Favorite Sierra games?

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TechAZ

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So many good ones. I used to anxiously await the Sierra game magazine that would come in the mail.

1. The Dagger of Amon Ra -- To date, my favorite one. Such mystery and anticipation.
2. Front Page Sports: Football Pro -- I could mess around with rosters, stats, and make plays for hours on end.
3. Police Quest 3 -- Great great game
4. Space Quest 3 -- I loved the storyline and writing for this
5. Kings Quest ? -- My first game, fell in love with Sierra from this title
6. Willie Bemish -- Fun game
7. Quest for Glory

So many more. Sierra ranks up there as my favorite PC gaming company of all time.
 

MotionSick

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If the orginal Half-Life and Tribes2 could be considered Sierra games, then those were my favorites.

Half-Life was pretty good for a single player shooter, though the multiplayer aspects were still better and created some sort of huge legacy for muliplayer games based off of Half-Life.

And for Tribes2, it seemed so many hated this game. I happened to love it! The game was graphically beautiful and I had just bought a new Geforce3 system at the time to play it. It has amazing sound too.
The maps were enormous and you could use vehicles such as the Thudersword Bomber with 3 effective players all utilizing important support roles at once. One person was a pilot, another controlled the gunning and bombing system, and then the often forgotten but hugely important tailgunner slot protected the ship from anti aircraft fire and enemy fighters.
Of course, if you were on a server where people were concerned more about doing nothing than teamwork, the game wasn't as fun.
 

Keeper

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FPS Football and Baseball.


The stats would just eat HOURS of my life.... In a good way.
 

JTsyo

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Surprised no one mentioned Outpost 2. Was hoping for #3 at some point and got excited on the hit at sourceforge but there seems to be no work being done on it.
 

Obsoleet

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Yeah a nameplate owned by Activision Blizzard now (the old Vivendi software nameplate was dropped) out of France. Sierra was shutdown by them in '08.

Hands down HQ/QFG 1. Followed by 2,4,3 (never finished 5). Combined so many different types of gameplay into a single game, and still had memorable stories/characters. You'd get so into those games, you actually would play it through again and again as Thief/Fighter/Magic User just to see what was different in the land of Spielburg, Tarna, Mordavia, Silmaria, Shapeir/Raseir.

SQ and KQ games were great, as well. Though outside of the 80's releases with less competition, they didn't live up to 90's Lucasarts or Westwood studio games IMO. I mean, Loom, Legend of Kyrandia, those were great games with excellent presentation. As an comparison, KQ5? Kinda iffy even tho I spent more time in KQ/SQ. I know way too much Sierra lore than I should.

As an aside, as I've grown older, I've started to respect the KQ/SQ series for a lack of violence (but the end-game of SQ1 made it that much more sweet). As much as I enjoyed being able to smash someone in QFG. Something bothers me seeing kids grow up with realistic Americans vs. Chinese, with modern guns in games today.. violence/war is not a good value outside of self defense.. maybe in the context of a united humanity vs a common foe, or zombies, I'd let my kids play them. Gets em nice and as desensitized as possible, implant ideas of divisions in mankind being acceptable, then go and die in Afghanistan I suppose. Or come home, gain a conscience as an older man someday, and go crazy dreaming about what he's done to other living creatures. Maybe committing suicide like so many. Quite an extrapolation, I digress. But I do think I'm onto something, I don't even buy realistic wargames for myself for that reason and I'm pushing 30. I'll do something like L4D, SC or QuakeWars:ET instead. Roberta Williams was wise on that one, and her games taught me vocabulary and how to type.

Interesting fact on Sierra is that right before the Roberta and Ken Williams sold the company off, Ken signed off on the last project he authorized, Half Life. Under the concept that they wouldn't do a FPS game without a story (like id titles). I read he really wondered what would've happened if he wouldn't have sold at that point (imagining his untold millions I'm guessing). Tribes was an amazing FPS by them that was already mentioned.
 
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IGemini

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I also never got into the King's/Space Quest either...don't ever recall seeing a copy in stores I guess. Did enjoy Lords of the Realm 2.

This'll be from out in left-field but I did like Betrayal in Antara. Apparently it sucked compared to Betrayal in Krondor, but I can't really care for what I didn't know about. I might've still been running Windows 3.11 (what the game was apparently made for) so it wouldn't really have mattered.
 

pcguru78

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King's Quest 4, Hero's Quest, Space Quest 2, Leisure Suit Larry 2

Aces of the Pacific and Red Baron
 

Obsoleet

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Generally KQ/SQ were older games, not around the time of LOTRealm. Red Baron was definitely my flying game of choice, so fun. Love those crappy old planes that sputter around.
 

shortylickens

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Seeing as how I didnt post when this was new........


Most of them. Especially back in the DOS days. They got slowly worse as time went on.
Empire Earth II wasnt so hot, but it was playable. Of course, EE 1 had that issue of only 5 citizens being able to hit up one resource at a time.
Shame they lost the franchise.
 

Ika

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Lode Runner: The Legend Returns.

Man I loved that game to f'in death.
 

DominionSeraph

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I recently was at a friend's house and saw Home World sitting on his desk. I've never played it before

PLAY IT! It still holds up beautifully.

I don't know how it translates to widescreen LCD's, but with a CRT, 1600x1200x32 with 8xAA is just great.
 

shurato

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I remember playing the original ega Leisure Suit Larry 1 on a 386sx16.
The first VGA Sierra games I played were Police Quest 3 and Leisure Suit Larry 5.
Conquest of the Longbow was great as well. Couldn't get into the Kings Quest or Space Quest series personally but I probably played most of them as a kid.

Dynamix was great when they were owned by Sierra. Willy Beamish, Incredible Machine, Red Baron, Nova 9, the list goes on and on.
 

sigurros81

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Quest For Glory 4. Probably one of my favorite games of all time with hilarious writing. I'll pay full price for a remake of this series (something along the line of the Monkey Island remakes).
 
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