2009 Aggie Awards

**Red_Lizard2** · 02-23-10, 07:33 AM

The Aggie awards are basically the awards voted on by the staff at Adventure Gamers as well as the community. As you can guess by the site name, it is all the best in adventure gaming. Already a couple titles mentioned on there i'm taking a look at, and figured maybe if anyone else here likes these sorts of games they may find it interesting.

http://www.adventuregamers.com/article/id,1128/p,1

Was kind of disappointed that it wasn't more diverse

**PizzaSHARK!** · 02-23-10, 02:38 PM

Adventure gaming is a dying genre. There are lots of games that incorporate elements of it, but when your best adventure games are another version of Zelda that plays identically to the last ten Zelda games or a rehash of one of the Monkey Island games (personally I want to see an updated Grim Fandango), it's a sign that the genre is in trouble.

**Adretheon** · 02-23-10, 02:42 PM

It is indeed a dying breed. Which is a damn shame, the genre produces some of the best games out there in both game play and story.

I also heard a rumor that Grim was getting a redo, but again just a rumor.

**PizzaSHARK!** · 02-23-10, 05:27 PM

Originally Posted by Adretheon

It is indeed a dying breed. Which is a damn shame, the genre produces some of the best games out there in both game play and story.

I also heard a rumor that Grim was getting a redo, but again just a rumor.

You also get games like Fahrenheit that start out pretty badass then take an abrupt left turn into "someone was on acid" territory.

**salty99** · 02-23-10, 05:38 PM

Adventure gaming is where pc gaming was born, no doubt. Me and my brother have been there from the beginning. everything from monkey island, freddy pharkas, full throttle, space quest, kings quest, dagger of amon rah, tex murphy series, robin hood conquest of the long bow. even the recent runaway games are awesome!

**Adretheon** · 02-23-10, 06:13 PM

Lol at Laura Bow. My sister started playing that again a few days ago. That was a good one.

**Red_Lizard2** · 02-23-10, 07:31 PM

It is getting worse (thanks to the stupid casual game versions) but There are still some good ones out coming out, it seems the better ones are coming from foreign developers (and then being translated into english) though.

The problem was this year there were two big standouts that everyone was drooling about, and thus won just about everything

And Tales of Monkey Island isn't a rehash (that was Secrets), its basically like a new Monkey Island game, though its been released in episodes instead of at once.