Gaming Dragon's Lair Trilogy

WildWon · Aug 4, 2010

George Dawes said:
WildWon said:

However, 'gamebook' isn't a game. It's a book rather than a game.
It is both. It is a mini-rpg in book form.

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If you'd find a child reading a CYOA book, and ask him what he's doing, he's not going to say "playing a game."
Except he would say "Playing a game". I played them quite a bit in the 80s/very early 90s and "playing a game" is exactly how we described it.

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You wouldn't find them in a game store, but rather... a book store.

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I used to buy them from Games Workshop (quite a popular RPG/model store back then - anyone remember their (tabletop) gaming mag "white Dwarf"?). Even now places like Forbidden Planet, Impact Games, Worlds Apart etc still have a small range of gamebooks. You could buy them from gameshops AND bookshops.

By your crazy reasoning, a videogame isn't a game because it isn't a traditional roleplaying or tabletop/board game. And boardgames aren't games because they aren't the physical games played in 10,000 bc.

http://www.cyoa.com/public/index.html

Not a game. If a kid is reading it, he wouldn't say "i'm playing a game." It's found in a library at school for reading time. That's not a game. You're wrong. And it's not a mini-rpg at all.

"by your crazy reasoning" LOL good try. A video game IS a game, since video is describing the kind of game. And a boardgame IS a board game because it's a game on a board.

(and before you can try to say "but a gamebook is a game blah blah blah" i've never heard of a CYOA referred to as a "gamebook" before you mentioned it, and i think your idea of a CYOA is off)

So, once again, Dragon's Lair is an interactive movie, rather than a game.

George Dawes · Aug 4, 2010

wikipedia said:
There are three types of gamebooks. The first is the branching-plot novel (an example of this is the Choose Your Own Adventure series of gamebooks)

I've never seen an Ethiopian. By your crazy logic, they don't exist because I haven't seen one.

CYOA are regarded as gamebooks - by the people making, selling distributing and (most of those) playing them.

So, once again, Dragon's Lair is a game. Not my idea of a fun game, but neither are FPSs.

WildWon · Aug 4, 2010

EDIT: Nevermind. Not worth it, and not meant to be here. "discussion" over.

Back to the Trilogy talk.

adrian2040 · Aug 4, 2010

I may seem ignorant by asking this: Was Dragon's Lair part of a Trilogy?

I only played the original and the laserdisc version which was basically the same but tweaked...

WildWon · Aug 4, 2010

adrian2040 said:
I may seem ignorant by asking this: Was Dragon's Lair part of a Trilogy?

I only played the original and the laserdisc version which was basically the same but tweaked...

Well, it's Dragon's Lair, Dragon's Lair 2 (something something Time Warp) and the accepted 3rd part... isn't Dragon's Lair at all... it's Space Ace. So, that's the 3 "parts" that will be there.

(all three were animated by Bluth, and used the same controls)

iamthemilkman · Aug 4, 2010

Guild McCommunist said:
Not to rain on this parade, but Destineer is behind this, so if anything it's gonna feel like a cheap cash-in instead of trying to pay homage to a legendary arcade series. I'll guess with their quality of work in the past it'll be a poorly converted port and some bad add-ons.

I never played the originals nor do I have much interest in them, but seeing their historic value, I just wish a better team had this conversion. Not shovelware masters Destineer.

Destineer released Stoked: Big Air Edition on Xbox 360. It got all scores in the 80%-90% range. Granted, they didn't develop the game, but it's a great game.

DJPlace · Aug 5, 2010

i never really did like these type of games... but i did like dragon's lair on snes.

VmprHntrD · Aug 5, 2010

Destineer is publishing it, but Digital Leisure is making it and they've done all the out of the arcade copies of the original game so I don't think there will be a problem as DL does their copies of the game as well as they can get away with on the hardware presented at the time.

You know DL and Space Ace were part of 'Arcade Supercade' tv show. I figure it's copyrighted so I can't link it, but weebly hosting has an arcade supercade site on it, and they have all the cartoon episodes of both animations (I think there's around 12-14 a piece for each) so if you're a fan a little google magic would give you a few fun hours of something to do.

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