Put your speculation hat on and visit Sierra.com. There you will find a menacingly vague video which points to a reboot of the Sierra brand. Or, you could just view the video below. The site invites users to share the video, while indicating that further news will be announced at Gamescom next week.
The site belongs to Activision, which has had a stake in the brand since it merged with Vivendi Games in 2008. Sierra was effectively closed down that year, with Activision hoping to sell the legendary entity. In the end that never happened. Last year, Activision Blizzard bought its way out of the relationship with Vivendi for, take a deep breath, billions of dollars.
Many associate Sierra with the golden age of point-and-click adventure games. In the '90s Sierra travelled arm in arm with LucasArts as the masters of the genre, with titles like King's Quest, Space Quest, Police Quest and, erm, Leisure Suit Larry under their belts. Of course, the teaser doesn't mean that anything pointy or clicky will emerge at Gamescom: indeed, Sierra has a long and storied history as a publisher.
Still, it's nice to dream. Telltale Games has abandoned plans to reboot the King's Quest series, and there's definitely a huge audience among PC owners for games like this. Still, it seems reasonable to curb your expectations. Just to be safe.
Wonder how a modern King's Quest would be like? Didn't they try once before with a 3D action game with KQ8 or so?
Speaking of that hopefully they do make it a actual adventure game and not QTE quest or whatever.
(Though that could work too I suppose such as what Telltale is doing with their latest games, maybe.)
Never really played the King's Quest games, always meant to but it never happened. So with regards to storyline and so on does it make sense to reboot the series with a new game or isn't the storyline linked in that way so basically you can just go on with a new game?
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Early games followed King Graham or as of the first game he was just a adventurer but inherited the throne, as with other Sierra adventure games (And other developers.) sequels put the hero in one situation after another.
(Often with a lot of humor but also many serious situations.)
He is quite old by now I believe if they still follow that original Kings' Quest storyline and the later games even used his son and daughter (Rosella was it?) as protagonists.
Silver Lining was also released in episodes as a free stand-alone game set in the King's Quest universe but I have only played the first episode of that and it was quite short.
(Though that's nothing too unexpected, several of those adventure games were fairly short in length but very high difficulty along with character death and trial and error padded them out a bit, or as with Hero's Quest you actually had to wait for certain days to progress the storyline.)
EDIT: I believe the original came out in the 80's or so and used EGA and then VGA was used for the sequels and even included remakes of the previous games (As did Larry and a few other Sierra games.) but Sierra did not fund fully updating all the games to that degree, I don't remember the exact details around that.
(With improvements to controls and scripting along the way, nice to be able to use the mouse for example and not having to type in keywords although you could no longer swear at or otherwise abuse the character, heh.)
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The talent is gone, the philosophy is gone. So there's not much to be excited about. If it turns out good, great. But I've been burned too much with remakes/rebranding in this industry to be excited from the get go.
More Police Quest (like 1 and 2) or SWAT would be pretty amazing. I know 2K is sitting on the SWAT license now though, and they're not doing anything with it.
Just googled and it seems the spiritural successor is called Contraption maker, and it got released early July on steam, plus it is a Mac/PC game ! Yay !
Wonder how a modern King's Quest would be like? Didn't they try once before with a 3D action game with KQ8 or so?
Speaking of that hopefully they do make it a actual adventure game and not QTE quest or whatever.
(Though that could work too I suppose such as what Telltale is doing with their latest games, maybe.)
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