Best Mystery Adventure Games of 2010-11 Poll

[JC48573]

you can also go ahead and explain why you like or hate the game.

[BoringSupreez]

I haven't played anything on the list (I'm generally a few years late to the party for everything), but Ghost Trick is the one that I would like to play the most.

[Gamerforlife]

I've only played Alan Wake and Heavy Rain. I liked Heavy Rain, though it is very heavy on quick time events and that is a bit annoying. It uses them better than other games though and it tells a good story and gives you lots of ways to interact with the story and alter its course

I never finished Alan Wake. I may go back to it at some point, but I found the combat cheap and annoying. You have enemies coming at you from off screen or throwing shit at you while you're busy trying to take someone else down. Plus, having to burn away their defenses with the flashlight is annoying because it takes too long and the damn flashlight burns through batteries too quickly. Here you are trying to burn away someone's defense so you can actually damage him. Meanwhile, another guy is coming up behind you while another is throwing something at you from off screen. It's just a mess and they clearly pull little thought into the combat as is the case with most games today. I'm so sick and damn tired of games with lazily designed combat

The game's story was interesting, but I felt like the gameplay was an obstacle to my enjoyment of it and that's not a good thing to say about a video game.