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The Something Awful Forums > Discussion > Video Games > Let's Play! > the clever title for my kings quest 7 lp has been cut to make the deadline
 
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SupSuper
Apr 8, 2009

At the Heart of the city is an Alien horror, so vile and so powerful that not even death can claim it.

TheMcD posted:

Did anyone call those hint lines? I have to wonder if they were actually helpful, or if they were true to their name and just gave vague hints.

I guess the proper business model would be to be helpful and explain exactly what you need to do, that way the customer is more likely to call again when they get stuck five minutes later.
You bet people called them, Sierra's hintlines/books were incredibly more profitable than the games to the point they made them a cornerstone of their design philosophy. Bullshit sells.

I think the lines mostly consisted of pre-recorded hints with live support available if you were really stuck. The hintbooks had a bunch of development trivia and scratch-away answers that went from vague to spelled out so you could decide how much help you needed.

SupSuper fucked around with this message at 00:41 on Mar 17, 2015

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SupSuper
Apr 8, 2009

At the Heart of the city is an Alien horror, so vile and so powerful that not even death can claim it.

Tiggum posted:

That bird (who I think is supposed to sound like Groucho Marx?) has a ridiculous number of lines and IIRC is completely pointless. I guess someone just wanted to record a bunch of "humourous" insults.
Hey it worked for KQ6.

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SupSuper
Apr 8, 2009

At the Heart of the city is an Alien horror, so vile and so powerful that not even death can claim it.

steinrokkan posted:

Whoa, Sierra still exists?
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=-JQkRp-VFXQ

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