- Leisure Suit Larry 8 sounds like a huge missed opportunity for a Space Quest crossover. - The original cancelled Tex Murphy game was called Trance and was supposed to follow on from the cliffhanger ending in Overseer. As it will be the final novel, it seems Big Finish Games want to make this the final Tex game at some point in the future. - Shame about Spear of Destiny. Instead we got The Infernal Machine, an action game with an antique control system that belongs in a museum.
@@AdventureGameHotspot If Activision are casually lending rights to German developers to make not one but two LSL sequels, maybe they'd be drunk enough to greenlight a sequel from... I don't know... the actual creator (something to chat with Al about in September 😉). #LustInSpaceKickstarter #WetDreamsDriedUp
Another amazing vid, I can feel your passion and joy. I mostly looked forward to Tex Murphy, GK, Larry and Indy. We are so lucky to have fans creating freeware sequels or just parodys to keep them going on. It`s a real shame to see their games unfinished due to license disputes and other problems. I hope there will be a lot of Indy sequels as there`s basically unlimited potential.
I'm still dreaming of a Toonstruck 2 release.. When I saw how much art and stuff they already made it's very sad that no one cares about the development..
Another Space Quest 7 was also under development for about a decade as a fan game, albeit one that felt official because Josh Mandel himself was designing it! In fact, your thumbnail graphic was theirs. Unfortunately, they got afraid of litigation some twelve years ago, so all we got was a trailer and concept art. My understanding was the Spear of Destiny was all but created and finalized, but the plot involved Hitler getting resurrected by magic after the war, and I guess someone decided that might be in bad taste. Full Throttle, Leasure Suit Larry, Torren's Passage, plenty of potential in all these continuing. Sam and Max I'm not bitter about since we got 15 mostly lovely games from Telltale. But I think there's no game I want more then an adequately funded Gabriel Knight Four, there's few stories I've gotten on with so hard, and we got _cliffhung bad!_ I'd be equally happy if she got to right a book about the third game though, those are great. Jane's great, but I don't think Pinkerton and Phoenix could support her vision - I love the graphic novel teaser we though.
@@AdventureGameHotspot Well, he did around half of SQ6, but there was some Sierra snafu that made Scott Murphy have to return to finish writing the game. Any scenes loaded with click descriptions was probably Josh.
Wasnt that Indiana Jones and the Iron Phoenix that involved Hitler been ressurected, that was another cancelled game due to the fact the game couldnt be released in Germany due to the heavy Nazi content in the story
@@Calculon1712 Yeah...apparently your right, I've somehow conflated the projects for years in my mind. I guess I also expected him to talk about the game that got closest to completion (15 months of work!) and I didn't know there was another. Also, unsurprisingly it wasn't canceled on moral grounds, but it was literally illegal to sell depictions of post-WW2 Nazi revivals in Germany, and I guess they were a huge enough piece of the Adventure market even in 1994 to make it not worth finishing. Thanks for the fact check!
I'd love to have the ability to revive this genre with completely new ips Ive wrote several outlines but don't know how to make the game itself lol. Might have to learn 😃
@@AdventureGameHotspot They had all the lines recorded, so there's an unreleased final performance out there of the original cast, including Deforrest Kelly. I think Ken Allan was developing it, he's got some stuff on it on his channel.
@@AdventureGameHotspot I think I recently heard and read something on a sequel on both games (Loom with 2 sequels). I think "Tholin Gamer" has some video about it.
I never heard about a Dig sequel, but yeah, Loom was planned as a trilogy, followed up by Forge and finally Fleece which continue the apocalypse via the Sparky and the Smiths and then the Shepherd girl (I forget her name) - I guess Loom sales weren't amazing enough, but at least it works well as a stand alone. There's a playable demo for a fan made Forge which is actually pretty damn cool, but there's been no updates in a long time, so that my be all we get. I think Brian Morriarty is still interested in doing it his way though.
*Heh, the best things ever never enough* Gold Rush! (Sierra) is the straight illustration for me, of how weak and talentless the remakes (or sequels) might be 😂 (aniversary edition is a huge crapdome)
