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Posted April 12, 2018
Holding out for a hero. Aaaaany minute now...

Eric the Unready is now available, DRM-free on GOG.com.
Morgana had the perfect plan: whisk her stepdaughter away before she could replace her dad on the throne, then assign the noble quest of finding her to the most notoriously incompetent knight in the entire kingdom. But against all odds and oddities, Eric the Unready might, in fact, manage to fumble and puzzle-solve his way towards a surprising outcome. Or at least some really good laughs, the ones only text adventures of yore knew how to provide.
Posted April 12, 2018
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Erich_Zann: If you mean "est-il sorti en France, comme d'habitude traduit à la truelle ?", I don't think any of the earlier Legend games got translated. Death Gate for instance wasn't (it was even pointed out as a negative in the Gen4 review), and I don't think the earlier ones were either (Blackstone Chronicles was translated though).
Well, in the early 90's, only a few of the games were translated and even less for P&C gamegames or text games : (
Posted April 12, 2018
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MarkoH01: This seems to be sort of a text adventure with only some pics added to it to make it look more interesting.
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Mr.Mumbles: True, but in contrast to the old text adventures it shows you who and what you can interact with and the actions you could possibly perform, which should eliminate a lot of the guesswork originally needed.
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KainXVIII: Anybody have spare copy? =)
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Mr.Mumbles: You can always rely on the less legal avenue. There are easily available pira... err, "used" copies out there. ;) Seeing how quickly Deathgate got pulled, I don't expect for it to pop up again anytime soon.
Yeah, its not problem to download it, but i want more or less legal copy (without tinkering with ebay and boxed copies)
Posted April 12, 2018
Remember this being instant cult classic when it filtered through to our backward part of the world.

For those that could into Albion, anyway. Though the jokes from the game floated around for a while.
Posted April 12, 2018
O.o
unpossible

Best game is best.
Posted April 12, 2018
Bought!

Now TimeQuest, Spellcasting series and Superhero League of Hoboken please :-)
Posted April 12, 2018
awesome news, hope other legend titles will show up soon.
Posted April 13, 2018
I hope, this will be the first of many Legend Entertainment games coming here :)
Posted April 13, 2018
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tburger: Never heard of it. [...]
*sad face*


Nice to see Eric find his way here, more so since Piko Interactive didn't go the regional price-hiking route.
Posted April 13, 2018
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Lifthrasil: Nice. ... Should I get it immediately before it disappears again? Or is it safe to wait a bit?

Was that the point of removing Death Gate so soon, to encourage users to buy Legend games on Day 1?

In any case, try to bring Death Gate back and while you are at it, can we please have Frederik Pohl's Gateway here too?
Yes, well GOG's limited release strategy worked on me. I'm not waiting around for a sale in case it gets pulled too since this is one of the classic adventure games I've always wanted to play I bought it right away. According to SCPM we should be getting Superhero League of Hoboken as well.

For Gateway there is a remake on Adventure Game Studio that turns it into a complete Point and Click with no dying and no dead ends. http://www.adventuregamestudio.co.uk/site/games/game/2130/
Posted April 13, 2018
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guppy44: The screenshots are, well, unique on this one. I'm unfamiliar with this title but it seems to be spewing with satire and I like the looks of it.
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victorchopin: I'm pretty sure the art's done by mr. Boris Vallejo. Judging from the cover I might say...
That art style is very recognizable and, yes, it's a piece signed by Vallejo.
Posted April 13, 2018
A legendary title featured in the Home of the Underdogs. A Good Old Game.
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amok: That's indeed a classic, I remember liking the humor. And are the other Legend Entertainment games on the way? I can imagine there is a market for Spellcasting 101, 201 and 301...
Fredrick Pohl's Gateway is a very fine game, faithful to the setting and with a science fiction background, instead of fantasy.
Post edited April 13, 2018 by Carradice
Posted April 13, 2018
Oh God, I LOVE this game!! I was a big part of my childhood and I definitely laughed so hard with it. It's an insta-buy for me, thanks for bringing it to GOG. How about Super Hero League of Hoboken next?? :D
Posted April 13, 2018
It sounds like my kind of adventure game:
Let me quote a remark of Bob Bates, experienced designer and mastermind behind Eric the Unready: "An adventure game has to entertain the player even when he makes mistakes." Given this prerequisite, Eric the Unready is the ideal adventure game. Almost every action you attempt, however strange, triggers an answer, most of them gems of humour. Heck, it's even more fun to do wrong things than actually solve the puzzles, just to laugh at the results!
Source: http://www.mobygames.com/game/dos/eric-the-unready/reviews/reviewerId,1992/.
Posted April 13, 2018
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Lifthrasil: Nice. ... Should I get it immediately before it disappears again? Or is it safe to wait a bit?

Was that the point of removing Death Gate so soon, to encourage users to buy Legend games on Day 1?

In any case, try to bring Death Gate back and while you are at it, can we please have Frederik Pohl's Gateway here too?
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llamas: Yes, well GOG's limited release strategy worked on me. I'm not waiting around for a sale in case it gets pulled too since this is one of the classic adventure games I've always wanted to play I bought it right away. According to SCPM we should be getting Superhero League of Hoboken as well.

For Gateway there is a remake on Adventure Game Studio that turns it into a complete Point and Click with no dying and no dead ends. http://www.adventuregamestudio.co.uk/site/games/game/2130/
Niiice! I didn't know about that. Thank you for the link!
Posted April 13, 2018
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victorchopin: I'm pretty sure the art's done by mr. Boris Vallejo. Judging from the cover I might say...
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park_84: That art style is very recognizable and, yes, it's a piece signed by Vallejo.
I knew some 90s X-men/Marvel cards and stuff would come in handy someday! :P
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