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Bofferbrauer2 on 10 August 2025
SanAndreasX said:
shavenferret said:

sierra games....i miss the point and click genre and i realize that they still exist, however Sierra was the master at this. Leisure Suit Larry, Spacecraft, kings quest, Quest for glory, etc etc etc

Ken and Roberta Williams recently released a an adventure game called Colossal Cave.

Didn't know about that, added to my wishlist.

Still have that "With what? Your bare hands?" in my head when playing the original when I was younger...



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Mnementh on 10 August 2025
Bofferbrauer2 said:
SanAndreasX said:

Ken and Roberta Williams recently released a an adventure game called Colossal Cave.

Didn't know about that, added to my wishlist.

Still have that "With what? Your bare hands?" in my head when playing the original when I was younger...

Actually this is a remake, a remake of one of the oldest games, called Collossal Cave Adventure, Advent350 (because you could gain 350 points), or simply Adventure (https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Colossal_Cave_Adventure ). That is the game that defined the adventure genre. The Zork-games came after and there strongly inspired by this. It was a pure text-based game, because most computers didn't do graphics (it was made for a PDP-10). Ken and Roberta's remake do it in 3D-graphics, but originally it looked like this:

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HoloDust on 11 August 2025
Mnementh said:
Bofferbrauer2 said:

Didn't know about that, added to my wishlist.

Still have that "With what? Your bare hands?" in my head when playing the original when I was younger...

Actually this is a remake, a remake of one of the oldest games, called Collossal Cave Adventure, Advent350 (because you could gain 350 points), or simply Adventure (https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Colossal_Cave_Adventure ). That is the game that defined the adventure genre. The Zork-games came after and there strongly inspired by this. It was a pure text-based game, because most computers didn't do graphics (it was made for a PDP-10). Ken and Roberta's remake do it in 3D-graphics, but originally it looked like this:

Ah, the one that started it all - my first adventure was Hobbit in '82, and I ran into Colossal Cave for the first time only by watching War Games in '83 - it seemed interesting, but to a fairly young lad I was at the time, it looked somewhat outdated, since graphic adventure games already took over, so (shame on me) I've only briefly played it.



Bofferbrauer2 on 11 August 2025
Mnementh said:
Bofferbrauer2 said:

Didn't know about that, added to my wishlist.

Still have that "With what? Your bare hands?" in my head when playing the original when I was younger...

Actually this is a remake, a remake of one of the oldest games, called Collossal Cave Adventure, Advent350 (because you could gain 350 points), or simply Adventure (https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Colossal_Cave_Adventure ). That is the game that defined the adventure genre. The Zork-games came after and there strongly inspired by this. It was a pure text-based game, because most computers didn't do graphics (it was made for a PDP-10). Ken and Roberta's remake do it in 3D-graphics, but originally it looked like this:

I know fully well it's a remake. Like I hinted at with my last sentence, I have played the original (well, the DOS version) over 30 years ago.



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Pajderman on 11 August 2025
super_etecoon said:

I know I'm not playing this game properly, but I'd love to go back and save Naughty Dog from moving into a more realistic graphics approach. I loved the work they were doing on the PS1 and PS2 but once they made the first Uncharted that company was gone forever.

At this moment, just getting anything from them would be nice. 

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Mnementh on 11 August 2025
Bofferbrauer2 said:

I know fully well it's a remake. Like I hinted at with my last sentence, I have played the original (well, the DOS version) over 30 years ago.

Yeah, I should not answer before the first coffee. You wrote that you played the original, I read over that. Sorry.



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Trentonater on 12 August 2025

I think it's strange to pick studios like psygnosis, bizarre creations and westwood that basically still exist in spirit but under a different name. The key figures are all still together working on the games they want to make. It's like missing Amusement Vision even though they never really went away, we just knew the key figures as ryu ga gotoku studio instead now. And make no mistake RGG studio themselves do consider themselves one and the same with Amusement Vision.

My priority would be a place like Free Radical which very much does not still exist in spirit for now.



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Chrkeller on 12 August 2025

Not sure if it counts but the Ico, Last Guardian and SotC team. Loved their games. Shame they seem long gone.



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Spindel on 12 August 2025

Of the ones listed in OP:
Bullfrog - I need some more Syndicate games!

Otherwise a studio not listed in OP:
Gremlin Graphics/Gremlin Interactive - Venus The Flytrap probably has the best intro song of any game ever made link to the intro song (sadly a really mediocre game though). Otherwise I need me some more of Lotus Esprit Turbo Challenge/Lotus Turbo Challenge 2/Lotus III - The Ultimate Challenge.  



SvennoJ on 12 August 2025
Chrkeller said:

Not sure if it counts but the Ico, Last Guardian and SotC team. Loved their games. Shame they seem long gone.

Team ICO is back as genDesign

https://www.gendesign.co.jp/en/