3rd May 2007, 1:49 PM
Interesting... It is unfortunate I can't find these games anywhere. I would hope Sierra would eventually release a box set, but considering what that meant with the various Quest collections, they'll likely phone it in again...
The thing is, Steam's there. They can do the full port job and sell it to pretty much everyone with very little cost to them. Now, the thing I hate about Steam is the need to connect online to play any game, even if it's single player. I understand it's a copyright protection scheme, it's just annoying when I take my laptop out and about and still need an online connection, but generally speaking I am within range of some wifi access point so most of the time I at least can still play these games.
Anyway, it's better than Gametap. Don't get me wrong, those Sam and Max episodes and Myst Online are interesting, but I will NEVER pay a monthly fee to play a SINGLE PLAYER game. That is just absurd. If a game ends up on my hard disk, I want to use it FOREVER.
The thing is, Steam's there. They can do the full port job and sell it to pretty much everyone with very little cost to them. Now, the thing I hate about Steam is the need to connect online to play any game, even if it's single player. I understand it's a copyright protection scheme, it's just annoying when I take my laptop out and about and still need an online connection, but generally speaking I am within range of some wifi access point so most of the time I at least can still play these games.
Anyway, it's better than Gametap. Don't get me wrong, those Sam and Max episodes and Myst Online are interesting, but I will NEVER pay a monthly fee to play a SINGLE PLAYER game. That is just absurd. If a game ends up on my hard disk, I want to use it FOREVER.
"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)