Lucasarts or Sirrea{Adventure game wise}
Now during the games of adventure{Before they were slowly dying out when FPS games came around and before telltale games was around}. Two companies were at the heads of each other with adventure games, Sirrea and Lucasarts. Now who would you say was better with adventure games?
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LucasArts games were better IMO. Not only because you can't die, but they all were more appealing. Not to mention LucasArts' adventure franchises became a lot more respectable today. I mean, er, look at Larry's latest games. Eugh.
i see you never played maniac mansion...
anyway, i always liked the lucasarts or lucasfilm games titles a little better than the sierra stuff.
But if I had to pick only one, it would be Sierra... mostly because they have a lot more adventure games than Lucasarts does.
And I feel so nostalgic about both of the companies too.
In Lucas Arts games, it's at least always clear that you can still proceed, no matter what mistakes you made (with some exceptions, but those are mostly the older ones, such as Maniac Mansion (which is also a quite short game, but solvable in many different ways)) or the Indy games.
Plus, the SCUMM engine runs a lot smoother than whatever the Sierra games use. King's Quest (as an example, because I recently played that from the Adventure Bundle) can't even compute paths, and you need to manually navigate around corners or narrow passages with the mouse.
So yeah, if LucasArts games are already not playable for people who never played them back then, Sierra games beat them in that department by far.
This. Learn to proofread your posts, people come on.
Sierra has made more adventure games than LucasArts (which I owe to LA's obsession with Star Wars,) but Sierra started out making games earlier than LucasArts did so most of the games Sierra was popular for are somewhat older and therefore more dated in graphics quality and interface than the games that LucasArts is famous for. This isn't to say that Sierra's games aren't fun. In fact, the King's Quest series ranks in my top favorites of any adventure game series. Most LucasArts fanboys pick on Sierra though because of how easy it can be to die or get permanently suck in a Sierra game.
But really... The King's Quest series; the Space Quest series; the Quest for Glory series; the Leisure Suit Larry series; the Gabriel Knight trilogy; Laura Bow 1 & 2; Phantasmagoria 1 & 2; these among many other games...
Really, you couldn't think of any games?
Sorry, but no. I am unfamiliar with all of these. I only know of the name Kings Quest because it was one of the games in the Adventure Bundle, and I think I recall the name Space Quest because it's been mentioned in some other thread. Other than that, no. I guess it's because I grew up with the Lucasarts games. After all I was very young. (Hoping that makes a good excuse)!:o
Anyway, that Sierra and "both" got any votes at all warms my fridgid, bitter heart.
In that case:
These are free (and recent) fan remakes of the first 3 King's Quest games, remade in a graphics and interface style similar to King's Quest VI, complete with (good) professional voice acting. They are legal to download from the developers' websites.
I never did play much of the Space Quest series, but my understanding is that it's quite funny (eg. The main character, Roger Wilco, is a janitor on a space station.)
I actually liked it very much. If only they had left out that alien planet though.
AWESOME! THANKS! *heads off to download them*
The guys who did the remakes of the first 2 games also did a Remake of Quest For Glory 2. *hint**hint*
If you weren't such a scary clown I'd kiss you! (lol) *heads off to download*
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=bOUMIXbTM5U
Thanks! I'll definately try these out. *Heads off to join downloading group*
I grew up with Sierra and didn't get into LucasArts until college. I think both companies do certain things very well. LucasArts games are less intimidating and more accessible for more people. I think LucasArts got a handle on storytelling earlier in their development than Sierra did, but LucasArts probably couldn't have done what they did without Sierra's innovations.
I guess I vote both. It's like trying to choose between Disneyland and Universal Studios.
Infocom should definitely get a mention too though, on a whole I probably liked their games more than Sierra titles too, I loved Return to Zork (Want some rye? 'Course ya do!) and I thought that Zork Nemesis was way more unsettling than Phantasmagoria. Though I guess it helps that you don't really go into it expecting a Zork game to be unsettling. And Return to Zork had awesome music.
Golden Age of Lucas Arts FOREVER!!!!
I'm not saying other company and studios weren't awesome , but I think Lucas Arts was more popular because it was Lucas Arts, and because it continuously had boxed sales of multiple titles at cheap prices.
Who played several LA games from one of those boxed sets of titles? I did.
Only the first part of the game is on a timer to be fair
WHAT?! Cedric has the best voice actor of all time.
Graham, watch out! A poooooisonous snake!
What I really hated about KQV was the ending, where Graham is like "and this is my son Alexander who started this whole mess". Yeah, it's all Alex's fault he managed to escape from the evil wizard who'd kept him as a slave since he was a baby, and rescue your daughter in the process. You douche Graham.
Well there are mean rumors that even after that there are timed events. I heard th pirate ship may actually leave if you do not get on board fast enough.
Right you are.
- No Graham don't...
- AAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHh
- Thanks for playing Kings Quest V.
It is funny, because there were people who have complained recently that some of the Telltale episodes are too short, but I think honestly the length is pretty good unless you are just following a walk-through.
At any rate, as someone born in the 70s who played all those games at the time they originally came out, there will always be a special place in my heart for Sierra. They were first for me, and their games were so diverse and fun. That being sad, there is no question in my mind that the Lucasfilm (the LucasArts name came later) games were superior in almost every way. Maniac Mansion, Monkey Island, Day of the Tentacle, etc are truly classics in a different way than all the "quest" games.
That is the main reason why they had so many dead ends and death-traps. So you will have to restart the game over and over to find something you missed etc. This really makes the gaming experience a lot longer. If you know everything you can go through all of those games in less than 2 hours.
And those were full price titles.
Haha. I've always felt the same way about that scene.
That is all true (with the exception of Space Quest which rocks everything) until KQ6 and Gabriel Knight 1 were released, at which point Sierra took the proverbial cake for me. And then Lucasarts took it back with CMI and Grim Fandango. Ah, so hard to decide! I grew up with both and loved both companies' games.
Graham's kinda douchey all throughout KQ5. He practically yells at the gnome for not giving him a simple marionette.
Well the gnome is a real jerk.