Ska said:Been wanted to complete the Snake quadrilogy for a while now.
Le Saboteur said:Psst. Ska! It's called a tetralogy.
bennihana123 said:Got a ton of giftcards for my birthday recently, and I had some old games to trade in, so I bought:
Modern Warfare 2
Call of Duty: World at War
Prince of Persia
Assassin's Creed
Mass Effect
Ska said:Been wanting to play Assassin's Creed for a while now. The sequel looks great and is getting good reviews.
Agent Crab said:Donkey Kong Country 2 is awesome, okay?
Lonsome_Drifter said:How 'bout Donkey Kong 64?
"D-K, Donkey Kong!
D-K, Donkey Kong is here!
He's the leader of the bunch,
You know him well.
And, he's finally back,
To kick some tail!
His coconut gun,
Can fire in spurts.
And, if it hits ya,
It's gonna hurt!"
I can't remember the rest.
Good games in their own right, but not adventure games in the genre sense.avidfilmbuff said:Zelda
Finn said:Good games in their own right, but not adventure games in the genre sense.
Eh, just a minor gripe, but it seems that fairly many people don't know what is an adventure game and what isn't. Sometimes they mix RPGs for these, sometimes action platformers (no, children, Tomb Raider or Uncharted are NOT adventure games) and this happens quite so often I just have this unpassable need to educate anyone who happens to mention an example that actually isn't part of the genre.
Do you feel educated now? Good. Let us continue.
Not really. There are enough titles out there that combine both elements that it's more a genre of its own.avidfilmbuff said:So really, the action-adventure genre is a sub-genre of both the action genre and the adventure genre.
Finn said:Not really. There are enough titles out there that combine both elements that it's more a genre of its own.
Adventure games omit direct player-controlled action as part of the core gameplay. There might be short action secquences or quick-time events (which most adventure gamers abhor, by the way) that don't yet disown a title from the genre, but when combat is included as a crucial element in a title, it either becomes an action-adventure or, if the game contains player-driven plot elements and character progression, an RPG.
Control method doesn't define an adventure game though. While point'n'click is the most conventional, even your standard first- or third person 3D interface can be used in an adventure game as long as there is no large quantities of combat and emphasis is on puzzle-solving and exploration.
So, the bottom line is that if there's more than amble amounts of fightin' and jumpin' to go around, as is the case with Zelda titles one really shouldn't call them an "adventure game" per se. Or, if one does, a clarification that the term is used in a lax context is in order.
'Tis all right. It's just that us fans of this oh-so-marginal genre nowadays should hold onto this distinction to show that there is still love for pure-blood puzzle solving instead of falling into the ignorance of general populace which results in games incorrectly labeled as "adventures" since they contain a single "put round plug in a round hole" -moment amidst all the runnin' and gunning.avidfilmbuff said:All right, if you insist. I shall now rephrase my previous statement, I enjoy any game with "adventure elements," meaning I enjoy any game which contains exploration and puzzle solving. I'm not a hardcore gamer so you must forgive me if I seem rather ignorant in the way I describe them, I just prefer to use the term "adventure game" to describe any game that includes puzzle solving and exploration, even though it may be slightly inaccurate. But like I said I'm not an expert in this field, so please forgive me if I sound foolish.
It depends on what you mean by that. Even First Person Shooters are based on its own kind of pointing and clicking, when you think of it.Lonsome_Drifter said:Are all point-an-click games considered Adventure?
Heavy Rain looks... unique. If there were more titles like it (and yes, I know about Fahrenheit/Indigo Prophecy) they'd probably would be worth of their own genre.Lonsome_Drifter said:Would you consider Heavy Rain a adventure with it's gameplay being primary QTEs?
Finn said:It depends on what you mean by that. Even First Person Shooters are based on its own kind of pointing and clicking, when you think of it. Heavy Rain looks... unique. If there were more titles like it (and yes, I know about Fahrenheit/Indigo Prophecy) they'd probably would be worth of their own genre.
But as there are very little like it, I'd still call it an adventure game. For now, at least.