General
Ross,
I would like to congratulate you on what I have found to be one of the most informative and useful websites around. Not only do you (and colaborates?) provide informative, well written and un-biased reviews but making old games avaliable is a brilliant and refreshing idea. Not many sites provide this service because of the possible legal implications and set-up costs (and no-one can ever be bothered either!). I have a collection of old games that I would consider to be classics that are not in your list like 'Beneath a Steel Sky', 'Full Throttle' and 'The Dig'. So if you require these titles I would be happy to donate them to such a wonderful resource.
Keep up the good work. And thanks.
Regards
Paul Upson
Gilbert Goodmate
Hi there,
I have to say after reading your review of gilbert blah blah blah, I completely agree. I got into adventure games just over a year ago and having played most of the well known ones can only say that I never expected that an adventure game could be so boring. The conversations go on for so long and are so un-funny that the escape button on my keyboard is wearing thin, the inventory appears to be filled with some of the most useless objects imaginable and unfortunately the ones that are any use are mainly obtained by being bored to death listening to the conversations. Gilbert has little if no character, very much in the same league as Simon, I had more feelings for the werewolf side of Lewton in Discworld than I will ever have for either of these two boring, annoying, aggravating characters. I am only half way through Gilbert and must say that have no inclination to find the dratted mushroom, in fact I find sitting in my dentists waiting room much more interesting!
Clair
Obi-Wan
I disagree that LucasArts' reasoning in cancelling Obi-Wan for the PC involved not having a quality product on its hands.
I believe the real reason for the cancellation is basically because LucasArts wants to find a lucrative bandwagon, and ride it for all it's worth. I mean, they gave the proverbial middle finger to PC gamers, with the decision to license Obi-Wan to the Playstation 2, right? They wanted to ride the PS2's hype, and make a lot of money.
However, Sony really fudged up with the PS2's release, which really ticked a lot of people off. So, LucasArts ditched them, and have set their sites on Microsoft's X-Box, and the Gates-powered hype machine surrounding it.
So far, LEC has managed to alienate two marketable fanbases, in favor of larger and larger dollar amounts. And I have a sneaking feeling that the X-Box will also start to lose it's appeal before it starts shipping, and LucasArts will once again screw people over, and start shopping Obi-Wan around again...
Our Response
You certianly have some interesting points to make and whilst I may have been inclined to agree with you a few months ago, Lucasarts have recently announced that they will be making a new Jedi Knight game and the only platform that it is being released for is the PC. From the sounds of it, this game will be superior to Obi-Wan in just about everyway. Therefore I think it is the X-Box gamers who are getting ripped off with sub-standard games, whilst us PC users will hopefully start to get the quailty LucasArts games that we're all used to.
