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On the console versions, there was access to DLC through XBLA and PSN, and, (as one might rightly expect from ANY sort of "trivia/party game,") indeed you could play with up to four people on controllers. Furthermore, since the internet had, shall we say, come a long way since 2003, online multiplayer was included as a feature.
What is frustrating and sad is, this version does not include those things. It is true that all of the trivia questions and creative quiz-show hijinks, which were applauded by reviewers of the console versions, are the same. However, in this version, only one- or two-player games are available, and the new online features were, inexplicably, summarily removed for this PC port of the successful console version. Also, as of yet, none of the DLC from the console versions has been ported at all. Oh and perhaps you might've noticed on the store page that this Steam version doesn't support controllers?
Never mind the fact that the whole concept for the game was fundamentally built around the platform of multiple people sitting around a single computer, and let's forget about the logic of including online multiplayer in a game that was specifically designed for it...(a game that, arguably, forsaw the potential for people playing short, casual games with each other online becoming Kind Of A Big Deal when the internet was still in its infancy, at that!)
Yes, putting those things aside, was it REALLY so burdensome to include support for controllers? When the singular reason to resurrect the series with new console-friendly game mechanics was so that you could play the game effectively on something other than a keyboard??? Argh! </rant>
To be honest, I, too, greatly enjoyed the game back in the day, and with it being on sale (and not stuck in 640x480, as the original "volumes" are...see below) I think it may well be worth $5...if only to compare the new jokes and material to my memories of the earlier games...but I certainly wouldn't spend $20 just to play alone, or on the off chance that I found myself in a situation where I and (no more than) one other person wanted nothing more than to sit and play the game, huddled around my 15.6' screen.
More to the point, if it's nostalgia you're after, you'll be happy to know that most of the (now very affordable) 10+ years old *original volumes* actually just materialized for sale on steam a few weeks ago! I think, before too long I'll likely give in to the temptation to pick up a few of them myself.
I'm not much for making bets, but even dated as the material is, I'd bet the old games are comparably enjoyable with this most recent one, if not more so. I suppose I'll have to come back to this thread after I've actually tested out that hypothesis, eh? :)
There's a package for all of the "Classic" games on steam: http://store.steampowered.com/sub/33692/?snr=1_5_9__403
(I wonder why they left out Volume 5? And man, I wish the "best of" their webgame, "YDKJ Offline" was in there. I'd take that over all of the extra TV/Movies/Sports/Headrush mini volumes, I shudder to think that those will make me feel anything but old.)