King's Quest IX- Every Cloak has a Silver Lining

[lithium]

Six is easily the best in the series. Five and seven are very linear and don't have much adventure in them, but they're still just fine. Eight can eat my ass.

KQ6? What? That game was just going-through-the-motions ass. 3 and 4 are the apex of the series. 5 and 7 both suck for very similar reasons as 6.

3 had the large, singular landscape to explore. None of these "pockets" of land where it's really like 10 mini adventure game strung together. The pressure of Mananan, the magic system (this alone makes the game awesome), the hard puzzles, the return to Daventry. 3 absolutely blows 5+ out of the water. Hands down. It's Roberta's best game ever IMO. I'm honestly at a loss for how anyone can play KQ3 and still find another KQ game to be better.

4 just has awesome atmosphere, puzzles, chararacters, and just all in all is a pleasure to play. It's not as good as 3, but it's close.

[NoFace]

All I can safely say is the 5 and 6 are very awesome. I have played 1 and I think 2 way back when, both of which were great too. 5 just came out at a time when sound cards were a big deal, and 6 when CD-ROM games were getting big... so I think a lot more people ended up playing those two then 3 or 4, and thus don't factor them in when judging the series. At least that's my thoughts on the matter.

7 and 8 sucked, for the record.

[lithium]

All I can safely say is the 5 and 6 are very awesome.

Stop eating the EZ-Cheez and try some of this brie.

[Captain Vegetable]

Brie tastes like ass, man. But if you like that kind of thing . . .

[LOL]

I played KQ3 and KQ4 before KQ6, but I still think six is better. It was the first PC game that showed me that PCs were way ahead of consoles (especially back then) when it came to games. I also think it has the best story/puzzles of them all, excluding the fucking Catacombs (which also was the first time I used the Internet to figure out how to beat something).

KQ3 was too stressful for me, I don't like time and being rushed in adventure games. I really like KQ4 a lot, but playing through with the text interface isn't something I'm patient enough for anymore, so I doubt I'll ever beat it.

I might write a KQ history for TNL one day if I'm ever not lazy enough to do so.