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I spent many many hours playing Sierra games as a kid. Really high quality gameplay that in some ways is hard to come by in modern games.
by michaelmior 9y ago
I spent many many hours playing Sierra games as a kid. Really high quality gameplay that in some ways is hard to come by in modern games.
- binarycrusader 9y agoIn that same vein, Lori and Corey Cole are working on a game right now: http://hero-u.com http://hero-u.com
- hoodwink 9y agoFavorite? Mine was King's Quest IV.
- robax 9y agoThe incredible machine!
- michaelmior 9y agoI had forgotten this was a Sierra game! Another great one. Reminds me of this awesome game box: https://static.giantbomb.com/uploads/original/1/15693/1393566-even_more_incredible_machine_origami_a.jpg https://static.giantbomb.com/uploads/original/1/15693/139356...
- city41 9y agoKing's Quest III and IV are my favorite in the KQ series. But overall I'd probably say the first Quest For Glory. It was such a great melding of Sierra adventure and RPG.
- bhj 9y agoCouldn't agree more! I got into QFG1 at the time of Sierra's VGA point-and-click remake, and what a lasting impression. The artwork, music, sense of humor, and character building - including being able to import your character and keep building your skill points through each successive game in the series - made it really special. Truly the golden years of graphical RPGs, IMO.
- michaelmior 9y agoKing's Quest IV was good (it was the first one I played), but I think I prefer King's Quest VI. Things started to go downhill after that. However, the new King's Quest which got released on Steam is actually pretty good!
- chrisco255 9y agoMy intro to the series was Kings Quest VII, my sister and I loved it. It inspired is to buy the collection set with all the previous games. I think Kings Quest VIII was the death knell for that series. They attempted to make a 3D action game out of the series but it wasn't well executed and it meanwhile lost the charm.
- blattimwind 9y agoI would've said Caesar III and/or Ground Control, but neither was developed by Sierra, only published. ¯\_(ツ)_/¯
- psyc 9y agoBoth Manhunters. I've never seen anything quite like them. You'd watch a cryptic, low-tech surveillance-style scene play out, then travel to the scene and try to figure out who was who and what happened. Then on to the next scene to advance the plot.
- jpernst 9y agoI'm glad I'm not the only one who remembers those. For the longest time I thought only my brother and I had ever played them at all. Just a shame the series ended on a cliffhanger. There was supposed to be a Manhunter: London, but it was unfortunately canceled.
- mancerayder 9y agoSpace Quest series!
- jstarfish 9y agoSierra was definitely a seal of quality for a time, like Blizzard, Disney or Nintendo-- anything they produced was going to be very well polished and even if it wasn't your thing, you could tell it was a solid product. Adventure games died for a while, but there are some good ones that have come out since the 90s. The Shivah captured a lot of the humor of the genre but with a distinctly Jewish flavor, and I found The Cat Lady to be far more captivating than Gabriel Knight or Phantasmagoria.
- roel_v 9y agoMeh, I wonder how much of it is rose colored glasses. There is one KQ (forgot which one) where you have to walk through a bunch of thorny bushes to get to a castle. Any touching of the plants = instant death. This was essentially an exercise in 'take a few steps, save game, repeat'. Where was the fun in that? There were many things like that, although I forgot most of them of course. Many of the mechanics just felt like 'hard for hard sakes', not 'hard for fun sakes' - of course with the idea that harder is more fun, but still.
- AGoodName 9y agoSierra was a big fan of 'cruel' game design. Fail to do something at the start properly? The game will let you continue but you can never win. http://tvtropes.org/pmwiki/pmwiki.php/UnwinnableByDesign/Sierra http://tvtropes.org/pmwiki/pmwiki.php/UnwinnableByDesign/Sie... And yeah it sucked.