The Cold Hotspot: Part 4

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[DCW]

Hey the article is linked on slashdot now. I've seen some insightful comments on it there. Unfortunately there are also a lot of people there who still say the genre is dead, quoting articles published in 1999. Get with the programme! The genre has already made a hestitant comeback two or three years ago and the future is looking bright, if they continue the current trend. I'm looking forward to Dreamfall and Fahrenheit. 2 games that are pushing the genre forwards.

[Redwall]

Does that mean that the recent downtime was due to AD being /.ed?

[Erwin_Br]

Does that mean that the recent downtime was due to AD being /.ed?

Nope, we're on a new server. We're also being linked by Ron Gilberts weblog, appearantly. And some gaming news sites, like Gamers Hell.

--Erwin

[Toolman]

One of my major gripes with adventure games has always been the inane logic. For wacky comedy games like Discworld and many LucasArts games it was all right. You'd expect weird solutions and weird puzzles. But even completely serious games had inane solutions to puzzles. The cat hair and syrup puzzle in gabriel knight, to name an example.

It's like todays games aren't much better. Maybe even worse. They have to learn from their mistakes, but instead they continue to copy old habits. And they copy it badly, which makes it even worse.

[Fairygdmther]

Nice sampling of upcoming games, Beiddie, and I like the sense of hopefulness that you give to us. It makes a good ending to a well-thought-out series.  I wish there were some answers to the lack of funding = less marketing = less money for games = lower overall quality games = lack of funding.  This is a vicious circle and hard to break through for developers.  The perception of a "dead genre" makes for a difficult sell to publishers.  As you pointed out, self-publishers have their problems as well.  Good job!

FGM