Sierra adventure game compilations may be half-assed!

Post by **The_cranky_hermit** » 13 Sep 2006, 00:51

Note: This post was originally a little more enthusiastic, which is why the responses below may seem out of context.

http://www.sierra.com/en/home/games/game_info.prod-L2NvbnRlbnQvc2llcnJhL2VuL3Byb2R1Y3RzL2tpbmdfc19xdWVzdF9jb2xsZWN0aW9u.platform-global.html

Take a close look at the copyright info at the bottom:

DosBox Ã‚Â© 1989-2006 Free Software Foundation, Inc. for more information go to http://dosbox.sourceforge.net/news.php?show_news=1

So what does this mean? It took them two years to stick a bunch of old and unmodified DOS games onto a disc along with DOSBox? If that's the case, I won't be buying any of these. I can already do that with the compilations I bought in 1996.

Oh, and notice that "printer" is among the minimum requirements. Does this mean that the original copyright protection will still be there, only this time the answers are on PDFs?

Post by **skipclarke** » 13 Sep 2006, 03:49

Hot DAMN!!! This looks to be official:

http://www.sierra.com/en/home/games.html

I'm calling my local EB Games tomorrow. If they don't show them, I'm ordering these tomorrow. In honor of this, check out my [rul=http://www.widescreengamingforum.com/node/]post [/url]on a native solution to the latest Leisure Suit Larry.

Post by **The_cranky_hermit** » 13 Sep 2006, 04:19

http://www.sierra.com/en/home/games.html

Excellent. But what's not so excellent is the LSL collection, whose lack of LSL7 disturbs me (yet they have a screenshot of it, which is rather odd). LSL7 is easily the best LSL sequel, almost as good as the original, and possibly funnier. The humor in 2 through 6 seemed to consist entirely of cruel pranks being played on Larry (LSL6 seemed particularly mean-spirited), which I just find to be poor taste and not funny. And I'd say what I think of LSL:MCL, but the voices in my head tell me not to.

Fortunately, the rest of them are more or less complete. KQComp is missing Mask of Eternity, which I thought was a decent game but a lousy KQ, so it isn't really an essential KQ. SQComp has everything. PQComp has all four of the good adventure games; it's missing the SWAT games, the first one of which was utter crap and totally unplayable, not to mention spans 4 CDs, and the others aren't remotely adventure games.

Post by **skipclarke** » 13 Sep 2006, 04:24

King's Quest was the first game I ever played on a PC - a PCjr at that. I finished all the KQ's (except for 5), all the SQ's, the first QfG, and the first couple LSL's. I think I finished the first PQ, but those were hard with the regulations as such. I will be picking them all up.

I had a friend who beat KQ2 twice. Doesn't sound like a hard feat, but the save feature wouldn't work for him, and he didn't know about the sugar cube to protect you from the poison brambles. I don't know how many times he got over half way through to die walking through those trees.

Trx Stamp · Post by **Trx Stamp** » 13 Sep 2006, 10:15

Oh, this is awsome new. I loved the old Sierra RPGs, Space Quest particularly. I will defenitly pick that one up and probably the others. Hopefully the will come out QFG also. I think I still have all of the SQ series, most on floppy. I haven't tried to play them in so long. At least I won't have to worry about compatiblility with XP.

funch · Post by **funch** » 13 Sep 2006, 10:56

Thats awesome!!!

neoWidescreen · Post by **neoWidescreen** » 13 Sep 2006, 12:01

you guys are all giving away your age. :wink:

Post by **ctrlsteef** » 13 Sep 2006, 12:30

Lol, well, i can appreciate these games aswell and I'm 20. :D

Post by **Paradigm Shifter** » 13 Sep 2006, 17:11

Sign me up! :D

blueyedsoul · Post by **blueyedsoul** » 13 Sep 2006, 17:36

OMG! Best news all year!

Well... maybe second to getting engaged... maybe...

Post by **skipclarke** » 14 Sep 2006, 04:11

Cool deal. I think I was too young to play these at the time of their release, but if they are releasing classics in widescreen, then so much the better. :)

It would be great if companies like Lucasarts did this for some of their classic adventure games.

Post by **The_cranky_hermit** » 14 Sep 2006, 04:58

It would be great if companies like Lucasarts did this for some of their classic adventure games.

You know, for many years, LucasArts DID sell their classic adventure games on CD-ROMs, and continued to sell them via their online store. For years, every single one except for Loom could be bought there. But around the year 2000, they dropped everything but the Monkey Island games, Sam & Max, Day of the Tentacle (including Maniac Mansion), Indy4, Full Throttle, and Grim Fandango. Around 2003, they dropped S&M, DoTT, and Indy4. Now their only adventure game is the atrocious (compared to the first three) Escape from Monkey Island.

Post by **Paradigm Shifter** » 14 Sep 2006, 11:27

I found Sam 'n' Max, DoTT and Maniac Mansion on Amazon about a month back. I've been seeing how PocketSCUMM works - there are a few bugs, but many of the LucasArts P-A-C games are remarkably playable with a stylus and a couple of keys on the Dell X51v... :D

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