Loom

[PaulSC]

A lovely copy of the CD version of Loom cropped up on ebay recently. I figured I'd have a go at grabbing it, planning to allocate ten of my fine English pounds to the cause! This evening, with two minutes of the auction to go, it was still only at £2.50, so I assumed I wouldn't have too much trouble getting it. And then what happens? Then THIS happens:

http://cgi.ebay.co.uk/ws/eBayISAPI.dll?ViewItem&item=8191182382

I guess some people really do love that game!

Which leads neatly into this thread: Does anyone else here except me (and those two excitable rich bidders) enjoy this game as much as me? Like Zak and Last Crusade, it's one of the Lucasarts games people hardly ever seem to talk about.

I only played it for the first time a few weeks ago, and I thought it had a great elegant atmosphere and was generally a top notch afternoons entertainment. A lot different from anything else Lucasarts ever tried to do, and all the more interesting because of that. Yeah it's short, but I *like* short games when I'm not paying a fortune for them. Reading about the binned sequels on Mix'n'Mojo makes me a little sad that we'll never see any more of the game's odd universe.

Also, it's probably the most collectable Lucasarts game ever, what with it being in so many different versions and all. One day I must own the gorgeous-looking CD-vocal version, not to mention the apparently excellent FM-Towns version. The latter seems to be impossible to find in any form though.

I know some here like it, I know some here hate it - any thoughts on this game either way?

[Darth Mandarb]

We've had this conversation several times before.

However, since the search is down, I won't make a stink about it
Edit - Actually the search doesn't appear to be down anymore.  Search for Loom and you'll get several hits to read through.

Personally Loom is one of my favorite games of all time.  It's right up there with Space Quest III and Full Throttle.

Totally involving story and world.

Great graphics (even the EGA version which I played first)

Great music.

Just a great game.

[Babar]

 :o :o :o
Someone payed 92 pounds for LOOM??

* Babar gets his copy of Loom ready to sell

ehh...on second thought it was probably worth it. I certainly wouldn't part with Loom. I have the CD version, with the box, manual and even the book of patterns. I have to agree. A GREAT game.

By the way, my CD cover said that the game comes with a free 30 min audio drama. Just recently, out of curiousity, I popped it into my disc-man, and it played the voices in the game in chronological order of how they came in the game. Is that what it was?

[Las Naranjas]

No, the audio in the game is all CDAudio, rather than wav and like, which is why the dialogue sounds really good, but has been cut rather short in the cd version. It's fin playing it in a cd player though.

The audio drama is a genuine scripted dramatic piece, and I downloaded it from www.the-underdogs.org , it might still be there.

[Gilbert]

Audio drama? Never heard of that, probably my CD was the bundled version (no, not pirated!), not the full boxset.

ah no wonder...

The original floppy version (not the Classic Adventures patck) of the game shipped with a very nice 30-minute audio prologue to the game on cassette tape, which you can download as a MP3 file here [6MB].

[Domino]

I owned Loom back in the day, but mine was on 85,000 5 1/4" disks that i used to have for the Tandy 1000.

To this day, i can't remember if i beat the game or not.  I am still wondering what happened to my Loom disks.

Shawn

[dgunpluggered]

[Rui 'Trovatore' Pires]

Yeah, that audio drama is some of the finest I've ever heard. It makes the perfect introduction for Loom, too, which remains as one of the best stories I've seen - what a shame Lec gave up on the sequels.

[Anarcho]

Loom is probably my favorite adventure game, and it something that I'm always going to try to emulate when making games.  It's everything that adventure games should be---rich in story, setting and interface.  It's one of the few adventure games out there that could be made into a book and still be fantastic...most adventure games wouldn't make a good comic book.