We're seeing the inclusion of stealth sequences in some of the newer adventures, even in classic adventure series like Broken Sword and Nancy Drew.

What's your opinion of stealth sequences? Do they add a new variety of challenge? Or would you prefer to see them disappear?

I'd rather stick toothpicks under my fingernails, than deal with stealth in a game. Does that sum it up well enough?

Ana

do you mean when you have to sneak from a to b and if you don t do it right have to start again .If that is what you mean .better borrow me the tooth picks to lol

You got it dragon!

I'll leave the box in the corner in case anyone else needs them. I only use tea tree oil toothpicks so no worry about infection setting in.

Ana

Simply Put. Hate Em.


Cathy

Stealth? You mean like in Undercover Operation Wintersun? I did not succeed at it on my own, borrowed a saved game from texaslady and Mag - now when it was John's turn to sneak around, I found he could stand forever in the light and those guards did not come near him or see him, blind as bats, that's the kind of stealth I like and it's worse when one is on a timer/clock too like in some games I can't remember which ones now.
Love, Betty Lou

don t know about any one else but when they are timed .I just become a bag of nerves .I shake all over at the thought lol.Looks like the sale for tooth picks are on the up if they do this .I hope they put warnings on the games lol

I don't like it at all in any genre.

I don't mind stealth when there is an obvious pattern to the bad guys that I can discern and use against them. It also helps if the hiding spots make sense.

I hate it when the bad guys' movement are occasionally random so I get busted in a spot where I didn't the other 20 times I tried.

Pass the toothpicks please.

I agree - in fact I would go to lit matches under the finger nails and toe nails

I go along with this thinking- I do not enjoy them very much-- especially if and when you make a mistake- you have to start all over-- Undercover Operation Wintersun-- does come to mind--- had to start that over soooooooo many times.-- the only thing I hate worse is a slider---but that is another post

Hi

I'm in the queue for a toothpick !!

Do I need to say more ??



Cheers.

Mad

Dragon -- yes, that is what I meant.

If the stealth is not too difficult then I don't mind so much. It's only when there are penalties and Game Over moments just because you put your right foot out when you should have kept it in, etc etc, that I become ever so slightly fed up.

Hate the stealth in dreamfall i big turn off that was and main reason i uninstalled it.

I don't think the stealth bothers me as much when there's no timing involved. But on the whole, pass the toothpicks!!

I sometimes really go for first-person stealth in ACTION GAMES.
I like it because I can go at my own pace (rather than have combatants and monsters attacking me constantly), and because I can avoid confrontation.

BUT IN AN ADVENTURE GAME--- Now that's a DIFFERENT story altogether!

In an Adventure game the stealth puzzles are often like timed sequences-- just there to raise my blood pressure and test my frustration limit.

SO... I guess I should keep my share of the toothpicks with my Adventure games!

There was a lot of sneaking to be done in Dreamfall. I didn't like it much, but it was do-able. The fighting I liked even less. The worst sequence was the Underground world with the trolls, which had both sneaking and fighting.

I hate stealth.
I hate having to wait around for some guard to pass by.
I hate having to repeat the same thing over and over when I louse up.

Stealth is right up there with timed sequences and arcady elements as the things I hate most in adventure games.

I am right there with the toothpicks crowd. I do not like it. wintersun was tolerable, BS3 barely so. Dreamfall, awful. The stealth in Dreamfall coupled with the fighting are the primary reasons it fell far short of TLJ. Those "wonderful" items made you forget about all the loose ends. Perhaps that was their plan.

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Hey, isn't it time for someone to come along and say how much they enjoy stealth sequences in adventure games?

Anybody?

OK, I'll do it. The stealth sequences in BS3 were well done and necessary to the story and I liked them very much. The ones in Dreamfall were not as good but were OK and also fit the story.

Certainly one has to expect this kind of thing in many plot lines - it's an adventure game, after all.

Remember, the Beckster asked some one to do it and I'm a gentleman, so all rotten tomatoes go her way.