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King Quest 9 Lives!
croxis
I am the walrus
in Zocalo v2.0
[url]http://games.slashdot.org/games/05/12/10/1838255.shtml?tid=206[/url]
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heh, yeah, right!
No suprise there...
:p
Bring on the other fan made projects based on the old Sierra games!
Worf
I'd personally love to see the long awated next sequel to Space Quest
LONG LIVE THE TWO GUYS FROM ANDROMEDA!
Free work hours for Vivendi..
We can never forgive them.
He said he had been approached by the Big V about doing some kind of port version of a new Space Quest game to some console and that the whole thing was pretty ugly...
:p
He neglected to put his finger of approval on it.
Haven't heard from or about Mark in some time myself...
Course, I don't have next door access to these people anymore either...
;)
[B]I actually had an email exchange with Scott Murphy a few months back before we left California.
Course, I don't have next door access to these people anymore either...
;) [/B][/QUOTE]
Really? outstanding, glad to know they are still alive and well, Scott and Mark were to of my favorite developers back then cause they Obviously had great senses of humor, i always thought of them a bit like Douglas Adams, just kinda out there. and of course having relaly grown up on the Quest games, and being a Sci Fi fan, it was easy to like them.
I miss it, but life is all about changes.
He lives in the Chicago area now with family. There were all kinds of personal pressures that screwed up not only his life and marriage, but also hurt his friendship with Mark who was later up at Dynamix in Eugene, OR.
I haven't heard what came of all those excellent people up there. I did some QC/QA work remotely on Stellar Fire for the Sega CD and had the pleasure of meeting and working with some of them.
Also had that pleasure during the Amiga days, with a few cool programmers of that time period up there.
I always wondered what happened to everyone...
*sigh*
Silly Eugine. Nothing to do there but get drunk and stonned.
[B]Scott and I, and some other friends from Sierra, used to camp on the East side of the Sierra Nevada range during summers.
I miss it, but life is all about changes.
He lives in the Chicago area now with family. There were all kinds of personal pressures that screwed up not only his life and marriage, but also hurt his friendship with Mark who was later up at Dynamix in Eugene, OR.
*sigh* [/B][/QUOTE]
I remember Dynamix well, its funny because you knew a lot of these guys, and i knew them by reputation, as i had been of course really into computers all through the 80's, and was an avid gamer (starting out with arcade games in my Parents restaraunt, then moving on to computer games) At the time i thought (and still do) that Sierra On-Line was the top, with Ken and Roberta kinda being the King and Queen,
I really miss those days of computer gaming, I have to admit i'm not as much of a gamer as i used to be, and am really not impresssed with the current gaming climate. its really a shame.
[B]I remember Dynamix well, [..] At the time i thought (and still do) that Sierra On-Line was the top, with Ken and Roberta kinda being the King and Queen,
I really miss those days of computer gaming, I have to admit i'm not as much of a gamer as i used to be, and am really not impresssed with the current gaming climate. its really a shame. [/B][/QUOTE]
I agree, but we are getting older too. Feels like I have seen everything when it comes to games.
[B]I agree, but we are getting older too. Feels like I have seen everything when it comes to games. [/B][/QUOTE]
Maybe thats it too, maybe getting older is part of it, i mean i was around 11 or 12 when i played my first KQ game, that seems like forever ago, Most games just seem to have lost their magic, there was always new ground to break, first jumping from Text only to Graphics, then watching graphics get better going from CGA through VGA and beyond, the move from fully animated to actors (especially with The 7th Guest)
Now it just seems that everythign is a repeat of something, i can't remember the last Groundbreaking game that created a new Genre of game. IMHO, the Game industry has been Stagnant for a long time, for me it seemed to happen right about the time the last Wing Commander/X-Wing games came out,
But again, Maybe thats just my perception having been a gamer really since the advent of modern PC games.
Perhaps if i didnt remember the "good old days" of PC gaming, id be happier with todays crop of games.
