{"id":459,"date":"2006-10-08T21:49:03","date_gmt":"2006-10-09T01:49:03","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/flashofsteel.com\/index.php\/2006\/10\/08\/another-compilation-set-gone-wrong\/"},"modified":"2006-10-08T21:49:03","modified_gmt":"2006-10-09T01:49:03","slug":"another-compilation-set-gone-wrong","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/flashofsteel.com\/index.php\/2006\/10\/08\/another-compilation-set-gone-wrong\/","title":{"rendered":"Another Compilation Set gone wrong?"},"content":{"rendered":"

Computer Gaming World’s Ryan Scott is taking Sierra to task<\/a> for its recent adventure game compilations. To summarize the sins:<\/p>\n

1) The games aren’t XP compatible,
\n2) The packaging is unimpressive,
\n3) The compilations are far from complete, and
\n4) No special goodies beyond the games themselves.<\/p>\n

No “Making Of”; no interviews with Roberta Williams, Al Lowe, or any of the other original game designers; no cool bells ‘n’ whistles. Even the old collections of these games had all that stuff. Not here.<\/p><\/blockquote>\n

Clearly, this is not a compilation pack aimed at fans of the Sierra Adventures. It can’t be. If it were, it wouldn’t just give players stuff they already had. I have the old King’s Quest Collection<\/em> set and it includes the other adventure games that Scott mentions in his post. Without adding XP compatibility, it’s not clear if this is targeting new users either, those gamers who grew up in the afterglow of the Sierra games that set the path for the genre (for both good and illl) for so long.<\/p>\n

You want to hear the sick thing, though? In spite of Ryan Scott’s post, I still want the Space Quest<\/em> compilation pack. Because those games were mostly good and I don’t have them. And here I get them all in one place for only twenty dollars.<\/p>\n

And for twenty dollars you really can’t expect a hell of a lot of chrome. This isn’t a fifty dollar Total War: Eras<\/em> or Command and Conquer: First Decades<\/em>. Each series had a different team behind it, and some have moved out of the industry altogether.<\/p>\n

So I feel Scott’s pain and sympathize with his memories not being given the proper respect. But I’ll also squirrel away some money for Space Quest<\/em>, thereby sending Sierra the wrong message.<\/p>\n

I’m complicated.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

Computer Gaming World’s Ryan Scott is taking Sierra to task for its recent adventure game compilations. To summarize the sins: 1) The games aren’t XP compatible, 2) The packaging is unimpressive, 3) The compilations are far from complete, and 4) No special goodies beyond the games themselves. No “Making Of”; no interviews with Roberta Williams, […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"jetpack_post_was_ever_published":false,"jetpack_publicize_message":"","jetpack_is_tweetstorm":false,"jetpack_publicize_feature_enabled":true,"jetpack_social_post_already_shared":false,"jetpack_social_options":{"image_generator_settings":{"template":"highway","enabled":false}},"_links_to":"","_links_to_target":""},"categories":[],"tags":[],"jetpack_publicize_connections":[],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"jetpack_shortlink":"https:\/\/wp.me\/p5GFeQ-7p","_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/flashofsteel.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/459"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/flashofsteel.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/flashofsteel.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/flashofsteel.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/flashofsteel.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=459"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/flashofsteel.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/459\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/flashofsteel.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=459"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/flashofsteel.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=459"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/flashofsteel.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=459"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}