I hate going into GAME and just seeing that there's only first person shooters or hidden object games.
Not sure what "GAME" is, but "contamination" of adventure game lists has been a problem since before I started playing adventure games.
It would be nice to have an interactive adventure game list with the ability to restrict which games are listed by filtering out characteristics that make a game unplayable or undesirable in some other way. For example, you might choose to filter out things like
- games that include QTE's,
- tend to cause motion sickness
- episodic games (unless the entire series is available)
- lack of puzzles
- no DRM-free version available
- game "too short" (would have to be defined, maybe 2 hrs or less)
- dexterity requirements above a certain level
- game too casual/easy
- free vs. retail
- 2D vs 2.5D vs 3D
- 1st person vs 3rd person
- point-and-click vs keyboard/controller-only
etc.
Since no such interactive list is available, everyone has to make their own individual lists, looking up each game and checking a review for each one (or checking a gameplay video) in order to decide if it's something they might like or not. It's better to start with the listings at PAGODA than at Mobygames, since it's been many years since Mobygames was able to distinguish between Adventure and Action/Adventure.
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