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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. Innovation by chon · · Score: 4, Interesting

    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...

  2. Memorable Moments... by ^ZuLu^ · · Score: 5, Interesting

    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!

    1. Re:Memorable Moments... by 75bhp · · Score: 3, Interesting

      I don't know. The man-eating plants of SQII, along with burning paper in the passageway to set off the sprinklers and short-circuit the robots will be something I'll always remember.

      The clincher was being miniturised, and then having to turn off Vohul's air supply to kill him, before saving the galaxy from a zillion travelling salesman droids.

  3. I hope they will use by phagstrom · · Score: 3, Interesting

    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...

  4. Nostalgia, o yeah! by Theodore+Logan · · Score: 3, Interesting
    Those X Quest games and Sierra is to me like apple pie and learning to ride your bike is to most other people. Playing them is one of my first happy memories.

    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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    "If you think education is expensive, try ignorance" - Derek Bok

  5. please, for the adults? by 8bit · · Score: 3, Interesting

    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.

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    --Roy
  6. An Independant SQ7? by checkitout · · Score: 4, Interesting

    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.

  7. Mixed? by Satai · · Score: 3, Interesting

    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?

  8. Sam and Max Sequel! by NiftyNews · · Score: 4, Interesting

    Oh my God he wasn't lying.

    Sam & Max Sequel Confirmed!

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