okr said:
A look at IGN's nominees for best adventure game 2012:
The Walking Dead (winner), Botanicula, Dear Esther, Lone Survivor, Thirty Flights of Loving
And here's an incomplete list of adventure games releaed in 2012 in NA and completely ignored by IGN:
- The Testament of Sherlock Holmes => not reviewed by IGN
- The Dark Eye: Chains of Satinav => not reviewed by IGN
- Yesterday => not reviewed by IGN
- Deponia => not reviewed by IGN
- Chaos on Deponia => not reviewed by IGN
- Primordia => not reviewed by IGN
- The Book of Unwritten Tales => not reviewed by IGN
- The Book of Unwritten Tales: The Critter Chronicles => not even listed on IGN
- Lost Chronicles of Zerzura => not even listed on IGN
Satinav, Yesterday, Deponia 1+2, Unwritten Tales and Zerzura are among the best adventure games I played in recent years.
I'm not saying that any of the games I listed are better than Walking Dead (which I haven't played) or that they should have replaced some of those IGN nominees, but these games didn't even get a chance to be reviewed, noticed or nominated by IGN.
Adventure games are only noticed in NA these days if they are interactive movies made by Quantic Dream or Telltale or visual novels made by Chunsoft.
Classic point&click? No chance in most of NA's gaming media, at least until Tim Schafer/Ron Gilbert (Maniac Mansion/Day of the Tentacle/Full Throttle/Grim Fandango/Monkey Island), Charles Cecil (Broken Sword) and Jane Jensen (Gabriel Knight) release their kick-started adventure games in 2013.
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Any chance that you are from Germany? Many of the games you listed are big hits in Germany, but completely unnoticed outside of it. Maybe that´s why IGN didn´t rate them?
