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Posted: 2003-09-06 05:24pm
by Slartibartfast
phongn wrote:MKSheppard wrote:Vertigo1 wrote:Considering what Sierra has done to the fans in the past
They cancelled what made them great, the Space Quest series, among
others, and the Aces series.
I'm still annoyed at Sierra for killing their Dynamix office. I have fond memories of those games. That, and that closing probably killed a town whose main industry was Sierra.
Rise of the Dragon - best adventure game ever
Posted: 2003-09-06 07:33pm
by Ubiquitous
I am surprised people here are defending him. I'm hasseled constantly by arrogant pricks at work, and if I said something like he did I would be given a written warning. At best.
This guy is probably paid $50,000 for his job. In return he should act professionally no matter what the fans say. Has anyone heard the saying "The customer is always right"?
Posted: 2003-09-06 07:45pm
by MKSheppard
Sierra is no longer the Sierra we know from the 1980s and the early 1990s.
Half-Life, which wasn't even by them for god's sake, but by Valve,
saved their worthless asses, just as the company was about to be
torn apart by creditors.
They don't even have their own gaming division any more, it's
all marketing flaks selling games made by other people instead, such
as Valve.
Posted: 2003-09-06 08:14pm
by Xenophobe3691
Wow. Well, at least he didn't go on a rampant flame-fest about it. Looking at that one post alone, it didn't seem like it was earned, but the posts afterwards show the hell that guy went through.
Anyways, didn't Sierra make Arcanum? That wasn't that bad of a game, well built, expansive world, open-ended to the extreme...
Posted: 2003-09-06 08:18pm
by The Yosemite Bear
No, Sierra no longer makes anything, they stopped producing software after they ran into so many cost overruns with their FMV (Full Motion Video) horror adventure game series, could never sell enough copies to pay for the costs of producing.
mind you Phantasmagoria & Puzzle in Flesh were very good....
Still nothing compared to Old King's Quest/Space Quest/Liesure Suit Larry....
Posted: 2003-09-06 08:24pm
by MKSheppard
The Yosemite Bear wrote:No, Sierra no longer makes anything, they stopped producing software after they ran into so many cost overruns with their FMV (Full Motion Video) horror adventure game series, could never sell enough copies to pay for the costs of producing.
Ugh, damn them for doing that. They should have used the CD format
to store much more in the way they did for King's Quest VI, rather
than doing sucky FMV
Posted: 2003-09-06 09:01pm
by The Yosemite Bear
yeah, and try explaining 9 disks needed to run Phantasmagoria.....
good game, traumatic but good game...
Posted: 2003-09-06 09:03pm
by Hamel
King's Quest series?
Oh what a piece of crap that was
Posted: 2003-09-06 09:13pm
by phongn
Bah. I liked King's Quest!
Posted: 2003-09-06 10:25pm
by The Yosemite Bear
Me too, not to mention those great Infocom Text only adventures.....
Should I send a Grell to vist the current Interplay folks?
Posted: 2003-09-06 11:48pm
by Lord of the Farce
Vorlon1701 wrote:Wow. Well, at least he didn't go on a rampant flame-fest about it. Looking at that one post alone, it didn't seem like it was earned, but the posts afterwards show the hell that guy went through.
Sounds like retroactive justification to me. Hell, if I could earn the kind of money that guy does, I wouldn't mind having to wade through that kind of crap... Particularly the ones
before he went and told everyone to shove it.