretty obvious.

    It's a good point rhough - Resident Evil games (pre Resi 4) are basically adventure games with extra zombies. The genre seems less dead the more you think about it.

    If Resident Evil had lots of dialogue, it wouldn't be much different from Dreamfall.