Posts Tagged ‘adventure’

#767: Hotel Dusk: Room 215

Posted: 10th January 2014 by Jeroen in Games
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299th played so far Genre: Adventure Platform: DS Year of Release: 2007 Developer: Cing Publisher: Nintendo As common as adventures are – their lack of action usually making it more playable for handheld gaming in particular – most of the bigger example tend to be a bit tongue in cheek, funny, and while they build […]

#422 The Longest Journey

Posted: 21st December 2013 by Jeroen in Games
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294th played so far Genre: Adventure Platform: PC Year of Release: 1999 Developer: Funcom Publisher: Funcom Some games just attract you with their screenshot alone. This was the case with the one featured for The Longest Journey (as well as its sequel, also listed, Dreamfall: The Longest Journey). The market in which the protagonist is […]

#707 ลŒkami

Posted: 23rd September 2013 by Jeroen in Games
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272nd played so far Genre: Action/Adventure Platform: PlayStation 2/Wii Year of Release: 2006 Developer: Clover Studio Publisher: Capcom Part of the reason this set of fifty games is restricted to games new to me, is to put some focus on me playing games that Peter already knows. ลŒkami, then, is a perfect game to play […]

#933 Machinarium

Posted: 1st July 2013 by Jeroen in Games
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251st played so far Genre: Adventure Platform: PC Year of Release: 2009 Developer: Amanita Design Publisher: Amanita Design Recipe: Take a developer known for creating eclectic adventures like Samorost. Add in cute robots and rusty cities. Get some Rube Goldberg contraptions and make larger puzzles out of it. Put in a few bits of heart. […]

#566 Samorost

Posted: 3rd March 2013 by Jeroen in Games
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221st played so far Genre: Adventure Platform: PC Year of Release: 2003 Developer: Jakub Dvorsky Publisher: Amanita Design Another entry in our internet gallery, for reasons we discussed a few days ago. When leafing through the book, we see a lot of screenshots of the different games – not all have one, but a lot […]

#17 MUD

Posted: 22nd January 2013 by Jeroen in Games
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211th played so far Genre: Adventure Platform: Internet Year of Release: 1980 Developer: Roy Trubshaw, Richard Bartle Now here’s a game, despite not ever having played it (being for pay at the time while I didn’t have the means to) indirectly had a major effect on my life. As mentioned , I’m a developer, and […]

#983 Professor Layton and the Diabolical Box

Posted: 25th December 2012 by Jeroen in Games
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204th played so far Genre: Adventure/Puzzle Platform: DS Year of Release: 2009 Developer: Level-5 Publisher: Nintendo First of all, merry Christmas to all our readers! We hope you have a great time with family, friends or other people you want to spend time with, and that your presents were good (and filled with great video […]

#894 Assassin’s Creed II

Posted: 21st December 2012 by Mulholland in Games
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203rd played so far Genre: Action/Adventure Platform: Xbox 360, Playstation 3, PC Year of Release: 2009 Developer: Ubisoft Montreal Publisher: Ubisoft The way we find out about games can really vary depending on the person and the game itself. It may be a magazine, a billboard poster or a meme depicting a gang of chicks […]

#992 Time Gentlemen, Please!

Posted: 13th December 2012 by Jeroen in Games
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201st played so far Genre: Adventure Platform: PC Year of Release: 2009 Developer: Zombie Cow Studios Here’s a difference: We pretty much stopped this time not because we were done with the game, but because we wanted to play it seperately. We got a good idea of what the game was like… but are excited […]

#691 Bully

Posted: 8th September 2012 by Jeroen in Games
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177th played so far Genre: Action/Adventure Platform: PS2 Year of Release: 2006 Developer: Rockstar Vancouver Publisher: Rockstar Games Bully, our next game, is an open world-ish action adventure set in a boarding school… Bullsworth Academy. You’re a kid who’s just been sent there, abandoned by his parents. In the mean time, you have to survive […]