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Ok just a tricky question for the hardcore fans…
In some places of lsl5, some past events that belong to the lsl4 era are mentioned, like Larry’s amnesia, some events etc… I haven’t played lsl5 thoroughly and that’s the only thing I remember…
the question is: can we extrapolate what happened in lsl4 (that doesn’t exist) from the lsl5 storyline?
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(re: re: re: larry 4) *re-reads post* whoops.. I read it too fast 😛
in that case.. since Larry found Patti at the end of Larry 3, and he’s women-crazy again in Larry 5, Larry 4 could be about his evil twin brother taking over his life from Larry 5-7. Then in Larry 9, we can find out Larry Lovage is the son of the evil Larry.
ok, ok, maybe not 😛
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can you give me the airport codes or tell me where I can get them
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Hallo
try http://leisuresuitlarry.dyndns.org/
if it doesn’t help…
do you have msn? I will be expecting you online somewhere aroudn afternoon to send them
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ok, in LLS(9) MCL, Larry Lovage has LLS4 The Missing Floppies on his deskstop computer (with a 5 1/4 floppy drive BTW). There is only one scene, and it shows Larry Laffer in front of a brick wall of some sort.
But there is another mention of LLS4 somewhere else. In Space Quest 4 The Time Rippers, we can read a story of the fate of the planet Xenon. Sometime after 2735, it says that they found a box floating in space with the words of no other than “Leisure Suit Larry” on it. The guys loaded the disks onto the planets mainframe which also controled the planet’s weather and factories, and a virus took over. A deep voice (Sludge Vohaul’s voice from SQ2) said “Wilco must DIE” and Vohaul took over the planet. Later in the SQ6 when Wilco dumps the infected file out of the mainframe, the file “LLS4” is the infected file. So LLS4 was the game box floating in space.
So….. the content of LLS4 is still a mystery, but how Sierra lost the game before it was published is solved….
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Everyone should visit Al Lowe’s excellent site – http://www.allowe.com – lots of interesting stuff there, including the true reason as to why Sierra never published LSL4. Sierra did not lose the disks before the game was published. That’s a total myth, propagated mainly by Al Lowe himself. The short version of the true story is that there never was a LSL4.
LSL3 had a very definite ending. Al never intended on doing another Larry. For that reason, LSL3 was used to close the book on the series. However, so many people bugged Al for another sequel that at last he gave in and started working on the next one. The problem was now: how does one continue a series that has in effect ended? In order to fix this problem, Al started calling the next game LSL5. And in the process managed to skip out on his responsibility as storyteller to inform us as to all the complications that would lead Larry from LSL3 (where at the end Larry and Patti settle down to live happily ever after) to another skirt-chasing escapade.
Personally, I was immensely dissappointed with this whole development. Larry seemed a genuinely human and rounded character after playing through the original trilogy. Thereafter he just became a cartoon – a sort of charicature of the original character.
I very much doubt we will ever again see a Larry anywhere near as poignant as LSL3, or as genuinely witty and charming as LSL2.
Man, I miss classic Sierra.
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“Personally, I was immensely dissappointed with this whole development. Larry seemed a genuinely human and rounded character after playing through the original trilogy. Thereafter he just became a cartoon – a sort of charicature of the original character.”
I agree wholeheartedly. I thought I was in the minority amongst the Larry fans. I loved games 1, 2 and 3. But when 5 came out and I saw how they changed Larry, I was totally turned off. I don’t believe I ever played any of the higher numbered games all the way through.
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I agree. I recently played LSL2 & 3 and I amazed at how deep the character of Larry was in those games. I have played all of them over the years, but I really didn’t realize how poignant the series became towards the end of the third one. I too was disenchanted by Larry 5, but it seemed like Sierra was in a bad slump since a lot of Sierra games that year were average or below (like Space Quest 4 and King’s Quest 5). However, I rather enjoyed the two next incarnations, and I am really sad the franchise is gone. Maybe I’m in a minority, but I really like MCL, even though it’s a far cry from the original series. There’s a lot of humour and depth in the dialog scenes, which really are the game’s strong point.
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I agree that Sierra went into a slump in the early to mid nineties (from which it obviously never recovered). However, I reckon that games like KQ5 and SQ4 represent the peaking in quality with regards to Sierra’s output before the decline set in.
Though I personally reckon SQ3 to be the best of that series, I do recognise SQ4 as a close second. And it had (and still has) simply marvellous graphics and sound! KQ5 in turn, I believe, is the best game ever to come out of Sierra. It had everything that made/makes point-and-click adventure games so enjoyable, including a rousing sense of adventure that none of the other KQ’s are able to match, attractive graphics that have stood the test of time, varied settings, unforgettable characters, etc., etc.
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Points well taken, but this post is about what happened in LLS4. We know the offical story given by Sierra and Al Lowe, but this is our chance to come up with conspiricies and create our own order of events. I would still like to know how Vohaul ended up with the LLS4 box and cast it into space near Xenon. Even if you cannot come up with a fictional theory, what prompted the SQ4 development team to put LLS in their content?
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I think it’s because Sierra at that time was like one big, happy family! If you look at Sierra games from the late eigthies and early nineties you’ll often find them referencing each other. Even Police Quest had a comic moment where Sonny Bonds (the hero of Jim Walls’s PQs) puts on a white suit and some text pops up referring to him as Leisure Suit Sonny. And of course Space Quest had you crashing into Daventry Castle’s moat if you pushed the wrong button in the escape pod. Not to mention the Sierra factory, filled with Sierra characters, Larry enters when he dies in LSL1. Great gaming moments, all of them!
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I think it’s because Sierra at that time was like one big, happy family! If you look at Sierra games from the late eigthies and early nineties you’ll often find them referencing each other. Even Police Quest had a comic moment where Sonny Bonds (the hero of Jim Walls’s PQs) puts on a white suit and some text pops up referring to him as Leisure Suit Sonny. And of course Space Quest had you crashing into Daventry Castle’s moat if you pushed the wrong button in the escape pod. Not to mention the Sierra factory, filled with Sierra characters, Larry enters when he dies in LSL1. Great gaming moments, all of them!
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In view of recent events…It would be wonderful if Al Lowe would make LSL4 on his own and release it with another company in a near future. Maybe teaming up with Josh Mandel & Ken on this…He can make up an excuse like “If George Lucas did it with Star Wars, why not him with Larry?” Even make it the old fashioned way! No point and click, diskettes instead of CD, etc.
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