Hi JennyP, I also love the games you talk about, so it seems I should be looking for Everest and waiting for Delaware! It's good to have a recommendation from someone who enjoys the same sort of game. You're always in the dark a bit, before you actually start to play, don't you think?!
Cheers, Ann W-G

P.S...I've had a quick look through Reviews and WTs, and can find no reference to Everest!?! Ann

Hi

I only play two kinds of games .... Adventures and RPGs.

RPGs are mostly action orientated so of course there is plenty of fighting - but I don't find it to be the kind of fighting that appears in some of our adventure games. It is often "turn based" in some way so that a player can hit a "pause" button and have a think what to do next - without necessarily being forced to carry on through the fight to the bitter end, only to lose and have to go through it all over again

What we were presented with in the last two Broken Sword, Sherlock Silver Earing and Dreamfall "adventures" (examples which spring to mind at this moment) was the inclusion of a selection of timed action or sneak sequences - and it was usually the "timed" element that did ME in and not the actual fighting or sneaking

AND .... Having to use the ghastly to operate keyboard controls at the same time as being under a time constrait I found VERY difficult and my enjoyment ended right there

I feel these type of games should truthfully be classed as Action/Adventures and not Adventures.

And yes, I know older games - going back a long way - have included action bouts but they were generally short and simple sequences where "victory" could be achieved after just a couple of attempts.
The sequences we can be faced with today are often long and complicated and are also frequently preceded by a lengthy cut scene which has, annoyingly, to be viewed over and over with each new attempt

I fully accept that different people want different things from their game playing.
My own preference for Adventure games is that they be just that .... Adventure. And not an Action/Adventure hybrid

Cheers.

Mad

Hi Mad, How come you are still able to access the lovely familiar old 'gremlins'? I can only see the rather boring new ones that appear when I select 'Reply' and they don't say what I want to say!
Cheers to you,
Ann W-G

boring!
They're all on the graemlin box. Click on the smilie icon and see them.

Ouch....

Ana

Sorry MaG!!!
I clicked on the 'smilie box' and there are 3 rows of graemlins, but they are not waving or clapping as the older ones did! Also, I can't seem to add them to my text! Ihave tried a few times, but they just dont appear!

OK Ana, you seem to be able to smile, and wave at my 'boo boo'! How'd ya do it? Ann

You are looking at the 3 rows of smilies to choose for the reply (they appear to the right of your reply). You need to click on the big smiley on the right and you will get plenty to keep you entertained.

Sorry...didn't mean to laugh.

Ana

Hi Ana,
Thank you so much, I have found them now! My display when online is only 2thirds of the screen, as I have my favourites list down the LHSide, so as they used to appear in a little box to the left, I didn't look further right! Well even in my advanced years, I am still learning something every day, though the brain is slowing down!
Cheers, Ann

OK, so now I'm making up for it!!!

I don't like killing, would never play a "shooter" but I do like the jumping, sneaking, smashing (of objects) and fighting, like in Zanzarah. The fairies don't die anyway, they are just there to train you. Actually the only games I was killing in were the Vampire Masquarade Redemption and Bloodlines, Morrowind and Silent Hill 2. I don't recall killing anything that wasn't trying to get me first. I played Dreamfall and liked it but it really was too movielike for my taste. Anyway, it is not a blood and guts thing for me, I am an extremely non violent 63 year old female I just like what it does for my aging reflexes and I find it more interesting then trudging about looking for strange items to combine together to do something with.

I would never ask for fighting in an Adventure game but i like sometimes where the user has to perform some actions quickly, like Dead Reefs for example where you sometimes had limited time to do something or else it was end game. I prefer the pure Adventure where we explore and solve puzzles, go to different places and solve mysteries but i don't mind several action scenes included. And as noted before those games strictly speaking should be under Action/Adventure and not not Adventure.

Ann, Everest is a casual game, a hunt & seek one. You can get it from Big Fish for an hours free trail. Beware, you will be hooked...

Oh my butcher did you say there is some scene in dead reefs where you have to do the action s quickly oooops .Save me a save I am sure to need it lol

dragon,

The time to do those parts in Dead Reefs is not that quick. If I can do it - ANYONE can.

I've played a few that have a tussle or two. Like you Preston, I would rather avoid physical confrontation in games. So much more satisfying to outwit a nincompoop than to beat him to a pulp. I avoid what I call 'shoot-em-ups' like the plague. That's another breed of game. If an occasional adventure game has a brief fight, I'll try my best (although I won't care much for it).