I remember spending hours after hours with Monkey Island, i remember playing Sam & Max for days! I remember playing Day of the Tentacle, Loom, Kings Quest, Robin Hood (yea i actually did), Simon the Sorcerer, Full Throttle, Maniac Mansion, Indiana Jones and the Fate of Atlantis. So where have this genre gone? I dont think its the consumers that changed its just that the stereotypical gamer is the 14-16 year old kid who loves violence! And thats what sells, FPS games have never been hotter, video game violence has never been goryer or bloodier. So what happened to taking care of the core gamers? The ones that played games before these kids where more than a twinkle in theyre mothers eye? I think theres a market for every type of game. I think that old school adventure games will make a comeback. You see it with Monkey Island remakes, thats a beautiful thing since Monkey Island 1 and 2 are my top favourite adventure games of all time! None above!! But when you see the overwealming respons those games get why cant other game companys get onto this bandwagon and ride out some more classics? Yea yea, maybe alot of the remakes will suck ass but atleast theres a chance that some of them might still work right? I demand more adventure games in the liking of the old school ones i named. I know theres alot more gamers like me and those are the ones i wanna hear from. So all my fellow old school adventure gamers stand up and lets unite against what is becoming gaming equals FPS games! Lets take back our adventure games, with theyre lame humour, theyre brain numming puzzles, with theyre ability to drag you into theyre world! We dont want so much of the fast paced action packed games we get nowadays, we wanna relax and use your brains abit more! Common!!!
Ronny Stensen
www.gamersweb.no
ronny@gamersweb.no
Microsoft announced its financial results for Q3 of fiscal year 2026, including an update on its gaming Xbox business and more.
Not looking good. Hopefully Asha Sharma is able to turn Phil’s disaster around.
To me it's still quite remarkable how they can cash-in 5.3bn in revenue in a single quarter, since their hardware is basically dead.
The stock mark is what makes Microsoft remarkable, They have convinced every institutional and retail investor to just keep piling money into them. Like many big tech giants they are just a big growing pyramid scheme. As long as people keep dropping money into ETF's that cover the market Microsoft will always be liquid. At the same time it is completely stifling innovation and competition. People need to start being more discreet in how they invest their money as it's killing the system.
Riiiiight because people will just flock back to them for one or two games per year.
15+ years of bad performance is what they call irreparable in business. It is time for them to sell off the assets and get out of entertainment.
These declines are on the back of extra revenue received from releasing games like Forza horizon 5 on PlayStation. So I’m being sarcastic here when I said they should go back to exclusives. Killing off a revenue stream from Ps5 sales will only make things worse
The charity event will be streamed live from Gamescom in August.
Thanks to the slip-up of an artist working on the title, we now have more evidence that a new Injustice game is in the works.
They are still being mad, what's missing is the quality; another problem is there are about a million strictly puzzle games on the net, which deflate the fan base.
The good news is that Japan style adventure games are becoming popular on the DS, like the Ace attorney series.
My all time favorite are Grime Fandango, Fullthrottle and Gabriel Knight.
P.S: don’t miss the Whispered World, looks great.
I'd say Heavy Rain fits into the category of "Adventure Game". ALso I don't think the market for them is as large as you think - yes the Monkey Island remakes got a lot of praise, but this is from nostalgia from old adventure game fans. That said, I too would like to see more adventure games.