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I've always held QfGIV on a Pedestal, citing it as possibly my favorite adventure game of all time. I had grown up playing King's Quest and Space Quest, but did

I've always held QfGIV on a Pedestal, citing it as possibly my favorite adventure game of all time. I had grown up playing King's Quest and Space Quest, but didn't play Quest for Glory until college, and this game was the first one made available to me. The setting hit just the right mix of campy horror for me, and I loved the flexibility. I later played through the rest of the games, and got to appreciate them all on their own merits, but I always loved the fourth entry. On a more recent playthrough, now with my partner, and the ability to see these games from a fresh perspective, I can see all that was wrong with QfGIV as it came up, and I found myself frustrated with it, especially because I held it in so high esteem. Same with QfGIII, but I never held it in too high esteem. (Hell, I don't even think we were able to finish it because of the bugginess.) That being said, my partner ended up loving IV and we still frequently quote it to one another. But I'm forced to objectively acknowledge that the first two were just more solid games, and had very focused design and this translated into better player experience at the end of the day. We didn't play Dragon Fire for obvious reasons (the same reasons we decided we're better off ignoring Mask of Eternity.) But we did play Hero-U for a while, and particularly enjoyed the Cole's Latest effort. I highly recommend at least the first game for anyone that's into Adventure games but prefers to stay away from Sierra because of wonky logic/unfair scenarios/zombie states. The first game does a lot to blur the lines between tabletop RPG and adventure game in a very fair and enjoyable package.

brandall10 8y ago
I played through the original Hero's Quest when it came out as well as QFGII, including run throughs with all of the characters. I have very fond memories of the first one, that game was pure magic. I also bought QFGIII and played through maybe half before losing interest. I thought the graphics were cool and it felt more ambitious, just couldn't get into the story and mechanics in the same way. That said, I was one of those who really decried the move away from text parsers in Sierra games. Those early Police Quests, Leisure Suit Larrys, Space Quests, etc, those + a variety of Infocom games were the foundation of my childhood.
- sk5t 8y ago
  Right on about the text input--maybe it was just my child's mind at work at the time, but Infocom and Sierra text entry seemed to allow for infinite possibilities and secrets to discover in the game world.
aidenn0 8y ago
The QFG games were my favorites growing up, except for IV which I still haven't completed (after 3 attempts ending up in an unwinnable state due to bugs, it's hard to start again). It's almost hard to overstate how good of a game QFG-1 is., so I won't get into that there. As TFA mentions, QFG3 was critically acclaimed, and I loved it. It is absolutely the easiest of the games, but that meant it was the only game I was able to complete it with all classes solo; typically my group of friends would play in parallel and help each other out when we got stuck (as an aside, I still remember when someone figured out how to kill the Antwerp). It was also gorgeous (compare https://www.old-games.com/download/1523/quest-for-glory-2-trial https://www.old-games.com/download/1523/quest-for-glory-2-tr... to https://www.old-games.com/download/1524/quest-for-glory-3-wages https://www.old-games.com/download/1524/quest-for-glory-3-wa...), and if not as polished as QFG1 still a lot of fun. The only other three non QFG sierra games I played were KQI and VI and conquests of camelot. I played rise of the dragon as well, but that was a released under the dynamix label.
- will_brown 8y ago
  Played QFG1 all characters...but had to constantly log onto Prodigy and go to the billboards (BBS) “video game cheats” or something of that nature. I may have had to do that to answer some of the Sierra unlock questions referencing the booklet it came with.
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tarboreus 8y ago
I wouldn't put Dragon Fire in the same camp as Mask of Eternity at all. Dragon Fire is very much a QFG game, with almost all the same feel and some great moments. Mask of Eternity has almost literally nothing to do with KQ. I recommend you try Dragon Fire, actually, it's a lot of fun.
- dibujante 8y ago
  This. Dragon Fire is a QfG game, not always well delivered. Mask of Eternity isn't King's Quest.

brandall10 8y ago

I played through the original Hero's Quest when it came out as well as QFGII, including run throughs with all of the characters. I have very fond memories of the first one, that game was pure magic. I also bought QFGIII and played through maybe half before losing interest. I thought the graphics were cool and it felt more ambitious, just couldn't get into the story and mechanics in the same way. That said, I was one of those who really decried the move away from text parsers in Sierra games. Those early Police Quests, Leisure Suit Larrys, Space Quests, etc, those + a variety of Infocom games were the foundation of my childhood.

sk5t 8y ago
Right on about the text input--maybe it was just my child's mind at work at the time, but Infocom and Sierra text entry seemed to allow for infinite possibilities and secrets to discover in the game world.

aidenn0 8y ago

The QFG games were my favorites growing up, except for IV which I still haven't completed (after 3 attempts ending up in an unwinnable state due to bugs, it's hard to start again). It's almost hard to overstate how good of a game QFG-1 is., so I won't get into that there. As TFA mentions, QFG3 was critically acclaimed, and I loved it. It is absolutely the easiest of the games, but that meant it was the only game I was able to complete it with all classes solo; typically my group of friends would play in parallel and help each other out when we got stuck (as an aside, I still remember when someone figured out how to kill the Antwerp). It was also gorgeous (compare https://www.old-games.com/download/1523/quest-for-glory-2-trial https://www.old-games.com/download/1523/quest-for-glory-2-tr... to https://www.old-games.com/download/1524/quest-for-glory-3-wages https://www.old-games.com/download/1524/quest-for-glory-3-wa...), and if not as polished as QFG1 still a lot of fun. The only other three non QFG sierra games I played were KQI and VI and conquests of camelot. I played rise of the dragon as well, but that was a released under the dynamix label.

will_brown 8y ago
Played QFG1 all characters...but had to constantly log onto Prodigy and go to the billboards (BBS) “video game cheats” or something of that nature. I may have had to do that to answer some of the Sierra unlock questions referencing the booklet it came with.
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tarboreus 8y ago

I wouldn't put Dragon Fire in the same camp as Mask of Eternity at all. Dragon Fire is very much a QFG game, with almost all the same feel and some great moments. Mask of Eternity has almost literally nothing to do with KQ. I recommend you try Dragon Fire, actually, it's a lot of fun.

dibujante 8y ago
This. Dragon Fire is a QfG game, not always well delivered. Mask of Eternity isn't King's Quest.