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

[Mzo]

Hmm... I think the original KQs and SQs might have been worse, because they had those annoying ass sections where you had to walk down skinny walkways or DIE.

But yeah, Zork was brutal =X

[Kidnemo]

Actually, there is no game genre more fiendish than text parser adventure games.

"Pick up notebook"

-What is a pick up?

"Retrieve notebook"

-You cannot retrieve.

"Claim notebook"

-You do not have claim.

[Mzo]

It was a high point in my young life when I actually beat the Hitchhiker's Guide to the Galaxy text adventure on my own.

[ChaoofNee]

KQVI was the first real PC game I ever played (That and Stellar 7 came with my family's first PC). I loved the friggin' game, but I loaned it off years ago and haven't seen it since.
...and, of course, Sierra almost disavowed any knowledge of their classic series' existance and pumps nothing but Half Life and Crash/Spyro games. Bah.
I think I may buy/arrravast those collections sometime. I miss KQ, and want to play SQ...

[NoFace]

Only Zork I ever played was Return to Zork, another game from the FMV "heyday". Was pretty cool I thought back then, although some of it was just friggin weird (like umm, Jason Hervey, the big brother from the Wonder Years, as some crazy caveman... a high point of his career I'm sure).

Stellar 7... I remember that game... Dynamix shooter right? They made that and like... Raven something or other... memory is hazy.

[Six]

PQ3 was the one I enjoyed the most... kinda missed the boat on the first two (played the VGA remake of 1 though, that was cool).

I never got pass one point in PQ1. It was pretty far into the game and I had been playing on and off again for years (the computer was located at my grandparents house). I'm looking into this remake now. Must...not...use....walkthrough...

Yay for adventure games!

[bbobb]

Another cool link...

http://www.agdinteractive.com/

Full remakes of King's Quest 1 and 2, for free to download. Enjoy.

(Looks like the link to KQ1 is down at the moment, but KQ2 is up and working fine along with the music and speech packs. Note that these are pretty much pretty VGA remakes, or revisions, to the old KQ games... XP compatable too. And not as ugly as KQIX is looking currently )

(Edit #2! Keep trying the links, they apparently work if you try them a couple times.)

Awesome. Man I'm tempted to go scrounging around for my old copy of King's Quest VI and try to get it to work.

[lithium]

KQVI was the first real PC game I ever played (That and Stellar 7 came with my family's first PC). I loved the friggin' game

Play KQ3 and KQ4! They both make KQ6 look like crap, because it is compared to them. Of course these games, especially 3, have significant graphical barriers these days. But if you can overcome that, they are far better games. Roberta was in her prime then.

[MechDeus]

Sam and Max might be my favorite adventure game... it's certainly up there. I liked Day of the Tentacle a lot too, and pretty much all of Tim Schafer's stuff.

Finally grabbed SCUMMVM last night, right before I was supposed to go to sleep and instead spent a few hours and since I've been awake playing both of those games. I've never played Day of the Tentacle before (one of my friends had it back in the day but I never got a chance with it) and this whole sending things back and forth is messing with me. I'm getting closer and closer to being stuck but I'll resist FAQs, dammit! My old age will not hinder me now!

After that comes Indiana Jones 4, which I've also never played. Such great, great games.

[bbobb]

I love Scummvm... I played straight through Indiana Jones, Day of the Tentacle and Sam & Max again immediately after getting it.