I think the situation for point and click adventure games is much better now than in 2004. They rebirthed from their ashes as a healthy indies niche. We've hav

I think the situation for point and click adventure games is much better now than in 2004. They rebirthed from their ashes as a healthy indies niche. We've have great adventure games in the recent years: Timbleweed Park, Deponia, Unavowed, and of course the recent Return of Monkey Island. Yes, they're no longer the dominating AAA genre, probably because their main draw have always been to tell a story (and a 2D platformer wasn't great for that), but now there are other genres that are also very good at telling a story. Basically the Action/Adventure/RPG/OpenWorld bucket.