26th September 2006, 4:30 PM
http://boards.gamefaqs.com/gfaqs/gentopi...ard=932229
http://www.amazon.com/VIVAPE-72465-Kings...B000AYFPKG
Okay, these reviews and other informatives are very... upsetting.
They screwed up big time. They didn't even put in the original version of KQ1 (which is among the various Sierra games that work just fine in XP!), just the enhanced remake they made when they released KQ4. I like that remake, but where's the original?
Meanwhile, there are misleading advertisements on some websites that say this collection comes with way more than it should. And yes, it uses the DOS version of KQ6 meaning the visuals for the portraits are sucky and the cursors are massive and hard to target with. In fact, the DOSbox shell they stuck in there apparently doesn't do that good a job and still has all the issues it always had.
I have NO reason to get the KQ collection at this point. I have a superior collection already, DOSbox is free, and so are great frontends for it that already have sets of custom profiles for these very games.
I'm glad Sierra remembered one of it's past lives and decided to bring it back, but it's clear their current incarnation is an empty shell that doesn't really care about the games so much as the profits.
At least they are "out there"...
But this isn't the worst of it. Many seem to agree with me. Many will not buy these because they already have ones that work just as well (using the same emulator at least) and the reality is they actually wanted real ports with bug fixes and maybe even more special extras. The big time fans will probably ignore most of these collections except for ones they didn't get to play "back then", like me. What does this tell Vivendi? "We were right, no one is going to buy this anyway. Let's never ever do this again." Well yeah! What did you think was going to happen if you didn't put any effort into it?
Seriously, I'm pretty sure this didn't cost them anything beyond the materials and about a day or two of actual work from a handful of employees. I myself could have put together a better collection than this! This is better than nothing, but only that bare minimum amount which something can be considered "better".
http://www.amazon.com/VIVAPE-72465-Kings...B000AYFPKG
Okay, these reviews and other informatives are very... upsetting.
They screwed up big time. They didn't even put in the original version of KQ1 (which is among the various Sierra games that work just fine in XP!), just the enhanced remake they made when they released KQ4. I like that remake, but where's the original?
Meanwhile, there are misleading advertisements on some websites that say this collection comes with way more than it should. And yes, it uses the DOS version of KQ6 meaning the visuals for the portraits are sucky and the cursors are massive and hard to target with. In fact, the DOSbox shell they stuck in there apparently doesn't do that good a job and still has all the issues it always had.
I have NO reason to get the KQ collection at this point. I have a superior collection already, DOSbox is free, and so are great frontends for it that already have sets of custom profiles for these very games.
I'm glad Sierra remembered one of it's past lives and decided to bring it back, but it's clear their current incarnation is an empty shell that doesn't really care about the games so much as the profits.
At least they are "out there"...
But this isn't the worst of it. Many seem to agree with me. Many will not buy these because they already have ones that work just as well (using the same emulator at least) and the reality is they actually wanted real ports with bug fixes and maybe even more special extras. The big time fans will probably ignore most of these collections except for ones they didn't get to play "back then", like me. What does this tell Vivendi? "We were right, no one is going to buy this anyway. Let's never ever do this again." Well yeah! What did you think was going to happen if you didn't put any effort into it?
Seriously, I'm pretty sure this didn't cost them anything beyond the materials and about a day or two of actual work from a handful of employees. I myself could have put together a better collection than this! This is better than nothing, but only that bare minimum amount which something can be considered "better".
"On two occasions, I have been asked [by members of Parliament], 'Pray, Mr. Babbage, if you put into the machine wrong figures, will the right answers come out?' I am not able to rightly apprehend the kind of confusion of ideas that could provoke such a question." ~ Charles Babbage (1791-1871)