So, let's start. I'm a BIG fan of point and click adventure. It was my favourite genre on 1990's, just because almost every game (Sierra and Lucas side) was a big adventure. Nice story, a sense of exploration, great characters.

Then, time passed. Many people say "point and click are dead", but then a lot of games come out.

BUT.

I'm playing several "new" point and click. Books of Unwritten tales, Daedalic games, Black Mirror series, Wadjet Eye titles...but no one can really bring my attention up.

I found those titles boring. Blackwell is a nice saga, but it lacks something I can't explain. I'm not involved into those games anymore.

Now for example I'm playing The Night of the Rabbit, and I'm finding it terrible.

I mean, the characters and world design is great, so the artistic direction, but the gameplay is too repetitive. Backtracking, a lot of it. Bland characters with no personality. Is too slow, and it has not a story (I'm six hours into the game, now).

I can't understand...it's just me, or those games aren't so great?

If I play Full throttle, a Monkey Island title, the Dig, King's Quest...I can play for hours those titles. And no, it's not nostalgia factor, because I discovered Sierra titles here on GOG, so are "new" to me.

I'm the only one experimenting this?

EDIT: Didn't know why, but GOG ate a part of the thread's title.

Just wanted to say off-topic: Master Yoda style you did! :-)

Lol. I forgot to tell, the only recent point and click games I really enjoyed are The Whispered World and Tesla Effect.

I liked Deponia 1, A New Beginning and the 1st eps of Back to the Future and Strong Bad so far - I DIDN'T really like The Whispered World all that much at all though, it was OK enough to finished but I didn't feel its was a very satisfying experience afterwards, looking back so horses for courses I guess...

I believe it's because of the emphasis on graphics, on new games.
Sure a vast, shiny and lifelike world (with beautiful explosions) is nice to look at,
but in adventure games what you really want is interaction with NPC and good dialogs.
Try the "Legend of Kyrandia" trilogy. Really good game and totally funny.

I found the first one to be a bit of a mixed bag, that whole crystal hunting thing was dull as heck.

Have you tried Machinarium?

You might be right. I was really young when I played that, and didn't get half of the jokes.
But the other half made me like it.
+10 MacGyver points!!!

I played both Machinarium and Kyrandia 1. They were good and nice, yes, but nothing more.
Those games need a spark.

For example (now it isn't a point and click game) Braid has something unique I love, the same for Fez. The game I listed are without a soul.

I played also The New Beginning: the plot was interesting but again, too many boring parts.

Also one thing I hate is pointless dialogues.

Why are in those games?

In MI even pointless dialogues were funny, and you were happy to check all of them. Here? NPC simple say a lot of stupid and useless thing that bore me to death.

Hmm, Primordia has a rather classic feeling.

Hmm. I'm going to recommend you not play Kentucky Route Zero.

I'm pretty happy with some of the adventure game of the last 14 years. So I haven't found that the games have lost their spark. Maybe because you have played so many adventure games you are holding each new game up to a pretty high standard and it is hard to find ones that provide something new and that hit all the high points you have grown to expect. It would probably take a really special adventure game to crack my top ten of adventure games.

Maybe it's the (in)famous German sense of humor that 's not working for you with the Daedalic games?

Don't know, maybe?

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=GwwJw849HWc
;-)