Recent content by blueskirt

Even if the 95% piracy rate is true, it's still doesn't excuse anything, because that measly 5% keeps on, time and again, raising millions after millions of dollars buying and gifting games during the summer and winter sales, raising money for charities like Humble Bundle or Summer Games Done...

No. No it did not. Why does everyone believe the 90% piracy rate means they went bankrupt? All you've been told is the piracy rate, you've never been told the number of copies they sold. They sold 17 000 copies in a single week-end and trust me, with all the indie bundles and steam sales it's...

I loved GK and Broken Sword 1, I found TLJ too wordy for my taste, Syberia was completely devoid of verbal feedback with its dozens of empty rooms containing 2 exits and nothing to interact with, as for Still Life, it ruined its chance with its infamous Cookie Recipe puzzle, and the chances of...

I don't agree about the reasons behind the fall. Text parser had disappeared entirely from adventure games by 1990, same for dead-ends and cheap death several years later. The problem of the adventure genre was the turmoil that were the years 1997-2001 on PC. First it coincides with the rise...