I came across a message board post today involving someone from a Greek casual game company looking to start working on their first adventure game. In a seeming attempt at gathering data as to what elements they would include in such a game, this individual decided to poll an audience of adventure game fans as to what they love and hate about the genre. Of course, people started to respond with things like “I love a good story and good puzzles” and “I hate puzzles that don’t make sense”, and while I agree with them for the most part, I have this strange niggling feeling that everyone’s missing the point.

This is how I responded:

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