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Sierra made the games of my childhood. Are they still fun to play?
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this post was submitted on 19 May 2025
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I grew up on Sierra adventure games as well... but I know better than to replay them. The gameplay definitely isn't suiting our current standards anymore, lol.
Funnily enough the Lucasarts adventure games are better replayable, but those games don't reward you with death around every corner either.
I feel like the only way to play the Sierra games (for the first time) is with a guide and to treat the experience as the gaming equivalent of tourism. You aren't playing the game as much as experiencing what video games were like in the late 80s and early 90s.
The accurate experience is to play for an hour or two, get stuck early on and then stop playing. Or watch your older cousins play it, and so watching a let's play version is fairly close to that.