16th March 2006, 10:10 PM
I didn't know about that history...
Well, I'm catiously optimistic. I'll forgo preordering anything, now that I understand and have confirmed that these have been listed for some time now. However, since Vivendi has actually stated something at this point, and given a nice concrete date of release, I think that puts a little weight behind it.
As it stands, I will not preorder it but I will look around stores on the 24th (perhaps the 25th) of this month. If I don't see anything, I'll be disappointed and forced to ignore future reports unless I actually see some videos or some actual confirmation from Vivendi themselves.
And yes, from what you keep telling me, it would be a very good idea to release a Quest for Glory collection as well. Allow me to even add that a Gabriel Knight collection might also be in order. I have 2 and 3, but I would like to play the first one.
And here's a Black Cauldren download for ya. It's freeware now. http://www.allowe.com/More/download.htm
Hey EM, I hear ya on the design of Seirra's earlier adventure games. Getting "permanently stuck" and needing to restart a game was bad game design then and it still is now. Still, I got past that and enjoyed a very nice game despite that little flaw. Fortunatly, around KQ7 Sierra finally realized what it took to get a game where it was impossible to get permanently stuck.
I doubt they fixed those issues, considering they might have to change a lot around in the games to get that to work, or at least add some sort of cinema sequence somehow that got you "unstuck" with the minimum needed to keep going. It'll just be nice to play KQ5 without running out of heap space.
Well, I'm catiously optimistic. I'll forgo preordering anything, now that I understand and have confirmed that these have been listed for some time now. However, since Vivendi has actually stated something at this point, and given a nice concrete date of release, I think that puts a little weight behind it.
As it stands, I will not preorder it but I will look around stores on the 24th (perhaps the 25th) of this month. If I don't see anything, I'll be disappointed and forced to ignore future reports unless I actually see some videos or some actual confirmation from Vivendi themselves.
And yes, from what you keep telling me, it would be a very good idea to release a Quest for Glory collection as well. Allow me to even add that a Gabriel Knight collection might also be in order. I have 2 and 3, but I would like to play the first one.
And here's a Black Cauldren download for ya. It's freeware now. http://www.allowe.com/More/download.htm
Hey EM, I hear ya on the design of Seirra's earlier adventure games. Getting "permanently stuck" and needing to restart a game was bad game design then and it still is now. Still, I got past that and enjoyed a very nice game despite that little flaw. Fortunatly, around KQ7 Sierra finally realized what it took to get a game where it was impossible to get permanently stuck.
I doubt they fixed those issues, considering they might have to change a lot around in the games to get that to work, or at least add some sort of cinema sequence somehow that got you "unstuck" with the minimum needed to keep going. It'll just be nice to play KQ5 without running out of heap space.
"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)