Space Quest

Games
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The news is circulating that a new Space Quest game is in the works. The suspect development is the Escape factory.

It isn’t a big secert that Sierra is going to bring back most of their big name older franchises.

Space Quest is being turned into a platform action/adventure game.

Jane Jensen has pretty much said she is working on Gabriel Knight 4. (without coming out and saying “I’m working on Gabriel Knight 4”)

Its pretty clear they are developing a new Leasure Suit Larry game. However since Al Lowe isn’t involved, I’m not sure how good that will turn out.

It appears that something is being done with Kings Quest but there isn’t much to back it up.

The Escape Factory has been a suspect for a new Space Quest since a model of a well know space quest character turned up on their web page

As for it being an action game, I’m open to the concept. So long as its funny and has good production values, I would totally accept a Space Quest Action game. Besides, if the speculation is accurate, we are also getting GK4 and a new Larry game that will be closer to the adventure format. Plus I hope they are available the the PC. Console are slowly becoming a chore for me. I don’t like sitting in front of a TV on a couch to game, they don’t fit nor look nice in my entertainment center so i end up storing them away and have to drag them out each time i want to play, and then there is the whole “using only one hand sucks on modern console controllers thing”. I rather avoid using them if I can.

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However since Al Lowe isn’t involved, I’m not sure how good that
will turn out.

I doubt it could be any worse than the old Leisure Suit Larry.

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Really? You did not like Sierra’s “quest” games? Thats a shock. /not

Well I imagine to dislike a new "quest "game from Sierra as much as I dislike a new anything from Blizzard. So I’m not surprised.

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I’m happy to hear that they may make some new episodes. I was weaned on those good old sierra games. I keep a machine around just to play them!

(Actually, I keep that machine around to play Darklands, but if I wanted to play Sierra games on it, I’m sure they’d work. I mean, I haven’t replayed one of the old Sierra games in about 7 years, but I’ve totally been meaning to and all.)

Yay old Sierra games!

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Pocketsarien is your friend if you have a pocketpc.

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With this emphasis on action it sounds like they just want to use the “Quest” name to bring back some nostagic gamers. I remember far too well what happened to the last kings quest game.

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the funny part of space quest wasn’t action, it was dialogue and descriptions.

sounds like they left their brains at the door.

although i’d buy it if they got gary cole to do the voice of roger wilco.

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space quest

Y’all come back now, ya hear?

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Oh my god.
Oh My God.
OH. MY. GOD!

Please let it be true!

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Welcome to heaven, here’s your harp.
Welcome to hell, here’s your accordian.

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So here it is! Not so exclusive Space Quest 7 footage. Alright, so it’s a little older than the one we’re talking about, but it’s still Space Quest 7 :)

2.3MB

Anyway, while you’re wasting time check out some of the other stuff I dug up from an old drive.

The Daikatana porno MP3 2.2MB. Something someone made using a bunch of sound files from Daikatana.

Sim City 3000 Teaser 5.6MB. I’m sure everyone has seen it already but it’s still interesting. It shows how SC3K was going to originally look before they had their moment of clarity.

Duke Tease -AKA Chu Chu Rocket comercial 1MB. Something of an inside joke with some of my friends. I would send them this movie and they would immediately think it was a Duke Nukem Forever teaser. Funny how many times people would fall for it over and over. In fact, when I was looking through my drive I played it thinking it was footage from when the title was using Quake 2 technology. Yes, sometimes I amaze even myself.

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I finally started up Gabriel Knight 3 the other day. Not too shabby!

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Interesting story but you’d better keep a walkthrough at hand. Unless you can figure out on your own how to use a cat and a hole in the wall to make Gabriel’s face resemble a stolen passport…

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just guessing… sounds like if you rubbed the cat against the hole, fur would shed and you can make a fake mustache?

is that what the puzzle is about?

