How to Rescue the Point & Click Adventure Genre

[J T]

This is a great editorial article:

http://www.pcgamer.com/2011/09/04/dont- ... tures-225/

It's written by someone that knows the genre, loves the genres, and is giving it the tough-love wake up call it needs.

[Erik_Twice]

I kind of disagree on the conclusions. I don't think Point & Click went down beacuse they were no longuer the only "cinematic" genre. In fact, I would argue that if your Adventure game is cinematic, it's a pretty bad one. I also don't think P&C adventures can advance much more, they have hit a development wall that is hard to solve.*

I think the companies who made them simply died. Lucasarts decided to leave the field, losing key members in the process, after Grim Fandango. Sierra fell prey to corrupt executives. With the two key players of the genre gone and with many new genres coping the interest, it's no wonder they dissapeared.

Their history is more similar to Platformers than it looks.

[Betamax001]

I thought this thread was about how to save your game in a P&C game.

[J T]

I thought this thread was about how to save your game in a P&C game.

Yeah, that would be a boring thread. I changed the title so it doesn't sound so lame.

[Pulsar_t]

I'm perfectly satisfied with the trickle of AG releases nowadays.

[fastbilly1]

What would rescue it is if they really started promoting the tablet releases of them. Episodic tablet point and clicks is very possibly the way the genre could come back to being dominant. Will it happen, no, but I can dream. Speaking of which, I still need to get Back to the Future.

[pakopako]

What would rescue it is if they really started promoting the tablet releases of them. Episodic tablet point and clicks is very possibly the way the genre could come back to being dominant. Will it happen, no, but I can dream.

It is a nice dream though.

But you need a really good team of writers (and some nice artists) to put forth a well thought-out P-n-C. Now if we can shy away from pixel-hunting, that would be even more awesome.

(Dammit; can anyone name all the characters on their header image?)