The Silver Lining thread
 

Nobody else has posted this, so...

It looks like The Silver Lining (formerly known as King's Quest IX: Every Cloak Has a Silver Lining) will finally be released in Summer 2009. That is, if Vivindi Games (now merged with Activision) doesn't sit on its royal ass during the approval process. Unfortunately, only the first two chapters of The Silver Lining will be released. The remaining chapters (3-9) will most likely never see the light of day. According to the team, it would take 10 or more years to complete them without proper funding, which even if they had, would put their fan license in jeopardy.

It would be interesting to see if they ultimately decide to release the remaining chapters one at a time over the next few years. I hear that episodic gaming is doing fairly well...

http://www.tsl-game.com/journal/special/

Now, I just wish that SQ7.org would receive permission from Vivindi Games to be completed.

Wasn't tsl 3 chapters instead of 9? I know it was intially was goin to be around nine, but that was shorten to three once they scraped the old concept a few years ago.

If I have my facts straight, the original plan was to release the game in three parts. Shadows, The Two That Are One, and Eternities. Each part would have contained three chapters.

Initially when KQ9 had a completely different storyline back in 99?, the plan was like 12 or 9 chapters.

From what I have read, the project was very unorganized before 2002. The team was even under different management. So, it is like comparing sour apples to ripe oranges.

I don't know where the number twelve came from, but as I indicated above, there were in fact a total of nine chapters planned according to the three part release schedule first proposed in 2005. That is still the number of chapters that they stand by today, though most of them may never appear in-game. It sounds like Peter Spear (King's Quest Companion) is writing an unofficial novel, though.

Anyone play King's Quest IX? Fan Sequel?
 

The Silver Lining
http://www.tsl-game.com/home.php

Omg, that looks epic...I miss sieara online games.

Eleven!?

The last one I played was VII :rolleyes:

I thought there was only 8 official games? I guess I just meant IX

I thought there were only seven according to steam there are seven.

The eighth one was called "King's Quest: Mask of Eternity". I think it was done in 3D, during that horrible period in the 90s when a lot of decent 2D series were bringing out visually inferior 3D sequels.

Oh, wow...why can't anything be 2D anymore, made for such classic feel to the games.

LOL, yeah that's about right.

So, now that's all cleared up. This fan project looks promising though.

I think that's the King's Quest Collection for Wins Xp, on stream, Icedhope.

Which doesn't include 8 and includes a remake of the first game.

With that said, is it worth getting? Or not really..This fan game looks amazing but I don't want to be clueless to the story.

The first game is remade but the sequels are all original. The second and third games have very dated graphics.The first game is pretty good but it's graphics have been slightly updated. I don't know if I can play the other first two games because the graphics aren't so great.

Also, the Quests are a text adventure from the first game up until the fifth game.

I've been playing the first game. I've noticed that you really have to think ahead in these games, you don't know you're screwed until later. Your choices effect what happens in the game presently and in the future. Also you can die in the game and get game overs, so saving is a good thing to keep in mind.
Over all it seems like a good game, some times it's hard to type in the right commands.

It's really a mixed bag, but you can DL the first game and then decide if you want to buy it.

So, I'm taking it these games are a lot like the original space quest and Sierras old adventure games, and if that is the case then I'm sold on it.

They are, in fact, old Sierra adventure games. ;)

The 7th game is more "modern" and holds up well against today's adventure gaming standards. Here's the opening video - the human animation is not the greatest but it reminds me of a Disney movie. The graphics, characters, music, humour and story are all very memorable. In fact the music is FANTASTIC.

If you only get one of them, make it the 7th game!

(I've sold myself on it, think I need to go replay it now. :p)

The game is actually teaching me a little about life. King's Quest 1.

I suppose the gameplay mimics real life in a way - screw up early on and it might come back to bite you in the ass later. :p