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I played all of them. KQ1 was my first experience with a PC. I miss those days, I do. Absence makes the heart...

by karim79 3y ago

tstrimple 3y ago
I got into computer gaming late. I got a Tandy 1000 in 1995 (when I was 12) which launched my love for computer games and KQ3 was one of my first adventures. Being voracious reader of fantasy novels at the time, being able to play as a poor abused apprentice to a wizard was something I'd never experienced before. Collecting spell ingredients and searching for an escape was so much more engaging than the Sonic and Mario games I'd played before. That and Starflight will always hold a special place in my heart because they allowed me to explore games in a way that I didn't realize existed based on my experience at the time with NES and Genesis games. There was just so much more depth relative to most console games I'd experienced by that point.
- somenameforme 3y ago
  Starflight is probably still ahead of its time. It does such an amazing job of capturing that feeling of being an explorer in a strange universe trying to unravel a mystery against a perceived time limit - though there is none, even if you take forever and Arth gets hit by the anomaly, the game happily continues on. The first time you discover the 'special planet' (avoiding spoilers for a 30 year old game lol) after slowly piecing together those clues, and then eventually understanding what it all means. That sort of curve ball, but one that makes absolutely perfect sense for everything you've learned to date, to say nothing of the extreme moral ambiguity in what you eventually do (and have been doing) - it gave a feeling like nothing I've ever experienced again in 30 years of gaming. If anybody hasn't played Starflight, I couldn't recommend it more. IMO, the version on the Sega Genesis is the best - and easily obtainable with an emulator.

3 ms·

I played all of them. KQ1 was my first experience with a PC. I miss those days, I do. Absence makes the heart...

by karim79 3y ago

I played all of them. KQ1 was my first experience with a PC. I miss those days, I do. Absence makes the heart...

tstrimple 3y ago
I got into computer gaming late. I got a Tandy 1000 in 1995 (when I was 12) which launched my love for computer games and KQ3 was one of my first adventures. Being voracious reader of fantasy novels at the time, being able to play as a poor abused apprentice to a wizard was something I'd never experienced before. Collecting spell ingredients and searching for an escape was so much more engaging than the Sonic and Mario games I'd played before. That and Starflight will always hold a special place in my heart because they allowed me to explore games in a way that I didn't realize existed based on my experience at the time with NES and Genesis games. There was just so much more depth relative to most console games I'd experienced by that point.
- somenameforme 3y ago
  Starflight is probably still ahead of its time. It does such an amazing job of capturing that feeling of being an explorer in a strange universe trying to unravel a mystery against a perceived time limit - though there is none, even if you take forever and Arth gets hit by the anomaly, the game happily continues on. The first time you discover the 'special planet' (avoiding spoilers for a 30 year old game lol) after slowly piecing together those clues, and then eventually understanding what it all means. That sort of curve ball, but one that makes absolutely perfect sense for everything you've learned to date, to say nothing of the extreme moral ambiguity in what you eventually do (and have been doing) - it gave a feeling like nothing I've ever experienced again in 30 years of gaming. If anybody hasn't played Starflight, I couldn't recommend it more. IMO, the version on the Sega Genesis is the best - and easily obtainable with an emulator.