There's a new Leisure Suit Larry by Al Lowe

[Quimby]

Leisure Suit Larry Reloaded. It is available on Steam and Amazon. I found it by accident when going to buy the Walking Dead DLC. Apparently it was funded via Kickstarter and is the first Kickstarter funded game to actually see release.

I played it a bit. It is basically a remake/Reboot of Land of the Lounge Lizards. The nostalgia is really carrying the day. The soft R rated humor hasn’t really aged that well but I did laugh a couple of times so far. The painted backgrounds look really nice but the animation looks kind of cheap. The game play is like the second generation Sierra games where you use the mouse and have icons for walking, grabbing etc. There are puzzles and jokes everywhere and some of the dialogue comes straight from the original.

I think someone who has never played one of these before or wasn’t even born when the original came out would probably hate it but if you have fond memories of the original it is probably worth the $20.

[DCnDC]

I loved the original back in the day. Of course I was like 10 at the time, so the humor level was pretty much right on the money.

There was an “updated graphics” version in the early 90s that I remember playing as well.

When it goes on sale I’ll probably pick it up, if only for nostalgia’s sake (my fondness for the game is not quite worth twenty bucks to me).

[Mahaloth]

This is remake of the original game, with updated puzzles and so forth, isn’t it?

[DCnDC]

@Mahaloth

This is remake of the original game, with updated puzzles and so forth, isn’t it?

That’s the impression I’m getting.

@Al Lowe

“One of our goals with doing this remake was not to do a remake. We didn’t just want to port the game over with higher-res and better graphics. We wanted to do a much better game and it gave me a chance to fix some of the puzzles that I’ve hated for twenty five years that I wish I had changed back when.”

[Quimby]

It’s mostly a remake but there are some differences.

[Johnny_Angel]

It’s been years since I played the original, so I can’t say for sure which jokes are new, but some of them clearly are because they wouldn’t have made sense in 1990 when I first played it. Can anybody speak to this? The “cool” European guy? Were there already video slots back then? It feels more modern in what its lampooning than the game I remember.

[ReticulatingSplines]

@Quimby

Apparently it was funded via Kickstarter and is the first Kickstarter funded game to actually see release.

Do the developers make this claim? Because it’s not even close to the first.

[Quimby]

@ReticulatingSplines

Do the developers make this claim? Because it’s not even close to the first.

I read it somewhere when I Googled to see if Al Lowe was involved before I bought the game. Not sure where. What are some other games released that were funded via Kickstarter?

[Arrogance_Ex_Machina]

@Quimby

What are some other games released that were funded via Kickstarter?

Even if we keep it to just video games, the list is rather long by now. Some I can remember offhand are: FTL, Expeditions: Conquistador, Giana Sisters: Twisted Dreams, the Banner Saga (well, multiplayer is released at least last I checked), Strike Suit Zero … and probably dozens of smaller games. There’s also quite a few games in alpha or beta stages, some of them in Steam Early Access category.

[Quimby]

FWIW I found where I saw the information that it was the first Kickstarter game to ship. It was on the game’s Wikipedia page.

[GreasyJack]

@Arrogance_Ex_Machina

Even if we keep it to just video games, the list is rather long by now. Some I can remember offhand are: FTL, Expeditions: Conquistador, Giana Sisters: Twisted Dreams, the Banner Saga (well, multiplayer is released at least last I checked), Strike Suit Zero … and probably dozens of smaller games. There’s also quite a few games in alpha or beta stages, some of them in Steam Early Access category.

Have any of those other games had actual physical releases? I’m guessing this game was the first one to actually ship hard copies, although it sounds a lot less impressive when you say it that way.

[Arrogance_Ex_Machina]

@GreasyJack

Have any of those other games had actual physical releases? I’m guessing this game was the first one to actually ship hard copies, although it sounds a lot less impressive when you say it that way.

I went and checked Giana Sisters and they shipped physical copies of that game in January 2013. I doubt they were the first to do so either, I just don’t feel like checking every kickstarted game ever.