15th February 2018, 2:22 PM
A Black Falcon Wrote:Yeah, the only one I've heard a negative story about recently is, actually, Ken Williams. See this Waypoint story about how he was behind the making of Darryl F. Gates Police Quest IV: Open Season: https://waypoint.vice.com/en_us/article/...of-the-90s
Fortunately that's not a series I ever played, or much wanted to... but yeah, making a game with that guy definitely was not great.
Very interesting! Yeah Ken really backed the wrong horse with that one, and insistently so! It goes along with their poor business decisions later when they were bought out by a property management company in another country. Ken was progressive in a lot of ways, but when he made mistakes he stuck with them too long. Worse though, was Gates himself.
I do still recommend the first 3 police quest games. They've got a lot of dry procedural to them, but the underlying theme of "keep police power in check" is strong throughout, unlike later entries, especially the SWAT sub-series that just changed the whole genre to "shoot them all dead".
"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)