How tightly do Lucasarts and Sierra hold on to their old licenses?
I'm wondering as it would be totally kick ass to have episodes based on some other old adventure games series. I know this is probably totally unrealistic but hey a guy can dream 
I'd love to see episodic Monkey Island games, perhaps get Ron Gilbert on the team.. that would be a dream come true for me!
Or Space Quest episodes.. that would kick ass too! Or Quest for Glory.. or Gabriel Knight! Gabriel Knight episodes would be so damn cool!
What old series would you like to see continued as series? I realize it's very unrealistic but theoretically speaking what would you like to see?
I'd love to see episodic Monkey Island games, perhaps get Ron Gilbert on the team.. that would be a dream come true for me!
Or Space Quest episodes.. that would kick ass too! Or Quest for Glory.. or Gabriel Knight! Gabriel Knight episodes would be so damn cool!
What old series would you like to see continued as series? I realize it's very unrealistic but theoretically speaking what would you like to see?
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And Outcast. There was a sequel in the works but after Infogrames died, so did the sequel.
http://www.adventure-eu.com/forum/index.php?topic=1056.0
You don't need to own the license if your making a freeware title, right? (I'm making a fangame based on the Blood license) I mean, isn't it like fanfics? As long as there's no profit being made...
Definitely not true. I'm a member of the team of The Silver Lining, a King's Quest fan game. We were shut down by Vivendi in September 2005, though they allowed us to continue work on the game in November following negotiations.
Actually, the recent collections are not complete since they are missing the original sci versions of the first games. I guess they decided to remove these since there is no point of having the originals with the remakes. Larry is missing part 7 because Vivendi did not want to put an ao rating on it because of the easter egg at the end of the game and dunno if the laffer ulilities and casino are included.
As for Vivendi releasing them with xp Compatability, sadly no. It is only the games with dosbox.
the old collections are better than the ones that were released by Vivendi since they have demos, interviews and trivia. I doubt Vivendi has those
Unrelated, but Vivendi is releasing love for sail on mobile. However, it a new game or remake since you are not the original Larry, the format looks different even though it is an adventure game, and sprites that look like Ken Williams and Al Lowe are in it even though they didn't work on the game.
Oh wait, they already have...
Caesar IV
Well that about wraps up those ideas for a maniac mansion/monkey island game *sigh*
Besides, I think don't think that LucasArts are very likely to let other companies use their licenses, the only reason that Telltale got the rights to Sam & Max was because LucasArts's license expired.
I think the option to license the IPs from Lucasarts (as in, it still belongs to you, but we'll pay you royalties, so you make money out of nothing) might still be open though. I interpret Bill's comment to mean Lucasarts is unwilling to give up ownership of IPs.
Same as Telltale using the CSI license to make games for Ubisoft.
The old interview with Dan regarding the LucasArts licenses is still very positive.
When does license for Full throttle expire?And I hope, Telltale will notice that
Let's hope that Telltale will make just good games as lucasarts in the early days.
(Althought I didn't like Loom:D) Maybe games like full throttle or the dig musn't have sequals.
There's a tiny market area for adventure games, and best of those will get noticed. (as Sam and Max). But I have also noticed that only older people (20+) play those. We grew among them, so it's logical. So I assume, the trend of point'n click games would rise, if parents only bought games for theirselves (and let children play only those)
Let the lucasarts do their Star Wars crap. But how's Sierra doing?
I can wait.
I recently talked to Al about the prospect of Telltale nabbing Leisure Suit Larry's rights and him helping Telltale on any future ideas they have to make a proper Larry game instead of the pseudo-adventure game sequel Magna Cum Laude.
(Just like Purcell and Smith with Sam and Max and BONE.)
In a "Player One" podcast, he even decided to leak a few of the ideas that had bounced around in his head ever since Sierra said "Show's over folks!", all about the "Larry 8" that never came to be.
But that aside, I asked him a few ideas I'll shorten to quick questions here.
(Bear in mind these are summaries, not what I asked him word for word.)
1) Do you own Larry's rights?
2) If it's enough, would you consider joining Smith and Purcell down at Telltale?
3) Would Ken and Roberta Williams join in too?
His replies?
1 & 2) "I don't own the rights to any of the games or characters I created for Sierra; they do. Or rather, Vivendi Games does since they own all the assets of what once was Sierra. So there's zero chance of me doing anything with those characters."
3) "The Williamses and I are happily retired now and loving life. I doubt that I'll ever go back to do another game. Not with the games market the way it is today: all sequels and violence."
So sadly, it may not be the last word, but it sure as hell sounds like it.
But, to end on a bright note, Al and more Laffer fans are headed to the FIRST (maybe ONLY) Adventure Gamer Con to celebrate many a thing, including Larry's 20th, down in VEGAS!
http://www.adventurecon.org/
So, you see, it's not all tears and goodbyes.
(And we also never considered him helping create NEW characters...
Oh, and to be fair to Al for using his words outside of my inbox, go, venture forth to his amusing email list called the Cyberjoke 3000, or better yet, go see his website too, ingeniously called www.allowe.com!
(Oh, and for the BIG fans, his site has lots of other Larry bits, including the demo video test in 3D that WOULD have been Larry 8's format.)
Hehe I told him once how I caught my brother with his pants down playing Larry 7 on my PC! That's both sad and funny
Sounds like big business. I know all about big business. Especially since I've been on a high fiber diet:
I can wait... I can wait...
It's a shame that nobody I know at college (barring one or two people) give a damn about adventure games though (one dismisses them all as 'rubbish' despite admitting having never played one), so you're probably more or less right with the 20+ comment generally.
And my computer? Tandy... 25mhz 486SX, 1 MB Ram, 120Mb hard drive, pc speaker sound... That's it.
Damn, I miss my old Tandy 486... (I'm 20, so I cut my gaming teeth on a Tandy)
Mine had a Sound Blaster card with that Dr. Sbaitso program, I used to spend long amounts of time seeing how it would respond to various insults.
Back in my 486 days I mostly played games like Wolfenstein 3D and Commander Keen, which explains both why my mind is so warped (Who buys a FPS for a 6 year old?) and why I love id and Apogee so much :P
A Simon Sequel was just relased in Germany.
http://www.simon-the-sorcerer.com/
I found it so much fun I bought the Ultimate Pleasure Pack - AWESOME purchase!
Er...but here comes the flammable end to the story.
Short for cash after playing most of them, I...*mumbles*...sold it to a pawn shop.
Gotta admit, that was STUPID. But at the time we had no idea how rare they would be and that no pack would equal it!
Amusingly though, I got revenge accidentally on the pawn shop: I forgot to put the manual back. Hope the next buyer can get a new one or a refund.
And there's some kind of cosmic humour that my copy's run ended with it being sold to a PAWN shop - both the chess AND sexual humour involved!
(We're always shoving Larry around after all.)
Here's hoping the Suits get wise and release a PROPER pack!