Alyxx Thorne

Ooo I liked that DLC. It felt more Dukey overall. I loved it. Felt like it truly added something to the game. Playing Final Fantasy III.

It has its moments though.

It's pretty cool though.

I love Duke Nukem Forever.

Playing Final Fantasy III/VI now on ZSNES. Pretty good game so far.

I can't really talk about them since I haven't played any of them. I plan on playing through FF3/6 on the SNES though eventually, since that one seems to be held in high regard.

Yeah, I remember there being a line in Monkey Island 3 where they outright called Myst a dull game, lol.

I've never played Myst, so I wouldn't really know how to describe it. Well, either way, how you wanna classify a game can often depend on how you perceive it so it's always going to be very subjective.

I think Synergy supports up to 8 people or something, I haven't played it in ages though.

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I personally never look at the progress bar, I think it's very useless. Either a new episode is out or it's not, it's that simple.

Well, I don't want to count them as adventure games because there's no inventory, you never interact with anyone aside from listening to monologues and basicaly all you do is going from puzzle to puzzle and every puzzle is centered around the same basic mechanic of using portals, even if Portal 2 adds some new elements into the mix, they never take away that focus. I mean, the story is there, but it never has the centerpoint, you're basically just going from room to room and being forced along a linear path, even the boss fights are variations on the central game mechanic. Sure, it's a puzzle game with a story but it's still a puzzle game in my opinion. It all depends on how much you wanna focus on whether the games are story-driven or not, in my opinion they're not because you advance through the game not by story choices or cutscenes, but by solving puzzles. As Eedo said, a puzzle game never relies on story, and in my opinion, Portal and Portal 2 do NOT rely on story. The story is just there to spice up the game and sort of make it feel less like a puzzle game but in my opinion, it's not enough to make it an adventure game. I definitely feel the story takes a side seat to the gameplay in these games.

I'm surprised that no one has mentioned any of the Final Fantasy games before, seeing as the franchise was very dominant in the genre during the 90's and early 2000's. Personally I prefer western RPG's to Japanese ones.

When I think puzzle games, my mind tend to drift more towards titles such as Bejeweled, Zuma and Tetris, that is games that are designed around some sort of game mechanic or gimmick. So in my opinion Portal and Portal 2 definitely fit my criteria for puzzle games since they are designed around the mechanic of using portals, and when I think of adventure games, I think of games that are more story-centric and not designed around a mechanic or gimmick, good examples being Monkey Island, Grim Fandango, Longest Journey and so on.

No problem, I think it looks nicer than just a boring link, you know?

Haha, that's effin' awesome! XD btw, edited your post so the video is embedded.

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Does not compute. Fallout 2 was Mad Max: The video game, nuclear apocalypse is just as generic as Tolkien fantasy, if not more so. --- My favourite RPGs include- Mass Effect 1, Mass Effect 2, Baldur's Gate 2, Planescape: Torment, Icewind Dale, Ultima VII, Ultima Underworld: Stygian Abyss, Arx Fatalis, Deus Ex, Human Revolution, Fallout: New Vegas, Oblivion, Daggerfall, Skyrim, Gothic and Neverwinter Nights. Well at the time it was very new to me because I wasn't into RPG's and I'm still not really into the genre.

Personally what got me into FPS's was when I played Wolfenstein 3D, only about 4 years old, think it was in either 92 or 93. I was too young to really understand what was going on, but the image of holding a gun and walking around in a 3D environment stuck in my head for ages after that. Since then I've played the hell out of Doom, especially the shareware version, Duke Nukem 3D, Quake, SiN (which I played long before Half-Life and still prefer to it), Half-Life (of course) and Gunman Chronicles. I actually didn't play Half-Life 2 and the episodes until I bought the Orange Box in 2007. 2011 I think was a great year for FPS's, with titles like Bullestorm, Hard Reset, Call of Duty MW3 and not to mention Duke Nukem Forever.

I don't usually like RPG's that much, usually because most RPG's have fantasy settings, so I tend to favour RPG's that have more original non-typical settings. Fallout 2 is a pretty good example of that and it's pretty much my all-time favourite RPG.

Back on topic, please.

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