Wild West and Adventure, bad combination??

[Antonie94]

You guys never played Red Dead Redemption before?

[D.e.v.i.OS]

Wild West , Action, Adventure
you missed a part of that combo.

[D.e.v.i.OS]

think of Adventure games as the OLD point and click type

[Larry]

That got me too, good to know Action/Adventure works

[Antonie94]

It just said, adventure/wild west bad combination. I could only pick one topic at the time, so I went for adventure. And that is the most obvious choice. Adventure should not only be for point and click games. And I selected 'open world'.

[Emergent]

An adventure game isn't necessarily a point-and-click, but it's generally devoid of true "action". It tends to focus more on telling a story, and less on having interesting action. An "adventure wild west" game wouldn't have things like shoot-outs, except as part of cut-scenes or at most some quick-time events.

As you can tell, it'd make for a bad combination. If you're about to play a Wild West, you want to do some shooting, get some action, not go through a long and intricate storyline.

[Antonie94]

No but adventure has action too. And everything about the theme Wild West IS ADVENTURE.

[Cornflakes]

Y'all need familiarize yourselves with Gold Rush (Sierra, 1988) and Freddy Pharkas: Frontier Pharmacist (Sierra, 1993). Those are Adventure/Wild West games.

Although to be honest, Freddy Pharkas was Adventure/Wild West-Comedy.

And as for whether it's a good combo, those titles were generally liked but did not sell nearly as well as Sierra's blockbuster titles like the King's Quest and Quest for Glory series.

[gooberwoc]

Adventure games would be a lot like the Tell Tale games.