Thank you, Gentleman Ray!

Er...were you sincere, though? I mean, you did enjoy the stealth sequnces you mentioned, and aren't just saying so to fulfil my request?

Actually, I really meant it. You helped since I've been following this thread and was leery of saying anything lest I have toothpicks....well, you know.

A strange thing was the stealth stuff in 80 Days. The first one you had was the most challenging and the one I like the best. After that, they were nothing.

Well, I have one word for stealth...no! No! nonononono! Wait...did I mention no?

I'm with nickie, I hate in all genres. It doesn't help the game for me at all. It's just a big giant irritation!

I'll take my toothpicks please!!

Maybe next time I'll open up a little more about my feelings!

Oh Looney, sigh...if we could ever get you over this shyness of yours and have you open up...

i really hate any kind of action, arcade or stealth sequences in adventure games.

No stealth thank you. If I wanted action I would buy action/ arcade games. I like a nice relaxing adventure with beautiful graphics to relax with at the end of a long stressy work day. I do not want to be further stressed out by being unable to move quickly enough in a game.

I don't mind stealth sequences in adventure games, if & when they are necessary to drive the story forward or built into the game's premise. In his blog over at adventuregamers.com founder Marek has this to say about puzzles (stealth included, I think?) in adventure games:

http://adventuregamers.com/blogitem.php?id=18

I agree with this. If say you're stranded on a deserted island like the main charater is in 'return to mysterious island' it would make sense to include some stealth sequences in the game, simply to sneak past the dangerous lions or animals on the island. The stealth puzzles in adventure games also have to be very well designed and executed as well as contribute to forwarding the story in the game.

What frustrates me is when I feel that developers etc. simply put stealth (and action) sequences (puzzles) in the game just hoping that this means that the action crowd or fans of stealth games will buy say Dreamfall. I'm mentioning Dreamfall since one of the reasons for putting both stealth and action sequences in this game apparently seemed to be to get action and fps fans yo buy Dreamfall. Well, they did not do so. However, I think that Ragnar T. deserves praise for trying to re-think the adventure game and to challenge what we, the adventure gaming audience, thinks that an adventure game should or ought to be.

/Karsten

Hate, hate, hate stealth in my adventure game. I gave up on Broken Sword 3 because of that, and I was actually enjoying the game so I was sorry to give up. Never even looked at Dreamfall; I knew it wouldn't work for me. Like others have mentioned, I want a stress-free gaming session; my life is stress-filled enough.

Pass the toothpicks.

HATE them, nuff said. heehee

While I didn't particularly enjoy the stealth in Dreamfall, I managed to get through the sequences, and I felt they were appropriate for the story line. I was just glad they weren't timed - that would have made them almost impossible.

All in all, I loved Dreamfall - one of the best games I've played in a long time, even though the ending was not what I expected.

Stealth is fine along with mazes, timed puzzles, etc (I just LOVE sliders... ). It all depends on how it is used in a game. There are games where it works and games where it doesn't.