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"When discussing the transition from 2D to 3D for King's Quest VIII: Mask of Eternity, I can only say that we were on to the right idea of switching to 3D. However, the implementation was not exactly correct. In 20/20 hindsight, I would have omitted the RPG (role-playing) aspects and would have stuck with more traditional adventure game elements. I would have thought more in terms of physical puzzles that could be done better in 3D than in 2D, but, still, I wouldn't have changed the game so dramatically just because I was switching from 2D to 3D. But, what do they say about 20/20 hindsight?"
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Keep in mind this quote is from 2006 or so. The first time her 'hindsight' kicked in!
http://kingsquest.wikia.com/wiki/KQ8...Interview_2006
Up to 2003 (at least up to the interviews up to that time that I've read), she was heavily defending her choice to add the "RPG" content! LOL.
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I love all of the Quest series, except for LSL and Police Quest. Gabriel Knight has never been quite my cup of tea. We all have our favorites, though, and for me, I'll always admire Roberta Williams more than the rest--I'll always love KQ just a bit more than SQ.
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I have my reservations about LSL, but man Police Quest especially the first three were great (I prefer the original over the remake for PQ1)... Ya they were procedural, but they had the quirky Quest series humor of most of the Sierra Quest games... Puns when died etc. Injokes to other Sierra quest games! King Graham is referenced in both PQ1 and PQ2... It was a nice blend of serious and silly!
PQ4 on the other hand lost alot of that... It was far too serious... No sense of connection to earlier PQ titles... It felt like a totally different franchise...
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I'll always admire Roberta Williams more than the rest--I'll always love KQ just a bit more than SQ.
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I have a hard time picking between SQ and KQ as my favorite quest series. I love each one equally... I think I used to like SQ a little more than KQ because the plotlines were more cohesively linked together. I.E. returning characters the norm, similar to Monkey Island.
On the other hand, after I got access to the wide world of King's Quest expanded universe (I had the KQ6 hintbook when that game came out, I read the three novels when they were released as well), but especially after picking up my first copy of King's Quest Companion back in the mid-2000s (that was the 3rd edition btw), I gained a better respect for the world that makes up KQ as a whole. Some of these second party authors brought a sense of depth and life to the KQ series, that the main series was lacking by itself. Backhistories for characters, lands, and even items!
While I picked up the other expanded material for SQ, QFG, Gabriel Knight, and PQ even, none of them reached the quality of the KQ related material! As far as the sense of scope, boing beyond the games!