What's your worst Amiga game Developer?

[deicidal]

Originally Posted by alkis21

One more vote for (against?) Sierra.

Yep completely agree the slow down where just painful

[BippyM]

I don't think there is a worst developer.. If they were shit they were painfully shit.

[BrooksterMax]

I vote for Sierra too, some real woeful attempts there.

However don't forget "Sterling Games"
http://hol.abime.net/2979

They ported Championship Manager 2 for the Amiga and it was very very late, very very bad and rubbish! We already had a PC by the time it was released....

I am still angry today! I used to go to GAME in Chester every month asking for updates on the release (alhtough not any more!!)

[Hewitson]

Originally Posted by 7-Zark-7

Leisure Suit Larry 2 from Sierra wasn't perfect,but I'd still lean towards the Amiga version over the PC one due to the miggy version having better sfx.

Obviously you haven't played it with MT-32

Originally Posted by Predseda

Anco / Kingsoft

Agree with Anco, but Kingsoft made a few good games.

[blade002]

"ICE"

I don't think they EVER produced a quality game and their graphics artist was appalling bad!.

Whoops, i just realized i already said this

[CritAnime]

having played Leisure Suit Larry 2 I know vote against Sierra.

[7-Zark-7]

@Hewitson.
Nope,can't say I had the pleasure,but in playing/owning the lsl collection a few years later on PC Cd-rom,I still rated the miggy version slightly ahead due to spot samples fx. Albeit the island sequence,(just after larry escaped the cruise ship),where you wander the jungle to each location the first time was MUCH less painful on a faster PC version!

Delphine's early adventure games,(esp. Operation Stealth),were probably even more of a teeth grinder towards the end,the shark sequences & mazes especially! (alongside a crappy menu control system), But the ST/arcade translations probably feature more prominently to one's mind as you had a greater expectation of what to expect. As mentioned earlier,Ghouls n' ghosts or likewise any tiertex game were especially bad for that.

[alkis21]

Originally Posted by Predseda

Anco

Originally Posted by Hewitson

Agree with Anco

You're breaking my heart people.

[hitchhikr]

I was under the impression that Anco were more a publisher than developer of their games (like for Kick Off which was probably the best game they published or Player Manager).

[alkis21]

ANCO were both the publisher and the developer of all Kick Off games, and Player Manager. No more than a handful of people in Dartford that managed to produce a series of games that were loved by millions, as well as some other decent titles like Highway Hawks and Death Trap. Sure, sometimes their lack of manpower and resources was evident but I don't know how anyone could call them the worst Amiga developer ever.

[jimmy2x2x]

TITUS for me, I was always suckered in by the great looking screens usually with huge sprites then thoroughly disappointed with the games.

[laffer]

Originally Posted by 7-Zark-7

Leisure Suit Larry 2 from Sierra wasn't perfect,but I'd still lean towards the Amiga version over the PC one due to the miggy version having better sfx.

Originally Posted by Hewitson

Obviously you haven't played it with MT-32

Here's a little video I recorded showing both the Adlib and MT-32 versions of the Leisure Suit Larry 2 opening theme (recorded using a real MT-32, not crappy emulation).

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Quoted from the post below this one

Originally Posted by StarEye

I just checked LSL3 as well and LSL3 is my favourite Sierra game by far. The soundtrack in that is godly.

Recorded a video comparing the opening tune from Larry 3 using the Adlib and MT-32 as well, exactly the same as the other video only this time with the LSL3 tune.

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[StarEye]

The MT-32 is a beast, no doubt. Just about every Amiga game I've seen had better sound through that. I just checked LSL3 as well and LSL3 is my favourite Sierra game by far. The soundtrack in that is godly.

Oh, to stay on topic.... I don't know about developer, but they certainly weren't the best publishers on the Amiga. I give you Zeppelin Games: http://hol.abime.net/hol_search.php?N_ref_publisher=648

[deicidal]

Originally Posted by StarEye

The MT-32 is a beast, no doubt. Just about every Amiga game I've seen had better sound through that. I just checked LSL3 as well and LSL3 is my favourite Sierra game by far. The soundtrack in that is godly.

When I mentioned Sierra as the worst it was LSL3 I was thinking about, the central forrest screen was so slow.

[StarEye]

Originally Posted by deicidal

When I mentioned Sierra as the worst it was LSL3 I was thinking about, the central forrest screen was so slow.

Heh, I didn't notice when I played it back in the day with my 1mb ram A500. As a matter of fact, the only reason I can see Sierra as the worst Amiga developers is if you only look at the later Sierra ports (Space Quest 4, LSL5, Police Quest 3 looked horrible on the Amiga, and they were slow as hell).

It was when Sierra started with VGA games that the Amiga suffered. Imo. Sierra as the worst Amiga developer is pretty hyperbolic.

[laffer]

Only the AGI Sierra games ran well enough for my tastes, everything else ran too slowly to be enjoyable in my opinion.

When you compare the 16 color SCI0 Sierra games with Monkey Island 1&2 and find that, despite both looking and sounding much better, they still run better... then I find the rather poor performance in any Sierra game besides the AGI ones too annoying to bother with.

[deicidal]

Originally Posted by laffer

When you compare the 16 color SCI0 Sierra games with Monkey Island 1&2 and find that, despite both looking and sounding much better, they still run better... then I find the rather poor performance in any Sierra game besides the AGI ones too annoying to bother with.

Completely agree I think the only point in monkey island that it go annoyingly slow was the rowing around monkey island, there must have been a strong tide or something at certain points of the island :P

[StarEye]

Maybe you were one of those that didn't realize that you had to click on the end of the map to make Guybrush row faster?

But if you click in the middle of the ocean, Guybrush rows extremely slow. Click on a more specific place, like the beach or the end of of the map to get to other parts of the island, and he goes faster (I don't know if it's normal, but I generally walk a lot faster when I have a destination, rather than when I just walk around with no specific goal in mind).

Oh, and regards to the Sierra games, I seriously hope nobody played on the default walking/animation speed? Because I always set the walking speed to faster or fastest. Choosing fastest on my Amiga today though, will be makes the games way too fast. I honestly can't remember LSL3 and its like being particularly slow. Maybe loading and saving, but that's not something unique to Sierra.

[deicidal]

Originally Posted by StarEye

Maybe you were one of those that didn't realize that you had to click on the end of the map to make Guybrush row faster?

No it was deffinatly the strong tide that made him row slower

[gimbal]

Originally Posted by StarEye

Oh, and regards to the Sierra games, I seriously hope nobody played on the default walking/animation speed? Because I always set the walking speed to faster or fastest. Choosing fastest on my Amiga today though, will be makes the games way too fast. I honestly can't remember LSL3 and its like being particularly slow. Maybe loading and saving, but that's not something unique to Sierra.

Most of the time on faster yes. But for those fantastic "touch this pixel and you die" moments, it went on slow. And it went on slow quite often because of that.