Adventure games are back - a new golden era?

Ahhh, that would be so nice to enter a Golden Era of True Adventure Games... Even if only half of them succeed, it will be more than I think any of us ever dreamed of just a year ago...

The guess behind Space Quest, any word on what they plan to do, Another Space Quest, A Space Quest Remake, or something completely New???

Here's a link to their website. They plan to do a new "Spaceventure". http://guysfromandromeda.com/

I suppose one take on it could be fashion. One person just has to be bold enough to reintroduce something that has gone out of style. In fact to continue on that comparison shootem ups should be monotonous and outdated right now.

I'd love to see the day when a publisher laughs at those concepts.

Bjyman wrote: I'd love to see the day when a publisher laughs at those concepts.

That would be great!!

- Chris M

the publisher never laughs

Overall I didn't mean laughing literally because most publishers would be too professional to do that when shooting down ideas. However, while I don't know the context, Al Lowe said he got "laughed" at by a potential funder who said backing LSL would tarnish their good name.

well, if the new LSL (and other recent kickstarter funded games) succeeds, we`ll be able to see, that most publishers are literally too stupid to laugh... not professional

LSL is looking pretty good on the funding front..

If he'd made it 300k it would be a for sure, but the odds don't look too bad. I hope the our guys shoot a little low and nail it.
$340,680
PLEDGED OF $500,000 GOAL
17 DAYS TO GO

159k to go


Jane's added 20k in 4 days. If she maintains that pace, she'll squeak in.
$166,490
PLEDGED OF $300,000 GOAL
33 DAYS TO GO

134 k to go.

Interesting to watch.

It's not an adventure game, but Wasteland 2 has 45 hours left and they have done pretty well... Currently on $2,540,001... Would be great if Tex could get that!

I had never heard of the first Wasteland before this kickstarter project came about. Had anyone here?

- Chris M

Adventure Gaming isn't back, it survives.

marso84 wrote:It's not an adventure game, but Wasteland 2 has 45 hours left and they have done pretty well... Currently on $2,540,001... Would be great if Tex could get that!

I had never heard of the first Wasteland before this kickstarter project came about. Had anyone here?

- Chris M

Yes. I'm familiar with all of Fargo's games. Wasteland and Neuromancer (an adventure game, very good one, recommend playing it ) were released around the same time as each other. These two titles are the main reason why Interplay existed because they were enough to launch their careers.

Wasteland is the original Fallout. Its very well known if you were familiar with the history of Interplay and Brian Fargo.

I can't remember which article I read this in, but someone was commenting that this type of game development doesn't hurt the major studios/distributors at all, because community sourced game production wouldn't be able to raise the money needed for one of the current triple-A titles. That said, however, the number should inform the bigger studios what their audience is wanting.

They should take a queue from the trends on sites like Kickstarter, where the average gamer wants to play a game so bad, that he or she will spend their own money not just to buy it, but to donate money to it's very development. So, if the big boys like EA (Bioware), Zenimax (Bethesda), etc... do take the hint that people really do want adventure games back (and having Tex Murphy's kickstarter project be very successful would go a long way towards that), then there could be a real chance for a new golden age of adventure games.

And there would be all different styles, such as a mass-market adventure game for the biggest companies and more niche adventure games for indie companies who would continue with crowd source funding. Or it could all fall apart. But I really, REALLY hope it doesn't.

Doubt we'll see any adventure titles from Bethesda or bioware anytime soon they're not really capable of it now that they're sellout whores. Plus why should anyone go crawling back to the publishers now? We've proven that the industry is more profitable without them... No indie would go back to that $#it after seeing 1-3million earned in not even a week. Publishers are obsolete simple as that. The potential is there now imagine a system that does it better than kickstarter... No need for publishers anymore.

Kickstarter is only one step towards a full community fund industry in time all digital platforms will offer it and more people will go selfpublish.

What I find interesting is: it has taken other game genres and their publishers THIS long to stumble upon the benefits of making games truly cinematic, with good writing... Yet adventure games had all of these elements since the early 90s. And yet these companies spend their multi-million dollar budgets on absolute crap, and thn think they are pioneers. I say, if anything, a resurrection of the adventure genre is more about true cinematic gaming coming back to it's roots, because we owe a lot to it as a genre.

-Cub. =o)