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It was a real time action-adventure game with puzzles. TR made point and click adventures obsolete as they drove a puzzle-event bound game with free exploration
by anthk 11mo ago
It was a real time action-adventure game with puzzles. TR made point and click adventures obsolete as they drove a puzzle-event bound game with free exploration. OTOH, text adventures would still be featureful and playable as they achieved incredible things very expensive to do with graphical games.
- jhbadger 11mo agoIf Tomb Raider is an "adventure game" so is Donkey Kong. Tomb Raider is basically a platformer like Donkey Kong but in 3D. Neither made actual adventure games "obsolete" because taxing your hand-eye reflexes is a different sort of fun than taxing your brain.
- anthk 11mo agoTR has more to do than platforming, and more convoluted puzzles than DK.
- anthk 11mo agoAlso, definitively, what killed the adventure genre would be the PS1 survival horrors. You have everything there: items, combinations, loads of puzzles, action and a shitfed perspective. Silent Hill, Resident Evil, Parasite Eve... Pretty much the definition of an old 'point and click' aventure with action points.
- nottorp 11mo agoAlone in the Dark predates those by like 4 years though...
- Apocryphon 11mo agoIt does and there were also plenty of horror adventure games, but Alone of the Dark would also make the jump to RE-style survival horror.