Or maybe i'm just turning into an old fart,. lol thats also a possibility
[B]Maybe thats it too, maybe getting older is part of it, i mean i was around 11 or 12 when i played my first KQ game, that seems like forever ago, Most games just seem to have lost their magic, there was always new ground to break, first jumping from Text only to Graphics, then watching graphics get better going from CGA through VGA and beyond, the move from fully animated to actors (especially with The 7th Guest)
Now it just seems that everythign is a repeat of something, i can't remember the last Groundbreaking game that created a new Genre of game. IMHO, the Game industry has been Stagnant for a long time, for me it seemed to happen right about the time the last Wing Commander/X-Wing games came out,
But again, Maybe thats just my perception having been a gamer really since the advent of modern PC games.
Perhaps if i didnt remember the "good old days" of PC gaming, id be happier with todays crop of games.
Or maybe i'm just turning into an old fart,. lol thats also a possibility [/B][/QUOTE]
One thing is the simple staleness of the best-selling games and the ones that copy them. There still are some original games for the Pc, or at least games that feel fresh, but you have to dig a bit to find 'em. Even if the idea sounds strange, they might be worth a shot. Really. :)
From the top of my hat I could recommend [b]Gish[/b], [b]Darwinia[/b], [b]Space Rangers 2: Dominators[/b], [b]Uplink[/b], .. erm... and that's about it. :D Also, other small games that just do the old thing very well with a twist are worth checking out. Like [b]Zuma Deluxe[/b] from Oberon Media for example, or [b]Kyodai Mahjongg[/b] by Naoki.
To the Google!
On a side note ( too lazy to post a new thread), it seems that Konfabulator has sold itself to Yahoo. Unbelievable piece of crap. I couldn't even get the [i]installer[/i]to work without having at least 3 errors. Goddamnit. Why did they have to do such a shitty thing... Anything would've been better than Yahoo!
I look back to Dynamix games for example like Heart of China and Rise of the Dragon. Those were very cool uses of the current technology and I guess it comes down to the old arguement that a good game has to have good story to it.
Sure ID's Castle and Doom technologies wowed us with first person, but I think that's about the same time we lost touch with something in games too.
It's why I like Jedi Knight II so much because the concept of the Valley of the Jedi was a very cool extension of the Star Wars universe, and the way the game was built is in someways better than watching some of the movies to me.
Anyway... Glory days eh?
heh heh
If anyone is interested...
[url=http://www.vintage-sierra.com/]Vintage Sierra[/url]
maybe i'm cynical in my old age, i just miss the old stile of games, i'd love to see a new X-Wing game, or Wing Commander, or Quest style game (i know Biggles, TLJ)
As for the Vintage Sierra site, been there before, i love it do they by any chance happen to sell Orat on a stick?
I entered the world og gaming with Super Mario World on the SNES. My first computer games came when we bought Our old Packard Bell (75 Meghz baby!) with windows 3.11. Civilization 2, SimCity 2000, and Wingcommanders were my first real games.
I think what caused popular gaming inovation to die is the same reason why [URL=http://www.i-marco.nl/weblog/]I-Marco[/URL] claims the internet is dead: everyone found out about it. Once something becomes mainstream it becomes dumbed down for various reasons. Just take a look at the kind of comments made on slashdot and you can understand why. There are enough stupid people out there to buy games like Pro Bull Rider that make inovative games (Middle Earth Online and Our Belove Into the Fire) to wither and die.
And I have to say, Im not bored yet! [URL=http://www.morrowind.com/games/oblivion_overview.htm]Oblivion[/URL] really has me on the edge of my seat!
i don't rmemeber playing games on our TRS-80, but i do remember games on the Vic-20, and Coleco ADAM, Someone was saying about their frist PC bieng a Packard Bell 75mhz. min first "PC" was a Tandy 1000, 7.44 mhz (or you could slow it down to 4.77mhz) no windows, 2 floppy drives.
i was actually feeling kinda amazed last night when i was putting mp3's onto an SD card, i had that SD card in my hand, thinging, 1gb, when my first Harddrive was a 5 megabyte hardcard that i paid like $500 for.
I have no real interest in Quake40 or Command and Conquer 10.
Sadly, Lucasarts have said they will never produce another X-Wing game, because gamers want games with mixed genres, so we get games like Battlefront 2 (which while fun, the space combat is more like Rogue Squadron and not X-Wing)
Worf
Jake
[B][URL=http://www.morrowind.com/games/oblivion_overview.htm]Oblivion[/URL] really has me on the edge of my seat! [/B][/QUOTE]
I should think so...! :D