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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.'"
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?
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.
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.
Prove anything by multiplying Huge Number times Tiny Number
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.
Don't complain about syntax, grammar, or spelling. There is no.hell like input on android.
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 played it for 20 minutes - it's perfect. The narrator is simply wonderful.
'cause remaking a dos game automatically makes you assume they'll remake it as a dos game??? The more important question is how you couldn't comprehend the summary?
Don't complain about syntax, grammar, or spelling. There is no.hell like input on android.
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
Or an accurate non-dickwad answer, there is a linux version.
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.
Got my Linux version on Steam. It's not advertised there for Linux but I plugged in the steam key given to kickstart backers and it worked anyway.
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.
I downloaded the Linux version directly from replaygames.com. Works just fine on my Ubuntu 64-bit 13.04. One really nice thing is I only had to unpack the tarball into a folder of my choosing and double-click the Larry-Linux icon. No terminal-fu, no files scattered about in various directories. This, IMHO, is the way to do these things. (I also got the Steam key, haven't used that yet. I have not yet installed Steam directly, but run it in Crossover for the Windows games.)
My only gripe is that I can't run it in a window, as I prefer to do with my other games. (For those who carp that I miss "the immersive experience" I find that if a game is any good I get sufficiently captivated when it's in a window.)
The art, music, dialog, UI are great. A prodigious amount of goodly work went into this reboot. LSL-Reloaded, indeed. And it's still Larry, Larry Laffer, biggest loser and man about town. Right now I'm just exploring and getting killed a lot. Simple, fun times.
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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