22. float (aloft)

What do you miss most about the earlier days of adventure games? Was it the writing, the puzzle design, the sense of discovery, or something else entirely?

And out of curiosity—which decade do you think was the strongest for adventure game releases? Do you lean toward the classics of the ’80s and ’90s, the experimentation of the 2000s, or the modern revival era?

Ana

Thank you Orion for this awesome information source!

Thanks, Marian!

Yeah I've posted on AGH. got a bad feeling this is gonna be a game breaker for me

Interesting topic. There was a thread on AG Hotspot on this very same topic. Basic gist was the lack of credit and/or compensation for the use of copyrighted material used for training by AI should make the use of that training either unusable or illegal. Same holds true for image/likeness/voice stipulated in the collective bargaining agreements negotiated by the Screen Actors Guild. And to a different set of agreements negotiated by the Screen Writers Guild as part of their agreement to end the strike. This will all end up in court someday. (Some of it already has.) And it will take years, if not decades of appeals and counter suits before it is resolved.

I have no trouble with a company training AI on its own data in order to better predict the outcome of corporate decisions. I do have a problem though, in AI being trained on data that is not in the public domain in order to replicate any artistic endeavor. Of course that is my opinion.

The first versions don’t even run on Windows 7, but they’ve always been updated to run on the latest Windows versions.

Sadly, I have reached the point in Discworld where Sir Terry's young-onset Alzheimer's, which in true Pratchett form he referred to as an "Embuggerance," becomes evident. By any other measure they're still good books and worth reading except for possibly the very last one., but compared to his writing at its best, they are saddening.

Next I'll head for my shelves, which are full of books I bought ages ago and didn't read, notably some by Iain Banks, Alastair Reynolds and Peter Hamilton.

I haven't got to the spaceship-building part of the game for lack of money, but that's because I've been planet-hopping.

Thanks Marian!

Thanks mxm.

I'm enjoying Outlander but I have to say The Madison has been my favorite of 2026 so far.

Thanks, Marian!