13th January 2003, 9:11 PM
Decide now, what should we call PC style adventure games (puzzlers where you wander the land finding the right item and the right ways to use them, with people like Guybrush Threepwood), and console style adventure games (puzzlers where you wander the land finding the right item and the right way to use it, but in a different style completely, with guys like Link). Should we call one a Quest genre game from now on, or the other?
"On two occasions, I have been asked [by members of Parliament], 'Pray, Mr. Babbage, if you put into the machine wrong figures, will the right answers come out?' I am not able to rightly apprehend the kind of confusion of ideas that could provoke such a question." ~ Charles Babbage (1791-1871)