TGC – The Games Company, the Berlin-based publisher, finally unveiled for us more details about Simon the Sorcerer 5:



New screenshots can be found HERE.

The game will be on sale in Germany at the end of March, hopefully an english release will follow!

More good news! Carla! Thank you...

Ana

Woooo Nice looking screenshots Carla. I hope there will be an english release also.

Oh Boy!!!!

I have to have it !!!! Fast...

Thanks, Carla

Simon finally gets friendly now that aliens are attacking? Is that bad timing, or what?

I liked Simon 4 so much, I can't wait for this one!

Edit: I wonder what a psychogram is?

Simon 4 was a wonderful return to a "proper" Simon experience - after the years of waiting for, and then the disaster that was, Simon 3D

Can't wait for a Simon 5 from the same team !!

Thanks for the great news, Carla

I just got Simon 4 in the mail. Now if only life, taxes, kids, and dogs would give me a break I might find time to play it

Carla is leading me astray again ...
Thanks, Carla, can't wait to play this one

Well i hope they go with a British accent this time as the one in 4 was dire imo. (as a British myself)

Also the comedy and evilness of simon from past games wasn't imo in simon 4 either so i hope that gets rectified.

Aliens? No way, that's just a really bad idea for a simon game as its fantasy with monsters, fairytale's, since when did aliens fit with fantasy creatures?

Mad,
I am glad that I am not the only one who thought Simon 3D was a big disappointment. I am playing Simon 4 , on and off mode, and enjoying it very much.

I'm looking forward to Simon 5 too

As for Simon 3D I replayed it not long ago, and had a blast with it. It's really not that bad as people say it is.
Of course I had to get used to the keyboard controls, but after that it was quite fun

Simon 3d beats the 4th game imo.

I enjoyed Simon 3 a lot more than Simon 4 also. Well, except for the arcadey stuff. I thought the dialogue was well done.

When I first got Simon 4 on a trade here...I hadn't a clue about the series..After playing Simon 4...I wanted to play 3D...I never thought I would enjoy it...BUT...I was totally loving it...

I got use to the keyboard keys real fast...So now I am trying to bagg Simon 2 here on the trading forum..

Can't wait for Simon 5

Simon 4 just wasn't funny the way Simon 3D was. It would be nice if they could combine the humor (and English voices) of Simon 3D with the graphics of Simon 4. I can't get used to an American Simon.

I agree, I could not finish Simon 3D. buggy game and terrible camera and control...

I wonder how well Simon 4 did. For a while, the game had difficulty finding a publisher, but I am glad to hear the news of Simon 5 already.

DavidT -- Simon the Sorcerer 4 is available via download here if you want to compare it to Simon 3.

I'm beginning to wonder if I played a different Simon 3D to some others here ??

I bought the game as soon as it was released, after having waited years for it, but was never able to finish it because of all the bugs and the terrible problems with the graphics.
They made coping with the shocking abundance of difficult arcade sequences - a new and horrible feature in my opinion - practically impossible !!

These problems were in part due, I appreciate, to the company "take-overs" that were going on at the time.
But having waited so long for the game anyway, I personally would have been much happier to have waited even longer and then been offered a properly finished product.

So, whilst I agree that the Simon of Simon IV with his American accent and much less sarcastic nature is obviously NOT quite the original Simon we all so enjoyed (could we at this late date even expect that much ??) I nonetheless consider the game as a game to be superior to Simon 3D in many ways.

It was a polished and well produced item. It was fun and entertaining and had good graphics. It had a decent story with decent puzzles. And it ran flawlessly.

And I, personally, say "Bravo" to the developers and I am very much looking forward to Simon V

Cheers.

Mad

Where can Simon the Sorcerer 4 be purchased here in the US?

Try the info in This thread Debra.

Ana

Thank you. I'll take a look.

Mad.

Simon 3d, the arcade sequences, which particular ones did u have trouble with as i didnt find a problem really with any except the invisible path i needed to go in the swamp and i think getting into the castle or whatever it was near the end. But they wernt specifically hard imo.

Their was no bugs i found and the gfx were cheap lookin but in a way i reckon that was intentional for a few reasons, one being i bet someone high up in development didnt like 3d at all so wanted to make it look bad and corny on purpose but still fun so it would deter others from going 3d in adv games and the second reason is because well its a simon game, they dont do the norm lol.

All in all simon 3d had, humor and buckets load, a wacky but low quality gfx that when u get used to it was fine, decent accent for simon and he has the pony tail which he doesnt in the new games which is a big shame as i hate how he looks now. They made him too human instead of a fantasy character.

SkeeterUK ....

Which arcade sequences ?? .... MOST !!

I am not good with timed arcade navigation at the best of times but the controls in Simon 3D were some of the worst I've had to deal with - and even when I knew the exact path needed to get through a sequence, I had to go again and again and again (similar to my experiences with the equally dreadful Broken Sword III) until I managed it.
No enjoyment in that as far as I'm concerned.

And no bugs in your copy ?? .... Mine was full of bugs !!

A regular one would be that Simon would do his whizz round in the phone box thing and then completely disappear from the game never to be seen again - and I would have to reload a previous save.

He also had a tendency to become "invisible" mid-way through an arcade run and that was just impossible to cope with.

Or on other occasions, he would suddenly disappear and just his voice would remain.

It was very difficult to play the game in circumstances such as those.

[And it wasn't my graphics card. I had a "top of the range" model.]

The sad thing about it all was that a corporate decision was made to ditch an already "well into production" 2D version of Simon III in favour of starting a 3D version from scratch.

I was so upset when that was announced

I am currently playing Simon 3D....I am at the phone booth part also...

I have had no bugs at all in this game...It is running smoothly..
But...

Before I can play it without bugs..I have to do a clean boot..Where nothing is running in the background..After I do that ..Its Ok..

At Mad.

Sorry to hear about all them troubles, i didnt have any of those. I presume some of them bugs may be related to gfx card drivers, were you up to date with those, and direct x?

I don't remember many timed sequences in simon 3d tbh. But it is a shame you had trouble with them as overall the game was very fun for me.

Well lets hope that simon 2.5 fan game comes out that puts simon 3d into 2d fully, i duno the state of the game as i haven checked in ages but it should have come a bit further by now i think. Might be worth looking up i guess?

Btw sorry moderators and all, were kinda hijacking this topic with simon 3d talk.