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Article #172496Re: Roberta Williams is a FRAUD
From: billand...
Date: Wed, 04 Mar 1998 00:00
Date: Wed, 04 Mar 1998 00:00
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>I see I'm in the minority here by disagreeing with you. I have loved all >the King's Quest games (the first one was the first PC computer game I ever >played), The Colonel's Bequest, and thought Phantasmagoria was just fine - >although I agree it was not as much of a game as it was an interactive >movie. The only problem I have had with Sierra adventure games - which they >have recently begun to get away from - is the single curor interface where >you just click away. Roberta Williams' games have driven the adventure >gaming genre since the 80s. True, Lucasarts stepped in and are often >regarded as the masters of this genre now (and after Curse of Monkey Island, >they probably are), but Williams was the one who attempted to push the >technology with each new game. I used to upgrade my old computers around >the time of each new King's Quest release. > >And is noone really excited about Mask of Eternity? Come on! If it comes >together as well as they are hoping it will, it will be to adventure games >what Mario 64 was to console platform games. > I'm more worried - they seem to be pushing the 3D technology pretty heavy, and it might be more of a hack and slash game - but we'll see - Sierra has been pretty good about putting out demos.
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