Microsoft owns the IP today. Would be nice to see them do something good with it. Space Quest, Police Quest, King's Quest, Quest for Glory, LSL, Gabriel Knight are all so good.
For Quest of Glory, I'd recommend Hero U: Rogue to Redemption from the Coles, it has a similar feeling and is a load of fun. For me it's the best quest for glory clone since (better than Mage Initiation and Heroine's Quest).
There's been other games by Sierra alumni but they just don't have the same level of polish.
The about to be closed Arkane Austin and Tango Gameworks were institutions in gaming similar to Sierra. Their franchises probably relegated to the same place in essence.
Although they weren't closed for a good reason, just because the Xbox executives decided to spend the entire company's budget buying Blizzard and now finance is making them actually pay for that.
Microsoft... do something good?
Have you tried using Microsoft products?
They have given me far more than I ever paid them and will continue to do so.
Also: Age of Empires II. Best RTS ever; change my mind.
AoE2 has a lot of micro depth: - quick walling to trap enemy units in or out - each arrow is a projectile that you can dodge - ballistics helps to hit moving targets, still can be dodged by good players
The list goes on. Watch any modern caster for this game (MembTV or T90). There is a lot to enjoy.
What I dislike about Microsoft+AoE is the fact that they publish DLCs with less and less content for huge prices. And AoE mobile is obviously a joke.
You are presuming that units would do as they are told, in a timely manner. Which they do not.
Source: Played AoE2 for decades way back when. Dodging arrows is a skill to be practiced and honed.
I mean, Google's calendar is "good enough" for most things, but shifting a single instance of a meeting, or more interesting repeat cycles is a pain by comparison. Let alone 3rd party integrations.
If I ever came across F-U money, I'd build an open-source outlook+exchange replacement. Probably 3 versions, one for a single domain for easier deployment, one for mid-large companies with multiple backends, and something with more cloud integration/distribution.
I think if cloudflare had workers for TCP services, doing an email service on cloudflare could be awesome.
All of it? I thought the EarthSiege / Metaltech / Tribes Universe ended up with Hi-Rez Studios, but none of that is even on their website any more.
That overwrite tool was handy later when my first C&C:Generals LAN game had my Supertank sniped and stolen.
What keeps me in love with the game is its world-building. Cities like Tarant feel alive in ways that are hard to explain.
That and the choices/consequence/reactivity. Playing as a dumb character and reading the newspaper article about your half-literate nincompoop's Zephyr crash is a true LOL moment.