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Microsoft owns the IP today. Would be nice to see them do something good with it. Space Quest, Police Quest, King's Quest, Quest for Glory, LSL, Gabriel Knight

Microsoft owns the IP today. Would be nice to see them do something good with it. Space Quest, Police Quest, King's Quest, Quest for Glory, LSL, Gabriel Knight are all so good.

sersi 2y ago
The King's Quest game from 2015 started out excellent with some great puzzles and felt like a modern King's Quest. Unfortunately the later chapters were much lighter in terms of puzzles. For Quest of Glory, I'd recommend Hero U: Rogue to Redemption from the Coles, it has a similar feeling and is a load of fun. For me it's the best quest for glory clone since (better than Mage Initiation and Heroine's Quest). There's been other games by Sierra alumni but they just don't have the same level of polish.
- jonwest 2y ago
  Hero U was so close but ultimately such a grindfest that I ended up souring on it a bit but it was still the closest a game has come I think.
  - sersi 2y ago
    Oh, I actually thought it was less of a grindfest than Heroine's quest and mage initiation or at least I really don't remember grinding much.
- bnralt 2y ago
  Quest for Infamy is another a Quest for Glory-style game that’s been very well received (and seems to have been a labor of love for the developers).
  - sersi 2y ago
    Oh yes, they've also done another game that's very much in the spirit of the old King's Quest. Order of the Thorne. The lead developer has chronic health problems unfortunately so that slows development by a lot. He has a patreon account to sponsor his development.
somerandomqaguy 2y ago
Ready or Not is effectively the spiritual successor of SWAT 4. I haven't played it since release but it's got the right vibe.
droptablemain 2y ago
Arcanum :)
- _carbyau_ 2y ago
  The first game I rage quit and then went looking for an overwrite tool to ensure that every last bit of it was gone off my hdd. I loved the premise - steampunk and magic! - but got stuck and web said I needed some random thing that I had discarded many game hours ago. Inventory management can make or break a game really. That overwrite tool was handy later when my first C&C:Generals LAN game had my Supertank sniped and stolen.
  - CoastalCoder 2y ago
    Your comment makes Steam's cloud-storage team very nervous.
- card_zero 2y ago
  I love it, but mainly for its atmosphere and roleplay, because the magic/tech choice every time you level up is a nonsense. The two sides do equivalent things, and stack together but degrade each other if mixed, so strategically you just have to pick one side or the other and stick to it. Also there's weird bits involving a graveyard full of zombies, or roaming the wilderness having random encounters, which basically beg you to grind for XP as much as you like: and a pet dog who can gain his own XP and rapidly becomes overpowered, getting all the first kills. Lovely game, terrible gameplay.
  - droptablemain 2y ago
    Yep, it's definitely an unbalanced mess -- an unfinished masterpiece, as is said. What keeps me in love with the game is its world-building. Cities like Tarant feel alive in ways that are hard to explain. That and the choices/consequence/reactivity. Playing as a dumb character and reading the newspaper article about your half-literate nincompoop's Zephyr crash is a true LOL moment.
caf 2y ago
No love for Conquests Of The Longbow?
- sersi 2y ago
  Conquest of the Longbow is a masterpiece. As a kid, I loved the fact that a lot of puzzles had multiple solutions. It was definitely not an easy adventure game though, I remember being stuck on some of the puzzles using gems and trees.
- cut3 2y ago
  I still have my box and disks :D
inetknght 2y ago
> Microsoft owns the IP today. Would be nice to see them do something good with it. Microsoft... do something good? Have you tried using Microsoft products?
- Dalewyn 2y ago
  Daily driving Windows for as long as I can remember, using Office for both personal and professional paperwork. They have given me far more than I ever paid them and will continue to do so. Also: Age of Empires II. Best RTS ever; change my mind.
  - card_zero 2y ago
    I tried Empire Earth (from 2001) and was impressed by its depth vs AoE. I've been thinking about installing it on Windows 11. But this is somewhat beside the point, I'm sure both would run on Wine. I guess AoE II was published by Microsoft, but it was made by Ensemble Studios before MS bought them. And Office can do one.
    - dayjaby 2y ago
      EE has depth? Then why is AoE2 played competitevly and noone plays EE? AoE2 has a lot of micro depth: - quick walling to trap enemy units in or out - each arrow is a projectile that you can dodge - ballistics helps to hit moving targets, still can be dodged by good players The list goes on. Watch any modern caster for this game (MembTV or T90). There is a lot to enjoy. What I dislike about Microsoft+AoE is the fact that they publish DLCs with less and less content for huge prices. And AoE mobile is obviously a joke.
      - guappa 2y ago
        > still can be dodged by good players You are presuming that units would do as they are told, in a timely manner. Which they do not.
        2y ago
musha68k 2y ago
Probably will be the opposite. They are currently doubling down on Call of Duty above anything else. The about to be closed Arkane Austin and Tango Gameworks were institutions in gaming similar to Sierra. Their franchises probably relegated to the same place in essence.
- astrange 2y ago
  Tango's most well known developers (Ikumi Nakamura and Shinji Mikami) left after Ghostwire and Hi-Fi Rush were completed respectively, so I don't know if it would've been that successful afterward. Although they weren't closed for a good reason, just because the Xbox executives decided to spend the entire company's budget buying Blizzard and now finance is making them actually pay for that.
mschuster91 2y ago
> Microsoft owns the IP today. All of it? I thought the EarthSiege / Metaltech / Tribes Universe ended up with Hi-Rez Studios, but none of that is even on their website any more.
- ChoGGi 2y ago
  Tribes 3 just came out with MS as publisher.

