AGDI Unveils King's Quest III Redux!

[Valiento]

BTTF episode one has exactly two puzzles that I would count as anything near real puzzles of any form.

I don't know there were several conversation style puzzles, to convince characters to do things (or learn something, so you can move on, elsewhere). A few inventory puzzles. A couple of action based puzzles, and a few mechanical puzzles/distraction puzzles, to get clues.

It took something like 3-4 hours to complete, which is comparable to watching one of the BTTF movies in dialogue. It was comparable in length puzzle styles as Wallace and Gromit, Episode 1 (puzzle pacing seemed about the same to me even; both share a similar car chase sequence). It might even had more puzzles than Bone Episode 1 (which also felt short in my opinion).

You can complete TSL episode 1 in like 10-30 minutes, and skip most things, without even realizing it. The main cutscenes are non-interactive and on auto-play, and you can't really interact during the conversations even (I.E. you can only ask questions, you can't make choices that would affect the conversation in some way, or give an idea of the character's own thoughts). If you do the optional conversation stuff, not much more than an hour. You might push it further looking for hidden narration stuff, but that stuff is a bit overly wordy and dry... imo.

[Chyron8472]

Is there a more specific release date for this? Early February? Late February? Tomorrow?

Color me impatient. =P





edit: also, I understand the creators of these awesome AGDI games need monetary compensation (ie. to be paid) for their work, but I certainly hope that joining up with Himalaya Studios will improve Himalaya's quality of games. I played the Al Emmo demo, and I just couldn't stand it. At all. It's terrible.

I really do hope for some more great games by the AGDI team in the future, even if I have to pay for it. I'm just saying that the KQ Remakes and QFG2+ are head and shoulders (knees and toes) better than Al Emmo is.

[Sarendor]

I believe that Himalaya Studios and AGDI are the same company, but they have a different name for commercial games.

[MusicallyInspired]

There is no other release date announced as of yet.

And yeah. Himalaya Studios are exactly the same people as AGDI. AGDI created Himalaya Studios after KQ2+ and after getting the fan license from Vivendi just to have a separate entity that Vivendi couldn't possibly have any control over via the fan license contract. Their next game (which I'm also working on) is much more in the vein of a King's Quest/Quest For Glory type style and atmosphere.

[Irishmile]

I liked Freddy Pharkas.. that was a good western adventure game IMO.

[Chyron8472]

Originally Posted by MusicallyInspired

Sierra themselves said that they made a survey for what type of game fans would like to see made and a western style adventure game scored the lowest.

I still haven't played Al Emmo myself, but the beginning really didn't draw me in. I think they're better at making stories that are enchanting and dramatic rather than comedy.

Hmm... maybe the western motif was a small part of it, but really there were a few things that did it for me:

It felt to me that the main character was annoying. There's an art to making a character lovably inept (like Guybrush Threepwood or even Larry Laffer), whereas Al Emmo was just inept.

Also, in an adventure game with voice acting, the character voices play a big part and for the character who has the most speaking parts to have an annoying voice distracts one from paying attention the story.

And finally, the 3D cutscenes look dated. It would have been better to use sprites and such for the cutscenes because I just couldn't pay attention.


Not trying to beat a dead horse. I just hope that AGDI/HS learns where they went wrong on that game, because I really do enjoy their other work.

[MusicallyInspired]

But many have said once you thrust past that the game gets very good. I'm looking forward to playing through it once I finally get the time.

[doggans]

I actually got used to Al's voice really quickly. For me, the awesomeness of the narrator's voice MORE than made up for any annoyances I had with Al's voice.

[Sarendor]

Originally Posted by MusicallyInspired

Al Emmo didn't do as well as they'd hoped, so their next game (which I'm also working on) is much more in the vein of a King's Quest/Quest For Glory type style and atmosphere than the controversial western adventure type, which has never done well ever apparently.

A new fantasy adventure game by AGDI? With the atmosphere of a classic quest? I will almost certainly buy it when it comes, if not pre order it!

[PimPamPet]

Originally Posted by Irishmile

I liked Freddy Pharkas.. that was a good western adventure game IMO.

I love that game!

Al Emmo was decent, but I agree the voice acting was terrible.

[MusicallyInspired]

I thought that the voice actors were really quite professional, from what I heard from what I've played so far.

[Chyron8472]

bump.

I'm getting back in on this thread. I want to talk about a King's Quest game that makes me excited, instead of worried.

I really am looking forward to this. "Coming in February" isn't enough for me. I keep checking the AGDI website every other day.

[Ribs]

"We'll be aiming King's Quest III Redux' release to take place on the evening of February the 23rd; in other words, the upcoming wednesday"

from forums

[Irishmile]

I'm really excited I can not wait to play it..

TODAY!!!!

[MusicallyInspired]

Should be any time now. It's slated for the evening (PST time). Despite being on the team, I don't know more than that.

[jp-30]

Should we move this to the KQ forum?

[Secret Fawful]

It's out, guys.

[Sabin Stargem]

Confirmed. Downloading right now.

[Mr Nutt]

We are looking at the same website right? Because I don't see any download links just a teaser page.

[Sabin Stargem]

You have to press the "enter website" button. However, here is a link to the game download page.


KQ3 redux page
http://www.agdinteractive.com/games/.../download.html