In a sense, they helped raise me, now they are no more. What happened? So many great sequels, and then nothing. What was their last adventure title? Gabriel knight 2? The dig?

Tierra is remaking some classics. I am playing thru a VGA kings quest 4, and a quest for glory 3.5, but I wish there were newer games.

Gabriel Knight 3 was released by them. I'm pretty sure The Dig a LucasArts title.

The Dig was indeed LucasArts. Sierra Online has been sold and resold a few times now. Currently they are part of Vivendi (whom also own Blizzard and one other company...I wanna say Universal Games), and are on the auction block again. Current rumor is that Microsoft plans to buy them.

Who could forget Leisure Suit Larry? A classic!

What's "tierra?"

It's that thing that debutantes wear in their hair.

Apparently it also helped to raise RoQuEr. How strange.

Gabriel Knight 3: Blood of the Sacred, Blood of the Damned (arguably the best one) was the last old series adventure game Sierra made.

There has been talk of a new Space Quest game, but nothing surfaced at E3 last year about it.

http://www.qknowledge.net/royalquest/

"Tierra Entertainment is a group of highly motivated individuals determined to help revive the adventure game genre. Our aim is remaking the old, classic adventure games, enhance them to more modern standards, and then offer them as free downloads! We believe that adventure games must NOT be forgotten, and this is our attempt to keep the classics alive. We strongly believe that there's still a high demand for adventure games and that people still want to play them. The sad fact is that adventure games as we knew them, are no longer being made by game companies, and everything has gone 3D.
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wow, I loved all three of those games. I have loved all of the KQ series as well as QFG2 and the LSL series. What a great project.

Sierra took some huge budget hits, with expensive games that didn't sell well and their failed ISP-type thing (The Imagination Network, or something). So, the company owner decided to sell the company, and it's all downhill from there. The company that bought them out eventually crumbled, and got bought out. A bunch of sequels were put into the works, and pretty much all axed ("Chainsaw Tuesday", I think. Possibly another weekday, but Chainsaw whatever). Most of the creators behind the classic games were fired.

Sierra's still around, but their focus is no longer on adventure games--They're more focused on stuff like Half Life and No One Lives Forever. There was a new Space Quest in the works (This game has actually been resurrected three or four times, it's quite aggravating), and not that long ago a specific developer was rumored to be working on it. They denied it, and a week or two ago it came out that they weren't working on the new Space Quest, because it had been axed. Again. And, rumor has it, the game wasn't going to be true Space Quest anyway--more like an action game than a true adventure (In which case, the cancellation might have been for the better--KQ 8 sucked.)

It seems like most good adventure games are coming out of Europe, now--Syberia was excellent, and The Longest Journey has more hype behind it than anything, really.

what is syberia?

Syberia is great.

I bought it early and it sat around for months, just opened it up two weeks ago. Fantastic in almost every way. Too bad I have no time to play it.

From KQ5/ Dagger of Amon Ra through at least Phantasmagoria 2, I bought every single adventure game Sierra Released. Most of them I played to completion ... a few (Rama) never got the play time they deserved. Quest for Glory 4 was my absolute favorite; I played through it at least 5 times ... but if you ever tried to play it on a 166+ mhz machine, certain scenes would crash ... a real pisser.

Mentally, I want to go back and play them again, but emotionally I just can't find the interest. Even something like action oriented like GTA 3 (which I've supriingly been playing recently) cannot hold my interest for long because each mission isn't epic enough. I don't know what I'm looking for, but the reward must be grand. Walking back and forth through the same scenery while trying to solve a puzzle doesn't really do that for me anymore.

It's a shame, too ... because I have all the LucasArts adventures as well, starting with Monkey Island 1 and Maniac Mansion through Grim Fandango and Monkey Island 4.

Somehow, whatever has infected me has also passed through a good portion of the people who grew up along with me, as the demand for adventure games has all but vanished. Maybe it's laziness, as reading a book can provide just as epic a story without any extra thought. But lately, I think the problem has been that too much time is spent creating something novel and in the process, it has become more difficult to assume the role of a character. Forget embracing the new technoloy, an adventure game should be focused on doing what you want as soon as you want it and working at the speed of your mind. Instead, a lot of te later adventure games took a long time to even move around and would crash frequently.

Anyway, I'm rambling because I spent to much time at the bar. I think Sierra spent too much time focusing on technology and too little on story. Lucas Arts also followed the same path, but at least all of their adventures maintined some hunor and chatm.

http://www.justadventure.com/reviews...yberiaBob.shtm

The bright side of not having a lot of time is that the longer you take, the less time you have to wait before Syberia 2. And, with the ending Syberia has, you're almost certainly going to want the sequel.

Where have you been ROquer? Maybe you were there with rest of us but the news was so tramatizing you got amnesia on subject. That would surely be understandable. Widely know as "Black Monday" Sierra died few years ago. I guess you go to Al Lowe site for alot more information (http://www.allowe.com/) And no, still to this day not Nintendo or any other video game company has had forsight to realize if done right what huge properties majority of Sierra titles would be.

"Quest for Glory 4 was my absolute favorite"

Mine too BigPete! THat had to be creepiest, coolness atmosphere for video game ever! I never forget that "mysterious cloaked woman" that would come out from tree sometimes at night and visit you, I jumped everytime. And igor, you have to love igor.
I love to see Quest for Glory based on Mordava again on consoles. Perhaps are hero never did escape from there.

sierra released tribes aerial assault didnt they