Sierra Games - Where there is Water there is Death

[@JesseMoore-l7m]

as someone who has almost drowned 2x in my life, I agree, if you see water, save your game.

[@aztechyena8159]

Oh my god. I miss that majestic Sierra opening sequence.

[@xcoder1122]

The Sierra story is pretty sad. Sierra could have become the biggest player in the computer games market, but they made three big mistakes: 1) Going public to become a stock corporation. There is no need for that. Look at Valve. It does just fine without going public. When you go public, you lose control of your company because now you have to satisfy the demands of your shareholders, who only care about one thing: more profit. 2) Believe the lie that even if you sell your company, you can stay CEO and keep control of the company. Ken Williams fell for this scam. He was told that even if he sold his shares, he would still remain CEO and control everything, which of course wasn't the case, because while he remained CEO, the new owners were basically telling him how to run the company in their best interest. And while his wife was officially still working on Kings Quest 8, she was more or less sent home by the team that completely ruined the game because the new company owners demanded it. 3) Sierra was the game publisher for Half Life and they owned all the IPs for that series. If they had worked more closely with Valve, maybe even bought them, they could be where Valve is today and maybe Sierra would be running Steam today. But they failed to see the potential of HL and the potential of the Source engine. Not even the new owners of Sierra saw it, and in the end Valve would get back all the IP rights to Half-Life so they could release Half-Life 2 all by themselves, which sold 6.5 million copies (not counting Steam sales!) and funded everything else Valve has done since.

[@mark6302]

@@xcoder1122 ....there was a Kings Quest 8???

[@xcoder1122]

@@mark6302 Yup, "King's Quest VIII: Mask of Eternity". It was supposed to be an adventure just with 3D graphics. But the new owners of Sierra wanted it to be an "action-adventure", so instead of just having puzzle elements, it featured also fighting elements and platforming; a bit like a cross over between Kings Quest and Tomb Raider - and people hated that! The game was too bad as an action game to compete with other 3D action games of that time and people who liked adventures hated those new action elements. Roberta Williams once told her husband, that the developers are destroying her game and she was right but because she kept complaining about it, the company sent her home and finished the game without her and the result was as horrible as she expected it to be. This title killed the Kings Quest series once and for all.

[@mark6302]

@@xcoder1122 wow and I thought 7 was the game that killed KQ im out of the loop

[@xcoder1122]

@ Kings Quest 7 wasn't such a bad game. Not everyone was happy with the new animation style but I guess that's personal taste (I also never understood why anyone likes those Nickelodeon cartoons, butt ugly if you ask me, and still they were popular). The new interface and being able to manipulate inventory items inside your inventory were controversial, too, but not new inventions (other adventures of that time already had a similar interfaces and also allowed that kind of manipulation). In the end, Kings Quest 7 was still a classical adventure and fit the series. Pre-rendered videos also got criticized but I never saw a problem with those (and those were everywhere at that time) and the singing - it's not like the game was turned into a musical and the singing actually was well done.

[@smallbluemachine]

Ironically Roberta Williams and her husband spend most of their time these days living on their boat at sea.

[@hazukichanx408]

"DEaR FriEnDS PlEeZ senD mOAr TaSTy PeoPle tO KeEp Us cOMpAnY -RoBErta WilLuMz, NoT ShARkS WiTh MuTANt GrASpInG FIns"

[@dannykent6190]

Man, i miss those games.

[@Frisbinator]

Y’all remember in Monkey Island 1, on Monkey Island Guybrush just walks near a cliff and the Earth breaks apart making him fall down? The typical Sierra text box comes up and says “uh oh, hope you saved your game!” Then he bounces back up and says “Rubber tree”. lol I love that troll. Also when he’s in the forest and goes into a little hole and says “wow there’s a huge cave!” Then a message comes on saying “insert disk 10, insert disk 43, etc…” and then he goes “Oh well guess we’ll have to skip that part of the game. I know this is a Sierra video but it was awesome Lucasarts made fun of them in Monkey Island 1.

[@SD78]

LucasArts games made dying extremely difficult and unlikely. In Zak McKraken, the only way you could kill yourself was by suffocation or a handful of easily avoidable situations that were mostly to punish players for being dicks.

