• 13Jun 08

  Adventure games are loosing their magic

  So i just finnished playing Dracula Origins, a old school 2D adventure game. After playing this i really needed to post a blog.
  Adventure games are loosing their magic, i still play adventure games so i can find somthing that is good enough like The Longest Journey and Grim Fandango.
  I still havn't found any that can go to that standards.
  
  Ofcourse the most important thing in a adventure game, or any game is the story line. If it's not a story that sucks you in from the start, if it's story without a mystory, if it can't grab the gamers attention then it fails to become a adventure game.
  
  The secound most important part in a adventure game is the puzzles. Adventure games need puzzles that make the player think.
  First they go "How the hell do i do this! AHHHHHHH!" Then they think for a minute "wait a minute, if i put that there, ahh! yes i got it!"
  that is one of the magics the adventure games give us when we're playing it.
  
  The third most important element in an adventure game, in my opinion, is the voice acting.
  You are going to stay with this charater for pretty much till the end of the game, so you need a voice acter that can acturally talk good. This is what modren adventure games are lacking in the area today, there are no good voice acters, not just in adventure games but in most games now. I only think they chosen the Assian Creed's voice acter because it sounded nice, not because he could acturally act. The Folklore charaters were just terrible, it's like they just hired a random person in Japan that could speak english and invited them to a recording booth.
  
  The Experiment is one of the games i really couldn't stand playing. The puzzles, the mystories, the music, the graphics, everything was perfect..... except for the voice acting. I can't blame them, it was translated from a French version and to the French, all English langauges probably sound like crap. But look at Longest Journey, it was first a Norwegian game "Den lengste reisen" and still they got great actors.
  
  The most important thing in a adventure game aside all things, is to be able to love the charater you are playing. I love April Ryan. I would say it again, I love April Ryan, if she was real i would probably ask her to marry me and if she refuses I'll just keep coming back on her frount yard, like Big Fish ^.^.
  But you can't love a charater that's speaking like it's reading off the script and takes long pauses to turn the page and read the next line.
  
  Also the biggest let back is when OTHER charaters that only appear for a short period of time in the game have better acting skills than the main charater.
  Like Dracula:Origins, the main acter isn't that bad, but isn't enough for me to come back and play the game over and over again. The sad thing being that the house keeper has a briliant British acsent and she acts perfectly, making me wish i could the house keeper instead of the acturaly Vampire Hunter.
  
  Adventure games are just like a movie, without a good cast, without a good acter it just dosn't work.
  • Posted Jun 13, 2008 4:20 pm PT
  • Category: Games
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