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New Space Quest Game Under Development?

Posted by Hemos on from the hey-roger dept.

Decaffeinated Jedi writes: "In a news item posted earlier today, GameSpot stated that they 'had learned from sources working on the project that Sierra is developing a new game in its classic Space Quest sci-fi adventure game series.' While GameSpot didn't give go into detail about the game, it looks like Roger Wilco is finally making a comeback! Check out Roger Wilco's Virtual Broomcloset for all the latest developments."

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  1. SQ (Sierra) taught people to SESO by GrayWing · · Score: 3, Insightful

    If Space Quest taught you to cheat - being a Sierra game it most definitely taught people to Save Early, Save Often. Not for getting more out of a game of chance, but to be saved from having to play again much of the previous half hour because you had just died Yet Another Sierra Death.

    1. Re:SQ (Sierra) taught people to SESO by Rothron+the+Wise · · Score: 3, Insightful

      Which is what was wrong with the sierra-games to start with. LucasArts understood that, and didn't
      just jump onto the bandwagon of graphical adventure games, they kicked Sierra off it.

      Sierra has yet to figure out that killing off the
      player whenever he takes a wrong turn is what
      killed them.

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  2. I Think The Killings Contribute A Lot To The Games by meni · · Score: 4, Insightful

    This is one of the things I disliked about the LucasArts games. You're usually immortal. How is that possible?
    As a matter of fact, the death-scenes in Sierra's games, especially in the Space Quest games, were usually really hillarious!

  3. Awesome by NiftyNews · · Score: 3, Insightful

    The only thing that could possibly be better is an update to some of the classic LucasArts games.

    Can you imagine an update to Day of the Tenticle, or dare I say it, Sam & Max? The latter game was quite possibly the most fun I have ever had on a PC.

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  4. Maniac Mansion 3 by Krilomir · · Score: 2, Insightful

    Now we only need Lucasarts to produce a new Day of the Tentacle game. That game is one of the funniest games I've ever played, beating every Larry and Monkey Island adventure game out there. That said, I wouldn't mind another Leisure Suit Larry game either...

    The problem is though, that I don't believe these kind of adventure games can sell anymore. The last great adventure game was Monkey Island 4, and the adventure game genre died long time before that was released...

    They need to innovate somehow. But how?

  5. Needs innovation... by FortKnox · · Score: 3, Insightful

    Even new innovations may not save it.

    The adventure series died. Look at the latest Kings Quest, or Quest for Glory V. No one bought them.
    They need to make it have an incredible plot like a Resident Evil-type game, or a FPS.

    Don't get me wrong, I was born and bred on adventure games, but I don't think they'll be able to sell enough if they "stick to their guns", and do it the way they always have...

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  6. It didn't die. It evolved. by coldtone · · Score: 2, Insightful

    You must remember the original intent of these games. Which was to take you on an adventure. In this adventure you would fight battles, solve puzzles and be the hero.

    This genre of game is far from dead. The reason we don't see the text interface for controlling characters any more is that there are better ways of doing it. Check out the Resident evil series, Final Fantasy series, this is the evolution.

    People don't want to use the old style because it simply isn't real enough anymore. I hope the new space quest will be much more realistic and use modern technology. Can you imagine a space quest like resident evil? (Instead of being creepy, and scary it could be funny as hell and weird)

  7. Adventure is not dead you silly ninnys! by kiddailey · · Score: 2, Insightful

    Maybe I'm just being stoopid, but ...

    ...look at Nintendo's Zelda series.

    With a new game in the works, it must still be quite popular. To me at least, each Zelda was reason enough to buy the next console.

    I'm sick, I know. Aside from the Cube (which I'll be purchasing once the new Zelda is released), I own every Nintendo console and every version of Zelda.

    Surely I'm not the only one?