King's Quest

[firefyte]

#3025

Maybe it’s time… to play the Sierra classic King’s Quest.
In original parser form, or SCI, or maybe the (unofficial) vga remake, or maybe the 7 sequels + very recent game?

Still a fun title (even though I loathe permadeath, and the numpad ‘5’ key is worth having)!

We have QFG, we had MI, now for yet another one?

[rnlf]

#3026

I would like to play more Sierra adventures, but maybe we should first look into a few other company’s works. Like Simon the Sorcerer, or Normality which sorceress has suggested quite a while ago already.

[firefyte]

#3027

I agree, I thought I’d throw it out, since we talked about it on IRC.

[rnlf]

#3028

Yeah, I’m all for it once we’ve looked a bit over the rim of our adventure tea cup!

[Baron Blubba]

#3479

I would love to hear The Dos Game Club talk about King’s Quest (and even join the podcast, perhaps), but not the original. Or at least, not only the original. While it is an important game in the history of gaming and PC graphics technology, it’s not actually that interesting of a game and has also already been covered so many times by so many other podcasts and articles.
The rest of the series, particularly from KQ3 and onward, are much more memorable and interesting to talk about from a gameplay perspective.

Another point and click which I would ***love*** for Dosgamesclub to cover is Conquest of the Longbow. But I have too much to say about that one, so will make a separate topic.

[fastwinstondoom]

#10566

Woah, so few voices asking for Kings Quest! But I agree with Blubba, the first game alone is too small. We need something like what we did with Space Quest…although 7 games might be a bit much to cram into one month / episode 😛

[TigerQuoll]

#10568

I kinda would like to do KQ in some capacity too. It’s been on my “to play” list (somewhere pretty far down, granted) for probably 20 years or more.

It’s also SUCH an important game for the PC. It revolutionised so much in adventure games, inventing many tropes and standards – a genre that would go on to be heavily associated with the PC and DOS.

And it was one of the most influential games in changing the general perception of PCs from ultra high-end, serious business machines to something suitable for the casual, leisure, or home user.