Simon The sorcerer

MadReizka · Sat 29/03/2003 13:04:07

What do you think of the game? Got it working with ScummVM. Really fine game. Played at my friends when I was a kid and have tried to find it ever since.

Well now I got it. And it still rules! The graphics are sooo sweet and the whole game is funny.

General discussion about the STS1 and STS2. And if you have tested the STS3D please, leave comments about it too.

ThunderStorm · Sat 29/03/2003 13:11:24

Yeah, I loved the Simon games too. In fact, they have left a noticeable impression in my profile.

I loved the nice animations throughout the games, perhaps they made me go on playing even more than the storyline.

rorschach · Sat 29/03/2003 14:08:46

Simon 1&2 are sweet.

Simon3D is a big pile of crap!
Boring puzzels, the graphics is just bad, millions of bugs... etc. etc.

Captain Mostly · Sat 29/03/2003 15:45:56

I loved the first one. But I've never found the second one in even the most comprehensive second hand game shops... bah!

MadReizka · Sat 29/03/2003 15:49:35

Try some abandonware sites :

Send me a PM and I can give you some links

But let's not post anymore warez stuff to this thread. Back to topic. Simon it is!

LGM · Sat 29/03/2003 15:54:06

http://www.ebay.com

Pumaman · Sat 29/03/2003 16:38:24

Simon annoyed me because he walked so damn slowly all the time, I got fed up and quit after not very long. I'm sure it was a good game though

MadReizka · Sat 29/03/2003 16:40:58

Have you played STS1? It walked even slower in that than STS2.

Las Naranjas · Sat 29/03/2003 21:22:33

I got the CD version, and he magically started walking faster.

And i really enjoyed it, even if you could term it an MI clone.

2 was fun, but didn't have the charm.

And I uninstalled 3d after the first puzzle.

Adamski · Sat 29/03/2003 21:30:01

Both Simon 1 and 2 had that special 'X' factor that gets me hooked on said game and renders me unable to put them down. All Lucasarts games had this 'X' factor, as did the Discworld games (although the 2nd was a little iffy)... so that can only be a good thing...

Las Naranjas · Sat 29/03/2003 21:33:28

And then Adventuresoft made the Feeble Files which is painful.

Man, the hush puppies puzzle is made to look mundane compared to some of that rubbish.

Trapezoid · Sat 29/03/2003 22:20:55

Simon 1 and 2 were pretty cool. Very nice graphics. The animations were a bit akward though. And the puzzles were sort of iffy sometimes. But them Simons is classics!!

MadReizka · Mon 31/03/2003 10:08:50

Yup, classic.

Igor · Mon 31/03/2003 21:34:06

Quote from: Dark Stalkey on Sat 29/03/2003 21:30:01
All Lucasarts games had this 'X' factor, as did the Discworld games (although the 2nd was a little iffy)

Really? I liked the second one best. First one was good too, but puzzles were so obnoxious that i had to use walkthrough all the time.

jannar85 · Tue 01/04/2003 10:47:12

Quote from: CJ on Sat 29/03/2003 16:38:24
Simon annoyed me because he walked so damn slowly all the time, I got fed up and quit after not very long. I'm sure it was a good game though

Get teh CD version

He walks as fast as Guybrush in the CD version

Scavenger · Tue 01/04/2003 17:45:53

No, no, I have never liked StS... *hides Simon costume and numerous memorabilia* Okay, I so lie alot. STS rocked! In the dark and distant past, when I was 6, it was all I played

and I completed the first one, too, even though most of the jokes went over my head. StS2 was weird, though. It was harder, for one. And Simon didn't look quite right. He certainy got more unlikable, but still not as bad as Simon3D.

Simon 3D, was in my opinion, the WORST adventure game I've ever seen! I mean, I could create better 3D graphics, and I've over ever made one thing! It looks like they ripped Grim Fandango and made it worse. And this costume is AWFUL. It doesn't even look like a cloak.

In closing, I'd like to say something.

Point and Click = Dead.
AGS = Not Dead.
Simon3D = Dead unless....
Headfirst*, AGS. AGS, Headfirst. Happy?

*The creator of the simon games, I think

AGA · Tue 01/04/2003 18:26:56

If and when Simon3D comes on budget release, buy it. The graphics are awful, but the same old Simon humour and puzzles are still there...

deltamatrix · Tue 01/04/2003 19:08:17

SImon3D spelled trouble. It was disappointed after a long wait and I ended up having to get a walkthorugh because I wasn't sure whether my being stuck was a bug or just me. IT WAS A BUG!

Simon1 was the first talkie adventure I ever played so no longer I got hooked. I played the demo with my family and we loved the woodworms bit.

Simon2 was very good because of the sarcasm and homour. Simon1 had less humour and it didn't seem to suit Chris Barrie in this case despite that it does in Red Dwarf.

Simon3D was destroyed before it was released.

Don't diss Feeble Files! I enjoyed that.

And Discworld 2 was a very good game with the homour and good Eric Idle voice acting

Discworld 1 failed me for some reason.

Shame most of these games won't work on XP.

MadReizka · Tue 01/04/2003 19:10:50

Both, DW1 and DW2 has eric idle as rincewind.

Trumgottist · Wed 02/04/2003 01:02:42

I thought each Simon game got a little better than the previous one. Who knows, if they continue like this they might eventually be able to measure up to Discworld 1. :

(Which is one of my favourites. I was pretty let down by DW2, but the developers managed IMO to make another good game with DW: Noir.) I think that what you think about these games much depends on your kind of humour. I find the MI games somewhat overrated too. Decent games that gave a few laughs, but they don't make it to my top ten list (which currently contains 15 games).