[@Jabawalk]

Playing LucasArt games your character won’t die, but your mental health die slowly without hints or walkthrough. Some of these puzzles are so controversial you will never figure it out yourself

[@fau8908]

There is only one way to die in Monkey Island 1. In the underwater part you have to wait 10 minutes and Guybrush will drown, as that is how long he said he can hold his breath. So even in a Lucasarts game "Where there is Water there is Death" is a good warning.

[@ChurchofCthulhu]

That head-melting acid pool was brutal!!! 💚

[@billb426]

This seems like this could be an ongoing series. It feels like there is a way to die by water in EVERY Sierra game.

[@BelladonnaGardenia]

I think the Gabriel Knight series is the only Sierra game that has no water-related deaths in it.

[@MagusMarquillin]

@ Pretty sure there are no water-related deaths in the Dr. Brain series, Eco Quest, or Hoyle. :) And to be even more pedantic, I think King Ludwig II would disagree about no water-related deaths! :(

[@billb426]

@@MagusMarquillin lol, I forgot about that one!

[@JoLiKMC]

3:30 - That rhyme is _amazing._ But, I feel like there was a missed opportunity, here, for the guard to say something like: "Wait, didn't we just let you in?"

[@doltBmB]

they obviously knew it would happen

[@cadmium.sulfide]

That always passed through my mind, too! 😆

[@theholymackerel072]

The first Hero’s Quest (Quest For Glory) is the magnum opus of Sierra Games. There will never be another series like this.

[@hazukichanx408]

A part of me is probably still sleeping among the crimson flowers at Erana's Peace.

[@theholymackerel072]

@ After you get the “calm” spell from under her stone.

[@_Digishade_]

Space Quest forever marked my childhood with an appreciation of meeting the Welcoming Committee.

[@MordacksOrgan]

Two more you could add: 1.) Angering Henry the Hermit in Quest for Glory I and getting teleported into the waterfall. 2.) Getting too close to the water elemental in Quest for Glory II.

[@oppie47]

Don’t forget the Rusalka in Quest for Glory IV!

[@TheMisterGuy]

I was really expecting the Rusalka to show up, but what's this in QFG1 with the hermit? I don't remember that at all.

[@MordacksOrgan]

@@TheMisterGuy kzbin.info/www/bejne/fqa2XmWvbq5mo7s

[@wtf4446]

@@oppie47 That one was well worth it though 😍

"You certainly made a succulent meal for that hungry 'gator!" ... ... "That's right. You have no head."

[@myriadmediamusings]

The KQ saga’s cases with water make the idea even more hilarious. The Daventry royal family all completely suck at swimming despite their great adventuring deeds.

[@Novastar.SaberCombat]

Alexander even washes ashore after having crashed his freakin' frigate into the rocks of The Green Isles, lol. 😂 Man. Like father, like son.

[@cadmium.sulfide]

Rosella could last a while swimming at sea, though - as long as the sharks don't get her first.

[@vojtechhavranek1176]

Water : the most deadly thing since the invention of EMS memory

[@user-cs2mw9rw6c]

Drink water "You are not close enough" *Falls in and dies*

[@Zeldaschampion]

Order a hintbook.....

[@Tue_]

Interesting that Sonny cant swim - without scuba gear. But at least the other cop chased after him.

[@heromcdohl]

One of them combined the two deadliest things. Water AND stairs!

[@lalilulelo2990]

You could also add PQ3 (beach incident) and KQ3 & 4 (swimming with sharks) to this list, and PQ2 if you make the wrong choice when scuba diving (and maybe in the sewers as well). SQ2 also has plenty of water and ways to perish in.

[@Novastar.SaberCombat]

LOL. 😂 Actually, now that you mention it, water WAS usually bad news bearkinors for the player. Granted, in "Hero's Quest" (a.k.a. Quest For Glory), there were some screens where water WAS groovy (and necessary).

[@john.infinite78]

Even in Vice City where Italian Mobsters cannot swim 🤨

[@u007james]

i like the hint that leads to the brutal ending

[@ced1106]

My name is Cedric, and I approve of this video. Because I survived. 😄😄😄

[@thelifiathelifia9512]

I wouldnt count a pool of acid as "water" but the video is nice

[@MrEnollx]

They forgot to rub the berries on themselves.

