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New Space Quest Game Under Development?
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."
Back in the good ol' day, Sierra definitely had *something* about them; or at least their games did...
Whilst they kept to a strange format (the point and click on a static screen) for a long time after it was fashionable in adventure games, their games did at least have *soul*...The worlds were believable and exciting. Really, they were very similar in concept to the Final Fantasy games , perhaps even a forerunner to them?
Anyway, the point is that a new Space Quest game is probably something to get quite excited about...at least for us adventurers out there...
Woohoo!! I've been waiting for this one for soo long. I remember spending hours and hours as a kid try so hard to find that exact phrase to "put rock in geyser". We all knew what to do but figuring out what to type ..... that was something else.
I also give credit to these kinds of games for getting me into programming. Sitting for hours in front of a computer figuring out the exact syntax to type is what I do for a living now, but then maybe I'm just a sad git ;0)
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I can remember playing Space Quest IV as if it was yesterday: The hillarious shopping-sequence with all the nifty details (I'll probably never forget SimSim and Boom and that Chicken-game) that made this a true classic. Although there are passages (especially in the beginning) that could get frustrated - there isn't any Sierra original without the chance of dying at every second.
I especially liked the atmosphere of Space Qust IV (which really was much more fun then Space Quest V [sorry to say so, but the scene where you will have to find your way through that gigantic space-ship in the end of SQ V really sucked]): The backgrounds were terrific at that time.
I'm definitely looking forward to take a look at SQ 7!
This is what I fear the most. I haven't seen Sierra release a true adventure game in years. As a matter of fact, I see Space Quest 6 as the last real quest Sierra has released, and that was in 1995...
That's why I'm afraid they'll ruin it, just like they turned the Police Quest series, which was a great series of adventure games, into SWAT...
It seems they don't think adventure games sell like they used to, and that's why everybody releases all these multiplayer/3D/FPS/whatever games.
I hope they will use Gary Owens as narrator for this one too. He made SQ6 extra cool.
"Careful, combining these two items might cause a rip in the space-time continuum, a tear in the very fabric of space itself! (or not)"
This is going to be so cool.....Maybe I should get out more...
I still remember getting all of the clue books for sierra games. They had the little red cellophane to descramble each of the hints..
Pathetic? Sure. Damn fun nonetheless.
Now I don't play them anymore. Arrogant as I was I considered being able to drag and drop and point and click cheating and stopped playing when this became the standard of all new Sierra games. This was very silly on my part, of course. But I would be lying if I said that I don't think of the good old days, when the real challenge in killing the dragon in the cave (King Quest I) was typing "throw knife at dragon" fast enough, with a smug feeling of superiority. Now that was real gaming!
Kids nowadays. Blah!
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I used to play these games all the time. It taught me to type, and type FAST (scene where you're in the cage in, ohh, SQ2? Although now that I play it again they gave you a long time, but at ten they couldn't've made it shorter.) Heck, I still play them when I can coax win98 to comply (wonder where my dos 6 disks are.) But what got to me was that sierra started catering these games to the younger crowd. Okay okay, so SQ6 wasn't that bad, and hey the cartoony look was perty good (a lot better than SQ1 for sure.) But in Kings Quest 7 I just went nuts. Sure sure, I still haven't beaten the game, but giving you only one pointer that LIGHTS UP when you're on top of something clickable is infuriating. I liked reading the whitty comments when you couldn't do something, or tried something very silly. \-: In a way I'd like the old type-your-action even more (don't ya hate it when you're only given a few seconds to hurl something from your invintory into something else...and you mouse suddenly decides it doesn't want to move that way?)
Ahhh sweet nostalgia. I know what I'll be doing tonight.
--Roy
As long as we are talking about sequels to to classic games I can't _not_ mention Star Control 2.
www.classicgaming.com/starcontrol/
If only Accloade or whoever owns it now would get off its ass and let Paul Reiche and Fred Ford ( www.toysforbob.com ) make another Starcon game (SC3 doesnt count)
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If companies are going to start reviving old games, give me starflight. The only other game that I probably ever enjoyed as much as that one would be civII.
You can check Sierra's page for the Spacequest series here, it gives a good over on each of the games and the cover art is nostaligia in itself.
I really hope they do release this, and its not just rumor. I think I would actually be compelled to purchase a game for the first time in years. Maybe I'm just old though, I hope people who never played the originals will check it out.
I think countries that dub all media, such as Spain, have a big problem with coping with a population with little knowledge of the "international" language. Japan, even worse.
Looks as though some fans are also intending to release a version of Space Quest VII
http://www.sq7.org/about.php
It also gives a good bit of detail about why there haven't been any recent games in the series.
I remember one game that had a second person sequence, the original Battletoads for the NES, at the end of the first level you fought a giant robot, and the screen switched to a Terminator-style red targeting screen where you had to control your character (which was a pain cuz the viewpoint kept moving around with the robot) and throw rocks at towards the head. Every time you hit it, a crack would appear, making it harder to see where you were going. Really neat concept.
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If you check out some of the older developments that concerned Space Quest 7, it doesn't look entirely rosy. They wanted to make it multiplayer, or 3-D, or one of many different things that kind of stole away from the charm of the first six games. If I remember correctly, number 6 even came with an AVI advertising the seventh game, which was in development at that time. So is this a new project, or just a revisitation of the old?
And more importantly, are either of the Two Guys from Andromeda involved?
The genre as we know it effectively died a few years ago.
But don't you forget Grim Fandango, also by LucasArts, which had every single thing we loved about the adventures of old.
It was funny, it was inmersing, it had an excellent soundtrack, it was difficult as hell in some parts of it, but above all, it was FUN!
And don't forget those German guys which are producing a sequel to one of the greatest (then) LucasFilms games of all time, Zak McKracken & The Alien Mindbenders. It's a fan project, it looks very nice, it's GPL'd, and they need volunteers, by the way. =)
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>I also give credit to these kinds of games for >getting me into programming. Sitting for hours in >front of a computer figuring out the exact syntax >to type is what I do for a living now, but then >maybe I'm just a sad git ;0)
as sad as it may sound... the main reason i am studying computer science and electronic art (dual major) is because of those games. they're my whole childhood. boy i wish sierra was the way it used to be, being an old skool sierra programmer was my childhood career ambition.
on a similar note has anyone seen Al Lowe's website, http://www.allowe.com ? he was involved in a few of the space quest games and is the creator of the leisure suit larry games. poor guy, they really screwed him over. anyway, he's got a really cool site... he has some of the old skool games he worked on for download (i.e. the black cauldron) and he has leisure suit larry mp3s and hints and how to break the copy protection tricks and stuff.