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Kick-started Remake of Leisure Suit Larry Now On Sale
First time accepted submitter Zanadou writes "Al Lowe, the original creator of Leisure Suit Larry and other classic games, announced earlier today the final release of the remake of the first game of the series, Leisure Suit Larry in the Land of the Lounge Lizards: 'This is the moment I've been waiting a year for – Leisure Suit Larry: Reloaded is finally available! Right now. Tonight. For PCs and Mac. At the Replay Games site. (It would also be available via Steam, but they refuse to release a game at midnight; they said 'Tomorrow.' Hmm.) iOS versions will be available as soon as Apple releases it in the iTunes store. Android will follow shortly.
What a night! Thank you to everyone who contributed to our Kickstarter campaign. It's been a long, hard year but I think this game is well worth it.'"
You know, you could have just not read it.
Sorry Al Lowe but you're no George Lucas. You can remake, regurgitate and repackage Leisure Suit Larry as many times as you want but it'll still be a pile of shit.
And that's different from George Lucas how?
My older brother would never let me play this one on his Apple back in the 80's.
Muahahahaa - can't stop me now!
There was a good article a couple days ago in the WSJ about the backlash against kickstarter. And it's frankly crowd funding I think has reached it's peak and now for the most part there is too much signal to noise ratio. That being said, but it can be used for is someone with a proven track record, or a good solid plan to get the cash they need to create a product.
I've donated to two Kickstarter projects: Star Citizen & Pressgram.
Star Citizen because it's Chris Roberts who created Wing Commander and probably my favourite computer game of all time: Wing Commander Privateer. To me it's what I always wanted, Privateer the MMO (I know there was EVE, but EVE wasn't exactly space combat simulation like WC, X-Wing, or FreeSpace).
Pressgram I donated to because I run a couple sites based on Wordpress including one with several contributors. I can see as we are out at events the allure of being able to post photos easily to the site using an instagram style app, especially for the less technical contributors. That developer had a very well thought out UI/UX model and how he planned to spend the money for development of the app. So i saw the value and chipped in a few dollars.
If you are an established name or have a well thought out plan/product I think Kickstarter can work. But with the deluge of everyone with the "Fund my trendy video/movie/book/whatever" is starting to get annoying. Case in point is a local fashion designer I know wanted to do Kickstarter to raise the funds for production. Even after articles in a couple local magazines and news paper raised $3,000 or $10,000. It was not a well organized campaign and more of a beg-a-thon. And that's what I see with a lot of these projects that have flooded those sites.
"The problem with socialism is eventually you run out of other people's money" - Thatcher.
Hey, it wouldn't be the full 1980s experience and bring back the full flood of memories, if it wasn't pirated.
I was hoping for Leisure Suit Larry 4 to be released... maybe next time.
He said 'long, hard'....
DOSBox, WINE or what?
The original is available at GOG.com (good old games), and was on sale just last week.
NSFW had not been invented when I first spent my lunch hours playing it on a walk-up XT at work.
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One could argue that since their kickstarter was funded to the full amount and more, piracy has no detrimental effect, and might even have a positive effect due to more exposure.
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Are there plans to release a remake of the original original version of Leisure Suit Larry, Softporn Adventure?
I thought the first LSL was a remake of Softporn Adventure?
More Twoson than Cupertino
Crisper fonts available in the modern day computer? Hell, I'll do it if someone wants to give me a few hundred thousand on Kickstarter.
I still have a print out of the source code for Softporn Adventure. Apple BASIC version.
I played it for 20 minutes - it's perfect. The narrator is simply wonderful.
Only if it includes the original Turn to Page 6 copy protection and none of the copies include the manual.
At least Lucas has Jar Jar Binks to liven things ups.
So, in other words, point for Al Lowe then?
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Yeah, but he wants to see the text 3D-rendered at 100 fps... or jump in the hot tub with Roberta Williams, I'm not sure which.
Gamingmuseum.com: Give your 3D accelerator a rest.
... and the Stoned or Michelangelo virus on the disk.
Gamingmuseum.com: Give your 3D accelerator a rest.
does it have DRM?
website doesnt work in opera.
willing to buy but not if it has DRM
the game was funded on kickstarter, the devs have been paid according to their need already
Ah, but I have the original manual, so that shouldn't be a problem.
A successful API design takes a mixture of software design and pedagogy.
Does it have bouncing black boxes? It's not Leisure Suit Larry without bouncing black boxes.
You can remake, regurgitate and repackage Leisure Suit Larry as many times as you want but it'll still be a pile of shit.
Wow, I didn't realize how much kinkier the LSL sequels must be compared to the original.
Momentarily, the need for the construction of new light will no longer exist.
Aside from that, I have already bought the game four times. Softporn Adventure, the original, the VGA remake and in the compilation "Larry's Greatest Hits & Misses". I just finished torrenting the remake because I'm not paying for the same game a fifth time.