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You are correct, and you are herewith qualified to play GK3! :)

Are you a longtime adventure fan? I could never have figured out that one on my own…

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The passport puzzle was… Well. But other than that it was great, and I think I even missed some stuff. I really enjoyed Grace’s puzzles, for instance.

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You are correct, and you are herewith qualified to play GK3!

Are you a longtime adventure fan? I could never have figured out that one on my own…

I’m not very good at adventures, and even I figured that puzzle out on my own.

It is infamous now because of its prominence in Old Man Murray’s great Death of Adventure Games feature, and, like a lot of the funny things that Chet and Erik have said, is now wheezed out as scripture between misty guffaws of liquified Cheetos by the slack-jawed 14 year old acolytes on the Something Awful forums they are paying for with their mom’s credit card.

I mean, yeah, Erik’s totally right, the logic is bizarre, but then again, that’s part of adventure games. Jesus, anyone remember getting the key from the subway tracks in the Longest Journey? As I recall, it involved combining an inflatable duck, a band-aid, a pair of pliers and a rope. Fuck, I’d just muddafuggin jump on the train tracks and get the damn key - what kind of lunatic uses a rubber duck to solve a problem best solved by a locksmith?

Solving puzzles in the real world is usually either a case of using brute force, sleeping with someone for a pay raise or applying topical ointment until the puzzle goes away - or sometimes, all three! So if the real world logic applied to adventure games, all puzzles would have only three possible responses, which would be pretty easy. So you have to sort of give props to adventure game designers as they seemingly skip off to Wonderland to find a new, wonderful logic for their next game that people won’t expect to be solved.

GK3, except for the ending, was great. I’d love to see a GK4. Hell, I even think the name “Gabriel Knight” is super cool - I might christen my first-born son “Gabriel Knight Brownlee”. If that seems bizarre, I’d like to name a daughter “Zuleika Dobson Brownlee”. I know, nerd.

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Umm, just to clarify… I’m neither 14 year old nor on the Something Awful forums; this particular puzzle was not just bitched about by Chet & Erik but also by Tom Chick in his CGW review; and yes, I actually played through the game but still couldn’t figure out half of the puzzles without a walkthrough, including the passport puzzle.

Rest assured that you are quite good at adventures if you didn’t need a walkthrough for GK3. That means “quite good” as compared to something like 95% of gamers rather than Zork veterans. As for myself, I rarely play adventure games because I detest puzzles that hold up the flow of gameplay. I didn’t play The Longest Journey, for instance, and only bought GK3 out of interest for the subject matter.

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I didn’t say I didn’t need a walk-thru, just not for the mustache puzzle. Grace’s geometrical puzzles, for example, were insanely difficult. As for the mustache puzzle, I think I tried writing on the passport, it drew a mustache, and I figured it out from there. If you try to combine items as you get them in adventure games, you tend to get a lot more clues.

I wasn’t trying to act all snooty about how you cerebral bovines couldn’t solve the puzzle, while I managed to do it while simultaneously memorizing a book of Romantic poems, teach myself Latin and harnessed the power of my monocle into a laser beam. Just snooty about the fact that it has become reviled as the most inane puzzle in any adventure game ever, when it comparatively isn’t that difficult and does sort of have a logic to it: you need to disguise yourself. The moped guy has already met you and knows what you look like. Mosely has a moped reserved. You need to show a passport to get the moped. You don’t look anything like Mosely, but the moped guy doesn’t know what Mosely looks like either. So you can alter the passport, then disguise yourself to match it.

Making the mustache part is silly, since flaying a cat with a piece of scotch tape that has been shoved into your pocket for hours, then affixing that to your lip with maple syrup isn’t a solution most of us would find workable in the real world. But the logic of why you need to get a fake mustache to look like a man without a mustache isn’t nearly as ridiculous as people have complained about it to be.

Yeah, I know, I sound like an idiot.

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Where’s the other hand?[/quote]

Laying limp next to me. Just what its been doing for the past 33 years. (Hey, at least I know where it is. no hanging out with glovers of ill repute for righty :? )