Microsoft owns the IP today. Would be nice to see them do something good with it. Space Quest, Police Quest, King's Quest, Quest for Glory, LSL, Gabriel Knight are all so good.

sersi 2y ago

The King's Quest game from 2015 started out excellent with some great puzzles and felt like a modern King's Quest. Unfortunately the later chapters were much lighter in terms of puzzles. For Quest of Glory, I'd recommend Hero U: Rogue to Redemption from the Coles, it has a similar feeling and is a load of fun. For me it's the best quest for glory clone since (better than Mage Initiation and Heroine's Quest). There's been other games by Sierra alumni but they just don't have the same level of polish.

jonwest 2y ago
Hero U was so close but ultimately such a grindfest that I ended up souring on it a bit but it was still the closest a game has come I think.
- sersi 2y ago
  Oh, I actually thought it was less of a grindfest than Heroine's quest and mage initiation or at least I really don't remember grinding much.
bnralt 2y ago
Quest for Infamy is another a Quest for Glory-style game that’s been very well received (and seems to have been a labor of love for the developers).
- sersi 2y ago
  Oh yes, they've also done another game that's very much in the spirit of the old King's Quest. Order of the Thorne. The lead developer has chronic health problems unfortunately so that slows development by a lot. He has a patreon account to sponsor his development.

somerandomqaguy 2y ago

Ready or Not is effectively the spiritual successor of SWAT 4. I haven't played it since release but it's got the right vibe.

droptablemain 2y ago

Arcanum :)

_carbyau_ 2y ago
The first game I rage quit and then went looking for an overwrite tool to ensure that every last bit of it was gone off my hdd. I loved the premise - steampunk and magic! - but got stuck and web said I needed some random thing that I had discarded many game hours ago. Inventory management can make or break a game really. That overwrite tool was handy later when my first C&C:Generals LAN game had my Supertank sniped and stolen.
- CoastalCoder 2y ago
  Your comment makes Steam's cloud-storage team very nervous.
card_zero 2y ago
I love it, but mainly for its atmosphere and roleplay, because the magic/tech choice every time you level up is a nonsense. The two sides do equivalent things, and stack together but degrade each other if mixed, so strategically you just have to pick one side or the other and stick to it. Also there's weird bits involving a graveyard full of zombies, or roaming the wilderness having random encounters, which basically beg you to grind for XP as much as you like: and a pet dog who can gain his own XP and rapidly becomes overpowered, getting all the first kills. Lovely game, terrible gameplay.
- droptablemain 2y ago
  Yep, it's definitely an unbalanced mess -- an unfinished masterpiece, as is said. What keeps me in love with the game is its world-building. Cities like Tarant feel alive in ways that are hard to explain. That and the choices/consequence/reactivity. Playing as a dumb character and reading the newspaper article about your half-literate nincompoop's Zephyr crash is a true LOL moment.

caf 2y ago

No love for Conquests Of The Longbow?

sersi 2y ago
Conquest of the Longbow is a masterpiece. As a kid, I loved the fact that a lot of puzzles had multiple solutions. It was definitely not an easy adventure game though, I remember being stuck on some of the puzzles using gems and trees.
cut3 2y ago
I still have my box and disks :D

inetknght 2y ago

> Microsoft owns the IP today. Would be nice to see them do something good with it. Microsoft... do something good? Have you tried using Microsoft products?

Dalewyn 2y ago
Daily driving Windows for as long as I can remember, using Office for both personal and professional paperwork. They have given me far more than I ever paid them and will continue to do so. Also: Age of Empires II. Best RTS ever; change my mind.
- card_zero 2y ago
  I tried Empire Earth (from 2001) and was impressed by its depth vs AoE. I've been thinking about installing it on Windows 11. But this is somewhat beside the point, I'm sure both would run on Wine. I guess AoE II was published by Microsoft, but it was made by Ensemble Studios before MS bought them. And Office can do one.
  - dayjaby 2y ago
    EE has depth? Then why is AoE2 played competitevly and noone plays EE? AoE2 has a lot of micro depth: - quick walling to trap enemy units in or out - each arrow is a projectile that you can dodge - ballistics helps to hit moving targets, still can be dodged by good players The list goes on. Watch any modern caster for this game (MembTV or T90). There is a lot to enjoy. What I dislike about Microsoft+AoE is the fact that they publish DLCs with less and less content for huge prices. And AoE mobile is obviously a joke.
    - guappa 2y ago
      > still can be dodged by good players You are presuming that units would do as they are told, in a timely manner. Which they do not.
      - 2y ago

musha68k 2y ago

Probably will be the opposite. They are currently doubling down on Call of Duty above anything else. The about to be closed Arkane Austin and Tango Gameworks were institutions in gaming similar to Sierra. Their franchises probably relegated to the same place in essence.

astrange 2y ago
Tango's most well known developers (Ikumi Nakamura and Shinji Mikami) left after Ghostwire and Hi-Fi Rush were completed respectively, so I don't know if it would've been that successful afterward. Although they weren't closed for a good reason, just because the Xbox executives decided to spend the entire company's budget buying Blizzard and now finance is making them actually pay for that.

mschuster91 2y ago

> Microsoft owns the IP today. All of it? I thought the EarthSiege / Metaltech / Tribes Universe ended up with Hi-Rez Studios, but none of that is even on their website any more.

ChoGGi 2y ago
Tribes 3 just came out with MS as publisher.