Petition: Bring back the fun way of learning from the old Nancy Drew Games!!!

[StarMaiden]

Hey everyone! So I've never done a petition before, but this is something I've always been a little passionate about in the Nancy Drew games: the educational component. When I first started playing Nancy Drew, I was enchanted by the complex plot and characters, but something else that I loved was being able to learn things that applied to the real world, too, like history among other things. In Curse of Blackmoor Manor, there was alchemy; Treasure of the Royal Tower had Marie Antoinette. Secret of the Scarlet Hand was devoted to Maya culture, and this game, as I have said a few times on the boards in regards to the learning component of the games, helped me get a question right about the Maya ball game on a quiz way back when!! Haha.

I'm not saying that recent games don't have the ability to make us work our brains to solve puzzles like they did in the past, but to me, it really seems like the games have lost the incentive they had to teach the players some tidbits about the place they are investigating and its history. I mean, sure, Trail of the Twister may have taught us about classifying tornados, and Shadow at Water's Edge taught a little bit about Japanese mythology, but most recently, we have The Captive Curse, and I don't know about you, but it feels like the only thing I learned from it is what "Auf wiedersehen" literally means in German. There are still things to be learned from the most recent Nancy Drew games, but the amount has seriously decreased, along with the need to learn.

So, after my rant, this is why I'm making this petition. I, along with a few of you, I'm hoping, want to see the learning component of the games return because the way the games taught me these things usually wasn't tedious or too difficult, but fun and interesting. So if you agree with me and think that the Nancy Drew games need to have more things, like history, to learn besides how to solve puzzles, please post and I'll put your name down below on the petition!

Thanks to everyone and happy playing!
~*~StarMaiden~*~

Signatures:
StarMaiden
Krolmeister
[Curtain\\Call]
ND Reformer
nd_mania
GetAClueGirlz
whiterwolfrocks
dogsrule21
TotoroRocks713
guineapigsrock
lulumckenzie
i<3music78
Professor Snape
duckergirl84
NancyDrew122337
Nature Drew
mysterysolver64
Sonny Joon
whitewolf93
Lady Arwen
(SassyDetective
flowerDrew
Love.Charlotte
berbew
poohdoo
MasterSleuth22
OLPH04-05
nancynut123
Emy~leah
ND and ME
Mort
dachshundqueen9
LabLover
Char00
TigerLime
kalliopiea
purple_snoopy
tuskel
TeamRosalieIsMe
ephemeroptera
anirtak59
Girl Sleuth ♥
skittlesm&m
NDbffs4eva
Jupey
day182
HardyDrew1
Arya_Everhart
SteelMagnolias

[Krolmeister]

I totally agree! I loved learning, and I loved the puzzles which had you looking at the periodic table, or using Morse code! And I love it when they used history. Make sure to sign me up!

Krolmeister

[[Curtain\\Call]]

Sign me up too, please! The newer games make my brain hurt.

[ND Reformer]

ya another of the same peition, ii have one too, yay me

[nd_mania]

I agree; I miss learning REAL history in the games. Without the history, the games feel empty and lifeless. I miss the connections between the past and the present that were felt so much in games like TRT, SSH, and DOG.
Sign me up!

-MA

[GetAClueGirlz]

I agree; I miss learning REAL history in the games. Without the history, the games feel empty and lifeless. I miss the connections between the past and the present that were felt so much in games like TRT, SSH, and DOG.

I second that!
I agree completely with this petition and loved the actual education. Now, we get some cultural ideas but other than that the educational aspect is gone. Please do sign me up!
-Rachel <3

[whiterwolfrocks]

i aggree!!

sign me up!!

[dogsrule21]

Sign me up! The old Nancy Drew games taught me so much (it added to my wonderful know-it-all-ness!!!

[TotoroRocks713]

I know admitting I like to play some of the older games partly because they were "educational" sounds cheesy, but it's true! I miss games like SSH. Sign me up right away!

[guineapigsrock]

I'll sign!

[lulumckenzie]

I love the educational parts in the ND games. I agree that HeR should make more educational things appear in the games. That is one of the only ways I get my mom to let me play ND games during the school year so if they stopped being educational all together... no more ND in the school year

Sign Me Up!!!
.:::.McKenzie.:::.

[i<3music78]

I love the educational parts in the ND games. I agree that HeR should make more educational things appear in the games. That is one of the only ways I get my mom to let me play ND games during the school year so if they stopped being educational all together... no more ND in the school year

Sign Me Up!!!
.:::.McKenzie.:::.

This is true for me too!!! I really like the old 1s b/c you actually LEARN something. The new ones juust have really hard puzzles. I like them when they are like TRT.
Sign me up!!!

[Professor Snape]

I COMPLETELY agree with you. 100%

Once I was able to do an entire powerpoint/poster
board presentation SOLELY on the information from
SSH. I got a 100 on it, too I have also found
myself knowing things that I only knew because they
were in the classic games (Like about horses from
SSR, and about Marie Ant. from TRT, and Houdini
(SP?!) from FIN.)

Sign. Me. UP.

[duckergirl84]

Agreed!

I absolutely agree with you! TRT was my absolute favorite game since I love the 1600's and 1700's and anywhere around there. It's one of my obsessions and I absolutely loved learning about Marie Antoinette! And I really do miss the learning part in ND games! And like in The Secret of Shadow Ranch, we had to learn about horses! In CRY we learned about Crystal Skulls. Also in The Curse of Blackmoor Manor, I even learned about constallations a little bit and about stars and astronomy! I loved that! Sign me up!!

duckergirl84

[NancyDrew122337]

Omigosh, I sooo agree! Sign me up please! I especially loved like in CUR when I learned about alchemy, and all the constellations, and stenography in CAR, I loved that sooo much! Thanks for bringing this up! I soooooo agreee!

Rosie