This is a followup to @SorosFootSoldier@hexbear.net ‘s recent thread for completeness’ sake.

I’ll state an old classic that is seen as a genre defining game because it is: Myst. Yes, it redefined the genre… in ways I fucking hated and that the adventure game genre took decades to fully recover from. It was a pompous mess in its presentation and was the worst kind of “doing action does vague thing or nothing at all, where is your hint book” puzzle gameplay wrapped in graphical hype which ages pretty poorly as far as appeal qualities go.

So many adventure games tried to be Myst afterward that the sheer budgetary costs and redundancy of the also-rans crashed the adventure game genre for years.

  • Egon [they/them]@hexbear.net
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    1 year ago

    Is de gruttola his real name or something? Anyway yeah I agree, it’s pretty obvious he wanted to make movies, but was too untalented

    • daquackeryspreads [any]@hexbear.net
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      1 year ago

      Yup, it’s his real name. I heard in a podcast a decade ago that he was annoyed at being called by it for a matter of brand image. I’m not sure if it’s true, but si ça peut ennuyer le trou du cul, it cost me nothing to spread the good word big-cool

      • Sephitard9001 [he/him]@hexbear.net
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        1 year ago

        I remember watching Best Friends Play go through uhh Beyond Two Souls I think and one of them brought up that he approached Elliot Page and like creepily presented him with old photos of him as a child without asking permission first when they first started production lmaaooo