I'm old Anon Babble
I'm old Anon Babble
tribes
Did you forgot that sierra released half life before valve was is own company? Pepperidge Farm remembers.
So am i, OP. 45 this year.
I remember sierra games, and i have fond memories of lucas arts stuff, but i can't stand point n click games at all these days.
TISH
DUN DAH DAH DAAAAH
(ting... ting)
That's good. Ideally people didn't die and they keep getting better. You have a duty to pass on and keep alive good things from the past.
Roberta Williams was a QT... Ken lucked out, big time.
So am I. Lot of old fags on Anon Babble now.
I thought that too.
Then I played OG maniac mansion and day of the tentacle again, and I realized the problem was not with me.
Old as balls
For me, it's Freddy Pharkas: Frontier Pharmacist.
Same, anon. Been here since the days when Flash games on Newgrounds were the highlight of the week. Still remember playing Soldier of Fortune and feeling like it was the edgiest thing ever. Time flies.
banging nerdy 90s girls and making games about royal chads on heroic journeys to restore the throne
Fuck you gen Xers for living my dream. Anyway Kings Quest V was the best one
They resurrected MicroProse or at least got a studio to wear its skinsuit in a way that's actually not terrible
Why not resurrect Sierra / Impressions Games?
...Same.
banging nerdy 90s girls
She was more of a 70's/80's girl. They got married back in the 70's, they started making vidya in the 80's (I think they founded the company in 1979).
My first shazbot was Mork & Mindy.
Pre-tribes
You now remember how great their blade runner game was.
Soldier of Fortune, Kingpin and SiN in the same PC Boxset.
that was a good week for sure.
Love me some Phantasmagoria
Sierra was resurrected by Microsoft after they aquired activision blizzard and wanted to resell the old game sierra made. It's just a zo,bie in a coma though. It only exists due to legalities. I don't think it even has any developers or a physical building. It's just a name now.
KQVI will always have a special place in my heart since it was the first sierra game I beat all on my own.
My parents used to play the original kings quests games together, on 5 1/4 floppies.
My dad was the one who figured out the puzzles usually, and my mom was the one who would figure out the batshit syntax.
best company logo
Police Quest is my favorite Sierra game.
Sierra > LucasArts.
Except the brief "okay, we have to make adventure games in 3D now" period, Gabriel Knight 3 is really awful and has nothing on Grim Fandango.
Who?
I grew up on Space Quest and Sam and Max, mostly because that's what my much older brother enjoyed. I remember getting freaked out by the zombie guy you can easily run into at the beginning of Space Quest IV.
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Tilted Mill is the current Impressions Games but they've been in limbo for ages now.
Delphine = Flashback, Another World, Future Wars, Fade to Black
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Psygnosis = Lemmings, Wipeout, Overboard, Destruction Derby
the only issue i've ever had with Sierra was that dude Ken Williams (iirc) being the reason why games got age-rated and it became a pain in the fucking ass to buy horror games in the mid-90s.
thats just a 30 year old grudge i've had.
VI was awesome with the magic map and the different islands. Might have been the peak of their artwork too.
My favorite part was the bad guy's genie kept trying to poison or trick you in various ways, but if you recognized the way his eye glints from the intro you'd know.
It's IV for me
Man, that Flashback intro still gets me.
Megadrive audio was better though.
This guy made me shit myself as a 7 year old especially since the game bugged and I couldnt move at first and had to watch him shamble up to me
remember descent
Our old-ass computer liked to lock up during the close-up face cutscene right around the scream part, so he screamed and then you were hardlocked with the tense music stuck playing until you reset the computer
oh man this brings me back
I wanna ride on the cone of tragedy
i can hear that jpg
Fuck, yeah that was the same bug I had. I forget what fixed it in the end. The game was so good though. Latex femdom babes, the zero-g mall, punching random shit into the time machine to see what happens. Zoomers would never believe pic related came from a flagship software studio once upon a time.
