"Replay Trying To Bring Back Space Quest, King’s Quest"

[kane_magus]

(EDIT) In the end, it looks like it was a good thing that none of this happened and that Replay didn't get these other devs on board. (/EDIT)

These guys are the ones behind the Leisure Suit Larry remake (the Kickstarter for which sits at a little over half-way to the goal with 22 days left, as of this post).

As with Al Lowe and the LSL project, it looks like they're trying to get the original creators for King's Quest and Space Quest on board for these as well, which is pretty cool. (Although, sadly, Mark Crowe has apparently already said he wouldn't be involved in it.)

Seriously, between this and the LSL thing and Jane Jensen's Pinkerton Road project (which is maybe kinda sorta talking about getting the rights to Gabriel Knight at some point down the line), if all goes well, we might just be having a veritable Sierra On-Line revival on our hands here, at least in spirit. About all that's left now is for the Coles to come back as well. (EDIT) Oh, and Police Quest. Forgot about that. If that series came back, though, I'd prefer a return to the first four three games, and not more of the crappy SWAT games. (/EDIT)

You know... it's kind of funny. I hear about these old games being remade and I get excited, yet when I hear about other things getting remade, it just makes me kind of sad and a little bit angry, even if one of the original creators are brought on board for that as well. Then again, if these game remakes were being produced by the video game industry equivalent of Michael Bay (does the video game industry even have an equivalent to Michael Bay?) and he was saying asinine crap like King Graham would no longer be a king but an alien instead... well... I'd probably feel just as poorly about those as well. ¬_¬

Comments

[owsf2000.livejournal.com]

Well, at this stage games on kickstarter are being remade pretty much faithfully and for all we're being told - they'll be complete.

I'm sure you'll start getting a little angry and sad at old game remakes if they start adding piecemeal DLC, etc after the fact. (And do it in such a way that if it were a kickstarter project, you'd have donate at least 100 dollars to get the future DLC for free.)

(Yeah, that's the future of crowdsourced funded games if EA/Activision/etc start to feel threatened by it and try to imitate it on their own games. That's my prediction. Remember 4/10/12! ;)

[kane-magus.livejournal.com]

Heh, maybe EA/Activision/etc. as a whole are "the Michael Bay of the video game industry."

[kane-magus.livejournal.com]

Or maybe Uwe Boll.

[kane-magus.livejournal.com]

Nah, I'ma stick with Michael Bay. Michael Bay movies are big, flashy showy things that still tend to make a whole lot of money even though they may not have much substance to them. Uwe Boll movies are just pure shit, period. I will give EA/Activision/etc. that much credit. They are not collectively the Uwe Boll of the video game industry, just the Michael Bay.