Adventure-Treff guest column #4: Aaron Conners

Great article. Very well written points on the pros and cons that aren't a rehash of whats already been said elsewhere. I'd of been interested to hear after the bit talking about the limitations they found with UAKM how PD and Overseer overcame these. But overall great read.

Personally I enjoyed the FMV games I played so I don't have a negative opinion of them. I thought the acting and story was great in Black Dahlia, Toonstruck and others. Sometimes they had some laughable moments but they tended to be the times when they were intentionally not taking themself too seriously such as in Gabriel Knight 2. But I did see what other games I was lucky to miss in online series like "FMV Hell" and so I understand the bad reputation that sadly shadowed over all the great ones. Glad Aaron can put into words what sets them apart.

Very much enjoyed the article! I hope it gets widespread!

I still believe that the Tex Murphy games were the only ones that figured out how to make FMV work. As in, they were literally the only truly great FMV games.

But all this talk about FMV does detract from the fact the the actual game isn't FMV-based. I hope people understand that part.

joliet_jane wrote:I still believe that the Tex Murphy games were the only ones that figured out how to make FMV work. As in, they were literally the only truly great FMV games.

They were my favourite FMV games for sure and top of the list But curious are the other FMV games you played or know of just the FMV Hell ones? Personally I would also rank games like Black Dahlia, Toonstruck (Christopher LLoyd aka Doc Brown from Back to the Future) and Gabriel Knight 2 in a list of great FMV games. But other than Gabriel Knight 2 I doubt many got to play the other ones as they didn't get a lot of marketing. Whilst somehow the ones from FMV Hell etc. seemed to get the most publicity so I can understand why people would of missed out

I would add to that Zork Nemesis, Zork: Grand Inquisitor, The Journeyman Project Series and Wing Commander III, IV and Prophecy plus Privateer 2: The Darkening.

Excellent article! However, I also would like to know what facilitated the improvement in the quality of the cut scenes from UAKM to Pandora.

good article.

just posted translation, only on a forum sadly

when to expect something new from aaron?