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| Omar 372th Post
 
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|  "Re(3):On the bright side..."
, posted Wed 21 Jul 21:12
Sad news, but not too much since they stopped making the games I liked many years ago.
I spent a lot of time with their adventure games. They were truly fun and entertaining.
And I always was surprised and amazed at how fast their production quality increased. They started with 16 color graphics, and typing every command, to a mouse only interface and rotoscoping. I still have in the closet a re-issue of Kings Quest (16 colors) and one of the Larry games. I loved Police Quest.
Does anybody remember the first Monkey Island? Sure, it wasn't made by Sierra, but they included a parody of the game system by sierra.
See, you could not die in the Lucas Arts Monkey Island, but you could in most Sierra games. So, in one part, you ask the character to walk near a cliff, and when the character got there, that part would fall to the cliff, and a window would appear on screen asking the user if you wanted to continue or quit, just like on the Sierra games.
Then a loud "boing" would be herd and you character would return alive. He just says "Rubber tree"
I miss point and click adventure games, but I think it's just nostalgia.
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| Radish 2676th Post
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|  "Re(4):On the bright side..."
, posted Wed 21 Jul 21:24
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Sad news, but not too much since they stopped making the games I liked many years ago.
I spent a lot of time with their adventure games. They were truly fun and entertaining.
And I always was surprised and amazed at how fast their production quality increased. They started with 16 color graphics, and typing every command, to a mouse only interface and rotoscoping. I still have in the closet a re-issue of Kings Quest (16 colors) and one of the Larry games. I loved Police Quest.
Does anybody remember the first Monkey Island? Sure, it wasn't made by Sierra, but they included a parody of the game system by sierra.
See, you could not die in the Lucas Arts Monkey Island, but you could in most Sierra games. So, in one part, you ask the character to walk near a cliff, and when the character got there, that part would fall to the cliff, and a window would appear on screen asking the user if you wanted to continue or quit, just like on the Sierra games.
Then a loud "boing" would be herd and you character would return alive. He just says "Rubber tree"
I miss point and click adventure games, but I think it's just nostalgia.
The Quest for Glory games were really ahead of their time. They had:
1) Characters that you cared about along with an involved serious story that still managed to be funny and entertaining.
2) Puzzles that made sense. No stupid crap like the ridiculous example UndeadFred posted.
3) Stat based character development that affected the way you fought in battle.
4) Multiple ways to beat the game and puzzles having different solutions.
I wish QfG5 hadn't gone with that pseudo 3D style. I never got the chance to play it since my computer couldn't handle it at the time but I heard it wasn't up to the series' standards. It infuriates me that a stupid company is sitting on the rights JUST so the original developer can't touch it and possibly compete for some trivial market share.
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"Goodbye Sierra" 
what a crappy ass name
