Activision has plans for King's Quest game
Telltale Games had promised a reboot of the King's Quest games from Sierra On-Line in 2011, but between developing The Walking Dead and the just announced Fables game The Wolf Among Us, the title never materialized. Now, it appears that Activision has plans for the series since the rights have since reverted back to the publisher.
Telltale Games had promised a reboot of the King's Quest games from Sierra On-Line in 2011, but between developing The Walking Dead and the just announced Fables game The Wolf Among Us, the title never materialized. Now, it appears that Activision has plans for the series since the rights have since reverted back to the publisher.
Paul Trowe, head of Replay Games, told Digital Trends that he had hoped to license King's Quest from Telltale so that he and Sierra co-founder Roberta Williams could work together again on a project. But Telltale told him that it couldn't do the games, and that it was in the hands of Activision.
"I talked to the guys at Activision and they were like, 'No, we're pulling it because we're going to do it ourselves,'" Trowe said.
We've reached out to Activision to see what they may have planned. We will update if they offer any more details.
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Telltale Games had promised a reboot of the King's Quest games from Sierra On-Line in 2011, but between developing The Walking Dead and the just...-
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Yeah, now I have no hopes for it being good. I'm expecting them to make it into an action game (again) or some shit.
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or DoubleFine. or Ragnar Tornquist. or WadjetEye.
Does everyone forget how bad Jurassic Park was? Or how mediocre BttF and Bone and CSI and the new Monkey Island were?-
Did you forget how good Walking Dead, Sam and Max, Puzzle Agent, and Poker Night at the Inventory were?
Monkey Island was good too, just not as good as the first two games.-
they hit a grand slam with Walking Dead. but i am just pointing out they are inconsistent and they are not above releasing terrible games, particularly their licensed titles
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BttF could have been better and less buggy, worked as Back to the Future, and was enjoyable.
Jurassic Park was not enjoyable. As far as I went, it was awkward exploration punctuated by scenes that were arcade-like quick time events, which even had rankings and medals.
JP is the only game of their non-procedural TV show tie-in stuff that I found actually disappointing.
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I assume the walking dead was a huge financial success for them over the other games which are likely alot smaller. If this is correct they'd be much more likely to produce the quality from the Walking dead in future games as the money is there.
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Of course all of this is me just hoping they keep with TWD quality.
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like spiderfill said, I think WadjetEye would do a better job with it. Walking Dead was great, but I just don't see kings quest as fitting their mold.
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Could've been interesting. KQ4 was pretty much my first PC game but I have little interest in seeing what Activision does with it
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Yea, making a small nostalgic adventure game is so far from their M.O. what is going on with them? first the walking dead game and now this
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You can die/fail in Full Throttle, but it's a non-issue as it kicks you right back to where you were in those rare circumstances.
Space Quest 6 was nice enough to allow "Try again" and I'm pretty sure you couldn't ever get locked into a dead end. It was of course, basically the last Sierra adventure game, but hey, they... you know, eventually learned.-
I don't recall the Gabriel Knight series having dead ends, which is partially why it's my favorite Sierra series.
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Yes indeed it sucks getting stuck. I'm playing through kq3 and because i didn't return the gold to the dwarf to get the lantern and i have to restart the game :-/. I happen to love the constant deaths though. A lot of the charm comes from it.
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I'd kind of like to see Telltale do something original for a change. I've enjoyed a lot of their games, but I'd really like to see them stop relying on other people's IP.
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Disagree. A reboot of quite the opposite effect. Take KQ7 and multiply it by a few. Apply to KQ1's story. Release on Tablet first.
That's going to be the new KQ. Could be good or could have a gutwrenchingly "too kiddy" script and atmosphere.
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so Roberta Williams wanted to work on one but can't because the rights are sitting around at Activision? that sucks.
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*applauds*
*Standing ovation*
*throws roses before feet*
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