Since we have no forum, I think we should do like a topic a day if someone suggests it.

I will suggest one for Today:

If you could make you own graphic adventure game, what would it be like?

Things to consider:

• Story
• Character
• Controls
• Platforms
• Visuals
• Length

Okay my Graphic Adventure would be set in the late 1940's.

It would be called the Japanese Macaque.

It would have a very lucasrarts feel to it, an old school 2-D game with visuals akin to Full Throttle but a little darker. Actually scratch that, it would have a Batman the Animated series stye of art deco running through it.

http://www.batmans.de/images/large/batman3.jpe

It would be a real gumshoe P.I tale. Something like Phillip Marlow or Dashiel Hammet would write. Set near Mount Vernon near the canadian border.

The main character would be a real heart on his sleeve P.I, down on his luck with a cute college girl as his secretary. One late night a woman would come to town asking our lead character to track down her ex-husband, who has reportedly stolen something very valuable from her.

On his case, our PI will encounter local crime bosses, crooked police, local scum, a crazy alien fanatic who lives in a dumpster, drug dealers and an abused addict girl. Oh and a legendary crazy monk. The gameplay will be all point and click, investigative stuff, full speech. But there would also be a couple of sections where your character would duck for cover and you would use the mouse or something like a wii pointer or DS touch screen to shoot.

gamingeek said:

Since we have no forum, I think we should do like a topic a day if someone suggests it.

I will suggest one for Today:

If you could make you own graphic adventure game, what would it be like?

Things to consider:

• Story
• Character
• Controls
• Platforms
• Visuals
• Length

I love how the graphical adventure genre is ripe for detective games.

I have a thing for Martin C. Smith's novels starring Arkady Renko, so obviously I'd love to make a graphical adventure using him as the main character. It would be set in present day Russia, with Renko as a homicide investigator getting himself involved (without knowing) in a huge conspiracy involving weapon traffic in the highest government ecchelons.

It would be a point and click adventure also focused on investigation and forensic stuff with a few puzzles here and there, probably during stressing times (i.e. trying to get out from a freezer, where a goon locked you in, or trying to plant a microphone inside a big shot office). The thing i would like to make more relevant would be that every character you meet has his/her own agenda, and the game itself would be filled with treachery and double crossings, even from the most sympathetic characters.

I'd keep it on PC, probably with a console port in a year or so. I wouldn't want it to look realistic, but rather to follow a more cartoony approach, but grim, think of that Vampyre game mixed with Sin City. I'd like it to be about 15-20 hrs. long.

edgecrusher said:

gamingeek said:

iga_bobovic said:

Free Radical Answer GG's Physics question. Go GG lets hope they make a Second Sight game now.

You joking? Did you see that answer? Probably the teaboy does those answers.

R107 Says:

Games degrees are much better than tey used to be. But it often boils down to whether you know how to use the relevant toolset, or whether your portfolio has good looking stuff in it. I myself did a totally unrelated degree, but was doing relevant stuff in my spare time. So whilst there is sometimes a route through a degree, it's not necessarily the only route.

Also, you are gay.

Hahahaha.

That's the first thing I noticed too.

I bought Mega Man 9 and Lost Winds on WiiWare today. I've played about a half hour of each, and they are both AWESOME! Mega Man 9 is absolutely brutal. I'm having a blast with it! And anyone who doesn't love those NES-styled graphics are just dumbasses! The only thing that I'm disappointed with is there's no Gamecube constroller support. I've been playing a lot of the Mega Man Anniversary Collection lately, and I've grown accustomed to using that controller. It's a very minor complaint, though.

Lost winds is a lot of fun too. I love the graphics in that game; it makes Star Wars: TFU looks like crap in comparison! Just playing 30 minutes of this game makes me wish Nintendo would make the next Metroid game 2D with 3D graphics (First person Metroid has been played out enough for now, IMO).

Well, I have to go to class now. Dammit!  

gamingeek said:

iga_bobovic said:

Free Radical Answer GG's Physics question. Go GG lets hope they make a Second Sight game now.

You joking? Did you see that answer? Probably the teaboy does those answers.

I'd like to be a teaboy.

Does he get to teabag everyone else at work?

punk rebel ecks said:

As someone who played it for the first time ever about 2 years ago. It was surprisingly enjoyable. Unlike most other 3rd person 3D games of that era it has aged extremely well. However the only complaint would be that the dungeons aren't crafted as well as say Twilight Princess. I can see why it is still remembered in the community however I don't see why some still refer to it as "the best game ever" as there are other games that "perfect" their genres far more then this game did. That saying it was one of the most "soulful" games I've played.

Ocarina has indeed awesome dungeons. Not as good as Twilight, but Twilight dungeons are some of the very best dungeons. What bothers me the most is the framerate. I looks like it runs at 20 frames. It feels akward, but it goes away once I got used to it!

Zelda sucks, lets talk about something else. (Steel play it or die!)

Some people at gaf have impressions from Little Big Planet. Edge magazine claims its the best 2D platformer since Super Mario World.

Another user that is in the beta says:

So this looks to be the best 2D platformer since Super Mario World. *head explodes*

gamingeek said:

dvader said:

Never cared for Max Payne game, played both, did not like either.

What's there not to like? You run around hitting the slow mo button and shooting stuff. Sure it's linear, basic and overwrought in its presentation. But they can be fun in places. If you didn't like 1 then why did you play 2 by the by?

I rented the first and the sequel I got online for $2. Both Xbox version. Max Payne is the FEAR of third person shooters, no level design to speak of, no variety to speak of, just shooting over and over and over.

dvader said:

Zelda sucks, lets talk about something else. (Steel play it or die!)

Some people at gaf have impressions from Little Big Planet. Edge magazine claims its the best 2D platformer since Super Mario World.

Another user that is in the beta says:

So hard not to keep talking about this game. Playing the last chapter now and this game is the most inventive, both visually and mechanic wise, platformer/game since Super Mario World. there's just some staggerringly good and surprising moments in here. There's a bit at this one level where it's like playing Sonic where you hurtle down slopes with your Sackboy collecting points and just before that it was electrified platform city a'la Super Mario.

So this looks to be the best 2D platformer since Super Mario World. *head explodes*

Don't you mean Super Mario World 2 Vader?

punk rebel ecks said:

steelattack said:

iga_bobovic said:

steelattack said:

I saw on a tiny game store yesterday a GC game with OoT and another OoT. Is it worth it?

Oh, and Path of radiance as well, for gamecube. Should I get them? Yes?

Steel have you ever played Ocarina?

No.

What is it good?

o_0

As someone who played it for the first time ever about 2 years ago. It was surprisingly enjoyable. Unlike most other 3rd person 3D games of that era it has aged extremely well. However the only complaint would be that the dungeons aren't crafted as well as say Twilight Princess. I can see why it is still remembered in the community however I don't see why some still refer to it as "the best game ever" as there are other games that "perfect" their genres far more then this game did. That saying it was one of the most "soulful" games I've played.

Same here.

I only played the start of it for years (never owned my own copy) - and it was until recently that I actually made it past that a few days ago.

I can see why people love that game, but I need to play a bit mroe of it to see if it's really THAT great.

iga_bobovic said:

Bu bu but you were supposed to be casual! Is Mega Man bringing back the hardcorez hamster?

Huh? I've never been casual, nor have I been "hardcorez." I simply play what I like, and I likes teh old-school NES Mega Man games. I'm actually more of a retro gamer than I am a modern gamer; probably 60/40.