Space Quest: The Sarien Encounter (1986) - Escape From Arcada!

Roger Wilco's ship is boarded by deadly foes, he had best find an escape pod!
Space Quest is available on GOG.com

[@CarletonTorpin]

Now you're doing Space Quest! My week just got Space 'Blessed!

[@TheRetrostorian]

We've been doing police for a while a bit of silliness is good for the soul especially before a Daryl Gates documentary 😊

[@RavenloftLore]

Hells yeah! Now were cooking with Andromeda grease!

[@TheRetrostorian]

Looks like the Sarian fat is in the fire, LETS GO.

[@LordOfNothingreally]

I absolutely adore the premise of a shitty minimum wage employee thrown into a situation way above his paygrade and fumbling his way to victory through a combination of panic and luck. More games need to be like "lets see this idiot collapse an empire without ever really knowing wtf is going on at any point"

[@TheRetrostorian]

Precisely! What do I have in common with the doom marine? The whole reason these games work is because the characters are relatable and flawed. Guybrush Threepwood is another good example of this. Just a boy trying to impress a girl that's out of his league 😆

[@Grogeous_Maximus]

Lol. It does have kind of a Douglas Adams feel to it, when you put it like that

[@127dot0dot0dot1]

This epside highlights one of the biggest flaws with Sierra quest games. Missing something, or making a wrong move early in the game can block you much much further in the game when you can't fix it. In this case there's not even a signpost that you should go back to the library room to get the cassette. If the dying man was on the next screen, or appeared as you entered the room, it would be fine.

[@TheRetrostorian]

Yep. And right at the start you're going to get blasted repeatedly by Sariens until you go back where you started out of frustration 😆 not sure what the point of that was. A lot of games had the exit and then enter methodology.