Which KQ game is your favorite?

[Emily]

Haha... never thought I'd see the day where we'd be encouraged to talk about Sierra games on the Telltale forum (without having to be afraid that LucasArts fans would throw tomatoes at us or something).

Ahem, anyway... I'm curious which of the KQ games is everyone's favorite? Mine's King's Quest 6... traveling back and forth between the islands was a nice element and I loved the sappy love story. (I was a 14 year old girl, it's kind of to be expected.) I might have had a crush on Alexander.

My close second would probably be KQ4. I guess I like the ones that have strong emotional elements. King's Quest 5 should have had that kind of story, what with Graham on a quest to save his family and all, but that game just didn't do it for me. (The artwork was gorgeous though.)

How about everyone else?

EDIT: D'oh, this is a duplicate thread. I didn't see the poll before I posted this. Maybe a mod can combine them?

[Kroms]

6. I never liked the series, but got relatively far into 6 before I kind of gave-up. I also like 1, just because it seems kinda edgy for its time, but I don't know if that's true or not. It's also kinda pretty.

[drunkenmonkey]

King's Quest 3 was my favourite. I was hooked from the start. Having to work in secret behind the wizards back, never knowing when he would reappear. Gathering the ingredients needed for the spells. And finally defeating the wizard was a great sense of relief for me.

[Zigma]

I love ALL KQ's games. I am SUPEEEER ecstatic after reading from IGN that Telltale is going to redo KQ's. Perhaps we will see a KQVIII in the future. Who knows?

I just bought Back to the Future last night and boy, I am loving it!

[newatgames]

Kings Quest 5 was the first KQ game I played so that holds a special place, but I think i'd have a tie with either 5, 6 or 7.

[thesporkman]

King's Quest 6 definitely. It has the most interesting and well developed story and characters, and the puzzles were great. (The only thing that bothers me about the game are all the failed attempts at grammar jokes clearly written by someone who doesn't know anything about grammar. "Where are you going?" is a complete sentence, damn it! "Where are you going to?" ends the sentence with a preposition, which is frowned upon but still acceptable in Germanic languages, but the "to" isn't necessary; in modern English the adverb "where" has absorbed the meanings of "whither" and "whence," and so it already means "to what place." Gah!)

I also really love KQ4. It had an amazing atmosphere, and the haunted house sequence was genuinely creepy. And KQ3 had a really great premise and puzzle structure.

[der_ketzer]

5 was the one that got me interested in the series and KQ1 (VGA remake) was the first I played myself.
Hearing Cedric still makes me smile every time. He is so adorable.

[MusicallyInspired]

KQ5. It's the most all-encompassing enchanting fantasy game you can get. It's got everything. Beautiful forest locales, a town, a dark magical forest with an evil witch, underground tunnels where elves live, a desert area with bandits and a magical temple, a snowy dangerous mountain range, a beach with a sea and a set of islands, and the final showdown at Mordack's creepy evil island with a labyrinth basement, dungeon, library, bedroom with a spooky bed, spooky halls with eerie evil decor, and an evil magical laboratory. And then there's the characters. Good wizards, bad wizards, gypsies, bandits, crooked innkeepers, friendly characters, evil witches, a talking tree, gnomes, elves, animals, mermaids, harpies.....the list goes on. It's just an overall exceptionally enchanting tale! And I prefer it to the romanticised KQ6 love story, as fantastic and spectacular as it is.

And the music is so rich and memorable! And it ties into the story of a previous game and starts off the story for the next! It's just great. Fantastic. I love it. KQ3 is a close second, but only because I've been working on the soundtrack for the AGDI remake of it for the past 8 years and have grown attached to it. I've also noticed that KQ3 shares a lot of the same gameplay elements as KQ5 does. Similar locales (desert, snowy mountain, town, etc) much like KQ2 is similar to KQ6 (girl in a tower to rescue).

[Zigma]

V and VI for me

[doom saber]

Part 6. Although I liked part 5 when it was new, I find all the King's Quest games(with the exception of part 6,) to have a lack of a good storyline.

If I am not playing part 6, I find myself playing part 4 esp the zombie and the ghost scenes, so I guess that is my 2nd favorite.

[ATMachine]

Originally Posted by thesporkman

King's Quest 6 definitely. It has the most interesting and well developed story and characters, and the puzzles were great. (The only thing that bothers me about the game are all the failed attempts at grammar jokes clearly written by someone who doesn't know anything about grammar. "Where are you going?" is a complete sentence, damn it! "Where are you going to?" ends the sentence with a preposition, which is frowned upon but still acceptable in Germanic languages, but the "to" isn't necessary; in modern English the adverb "where" has absorbed the meanings of "whither" and "whence," and so it already means "to what place." Gah!)

Not to mention the fact that the writers clearly had no clue what a "dangling participle" actually is.

But yes, KQ6 is a great game. I'm not sure I get the love for KQ5, though: that game was just cruel.

[der_ketzer]

Originally Posted by ATMachine

I'm not sure I get the love for KQ5, though: that game was just cruel.

This is one of the best Let's Plays ever. Really good. You can really hear that paw loves this game. But he clearly is annoyed by Cedric.

[MusicallyInspired]

KQ5 isn't that bad. Memory exaggerates.

[DAISHI]

The first one I still find super enchanting.

As for my favorite? 5, for the fact that the narrator is the Star Wars narrator from Rogue Squadron.

[Rather Dashing]

Originally Posted by Emily

Haha... never thought I'd see the day where we'd be encouraged to talk about Sierra games on the Telltale forum (without having to be afraid that LucasArts fans would throw tomatoes at us or something).

I still don't think we'll ever see that day.

[JuntMonkey]

Originally Posted by Rather Dashing

I still don't think we'll ever see that day.

Yea the Sierra/Lucasarts battle was lost long ago, and the perception of Sierra as inferior is going to persist forever now. I still remember the first time I saw somebody with the balls and insanity to say that Lucasarts was the adventure game king. It was somewhere in the mid-late '90s in a PC Gamer or something, where the article mentioned "Lucasarts, always the king of the adventure game genre." I was like, what? Sierra wasn't even dead then, and 1995's Phantasmagoria quite possibly outsold any other 2 Lucasarts adventure games from any year combined. The measly KQ8 outsold Grim Fandango (they were contemporaries) by a 2:1 margin.

Lucasarts was always Sierra's little brother. They were cute and had some solid games, but Sierra was a f---ing behemoth. Sierra's aggregate adventure game sales were obviously higher than Lucasarts's because of sheer volume of titles. But I'd bet that even if you picked out Lucasarts's biggest title and Sierra's biggest title in any given year, Sierra's killed it. Monkey Island for example? No, King's Quest V came out that year and was definitely bigger sales-wise and culturally, despite what revisionist anti-Sierra history says today.

I really would like to see sales figures.

[Hero1]

King's Quest 5! Still remember playing it as a kid. Fun times.

[adventureaddict]

KQ7.
Just love that cartoony look and the characters.
And the not dying and having to start all over thing. That was cool too.

[Emily]

I initially played King's Quest 5 without voices, and Cedric didn't bother me. Years later when I played the talkie version I realized why everyone hates him so much. It really makes a difference.

[der_ketzer]

Originally Posted by Emily

I initially played King's Quest 5 without voices, and Cedric didn't bother me. Years later when I played the talkie version I realized why everyone hates him so much. It really makes a difference.

His voice is sweet and angelic. I love him.