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I fear that they will have real problems with the game's sales. The graphics may have looked appropriate to the average gamer back when the game was originally meant to be published, but nowadays, most people will say it looks ridiculous. And since I'm not really part of that group but looking forward to the witty dialogue and clever puzzes Simon 3d's predecessors had, this makes me very, very sad.

Adventuresoft sure can count on my money though.

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The Adventurer Newbie

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can anyone derect me to a site with screen shots and info on the game. Bad graphics or no I need my Adventure game fix. I just bought Zork Grand Inquistor off E-bay for 16 bucks and then beat it with out walk throughs in 4 days. This pissed me off SOOOOO much but it was great any way (Dirk Benidict Rocks!)

 

Currently I'm trying to get the two Discworld games and if Simon looks good I'll get all 3.

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(I wonder why they abandoned the 2D version - it looked really good...)

 

I've never seen any screenshots of the 2D version (link?), but they abandonded it because they couldn't find anyone who would publish a 2D adventure. Apperently it was hard finding one to publish the 3D version as well :)

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Looks good. The graphics look dated but what yeah gonna do? Hopefully it plays well. Defenently going to get it my self.

 

So my must gets for the year are

 

1)Longest Journy

2)Simon 3d

3)the other 2 simons

4)all 3 Discworlds

5)Moop and Dreadly: Treasure of Bing Bong Island.

 

E-bay here I come.

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Originally posted by Dalixam

 

I've never seen any screenshots of the 2D version (link?), but they abandonded it because they couldn't find anyone who would publish a 2D adventure. Apperently it was hard finding one to publish the 3D version as well :)

 

There are a few shots of the 2d version on http://www.simon3d.com.

 

Update - http://www.headfirst.co.uk/simon3d/qaf/qaf_page_right.htm

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Simon 3Ds already been reviewed, though, by loads of magazines and web-sites. Then it went back into the shadows for some unknown reason, only to emerge several million years later. Suspicious!?

 

And the graphics looked like someone had pucked up all over the screen. NOT nice :(

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Head to

https://secure.virtuality.net/vimerchant/site.cgi?db=adventur&action=view-category&category=gsimon

To buy it for £24.99 (free UK posting)

Heres the email(s):

1.

Hello Simon 3D fans, News Mole here.

 

I've come out of retirement especially to give you the news you've all been

waiting for - Simon The Sorcerer 3D will finally be released on April 19th.

 

After many months of false starts and postponements, we have struck a deal with

Crucial Entertainment and Vivendi which will see Simon 3D hitting the shelves in

less than a fortnight.

 

We'd like to take this opportunity to thank you all for being so patient over

the years and putting up with all the misinformation and let downs, but it

really was out of our hands and for legal reasons we were often not able to

explain the current situation to our loyal fans.

 

However, all that is over now - the disks have been duplicated and the boxes

have been printed. Hopefully you'll all be clammering to get hold of a copy and

you will shortly be able to do so via our very own Adventure Soft online store,

which is the best way to keep small independant publishers such as ourselves in

business.

 

Our online store is currently being upgraded to cope with the demand and within

the next few days I will be emailing you again with a link that will enable you

to pre-order a copy of Simon 3D direct from us. So stay tuned!

 

Thanks again for all your support and patience, another message coming soon!

 

News Mole outta here

 

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Hi Simon 3D fans, News Mole back again...

 

In my last message I mentioned that our online store was being renovated - well,

there has been an unprecedented flood of enquiries about buying Simon 3D online,

so to keep everyone happy we've made it available through our existing online

store.

 

This means that you can now buy Simon 3D direct from Adventure Soft Publishing

through our secure site at :-

 

http://www.adventuresoft.com/store.htm

(click ENTER STORE then click the Simon The Sorcerer logo)

 

The cost per copy is just £24.99 UK Pounds Sterling, with post and packaging

included in the UK. If you live in Europe, postage will be £2.00 UK Pounds

Sterling extra, the rest of the world will be £2.50 UK Pounds Sterling extra.

For the collectors amongst you, the game comes in a DVD box and is on 2 CDs.

 

Please forgive the slightly temporary looking nature of the store, we hoped to

have the new store ready in time but demand is just too high! Remember - the

best way to support small publishers such as Adventure Soft is to buy direct

from them. It couldn't be easier!

 

That's it for now Simon 3D fans, only 1 week left and counting...

 

News Mole outta here

 

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ps. Why are you still here? You should be madly clicking that link to snap up

your copy! :o)

 

There they are. Have fun. You can also buy a Simon the Sorcerer 2 poster at the first site I gave you.

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Is this a good time to mention that ScummVM (http://scummvm.sourceforge.net/) will include beta Simon1 and Simon2 support in the next release (and already do in CVS)? :)

 

Yes! Last months news was you could play DOTT on your Dreamcast/iPaq/Linux box/Windows/Mac.... Next months is playing Simon on your DC/iPaq/Linux/Windows/Mac!

