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Sierra made my favorite game of all time. I'm sad such a creative team was destroyed by maliciousness and greed. Quest for Glory V - Dragon Fire I've been a ga

by pugio 12y ago

Sierra made my favorite game of all time. I'm sad such a creative team was destroyed by maliciousness and greed. Quest for Glory V - Dragon Fire I've been a gamer all my life, and I'd still recommend this game as equal to anything out there today. (http://www.gog.com/game/quest_for_glory http://www.gog.com/game/quest_for_glory) It was action-packed, subtle, had deep quests, an engaging storyline, and a wacky sense of humor. Each puzzle could be solved differently by the different character types. For example, in one quest you had to assault a mercenary fortress under cover of darkness. As a thief you could sneak behind every guard and blackjack them one by one, then use your grappling hook to climb up the garbage shoot into the fortress proper. A skilled set of sneakery, and you could take the entire base out without the alarm being raised. The wizard would go in fireballs blazing, but had a lot of cool spells to use when dueling the fortress's wizard. All combat was real time - you're ability to deflect enemy spells, block attacks (as a fighter), or chuck a stream of daggers was all reliant on your fast-twitch skills. And the humor – in one quest arc you had to repair a cable car to get to science island, pass a ridiculous multiple choice quiz: 2. What is the goal of the True Scientist? a) To get tenure at a major university and be set for life. b) To impress babes with your towering intellect. c) To plot to take over the world! d) All of the above. And then, to gain the scientist's acceptance, you had to construct the perfect pizza out of ingredients scavenged in the field (how's that for crafting?). You needed access to their lab so you could get their pterodactyl skeleton, coat it with wax and pegasus feathers, and launch yourself out overseas to fly to Hydra Island. And that was one quest. It was also one of the few cross platform games of its time. I'm fully aware of the rosy colored glow of nostalgia but in this case... man, they don't make 'em like they used to. RIP, Pre-Takeover Sierra

elliptic 12y ago
I remember I was incredibly excited about the release; it was some years after QFG IV, right? But I didn't feel it was quite as good as I or (especially) II. Still, even the weaker III and IV had such intellectual variety and even wonderful emotional range...Humor to pathos, and everywhere in between.
- bentcorner 12y ago
  I loved the QFG series. I recall that multiplayer was supposed to be in QFG 5, but looking at the wikipedia article it looks like that was cut. I'm sure that the multiplayer feature was responsible for some amount of delay there.
skuhn 12y ago
QfG V was such a let down for me, easily my least favorite of the Quest for Glory games. It was particularly disappointing because QfG IV was so incredible (although it had the worst of their many awful combat engines). However, I'm still glad they made it, and I wish they were up to QfG XV by now. Or at least that they had been able to truly finish the storyline with part 6. I hope that Hero-U is able to measure up in some respects.

by pugio 12y ago

elliptic 12y ago

I remember I was incredibly excited about the release; it was some years after QFG IV, right? But I didn't feel it was quite as good as I or (especially) II. Still, even the weaker III and IV had such intellectual variety and even wonderful emotional range...Humor to pathos, and everywhere in between.

bentcorner 12y ago
I loved the QFG series. I recall that multiplayer was supposed to be in QFG 5, but looking at the wikipedia article it looks like that was cut. I'm sure that the multiplayer feature was responsible for some amount of delay there.

skuhn 12y ago

QfG V was such a let down for me, easily my least favorite of the Quest for Glory games. It was particularly disappointing because QfG IV was so incredible (although it had the worst of their many awful combat engines). However, I'm still glad they made it, and I wish they were up to QfG XV by now. Or at least that they had been able to truly finish the storyline with part 6. I hope that Hero-U is able to measure up in some respects.