First game I every played on a PC. There were a bunch of remakes but this isn't exactly an exact remake. Quite a few different twists and turns.
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Star Wars doesn't run DRM free on Linux.
One can also argue that the sky is green and that the GOP cares about poor people.
Doesn't make it true.
The money they're making on this game is in part how they're going to fund the rest of the LSL games they want to do. Hopefully including completely new games.
He's not a scum bag, the game wasn't going to be funded through publishers, so he gave the fans a chance to fund development.
I'm getting quite a bit of swag for the risk, time will tell if it was worth it, but I just have to download and play to find out. I'm guessing it's worth it.
Plus, he never claimed that he wasn't going to sell the copies. There was no fraud or lieing about it. He didn't personally have the funds to finance it out of pocket, so he asked for fans to take a small risk on the project. The alternative being that there would be no game.
Plus, most of the fans pirated the game the first time around, I know I did, and paying for a small portion of the development is the least I could do.
If you don't like it, don't buy it! Simple.
Considering the "genre" of the game, wouldn't Wii controllers be more suitable in certain settings?
I hadn't the slightest objection to his spending his time planning massacres for the bourgeoisie... (P.G. Wodehouse)
I wonder if Al had them program in the same intro cheat code that allowed you to by-pass the "Adult Verification Check" that they had on the original :) Now that would be a fun addition.
Original submitter here.
The game is now available in the Steam Store, here, with achievements and what-not.
However, so far, there's no Linux version as previously promised. Hmm.
Ehhh, unlax, doc.
A grown-up male will have no problem with, indeed will welcome, authentic females wherever they are to be found. They will even actively seek them.
Juvenile males will be stuck with their juvenile concepts. None of this is new, and little of it will appreciably change internally.
As for Larry, the biggest loser this side of Cincinnati? He's just out to get laid and find true love, like every other red-blooded male of an age and mindset. It's a game - a very non-serious, tongue-in-cheek, irreverent look at aging hipsters and disco dollies and all the 'lifes' high and low, all with their own comments on weighty philosophical matters. It's either an existential tour-de-force or a wacky game of chances, or something. So, you know, like, get over it, okay?
If you really need to get your knickers in a twist over something, you might, you know, contemplate living on a planet hell-bent on turning itself into The One True Police State, er, Society, whilst suffocating on its offal and the species careering its way on the long slide to extinction with the 1% self-referentially living out their fading-glory fantasies of superiority behind their walls of police, mortar, and moral rectitude. Or something.
Btw, stopped by your site. Read some stuff. Thanks.
Several versions of Softporn Advetenture, including one with Pascal source code for the MS-DOS version, can be found at the bottom of this page.
If you're a zombie and you know it, bite your friend!
Or one couldn't give a shit about piracy and work toward giving the paying customers all the attention he can.
I pirate stuff, buy games and pledge on kickstarter. If you make a good game you will make money, regardless of what piracy do.
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I saw this and the only thing I could think was, maybe we will see some Space Quest again in the style of Space Quest IV or II – funny, and not just playing with technology. Or King's Quest in the style of IV or V, and not the bastardization of VII.
Or hell, a remake of Alien Legacy.... That I would pay be bucks for.
I know that large game development firms simply cannot bother with these projects because the demand and return is too low, but if there is enough devoted fans, maybe, just maybe, my son will be able to play and enjoy the awesomeness of games that have a clear and exciting story that doesn't revolve around shooting people.
~ kjrose
Aside from that, I have already bought the game four times. Softporn Adventure, the original, the VGA remake and in the compilation "Larry's Greatest Hits & Misses". I just finished torrenting the remake because I'm not paying for the same game a fifth time.
Of course you don't care about the artist time that created gorgeous scenes, developers time, rewriting of the feedback text and everything else that comes with building a game like this. You obviously have no clue what developing a game entails.
If you don't like it, don't buy it! Simple.
I suspect that he's *not* going to buy it. Does that preclude him from expressing his opinion anyway?
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I just find it depressing that in the wake of stuff like the #1reasonwhy thing on Twitter, and a boatload of gaming sites really attacking sexism lately, a game that exemplifies what's being criticised is receiving front page attention all over the place.
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Hey, Robbie, it's not that I don't understand what you mean, and for much of it agree, it's just that I thought the target was a bit off, however easy it was. Perhaps it's just my odd way of looking at things, but when I look at the over-the-top silliness of Larry vs. the very real, insidious endemic attitudes that what I consider far too many of my gender carrying around inside, whatever such lip-service they might give to things such as equality, respect, and hell, just plain good manners, I can't get worked up over it. Larry is truly wonderfully silly; the other is gross, demeaning, and hurtful in so many ways. I think there are wonderful differences 'twixt the sexes, to be celebrated, not used as an excuse for power trips and worse.
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