 

(yes, yes, I know.. this is ScummVM, not SimonVM. don't ask me how it happened, I don't know. :)

 

BTW, does anyone have any WORKING contact details for someone at Adventure Soft? We've tried emailing them for months asking if it's ok with them for us to do this, but no replies. At least we've had vauge mutterings from certain LEC employees that we won't be sued for the ScummVM part any time soon. :)

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Originally posted by Endy

Is this a good time to mention that ScummVM (http://scummvm.sourceforge.net/) will include beta Simon1 and Simon2 support in the next release (and already do in CVS)? :)

 

Yes! Last months news was you could play DOTT on your Dreamcast/iPaq/Linux box/Windows/Mac.... Next months is playing Simon on your DC/iPaq/Linux/Windows/Mac!

 

(yes, yes, I know.. this is ScummVM, not SimonVM. don't ask me how it happened, I don't know. :)

 

BTW, does anyone have any WORKING contact details for someone at Adventure Soft? We've tried emailing them for months asking if it's ok with them for us to do this, but no replies. At least we've had vauge mutterings from certain LEC employees that we won't be sued for the ScummVM part any time soon. :)

 

Yo...how bout some suport for Return To Zork? The sound doesn't work on my new machine....

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Originally posted by The Adventurer

 

Yo...how bout some suport for Return To Zork? The sound doesn't work on my new machine....

 

One thing at a time. We still have to finish off Indy3_256 and Zak256... let alone Maniac Mansion, ZakEGA, MonkeyEGA, Indy3EGA, LoomEGA... heh.

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Originally posted by LucasTones

Hey, how about a Playstation (1!!! not 2) port? I dont have a dreamcast...

 

Actually, assuming your PS1 is modchipped, there is one :)

But it's not for public release yet, as it's uses Sonys SDK so isn't legally releasable under the GPL. One day I'll get around to fixing it so it doesn't reply on PSYQ..

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My copy arrived on monday morning, so I only got to play it in the evening. It needs over 400Mb of free space to play, which I aint got on my PC, so I need to install it on my dads. I'll let you all know what its like tonight.

The graphics aren't exciting, but I always choose the gameplay and story over the graphics anyway. Graphics are a bonus.

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At first I must admit that I had been prejudiced against this game. The screenshots were revolting and the time between 'gone gold' and 'released' was suspiciously long - as if the original publisher gave it up after seeing it in action. Besides the developers abandoned some perfectly good 2D environments in favour of ugly 3D low-poly geometry.

 

Now I have played the game for about 2 hours. It's not a long time and I hope somebody else has enough patience/free time to finish it and convince me it's worth playing. Though I very much doubt it.

 

The graphics is... scary. It consists of low-polygon objects textured with bitmaps of varied quality. The static objects tend to have better textures but they look flat and uninteresting. The characters and some of the interactive objects have exceptionally ugly low resolution animated textures which makes them unintentionally grotesque.

 

The controls work just like in Grim Fandango/EMI. Simon turns his head towards interactive elements of environment. The camera is either static or moves as Simon walks, depending on the location. Unfortunately, it often happens that the change of camera angle is so inconvenient that not only can't you say where you are but you also don't know in which direction you were going.

 

The music is OK but I haven't heard anything catchy so far. Characters' voices seem fairly good, too. Nice British accent.

 

I can't really say much about the story but the dialogues and Simon's comments are funny so I guess it might be absorbing. But then if you want a good story, you can always read a book. At least you can imagine some nice surroundings for the plot ;-) And I don't mean the graphics is out of date. It's just *UGLY*.

 

Oh, and there's a big robot at the very beginning of the game and at some point I lost respect for robots in adventure games. I just can't remember when it happened... ;-)

 

Too bad Adventuresoft ruined the series. More adventures like this and people will start associating the genre with them.

 

Sorry for any language errors.

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Yeah, I kinda agree.

Graphics are poor to say the least - but, that said, you get used to them as soon as you would if you re-played tomb raider 1.

The story and puzzles are your standard adventure fare, and, as RappScallion said, the control method is a rip of the Grim Fandango style "look-see-do".

What keeps me playing, and what makes me give this game a thumbs up, is that its really funny. I laughed out loud from playing the first few puzzles after the intro - can't be too bad.

One problem - the character seems to kind of fade in and out every 10 seconds, he goes invisible and then back to normal. I think its so you can see the objects he is obsxuring, or maybe I need to go into setup.

Verdict: Good game, not LEC standard by a long way, not as good as Simon 1 / 2, not worth the £25 I payed for it. HOWEVER, I say: "Buy it when it drops down to a fiver (a tenner at a push) and you won't be too disappointed."

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