Sierra founders got 'bored' in lockdown so they're making their first new game in more than 20 years - Absence makes the heart go yonder!.....how dare you say that to me.

[wtfNeedSignUp]

Yeah, TBF, the footage of the game looks kinda - "Baby's First Unity Game", if that makes any sense.
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Although, the game IS still in development, and it's slated for a fall release. Hopefully they'll polish it up a bit, or delay it so it can get that polish. Only time will tell, I guess.

The big problem with modern adventure games is that allowing the player 3d movement is a mistake. Items are a lot more easier to miss and a lot of time is wasted on slogging on an empty world (or worse, you sink you entire budget on having a big world with no gameplay).
Then you have games being cinematic with every puzzle being "put square peg in square hole", so it's just a glorified movie.

 

[Marissa Moira]

The big problem with modern adventure games is that allowing the player 3d movement is a mistake. Items are a lot more easier to miss and a lot of time is wasted on slogging on an empty world (or worse, you sink you entire budget on having a big world with no gameplay).
Then you have games being cinematic with every puzzle being "put square peg in square hole", so it's just a glorified movie.

The genre has done really well in VR

It's less that 3d movement is a mistake and more or less everything is so detailed that you need someway to show an interactable object from a stationary one.

Usually most games will give you some type of ability that highlights objects.

 

[From The Uncanny Valley]

Lets be real, Sierra had the Edutainment Genre on lockdown and beat the shit out of garbage like Jump Start.
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Jumpstart was fun :/

 

[Vyse Inglebard]

Lets be real, Sierra had the Edutainment Genre on lockdown and beat the shit out of garbage like Jump Start.
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YO.

ANYBODY REMEMBER THIS SHIT?!

One of the old ass computers at my school had it. It was like Day of the Tentacle but educational.

 

[wtfNeedSignUp]

The genre has done really well in VR

It's less that 3d movement is a mistake and more or less everything is so detailed that you need someway to show an interactable object from a stationary one.

Usually most games will give you some type of ability that highlights objects.

I'm torn on highlighting objects. It's kind of a failure from the developer to make organic highlighting but sometimes our monkey brains can't see a thing right in front of them.

 

[Coolio55]

I like the idea of both of them making a new game but it kind-of sucks that it's a remake of a game that they didn't originally create.
Speaking of Colossal Cave, I've always wanted to get into the Zork series because of their bizarre humour and surreal nature.

Where is my Sierra corona game where you have to trade a gold coin for a stick, and then use the stick to poke a gnome so that he runs away and leaves his loincloth, which you have to use as an improvised mask otherwise you die instantly when you face the cough goblin?

And if you step on a nondescript piece of toast near a well travelled screen exit your save file is permanently fucked because you'll be unavoidably killed by the toast knight 7 hours later for harming his brethren.

 

[Red Hood]

While the adventure game crash hit Sierra hard, getting involved with Cendant was really their death knell. Ironic, since they originally published Half-Life and Valve would go on to become monolithic.

I hope it turns out good but the "old creators making new games" haven't inspired a lot of confidence in me.

 

[Titos]

That's kinda cool, can't really hate Ken & Roberta Williams even if only for Phantasmagoria. Sierras best game will always be Metal Arms though.

 

[No. 7 cat]

I remember playing Space Quest and typing the words in on a 286. This might be quite good.

 

[Doppelmonger]

I just want to throw a pie at a yeti!

 

[The Cunting Death]

Roberta Williams is one of the greatest minds and coolest people who ever worked in the industry, and this isn't me being a simp, this is objective fact.

 

[Vyse Inglebard]

Roberta Williams is one of the greatest minds and coolest people who ever worked in the industry, and this isn't me being a simp, this is objective fact.

You'd have to include Ken as well, as he was the programmer who brought her designs to life. Now, as for your "objective fact", was she one of the most influential people in the industry? Absolutely. One of the "greatest minds" and "coolest people" in the industry?

I wouldn't go that far.

 

[The Cunting Death]

You'd have to include Ken as well, as he was the programmer who brought her designs to life. Now, as for your "objective fact", was she one of the most influential people in the industry? Absolutely. One of the "greatest minds" and "coolest people" in the industry?
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I wouldn't go that far.

I'd include Ken in there too. Actually on second thought, pair them together

 

[Billy_Sama]

Even if the games is good or not, its cool that game developers of the past can make passion project games that people can appreciate.

 

[Dom Cruise]

That's cool, but I was hoping for a Gabriel Knight 4 or even another Phantasmagoria sequel.

I HEARD THAT, CURTIS!

 

[Mr. Duck]

Sierra's adventure games were evil, specially Roberta's, having said that, it's neat that they are making a new game entirely by themselves, even if it looks rather amateurish.

 

[Vyse Inglebard]

LOL THEY CUCKED TO TENCENT TIM SWEENY FOR THE PC RELEASE

 

[Haramburger]

For fucking real?!
*looks it up*
Well, I'll be damned. I'm legit stunned, because you'd think, in the current climate of gaming, that LSL would never rear his head again.

Magna Cum Laude, the college game based on the main game's nephew & released on consoles, is extremely good imo. I highly recommend it.

 

[SSj_Ness (Yiffed)]

I'll check it out, even though this genre tends to be tedious and complicated, often unfair.

 

[Replacement Account]

IIRC the influence difficulty of the original Colossal Cave on Roberta Williams is why Sierra games could be bullshit in the way they were but don't quote me on that.