Which KQ game is your favorite?

[philthethrill]

What I like about Cedric is that he's a fraidy cat while Graham is always calm. I never thought of his voice as being sweet and angelic. I think it's more cute and funny.

[Kroms]

He sounds like a pompous librarian. He'd make a good one. "Most children read absolutely poiiiiiiiisonous trash these days!"

[Simo Sakari Aaltonen]

Cedric has become quite the iconic figure over the years.

[joek86]

I really liked 7, it was a major upgrade graphically, and the tone constantly shifted on you. It made me excited about where the series could go from there, too bad it went to Mask of Eternity

[Focused]

IV, V and VI are my favorites. But if I had to choose one only, I'd pick VI. Such a beautiful, touching tale. I mean, how many games let you challenge the Lord of the Dead himself for the one you love ?!?!

The pinnacle of EPIC storytelling.

[PimPamPet]

V & VII, because those were the first ones I played and have the fondest memories of.

[Megaboz]

I had played text adventures previously, but Kings Quest III was the first graphical adventure I had ever played, and is still my favorite in the series to this day. I loved the idea of collecting items to brew together to make spells (even if it was a copyright kind of thing), and the suspense of never knowing when Manannan would turn up.

Kings Quest IV is a close second, just a lot of great locations and puzzles in that game. I do appreciate the storyline of 6 as well, but I think I actually preferred the typing interface coming from a text adventure background - when they moved to mouse, it actually kind of took away a piece for me.

[Got Haggis?]

KQ4 without a doubt.

[Megaboz]

I especially liked the day vs night and zombies coming out around the haunted house. Seriously creeped me out.

[Sabin Stargem]

VI, III, and V in that order. I do like I, II, and IV as well, but not as much. #8 is...well, I can't acknowledge that as an genuine King's Quest game.

[MusicallyInspired]

What about VII?

[Sabin Stargem]

Haven't played it, so I can't honestly judge it.

[Anakin Skywalker]

King's Quest V. It was the pinnacle of everything a KQ game should be.

My favorite KQ games in order:

1) KQV
2) KQVII
3) KQ1SCI
4) KQIV
5) KQII
6) KQVIII
7) KQVI
8) KQIII

[Olaus Petrus]

I had never thought the question, because I pretty much enjoy the entire series, but today when I posted to other thread I reached the conclusion that KQ4 is my favourite. It has interesting story and puzzles and I can't think any flaws. So therefore it's now officially my favourite.

KQ3 is close second, but personally I find the latter half bit boring compared to the first part where you have to defeat Manannan. Compared to him pirates and dragon are easy tasks.

I also love first two King's Quest games, but as those are mostly just treasure hunts in seemingly random locations, I prefer the ones which have actual story over these two.

KQ5 is fun and epic adventure, but I always enjoyed prior adventures of King Graham more than this one. One of the reasons for that preference could be that IMO Cedric and some of the talking animals were rather annoying. KQ6 has probably best puzzles of the entire series, but Alexander has become rather annoying do-gooder who refuses to open a gate because he isn't invited to the house. I liked him more in KQ3 where he tresspassed into the house of the Three Bears and stole their stuff.

KQ7 is cute and funny adventure, but it's way too easy. Even MoE had more challenging puzzles, but it's problem is that puzzles are too few and far between. I liked MoE's darker atmosphere after KQ7, which was almost too Disney, but just running around and killing monsters isn't how I understand adventuring.

[Lambonius]

My list: (I am including AGDI's games--the list would be a little different if it was just the originals.)

1) KQ5
2) KQ3(Redux)
3) KQ6
4) KQ4
5) KQ2+
6) KQ1(VGA)
7) KQ7
8) KQ8

[Anakin Skywalker]

Originally Posted by Lambonius

My list: (I am including AGDI's games--the list would be a little different if it was just the originals.)

1) KQ5
2) KQ3(Redux)
3) KQ6
4) KQ4
5) KQ2+
6) KQ1(VGA)
7) KQ7
8) KQ8

Somehow I get the feeling that a certain VGA KQ fangame that's in development will make it's way into the top 3 of my list favorite KQs

[Chyron8472]

KQ6
KQ3R
KQ2+
KQ7
KQ1VGA
KQ4
KQ5




MoE doesn't count.

[Olaus Petrus]

Originally Posted by Chyron8472

KQ6
KQ3R
KQ2+
KQ7
KQ1VGA
KQ4
KQ5




MoE doesn't count.

I find it funny that in your list fan games count, but one of the official games doesn't. But let's ignore MoE and endless dispute if it's real KQ game or not and get back to your list. Actually what surprised me was that you excluded original Sierra versions of the first three KQ games, aren't those worthy enough to make into the list or even to get special mention like MoE?

[Chyron8472]

Originally Posted by Olaus Petrus

Actually what surprised me was that you excluded original Sierra versions of the first three KQ games

I left the originals out because I was having a hard time figuring out a whole list which included the originals and the remakes in the same list, so I just listed the remakes because I like them better.


Okay, so my list for the originals would be:

KQ6
KQ7
KQ4
KQ3
KQ5
KQ1
KQ2


Since my first post said this:

Originally Posted by Chyron8472

KQ6, KQ3R, KQ2+, KQ7, KQ1VGA, KQ4, KQ5

And I hadn't put IA's KQ3 in there either, If I put them together from both lists and put IA's in, it should say:

KQ6
KQ3R
KQ2+
KQ7
KQ3 by IA
KQ1VGA
KQ4
KQ5
KQ1
KQ2

MoE doesn't get honorable mention because it feels like it belongs to a whole different genre.


Also, KQ5 is hard for me to place. I know it's in my bottom 3, but I'm trying to consider where I would place the floppy version instead of the CD version (as I've played both) since KQ5's animal-voice acting is one of the bigger annoyances for me. But it's been so long since I played KQ5 without voices, it's hard to consider. Would it be lower or higher without voices? I'm not sure.