Remastered and Definitive Editions: The Sierra and LucasArts Way

Great video! I thought I knew most things about these games but I learned a few neat tidbits as well. 👍

Found your channel the other day and it's one of my new comfort zones 🤗

Great video Timberwolf 👍

👍 This was good. I enjoyed it.

Fans will eventually create a fan voice patch for SQ5 with AI voices. An AI gary owens will be in demand for all space quest fan games for narration duties.

With Microsoft about to own the ip another lsl remake seems unlikely. No way would it fit the xbox brand

Brilliant retrospective! Looking forward to more like this!

A great history lesson right here! Thanks for the awesome video!

Unforseen Incidents is a worthy play for lovers of point-and-click adventures.

What about Prince of Persia that had a whole bunch of upgraded better looking versions on different systems.

PC J.R. 😂😗

Today I learned that people in commonwealth nations don't call it the "PC JUNIOR."

Fantastic video!

the point and click genre died sooner. you could argue that since it did rereleases earlier, it reached that stultifying point in its lifespan earlier.

most of us here are fans of Openttd so obviously we would be hypocrits to admonish remasters on pure principle, but as a representation of market trends there is alot to be said about the monetization of remasters

The first time I played Leisure Suit Larry was on my then girlfriend’s computer. After a couple of screens, I realized it was a remake of SoftPorn Adventure. My girlfriend couldn’t understand how I was figuring out most of the puzzles so quickly.

Sierra's landlord fed up big time, He said he would give him like 20% of Sierra for a little bit more time to pay the rent. He must still be butthurt for saying no to Ken. When selling Sierra they should have made a deal to keep the rights to SGI, Would be nice to see what SGI would have become as no one did understand what they had,

I wish we could see dragon age open world, however, it would mess up the Oregon trail travel system from map area to map area, but real-time vs Oregon trail style would be better.

I really enjoyed this video hope to see more of these kind

Sierra vs Lucasarts games the original "this game is too hard add easy mode" vs "get good" argument

As a fan of both Lucasfilm/arts and Sierra adventure games, this was a fantastic and in-depth retrospective. And the voice is like soft honey. Instantly subscribed. I love video essay content like this.

This is an extremely polished and all around professional grade mini-docco, thank you so much! And a special thanks for being kind to Sierra, there’s only a few other videos of this quality on adventures of the era and they lack the balance you maintained in perspective towards them. I’ll leave the consequence vs errands topic aside and instead say I think it’s worth noting that the flip side to the truth of Sierra trying to capitalize, is that LucasArts didn’t have to capitalize, at all. I believe Ron Gilbert or David Fox had Quoted George Lucas saying ‘just don’t lose money’.

Basically, it’s no wonder quality artists placed on actual sky walker ranch, produced one hit at a time (and after another) while the company that was founded by a young couple selling their game in plastic baggies, had holiday deadlines (and bugs!). Two different realities. I suppose in other videos I got a sense that somehow the billionaires company, LucasArts, was this crazy underdog story while the competition- the husband and wife, with this team of like, high school music teachers, starving artists and dishwashers from the local diner, were the mega corporation we should root against. So thank you for showing them equal respect, they both gave me so much and both deserve it.

Oh no I’ve blacked out and ranted in public again. Ok well, you do good videoing, thank you for this, happy to be a sub:)

King's Quest VI was the pinnacle of the series, coincidentally I was just playing it again and was surprised at how well it holds. Great story, characters, art, settings and production. And the puzzles still made sense. It was in KQVII that things began to descend into moon logic

As for Larry, I'll never understand why people call it misogynistic (well I do, I just think its stupid). If anything its misandric. Larry could not be any more of a loser, practically everyone around him, men and women alike gleefully walk all over him. He is always the butt of the joke. But some of us understand there's such thing as comedy and laugh even when there's a little bit of Larry in us.

Former AGDI member here. Great video! I really enjoyed it. Very comprehensive and well researched (as well as narrated)! Some of the details regarding the fan remakes are a little off, though. Specifically about the motivations for AGDI changing the story of KQ2 in their remake. They didn't do it because they were worried about Vivendi. They just wanted to try something new. Daniel Stacey suggested to Tierra that they reimagine and flesh out the story for KQ2 instead of just adapting it straight just to be more interesting and worthwhile and Tierra told him (jokingly) to come up with something and they'd consider using it. However, his pitch surprised and impressed them so much that they decided to use it. After both remakes had already been released, it was then that Vivendi contacted Tierra asking them to contact them back. It wasn't a C&D, they just wanted to talk. Tierra hammered out a licensing deal with Vivendi to allow them to exist with official permission as well as for the then forthcoming QFG2 and KQ3 remakes to be allowed to be finished. The condition was to change the graphics from the Sierra game collage-backgrounds to completely new handpainted originals as was said in the video, to change their name from Tierra (so as to not confuse the official Sierra brand with it), to allow the remakes to only be downloaded from the AGDI website and no where else, and lastly any new update would have to be validated and authorized by Vivendi before release. There was even a point where the remakes were supposed to appear on the small-box 2006 "WinXP-compatible" release of the King's Quest Collection, but Vivendi's left hand didn't know what their right hand was doing and this never came to be.

My first computer had a 40 mb hard drive, I would play King's Quest, Maniac Mansion and Leisure Suit Larry on it! Later my friend would bring over a 2400 modem which took a lot of convincing for me to install because it would take all night to download a song.. Instead of marveling at what this technology did, we worried about how slow it was! Needless to say, I installed it and my life changed forever.. Thanks to that little piece of plastic, I feel like a pioneer of what became the internet and to this day I feel like I am an original part of it, I was there from the start! Without it, I doubt I would even be typing this right now because I wouldn't have become the natural troll that I am today.. Maybe I would have become a doctor or lawyer instead! Makes me wonder how much different my life would have been if I had been like, nahh take it back dude! If you're still around somewhere Daniel, holla! Those were the days! 😭

I’m so sorry. I’m really quite enjoying this except for it being called the “jay are.”
Could I get a citation for that name?

Very nice video, well done. Well narrated, too! subbbed!

PC jayarr? lol

Very informative video. Great job, dude!

Great Video. Watched the whole thing beginning to end.

Great video, but admit it - you’re Rowan Atkinson, right? Because your voice is uncannily similar!

I know I’ve literally brought it up to you today already but seriously, take a quick play of the master system kings quest 1. It’s in some ways 10 years ahead and in some behind the pc ones. It does at least make it very obvious you can swim.

It should be pointed out that I have 4 copies of Myst on steam and that doesn't even include the original version which has never made it onto there

Great video! Never knew that there were two remakes of KQ3, always thought it's just AGD.
By the way, just like LOOM is the best in EGA, I believe Mafia lost quite a bit of depth in the remake. Graphics are great, though. I'm too much of a fan of the original.