We told you about the fact that Activision had actually greenlit The Silver Lining, a fan-made King's Quest game, a few weeks ago. We told you the first chapter was coming out this weekend for free. When we told you that it was free many of you had trouble believing that Activision would not try to make money off of the game, and maybe you doubted the validity of the story. Well, today proves the story correct as you can now download the first chapter of the game over at the game's webiste.
The release of the game also came with that trailer up above and the screenshots below. That's one cheesy song in that trailer, but I think we can cut them a bit of slack since they've been working on the game forever. My download is going on right now and I'm all revved up to dive back into the world of King's Quest.
Tell us what you think once you get a chance to dig in.
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10:00 PM on 07.10.2010 | 
This should be listed somewhere on the site.. and stated in the "news" story as well.
UUUNDDEERRR MYYY WIIINNNNGSSS!!! WEEE CAANN BEEE FREEEEE!!!
Phoenix Online, you fools!
(for easier registration)
Would it hurt one of them downloaders to drop a mirror bomb up in these webs for the other poor souls?
Also, site design is a bit shit, if it takes me 3 clicks to get to a "maybe you can download if you give us your email address" screen. Also, I don't like the redirect from tsl-game.com to postudios.com, but they could be mere url redirects to the same web server.
But, GAME, eh? Should be good, right? Indie is cool, Adventure is cool, King's Quest is popular, Downloading is popular, free shit is popular. Should all work out.
Geez people.
Seems good so far, though obviously budget and the narrator talks too long.
If it's because you're just too damned lazy, then why did you bother pointing out that you didn't want to do it? That probably required more effort than registering would have.
Deal with it!
(IE. I have no clue if these game runs on windows, mac osx or what kind of system requirements I will need)
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Geez are you people whiny little bitches. I registered, downloaded. Game works and looks great. Story starts off over-dramatic but fun. Humor all seems to be there. Looking forward to playing even though I never actually finished any of the other KQ games.