I’m hoping for a Sierra Online renaissance.

I wrote Sierra a letter as a kid and they wrote me back encouraging me to go to school for Computer Science so I could maybe work with them one day.

Did that ever get 11 year old me excited.

And I went to school for computer engineering…and Sierra vanished.

I hope Microsoft brings Sierra back.

  • Melonpoly@lemmy.world
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    2 years ago

    Microsoft isn’t going to revive anything. I don’t understand how people still think that Microsoft will improve things when they have such a poor track record for their current studios.

      • Rayspekt@kbin.social
        1·
        1 year ago

        The Nuts and Bolts devs have to be suicide watch these days considering Tears of the Kingdom’s success.

  • chainsawrobot@kbin.social
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    2 years ago

    VIGILANTE 8

    Twisted Metal is getting the Halo treatment with a “we pulled the sets and costumes out of a cancelled CW show”, so now would be the time to reboot the underdog battle car arena game.

  • thingsiplay@kbin.social
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    2 years ago

    @TurianHammer The Lost Vikings and Rock’n Roll Racing, from a time before Blizzard was named Blizzard. Only dinosaurs will know what I mean. Other ideas Star Control, Hexen, … and, is Zork still under Activision license? A new vision of such a complex free form text based game with AI could be fun, but also frustrating probably.

    • trynn@kbin.social
      2·
      2 years ago

      Star Control has a complicated IP situation and was never owned by Activision, anyway. You need to look to Stardock for future Star Control games. Do you mean StarCraft instead?

      • thingsiplay@kbin.social
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        2 years ago

        @trynn No, I really meant Star Control. I have no idea how the licensing and IP situation is at the moment. Just brought it up, as I would like to see it coming back, without any idea how realistic it is.

  • gk99@kbin.social
    1·
    2 years ago

    blur

    I miss power-up racers that weren’t just Mariokart clones, like NASCAR Rumble and that.

  • ivanafterall@kbin.social
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    2 years ago

    How about Earthworm Jim or Blast Chamber? OR bring back True Crime as a new GTA competitor in Unreal Engine 5. I didn’t realize Sierra was connected to Activision. Police Quest 2 was one of THE games of my childhood. I can’t even fathom how they would bring back Police Quest and not have it suck for a million reasons, but that’d be a dream. Or a proper new SWAT, finally.

  • ThunderingJerboa@kbin.social
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    2 years ago

    Well since you are talking about Sierra, I would love to see a revival of Swat. Perfect time for Swat 5 and I know ready or not basically is swat 5 but having a AAA studio backing may be fun. Then again with how monetization is in AAA games, this may just be a cursed wish.

        • laivindil@kbin.social
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          2 years ago

          So I wasn’t playing swat, but I loved the rainbow six/rogue spear games a ton. Would it be similar enough to those that I’d find it fun?

          • ThunderingJerboa@kbin.social
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            2 years ago

            I think if you miss tactical shooters. I think it is worthy to give a shot. The classic R6 games had a similar feeling. I think the only drawback is since you are using cop style weapons you aren’t going to have as an exotic arsenal most of the Assault rifles in the game are AR platforms, you get 1 SA-58 (FAL), 1 Ak platform, and a g36. The Smgs are a bit more diverse. I also think there were some fans who were remaking some maps from Ravenshield.