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LittleTokyo
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Uhmm... 
Deadly Monk
Banned
Meh.
Azure Dream
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Oh man, you win. :lol
Looks decent, but while stealth seems like a "natural" element to include, conveniently placed soda machines to cleanly hide behind while avoiding the visible lasers isn't all that natural.
Looks decent, but while stealth seems like a "natural" element to include, conveniently placed soda machines to cleanly hide behind while avoiding the visible lasers isn't all that natural.
It seems that the combat will not be heavily emphasized, or at least optional for most of the game.
From the good Mr. Tornquit's website:
From the good Mr. Tornquit's website:
â Narayan
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:lol :lol :loljarosh said:
Good grief.
<nu>faust said:
Actually they were and that's why you are seeing TLJ2.
TLJ sold more than 500K copies and that was a big shock for the developers. I know the number has been citied in some sources.
Of course I'm talking worldwide sales - it pretty much bombed in the US like most PC games do.
Willy Wanka
my god this avatar owns
I loved the first game so this should be good. I'll probably get it for the PC though since it doesn't look like it needs a high performance system to run it.
johnjohnson
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jarosh said:
OMFG this one is awesome! :lol :lol :lol
momolicious
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its being funded by the government thats why. I read it somewhere that the gov is interested in adventure games like these or something.
i really really hope this is good... they work on this so long
i really really hope this is good... they work on this so long
Borys said:
Quite a few people, actually.
And considering that the action sequences are said to be few and far between, I don't see what you have to be moaning about. Would you consider a game like Full Throttle any less of an adventure game because of those motorcycle sequences?
momolicious
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I think you'd rather play the same game 30 times with a different setting (The Longest Journey = Monkey Island, design wise.) And I think that's a pretty common pov from adventure game fans, and I also think that's why the fans are solely responsible for the death of the genre.Borys said:
momolicious
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yes, hopefully these games will keep adventure alive
I know what these guys are getting at, an adventure should be about...ADVENTURE!
There was something in an article I read where only Western gamers see adventure genre as point and click or puzzley games, Japanese see it as something different.
Grim Fandango should be themodel for the genre. Puzzles, no action, walk around like a regular modern game. Would be good done with a joypad on a next gen console.
There was something in an article I read where only Western gamers see adventure genre as point and click or puzzley games, Japanese see it as something different.
Grim Fandango should be themodel for the genre. Puzzles, no action, walk around like a regular modern game. Would be good done with a joypad on a next gen console.
Deadly Monk
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Genre : Adventure
As long as it has all the elements of an adventure game, why complain when they add a few things?
No way it's going to work on 360 though. : (
p.s. - the music is great! actually reminds me of Williams.
As long as it has all the elements of an adventure game, why complain when they add a few things?
No way it's going to work on 360 though. : (
p.s. - the music is great! actually reminds me of Williams.
So from these three screenshots we can deduce that this game completely abandons all adventure game conventions and plays nothing like a traditional adventure game? Glad to see GAF doesn't fail to still jump to conclusions.
That's like looking at screenshots from Gabriel Knight 3 from the last area, seeing a few of the "bridge puzzle" screenshots or the final confrontation - which looks a bit like a battle in screenshots - and conclude that it will play nothing like the previous games - when it really plays exactly like the other games only with a 3D engine and interface.
In fact, I think GK3 did alot of stuff right, moving the traditional adventure game model into a 3D engine with a new presentation interface. That's what needs to happen with The Longest Journey. Obviously, due to its audience, it can't have the most impressive graphics because most adventure gamers don't tend to keep on the bleeding edge of hardware.
I will say one thing, at least the adventure genre has had quite a few games that have experimented and tried to do things differently. Can't say that about the stagnant and dull-as-dishwater FPS genre which presents us with the same game over and over and over again - "uuuuuhhhhh . . . but look at the global lighting model, that's so new, it makes this FPS different from every other one ever created!!!!!" Puhlease.
That's like looking at screenshots from Gabriel Knight 3 from the last area, seeing a few of the "bridge puzzle" screenshots or the final confrontation - which looks a bit like a battle in screenshots - and conclude that it will play nothing like the previous games - when it really plays exactly like the other games only with a 3D engine and interface.
In fact, I think GK3 did alot of stuff right, moving the traditional adventure game model into a 3D engine with a new presentation interface. That's what needs to happen with The Longest Journey. Obviously, due to its audience, it can't have the most impressive graphics because most adventure gamers don't tend to keep on the bleeding edge of hardware.
I will say one thing, at least the adventure genre has had quite a few games that have experimented and tried to do things differently. Can't say that about the stagnant and dull-as-dishwater FPS genre which presents us with the same game over and over and over again - "uuuuuhhhhh . . . but look at the global lighting model, that's so new, it makes this FPS different from every other one ever created!!!!!" Puhlease.