NEW BS3 Interview & Movie

[theneb]

Go ahead and check out www.computerandvideogames.com

[James]

An excellent article, Cecil excels at public relations, a very lingual and expressive representative of PC gaming, and indeed adventure gaming. It is reassuring that he distances BS3 from the likes of Tomb Raider, though my fears on this matter have, for the most part, been removed.

[theneb]

I've downloaded the movie, cool to see it but the sound isn't lined up correctly for some reason. :pan:

[DomStLeger]

Yep very interesting interview; I thought this quote particularly applied to us in the ag community:

My feeling is that adventure games became more cryptic because a certain hardcore group knew the grammar and they'd get very frustrated because they could get through a game too quickly. Therefore, designers were making puzzles more and more obscure and, in my opinion, more and more contrived.

The problem with that was that it alienated everyone else, so a dwindling hardcore group demanded more and more obscure puzzles.

It's really only the hardcore that are now playing point-and-click, and what we want to do is bring the adventure back in the way that 10 years ago it was one of the biggest genres. And there's no reason why it shouldn't be back in that position again.

I think he may well be right that the puzzles were a contributing factor; some of the games did start to pump games full of illogical puzzles to out do each other.

I hope he does manage to bring Adventure back into the mainstream, because thats good for all of us. Looking at the game so far; I'd say it's a distinct possibility :9

[Kolzig]

Hmm, I must be the only one who has doubts about BS3.

I had them since I saw the first screenshots.
Well, when the game finally arrives to the stores, I'm going to be very careful about it. i don't want to get my hopes up for "nothing" and I don't want to bash the game without no reason before it arrives.

I just have bad feelings...somehow

I hope it is the first of the new wave of adventuregames, that will revive the adventuregamegenre to the status it deserves.

[Intrepid Homoludens]

Hmm, I must be the only one who has doubts about BS3.

I just have bad feelings...somehow....

:) Because it's going to explore uncharted territory for an adventure game? Because it's doing quite a few things that previous AG's never had the balls to do? Because it's going to take many of the conventions that hardcore adventure gamers have grown so used to being spoonfed to the point of complacency and turn them all upside down?

Ha! BS: The Sleeping Dragon and Uru: Ages Beyond Myst are not your grandmother's adventure game. She had her fun, now it's our turn. I only have feelings of utter excitement for these two titles. I don't expect them to be the 'holy grail' of adventure games, but I do think they will crack open a new world of possibilities for the genre itself.

[elke]

I have really high hopes for this game. The pontential is great, they had a lot of time to develope the plot, can't wait until november...

[remixor]

I'm sure it's my fault, but CAVG.com just confuses the hell out of me. I can never find the article I want. Can anyone give me a direct link?


That being said, BS3 is one of the few upcoming adventures I really have NO worries about. Revolution has honestly covered just about every possible fear I could have. And the old standby "real-time 3d is ugly" doesn't even come close. Add that to Rev's outstanding track record and enormous talent, as well as all of the actual innovations being made, and I don't even think it's being overly optomistic to expect this game to make at least a pretty big impact on the genre.

[bigjko]

My gut goes all freaky when I see those screenshots with like.. ten crates in them.

[remixor]

Well, I'm only excited for it because it's the best new tennis/crate-pushing hybrid on the market.

[Kolzig]

It's always good to explore uncharted territory.

And I know Revolution has made great games in the past, my favs are BASS and BS1, I'vbe had BASS for years now and just this years spring I got my hands on BS1 and BS2.

It's good that at least the actor for George is back to reprise his role, I like that voice as much as I like Dominic Armato's voice as Guybrush.

You can say that I live in the "SCUMM-era" or something else that anyone can come up with.

I wish they succeed, adventuregames should rise again to the top.

[twifkak]

Experimentation in art or expression or whatever (well, in any sort of production) always has a greater chance of falling flat on its face.
Cecil said he liked crate pushing. I hope he was joking, but I don't think he was.
I have high hopes for Uru and BS3, partially because I'm a fan of experimentation on its own.

[jannar85]

Bah, I hate surfing the net with a modem.. can't watch any trailers or such... Ah well, I need to wait till the 22nd.. Not that long to wait... don't tempt me...

[Stobbart 91]

MMMmmmmmm Trailors and Such , Argggghhhhh :9~