Unofficial Tex Murphy

We have yet to beat it.

Not sure I'm following...

If you're saying we don't have any decent Adventure games out right now, then I would have to somewhat agree with you... We do however have them coming... Gray Matter is due out next year, hopefully... VonGlower can tell us a lot more about that... And thanks to Von getting me all hot and bothered over it, I'm eagerly awaiting it's release next year as well... Grand Theft Auto IV just came out... I know it has a lot of blow things up to it, but it has some story and adventure behind it...

Then there is this game, I'm really waiting for this one... L.A. Noire, this looks really good from the trailer...

http://www.rockstargames.com/lanoire/splash.html


Their out there, we just have to look for them now... 15 years ago they were slapping us in the face... Now they are a little harder to find... But they are out there...

The new adventure game I'm referencing to is a new Tex game.

Ahhh... Yes, sadly it is true... The future of Tex is looking dim indeed... All we can do is keep hope alive...

On the long run I see a lot more optimistic into the adventure future and the comback of FMV ( And associated to that a possible return of Tex).
Like I said in the adventure thread there are lots of adventures being published each year, and it´s getting more and more and more. The problem was that for some years the really GREAT games were missing eventhough there were good ones, but with games like Gray matter, A vampyre story and Mata Hari the new wave of adventures might be taken to a new quality level ( Or let´s say to the impressing quality level we had years ago).

Let´s hope these games have some commercial success ( Especially a vampire story gets gigantic media coverage by magazines that don´t give other adventures much coverage even though there is a definately positive trend ) I predict A vampyre story will hit the mass market in a BIG way and it will attract people outside of the adventure genre, which will be good for the whole genre. I hope this whole situation swaps over to the american market , I mean the american companys witness what´s going on on the european market, and the better europe does, the bigger the chance some american companys start doing adventures again. And let´s say it goes down like that, there is so much room for new FMV games. The technology is ready today and the big thing about FMV games to me is ( As I´ve written in my feature) this sort of game has the chance to reach markets completely untouched in the original FMV era. I´ve seen it with Gabriel Knight2 , people fell in love with that game that would never touch a computer game . FMV adventures are something a lot of people who are into storytelling might get hooked up on, if there is some good marketing done that reaches out for new markets.
And then there must be at least some really intelligent FMV games. I mean there were so many horrible FMV games written by people that SUCK big time and with all that garbage you can´t reach any new market. BUT it was Jane Jensen and Aaron Conners that have proven what a platform for great storytelling FMV games can have. And if you have something like that it will appeal to non players a lot more than "normal" adventures.
They WILL be back, and on the long run i don´t think that a new Tex game is completely unrealistic, even though it won´t happen too soon. The market is moving and the first step is made .

During the time of Adventure Games over a decade ago, publishers were so interested in flooding the market they didn't think of the fact that the market could actually be killed from the waste products that weren't worth much, while great games like the Tex Murphy Series and others faded due to the flooding of any and all Adventure Games, whether they were good or bad...

I was going through a small stack of my games a couple days ago and I came across Spycraft... That was a FMV game... A rather good one in my opinion... Though the Photo Puzzle was a little one the hard side, they didn't leave any room for error with the size of the head, it had to be Just right or you couldn't get past the Chinese Chick... Had a decent Cast too... A couple very well known actors...

http://www.imdb.com/title/tt0240921/

Not to mention both former CIA director William Colby and the former director of the KGB, Oleg Kalugin. Or if you wanna be really picky, he was the KGB Major-General.

Fun times.

-Fred

Ah, yes, Spycraft: The Great Game. Who ever thought stopping a heart attack could be so fun?

Don't forget the Journeyman Project Trilogy, especially JP3. That was a great game, & one of the few times I felt a time travel story was done well. That's another series I wish had continued, as they were about to remake JP1 in full FMV when they folded.

Hammerhead

Hammerhead wrote: Don't forget the Journeyman Project Trilogy, especially JP3. That was a great game, & one of the few times I felt a time travel story was done well. That's another series I wish had continued, as they were about to remake JP1 in full FMV when they folded.

Yes, Legacy Of Time was indeed an excellent game... I haven't tried to get it to run on XP yet... Anyone know if it's possible???

I also have a couple of ER games that used FMV... Not bad if you like acting like a Dr. from time to time... I haven't played them in years, but they were in the last batch of games I sifted through, so that's how I remembered them... The one ER had the guy from 7th Heaven I think... He played the Lead Dr. you had to report to after every case... Hah, found it, Code Blue: Critical Condition, was it's proper name, but it came from the Makers of Emergency Room...

http://www.imdb.com/title/tt0249448/

Emergency Room. That game was actually really fun. I could have been sued for Malpractice I don't know how many times ...

But on the topic of the journey man, the first one is the one I remember the most, and played the hell out of. It's too bad they never did the full fmv of it, because I would have ate it up.

I wish I had played the first 2... I only have the 3rd one...

Newgrounds.com has a large collection of Flash adventure games.
http://www.newgrounds.com/game/adventuregames

In particular, this Star Trek one is my favorite:
http://www.newgrounds.com/portal/view/118934

Say, wasn't there talk long ago of Tex Murphy being done in Flash?

Anyone remember an old BBS game called L.O.R.D. Legend Of The Red Dragon??? I use to love that game... All the ones available now kind of suck though...

Bafitis wrote:During the time of Adventure Games over a decade ago, publishers were so interested in flooding the market they didn't think of the fact that the market could actually be killed from the waste products that weren't worth much, while great games like the Tex Murphy Series and others faded due to the flooding of any and all Adventure Games, whether they were good or bad...

This still happens today when a new market is created like MMORPGs (Verant and Sony with EverQuest). Publishers will jump on the bandwagon to capture a percentage of that market. Eventually the market will become fragmented enough as to not be offer high enough profits to continue developing in that market.

Piracy and/or a decline in the interest of PC Gaming are often sited as the problems when a market becomes over-saturated.