Back in the '90s, there was nothing stopping the adventure game genre – it was going from strength-to-strength, with long-running series continuing to pump their own style of puzzle-solving into the marketplace with eager fans happy to test their grey matter.
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You may have head of The 7 Deadly Sins in Christianity, but what about The 7 Deadly Sins of Game Design? Jason Capp is here to break it down.
Ya, find three items, kill three mini bosses, go to three dungeons. Things of three is a tired video game sweet spot number.
For me, it's collect-a-thons. They weren't fun in Donkey Kong or Banjo and Kazooie and they still aren't fun now. Why create these wonderfully oversized, detailed worlds if you are going to just supplement gameplay with ambiguous item fetch-quests.
There are exceptions, of course, But by and large, it just shows laziness on the part of the developer.
Good article, by the way!
Yeah. It is funny some of the design decisions made by developers. Another one that irks me is unskippable cutscenes, especially after you die after the cutscene and are forced to rewatch the unskippable cutscene AGAIN. I mean, who thinks that a great idea?! haha
how about not allowing cutscene skipping
that's flat out inexcusable in any game in the last 10 years
this comments are demanding a "The 4 Horsemen of The Apocalypse of Game Design Flaws" sequel
Escape From Monkey Island, Sam & Max Hit the Road, and more.
Outlaws was a truly awesome game! And man, that soundtrack, nothing has beat it yet. It’s the game that created the western genre in gaming. RDR would of been nothing without this.
I imagine it probably hasn’t aged well but my god what a game it was for it’s day. I put in hundreds if not thousands of hours into that with my mates.
Star Wars Racer? That's awesome, the only way I could get it to run on a 64 bit pc was through emulation.
I played the bones off of some afterlife back in the day. I was hoping to see gladius but it wasn’t on there. I dug out the ps2 to play gladius like a year ago and it still holds up to this day. Such a fun game.
Cool but as the article mentions, you could get all these games from GOG already, which means there's a DRM free digital option too.
Ah the good old days. I hope they remake DotT next one of my favourite games.
What an awesome well written article.