Enter the Ragdoll! And bring Threepwood with it!
Rag Doll King Fu. Remember that name as you sit down on your wooden stool in your village idiot garb as you prepare to eke out a meager living making video games. For even the unlimited coffers of Micro$oft and EA Games could not produce a game with such gameplay and originality, while a lone programmer at LionHead studios brought that piece of software magnificence to life.
Mark Healey, I salute thee!
On another note, I have noticed on several frustrating occasions that no one seems to know what an adventure game is. Being a seasoned adventure gamer who frequently parries with those less fortunate in gaming sense, I would be happy settle this once and for all.
An adventure game is a game where there is very little to no action whatsoever. The only vestiges of action are those offered by the developer to provide a little gimmicky break between shoving rather large and seemingly uncomfortable items in your tight jeans [Gabriel Knight] and solving rather obscure puzzles [Indiana Jones and the Fate of Atlantis]. It is a game more often than not played with a mouse with the added support of a keyboard. It is a game along the likes of LucasArts' greats like Monkey Island and Grim Fandango...not to mention Sam and Max and Day of the Tentacle.
Of course, you have to remember this little tid-bit...don't get distracted now, pay attention. GAMES LIKE TOMB RAIDER ARE NOT ADVENTURE GAMES!! They may have some puzzle bits but most of the time they ARE called action games or at the very highest, action/adventure games. So get your collective heads out of Lara Croft's fine behind and look to the genre that was and, like the Jedi in Star Wars, are continually bombed by the gaming heavyweights.
As you are all quite enlightened on this topic I hope, I shall take my leave. For those of you still scratching their heads in exasperation at the insane amounts of information trying to force its way into your feeble minds, please leave me your name, age and address so that I may visit death upon your sleeping forms.
Ciao.
Mark Healey, I salute thee!
On another note, I have noticed on several frustrating occasions that no one seems to know what an adventure game is. Being a seasoned adventure gamer who frequently parries with those less fortunate in gaming sense, I would be happy settle this once and for all.
An adventure game is a game where there is very little to no action whatsoever. The only vestiges of action are those offered by the developer to provide a little gimmicky break between shoving rather large and seemingly uncomfortable items in your tight jeans [Gabriel Knight] and solving rather obscure puzzles [Indiana Jones and the Fate of Atlantis]. It is a game more often than not played with a mouse with the added support of a keyboard. It is a game along the likes of LucasArts' greats like Monkey Island and Grim Fandango...not to mention Sam and Max and Day of the Tentacle.
Of course, you have to remember this little tid-bit...don't get distracted now, pay attention. GAMES LIKE TOMB RAIDER ARE NOT ADVENTURE GAMES!! They may have some puzzle bits but most of the time they ARE called action games or at the very highest, action/adventure games. So get your collective heads out of Lara Croft's fine behind and look to the genre that was and, like the Jedi in Star Wars, are continually bombed by the gaming heavyweights.
As you are all quite enlightened on this topic I hope, I shall take my leave. For those of you still scratching their heads in exasperation at the insane amounts of information trying to force its way into your feeble minds, please leave me your name, age and address so that I may visit death upon your sleeping forms.
Ciao.
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