[@CZpersi]

Water is the deadliest substance in all videogames.😂

[@johnrogers1752]

SQII - Just remember to Hold Breath before you try to Dive...

[@cadmium.sulfide]

And don't even get me started on Rosella in KQ4! 😂

[@TharosTheDragon]

Funny how in EcoQuest you do nothing but swim

[@EvilGoodGuy]

This video was recommended to me immediately after i watched a video of morons drinking glacier water lol

[@Bloodywasher]

I hear so much of the donkey kong music in this Sierra tunes

[@hilliard665]

Wait was that leisure suit Larry? 😂

[@marcocoelhohome]

The Space Quest one at 1:13 was funny, but the one where you dip your hand is even funnier, since the game rewind it to show you how stupid the decision was.

[@Jolis_Parsec]

Surprisingly not in Goblins Quest 3 though, as that game is surprisingly player friendly given how many mistakes you can make with the only real consequence being Blount humorously getting hurt in some form or fashion before he scolds the player for doing whatever led to him getting injured. 😂

[@sindobrandnew]

0:23 It's educational.

[@mark6302]

i miss that intro

[@lorivandeman6205]

3:28 how did they warp back to the enterance even tho we saw Alexander’s soul travel down the path?

[@MagusMarquillin]

That ghost wan't Alex, spirits regularly come through the gate, it looks like it's rising from where Alex fell. Funny how Alex had to go back and get another ticket though, you'd think the bouncer would be all "WTF, weren't you just here?!"

[@lorivandeman6205]

@@MagusMarquillin how did Alexander die in the land of the dead?

[@MagusMarquillin]

@ The same way one dies anywhere I suppose

[@lorivandeman6205]

@@MagusMarquillin but.. why don’t they just stay where they were, because they were already in the land of the dead!?

[@ArissonMercinova]

That AI was smart

[@robertgrays8790]

Don't forget tp hydrate!

[@DKNguyen3.1415]

Enough water to hydrate you for the rest of your life.

[@OneWeirdDude]

1:27 I can't? 🙂 What about the Hermit in QFG1?

[@kurokamo2]

No quest for glory 4?

[@gothael]

Is that leisure suit larry?

[@TharosTheDragon]

Yes

[@Hedgeknight420]

wtf is the timestamps in the description

[@AName175]

Which games are in this video?

[@SierraArtGames]

0:15 The Colonel's Bequest 0:35 Leisure Suit Larry III 1:13 Space Quest I (VGA) 1:38 Police Quest I 2:04 King's Quest V 2:34 Leisure Suit Larry I (VGA) 3:01 King's Quest VI 3:44 The Colonel's Bequest

[@AName175]

@SierraArtGames What is a VGA?

[@CptJistuce]

​@@AName175Video Graphics Array. It is a display standard used on IBM-compatible computers capable of 256-color graphics as opposed to predecessor EGA's 16 colors.

[@FoxedAroundSnep]

​@@AName175 VGA is a color palette. When you see a game that is mostly pinks and cyans, it is usually a CGA palette. Sierra remade several games to have better graphics.

[@labrynianrebel]

🏞

[@StarlasAiko]

Zak McKracken is clearly not made by Sierra. (It really isn't. It's a LucasArt game)

[@Jenkinsmum]

Many of those main characters are terrible swimmers.The best swimmer of any Sierra adventure game is Devon Aidendale from Quest for Glory.

[@pex_the_unalivedrunk6785]

Why do I get the feeling the game developer was a total necrophile? Heheheh...omg. 💀

[@TeddyBelcher4kultrawide]

I made it threw the boomers video 🤗

[@vampy1923]

It is hard to imagine why people played this kind of games in the old days. Who would enjoy a game, that didn't miss a chance to punish you?

[@MagusMarquillin]

Sorta like Dark Souls? Many people enjoyed it in the old days - many still enjoy it today when we should know better. Our millage my vary about which games were too punishing, or if they're fun in spite of that, or because there's some unpredictability and danger.

[@garydobis6395]

they made a bad game just to try and sell walkthrough books.

[@TharosTheDragon]

Which of these is a bad game?