Gabriel Knight: Sins of the Fathers – 20th Anniversary Edition

This is a perfect example of GOG's messed up OS requirements for Mac users. What "ARE" the minimum Mac OS requirements for this game GOG!!! Are they OS X 10.6.8, or OS X 10.7.x??? Come on GOG!!! Get it together! You're missing out on sales and I am missing out getting the get the DRM version of these games! I hate haveing to go to Steam to get these games!!! I would much rather buy these games here than from Steam! Please check your OS requirements!!! I have almost all the games you are claiming that only work with OS X 10.7.x. I even bought a game here that said it required OS X 10.7 and it works on OS X 10.6.8! Please, I am asking nice, check your OS X requirements! Please? I am not sure if you (GOG) post the OS requirements. Steam let's the dev's post the OS requirements, but I have noticed some game used to be OS X 10.6.8 compatible on your site and you have changed them to OS X 10.7.x. I assume you may have done this due to so many returns. I already sent a support ticket in, but have not gotten a response so I am post my complaint here... Since this is a perfect example of how hard us Mac user's have it purchasing game on GOG.

Advice to new players: Do not play the original. Play just remake. Advice to old players: Forget sentiments, then remake is much more fun.

www.rockpapershotgun.com/2014/10/15/wot-i-think-gabriel-knight-20th-anniversary/ This article here sums up the game better than I ever could; Characters appear to be floating, projected 3d models over a flat backdrop with no real sense of depth to it. Any Quality Assurer worth his salt could see that, if they continued using the same team and mechanics as used in her previous 3D Games, that GK20 was not going to live up to its hype. You know that indescribably aesthetic touch that makes certain games so great? GK 20th lacks them. It is a good game, it is solid, and it is Gabriel Knight, but this nails it. "Really, go back. Look at the original. The choice of colour palettes; cold but comfortable blues against bright and chaotic orange. The incidental animations. The rich texture of the backgrounds. " The cool, humid morning of New Orleans as Grace shows up for work? The homely feel to the bookstore, the cloudy day feel to the St Louis Cemetary, and the warm feel to Grannys House? They are gone in the new Gabriel Knight. They are no more than just paintings that you could find on DeviantART. There is no passion, there is no heart in this game. There is none of that original "Sierra" magic to it. It feels like a students first game. + Beautifully new painted backgrounds + Recomposed digital versions of songs over the dos MIDI verisons - Low resolution (made for ipads in 4:3, not for PC in widescreen) - Badly animated, with models that look as if they were made by high school 3d modeler interns - No Tim Curry or any original voice cast, new voices are not terribly brilliant either (there is no "heart" in these characters voices, they sound like random off-the-street people) - Simplification of a game that was meant to be a puzzle (The classic "dumbing down" scenario) - Clumsy ipad-designated interface - Lack of aesthetic Quality Assurance. I'm willing to bet the QA for this game never grew up playing the originals. I'm sorry Jane, I really am.

Sins of the Fathers has been my favourite adventure game since always, God knows how many times I've played it. I've been a GK collector all my life and I own so many different copies and editions of the games, comics and the novels that I believe that it's without any doubt, the game I've played most. Even the remake has some nice things, I have to admit that I'm disappointed by it. GK1 has been a classic since it came out and even some people might be turned off by its pixel-ish graphics, it really didn't need a makeover. Except for the soundtrack, most of the things of this remake were unnecessary. The graphics are now less dark and (in my oppinion) less attractive, the new game system is dumbed down considerably and even it looks nice, the art in cut-scenes and dialogue screens look worse. The original GK1 could be played with SVGA graphics, showing nice portraits with lip-synch. The remake ones are disappointing, specially in Gabriel who looks like he did in GK2 and 3, but not like he did in 1. Another thing that feels like a downgrade are the new voices, Tim Curry was a great Gabriel and the new one is just not the same. As much as I understand people wanted a better quality audio, I don't know why they didn't give the option to put back the old voices like other games that suffered a remake had. For example, Silent Hill 2 got an HD version with new voices but there was an option to bring back the old ones in case people preferred the old actors. Maybe they could offer the old voices as a DLC? I'd definitely get it. As a whole and as a fan, I'm very disappointed with the remake since it was not necessary. I'm not regretting the purchase since I love the soundtrack and I really wanted to own this new version of it, but I don't think I'll be able to even finish this game. It's painful seeing all the downgrades it suffered compared to the original one. However, if you're new into the game or you don't like old Sierra Games, I'd definitily give it a chance.

6 of 5 must play. 5 of 5 great story great gameplay. 4 of 5 great story average gameplay. 3 of 5 average story average gameplay. 2 of 5 play only if it's your favorite genre. 1 of 5 play if you have nothing better to do. 0 of 5 play if you're a masochist -1 of 5 avoid Gabriel Knight Sins of the Fathers 20th Anniversary Edition scores 4 of 5.