2006 adventure games sector situation

[Sunich]

"It's long since been noted by many PC game players that adventure gaming has been on the decline. This year it reached the point that, for the first time since we started doing this about 10 years ago, we couldn't even come up with five solid finalists for an Adventure Game of the Year award."
That's what gamespot.com mailing list says. Any comments?

[gail]

Ten years ago, I didn't know what an adventure game was. Now I read different definitions of what "adventure" games are. With this changing definition, timed sequences, more action etc., maybe 'adventure' games are just evolving or being blended with other game genre's.

Hope they don't totally disappear.

[Pifou]

in his interview Benoit Sokal talks about aventure games...
he says that adventure games are not the priority today for commercial purposes... war and violent games are the priority where each one can easyly hit/destroy virtual unwanted frightening creatures...
Hmm... but... he also says that adventure games will come back soon when the people will recover a real brain... again... hehe

sorry guys, but wait & see...

[Sunich]

the problem is, people don't like to think and play at the same time.

[David]

thats the idea Sunich. you wanna rest and do something which doesnt require too much thinking!
however i think its rather bad attidude...its like not having any intelectual movies or books
i do hope that there will be some brain squeezing game sin the near future
Also adventure games are in some sort of slow transition now...from old and overused 2d to something else. Obviously the current 3d thing is not the best medium for adv.games since they always involve some sort of action, which makes them not adventure games anymore.

[Sunich]

totally agree with that. introducing new tech to adventures makes it too tempting to get some action in the game.