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The Incident is Unforeseen but Completely Worth it
Traditional point and click 2D third person adventure games at high levels with excellent voice acting are a rarity. Especially in 2018. Unless of course the publisher is Application Systems Heidelberg, who this year are also publishing an HD remake … Continue reading
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Tagged adventure, mystery, point and click, point n click, unforeseen incidents, video games
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Population 81 (strike that) 80
In 1987 at the tender age of 10 I had owned a Commodore 64 for a few years, falling in love with Infocom, Sierra, Tellarium and other individual games in the adventure genre. It was in October of that year … Continue reading
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Tagged adventure, lucasarts, mystery, point and click, point n click, ron gilbert, suspense, thimbleweed park, video games
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Mindjacking, Puzzle Solving, Pixel P & C Fun (DEMO style)
I just finished the demo for Technobabylon which you can get off their website or on STEAM: Official website: http://www.technobabylon-game.com/demo Steam: http://store.steampowered.com/app/371800/ It was one of the best p & c demos I’ve played yet. It was an amazing teaser … Continue reading
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Tagged adventure, adventure game, technobabylon, wadjeteye, wadjeteye games
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Tim Schafer Games: the History of, and my Love of BROKEN AGE
Double Fine Adventure was what turned me into a Kickstarter fiend for a few months. The only thing that ended that fun was a mix of finances and seeing certain projects I funded just take way too long. Still I … Continue reading
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Tagged adventure, broken age, double fine, double fine adventure, doublefine games, games, history, reds, review, tim schafer
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Spelling Words, Making Magic. A Game Not To Miss!
I have never been good at word finders, and I actually not even really good at Scrabble. I miss those large scoring words, because even though I know them, the scrabble part of it always confuses me. Yet I play … Continue reading
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Tagged adventure, adventure game, games, spellirium, ugags, untold, words
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A Fortnight of Amnesia in 2012 gives us more Doublefine Sausage AND 5 new game prototypes
Double Fine Games came into super extra megaton popularity earlier this year with their monumental Kickstarter that launched the excellent Double Fine Adventure game now codenamed REDS along with the so far six episode documentary Doublefine Adventure from 2 Player … Continue reading
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Tagged adventure, amnesia fortnight, doublefine, doublefine games, humble bundle, video games
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RESONANCE: Epic Retro Sci-Fi Mystery Does Much Good (some bad)
The best Science Fiction tends to have dubious characters of gray personalities, a terse semblance of what is truly right and wrong, awkward scientific concepts which aren’t exactly plausible and usually, but not always an ending which makes one think … Continue reading
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Tagged adventure, adventure game, adventure games, ags, pixels, resonance, science fiction, vince twelve, wadjeteye, wadjeteye games, xii games
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Console Games scheduled for 2012 that catch my attention
Be aware that I like puzzle games, adventure games and third person action adventure games with platforming. I Am Alive: An Ubisoft productiion, the trailer shows an awesome combination of platforming, third person action, puzzles, first person shooting and more. … Continue reading
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Tagged adventure, naughty dog, ps3, psn, puzzle, rockstar, shooter, suda51, ubisoft, video games
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Keeping an eye on Wadjeteye
I first discovered the writing and programing talent of Dave Gilbert through the AGS website and specifically the first games he tackled based on the Reality-On-The-Norm universe and then his first AGS game, the uncomplicated as it existed, but still … Continue reading
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Tagged adventure, adventure games, ags, blackwell, blackwell deception, dave gilbert, interview, overview, review, wadjeteye, wadjeteye games
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Games That Tell Tales
As TellTale Games truly expands their line of excellent produced games in the end of 2011 and beginning in 2012 with magic based on the Jurassic Park movie franchise, and two very popular the Comic books in Image Comics The … Continue reading
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Tagged aardman, adventure, adventure games, back to the future, back to the future the game, badge of carnage, bone, Comics, dan connors, dave grossman, doc brown, doublefine, fables, graham anabelle, grickle, guybrush threepwood, hector, homestar runner, jeff smith, kevin brunner, mike stemmle, monkey island, sam & max, sam and max, steve purcell, straandlooper, strong bad, telltale, telltale games, the walking dead, tim schaefer, vertigo, video games, wallace and gromit
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