Whats nuts is that most of those adventure games take about an hour to get through if you know exactly what to do. Sometimes the puzzles were clever, but a lot

Whats nuts is that most of those adventure games take about an hour to get through if you know exactly what to do. Sometimes the puzzles were clever, but a lot of the time they were stock "get (literally every word in the dictionary)" and "use (literally every word in the dictionary). I honestly think that is what killed the genre, along with the FPS genre assuming the mantle of pushing cutting-edge technology around that everyone upgraded their PCs for around the mid-90s.