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This is for *ahem* research purposes.
Try and bury your rage and disappointment (if any) for the last two parts so you can answer with a clear mind

If you can comment why along with answering the poll, even better!
Cheers.

I enjoyed Simon 3D story too, that’s one of the reasons I placed it’s on the poll
Frankly, I placed the fifth one simply cause is the last one.
I suppose there was a lot of work involved in the Silver Style games, but I would even prefer if they were considered non-canon. Personal opinion.

To me there are only 2 Simon the Sorcerer games, the first two. The later 3d games don’t exist to me.

From looking at Moby Games’ average user ratings (on a 1 - 5 scale )

Simon the Sorcerer 1 has 3.72
Simon the Sorcerer 2 has 3.71
Simon the Sorcerer 3d has 2.98
Simon the Sorcerer 4 has 2.85
Simon the Sorcerer 5 has 2.62

Notice how the most beloved and well received games of the series are the first two, the animated ones. As soon as they switched to 3d/cg style the series went downhill.

If only they had stuck with the traditional animated style for the 3rd game I imagine it would be a classic by now, especially considering that there weren’t many traditional animated adventures being released around this time of 2002, it would have stood out as exceptional.

What is a reboot?  A new game? I was torn with this, as simon 1 is my favorite game of all time. Simon 2 isn’t as good, IMO.  Simon 3 was a great game, but, with all the bugs and arcade sequences, it got too frustrating, and a workup of that would make it a great game - with it being point and click, instead of the miserable mouse keys.  after Simon 3, the Simon games got terrible and I don’t even want to see a workup of them.

I don’t like reboots in general, but Simon 5 was not good and if they did a sequel there would be a lot (a LOT) of fixing to do for me to want to play it. For a start bring back the original Simon 1 voice actor (not the inferior Simon 2 guy), and get the Woodroffes back if not as writers then at least in an advisory role. For graphic artists get anyone who worked on the first 2 games, those were nice graphics.

Not to offend any Germans here but I think the series suffered from having German writers, when Simon originally had such a British sense of humor and cynicism. The fact Simon 3D is seen as a well written game let down by everything else confirms this.

Thank you all guys for the great feedback Much appreciated.

I’m not terribly interested in a new Simon either, but I, too, would play a remake of part 3 if this makes sense gameplay wise. Never could quite get myself to play the original further than the first location and have often heard about story and humor holding up quite nicely.

I’m not sure you’d want to make a “Simon” game. He’s not a great character, the world isn’t super interesting, nothing about the series is unique enough for it to be a waste to start something new. The plot of “snarky guy sucked into a world of magic containing parodies on fairy tales” can be done without having “Simon” in the title and worrying too much about which part to remake.
Of course, a remake can cut down on the creative effort needed, and if that’s what you’re looking to do, then probably a remake of 2 (or sequel to it) is your best bet - there are multiple “new” versions of the first game running around, so making another one might not be the best bet, income-wise.

Antrax - 18 November 2013 12:07 AM

I’m not sure you’d want to make a “Simon” game. He’s not a great character, the world isn’t super interesting, nothing about the series is unique enough for it to be a waste to start something new. The plot of “snarky guy sucked into a world of magic containing parodies on fairy tales” can be done without having “Simon” in the title and worrying too much about which part to remake.

Yes, it can. It’s called “Deponia” and if I had a choice between that or a Simon game the quality of 1 or 2, I’d take Simon any day of the week.

Remake of the third game, done using traditional 2D animation of course.