One day I'll figure out what the fuck that hole in the tree on that first screen does.
Yep, it's kino time.
Same, same.
no SHOGO: MAD 2
no FreeSpace 3
no Freelanxer
Tread carefully, for you tread on my dreams.
Freelancer 2*
Bring back FMV games with barely recognizable in-game models. I need it.
Genuinely, still, to this day, the absolute sickest logo/name/font of any studio.
Qirex R&D best team
there's a reality out there where Volition somehow made Descent 4 and FreeSpace 3 so well that they practically became household names, where the biggest tournament event of the year is focused around 6DoF death matches
we got the reality where they pooped out SR23 and died while the big tournaments are fucking fortnite and whatever ASSFAGGOTS trash is the new hotness
It's NOT FUCKING FAIR.
Even in the nostalgia thread, F.O.E.!
Kinda liked their original logo, tho.
oh yeah? well then I get to be old Anon Babble!
psygnosis was a publisher not a developer you utter retard, all they ever did was publush games, not make them, stupid fucking faggot, psygnosis was also onenof thenworst publishers to ever do it, only to be outdone by the niggermachine that was ocean
speaking of sierra and impressions
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Moooom get off the computer I wanna play doom
Hi old, I'm dad.
I just want to go back
Blizzard
Bungie
Westwood
3DO/New World Computing
Ensemble Studios
Gas Powered Games
...
For me it was Goblins Quest 3. What an obscure piece of kino.
Child, I was grey when Diablo:Hellfire introduced the novel concept of RUNES
'member when Earthsiege was primed to overtake Battletech? All 75mhz required from that mandatory Pentium!
falls of chair
shatters hip and 3 discs
Forced meme is forced.
I'm so mad...I'M SO FUCKING MAAAAAD!!! AAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAA
Cut my teeth on Atari, the original Rogue, Sierra King's/Space/Police Quest and Leisure Suit Larry 1-3. I was a huge Populous fan too. My first PC game I "owned" was King's Quest IV The Perils of Rosella. My big bro got that for me it was fun to explore and really solve the puzzles myself.
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sorry my 1st game only comes in this res, not sorry. post again when your testicles drop
Me too
(((canadian))) company
now responsible for radeon
Makes absolute sense why they keep coming in last place
Did any of you play this retro P&C inspired by the Colonel's Bequest? Came out last year.
My dad bought me a Microsoft Sidewinder to play it when it came out.
Anyone else have fond memories of Flagball?
Their Robin Hood game was so good.
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Woman makes endless kino video games*
No woman since has accomplished this
*Mask of Eternity was awful, though.
You know what else is crazy? Sierra originally published Half-Life before Valve took over as publisher.
Only remember playing Delta Force 1 at 320x240 on my P166
I remember back when the demo disks that came with PC gaming magazine were actual floppy discs.
Dollar per disc in most shops.
Not the "big" time games. Doom was 4.99, if I'm remembering correctly, at Software Etc.
Oh yeah now you are making me remember all those shareware game disks they used to sell for cheap. Usually at the counter. Then came the era of the CD-ROM and you would just get tons of shit crammed into CDs as compilations or demo discs. Was also how they had to proliferate patches for a good while until the internet finally came around and was proliferated.
I used to find them in grocery stores of all things
Hi old. I'm tired.
They were everywhere. Pretty sure that the sales model was pure profit for whoever was selling them since the publisher wanted those disks in hand on the chance the player purchased the full game. So they would just hand them out to whoever would take them and let places sell them. Shareware was a pretty smart business model for the time, but only because development and production costs themselves were so comparatively low. Also piracy was small and mostly localised to friend circles so it didn't eat as much potential profit if your game was good enough to be worth buying.
I have a tough time going back. I have no nostalgia whatsoever for the ega era and the vga games were so short lived. only really got 1 or 2 entries per franchise before everything shifted to fmv abominations.
FUCK YEAR SEAKING
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