| ▲ | tombert 6 hours ago |
| Damn, for just a moment I thought the Sierra Online company was coming back. I want a new official Quest for Glory game. |
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| ▲ | reconnecting 6 hours ago | parent | next [-] |
| Assume Sierra owners are too young to know what Sierra games means. I was absolutely obsessed with their logo (1) at school time. 1. https://preview.redd.it/remember-sierra-games-1979-2008-they... https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=IMQi7olp-tw |
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| ▲ | rashkov 5 hours ago | parent | next [-] | | It occurs to me just now that the logo is in fact a mountain and not a breaching Orca whale like I'd always thought | | | |
| ▲ | foobarian 6 hours ago | parent | prev | next [-] | | Wow seeing that hit me surprisingly hard. Such good times | |
| ▲ | reconnecting 5 hours ago | parent | prev | next [-] | | Probably many are ashamed to remember that the name Sierra is also associated with the Leisure Suit Larry (1) games. 1. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Leisure_Suit_Larry | | |
| ▲ | tombert 5 hours ago | parent [-] | | Why would we be ashamed of that? The early Leisure Suit Larry games are a lot of fun; yeah the humor is crass and low-brow, but that's sort of the charm. It's meant to be silly. | | |
| ▲ | reconnecting 5 hours ago | parent [-] | | That's because you were probably the right age to know the answers to the age control questions, and I was at an age where I could only download them from a BBS. | | |
| ▲ | tombert 5 hours ago | parent [-] | | I actually didn't play the game until I was fifteen, in ~2006. I didn't know the answers, but I found out you can just hit ctrl-alt-x and skip the questions. | | |
| ▲ | reconnecting 4 hours ago | parent | next [-] | | Take a look at how it was in 1995. InterAction (Sierra Online) magazine [PDF copy]. Article about the Larry 6 release on page 50. https://sierrachest.com/gfx/Publications/IA/IA_8_1/023_Inter... | | | |
| ▲ | flowerbreeze 4 hours ago | parent | prev [-] | | I wish I had known that! Guessing and trying the answers worked too, given no internet and only having a faint idea that "age control" was not in fact part of the game itself. I learned that Bonnie and Ronnie was not in fact a thing. What is "Bonnie & Clyde"? Eh, probably some band name was my guess. It took some patience, but since it was one of 3 games I had somehow acquired (how exactly is a lost memory), I had to get past the starting quiz. Since I also barely spoke English at the time, I got stuck in the game itself pretty soon anyway. Didn't manage to figure out how to say some things the right way. "Ken sent me" is the last thing I remember from it... and I never had any idea that the game was rather dirty until much later. |
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| ▲ | RankingMember 4 hours ago | parent | prev | next [-] | | The Psygnosis logo similarly has a special place in my memory | | | |
| ▲ | tombert 6 hours ago | parent | prev [-] | | What was wrong with their logo? Or did you mean to type "obsessed"? | | |
| ▲ | reconnecting 6 hours ago | parent [-] | | Obsessed, correct. One of the most beautiful game logos, going back to the early nineties. |
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| ▲ | throw0101c 6 hours ago | parent | prev | next [-] |
| At least I'm not the only one: * https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Sierra_Entertainment |
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| ▲ | Bjorkbat 6 hours ago | parent | prev | next [-] |
| I was about to post a snarky comment along the lines of "Sierra? The publishers of Homeworld and Homeworld 2?" |
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| ▲ | pmdr 6 hours ago | parent | prev | next [-] |
| Every single word domain seems to have become some new AI company. |
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| ▲ | pixelpoet 6 hours ago | parent | prev | next [-] |
| Likewise, I was hoping for more Space Quest :( |
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| ▲ | cousin_it 6 hours ago | parent | prev | next [-] |
| That series is over, and the magical feeling of being in an open-ended fantasy world is really hard to replicate when we're not kids anymore. Loom is another game that gave me that feeling. But there was one idea in QfG that I wish more games would use. Namely, designing three different solutions for every problem the player is facing. This idea works so well to create a sense of possibility in a game, I don't know why it got forgotten. |
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| ▲ | Eddy_Viscosity2 4 hours ago | parent | prev | next [-] |
| Me too, now I am suddenly wanting Space Quest 2026! |
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| ▲ | ransom1538 4 hours ago | parent | prev | next [-] |
| Space Quest IV: Roger? |
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| ▲ | thatmf 6 hours ago | parent | prev | next [-] |
| Same. A new Gabriel Knight would be fun! |
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| ▲ | tombert 5 hours ago | parent [-] | | Oh yeah! For some reason I was convinced that Gabriel Knight was LucasArts but nope, just misremembered. Gabriel Knight was awesome, I'd love a new one. |
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| ▲ | bastardoperator 6 hours ago | parent | prev | next [-] |
| So you want to be a hero? |
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| ▲ | Apocryphon 6 hours ago | parent | prev | next [-] |
| Well, if MicroProse could do it... |
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| ▲ | jcgrillo 6 hours ago | parent | prev [-] |
| A new Lode Runner when EDIT: holy shit I stand corrected: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Lode_Runner |
