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Personally I think KQ4 is the best game in the series. I've also always liked KQ7, which some people seem to hate with a passion. KQ6 I think has always been a bit bizarre mix of extremely naive and overly dark narratives, which don't mix together very well. KQ5 is a pretty looking game, but it also frustrates me the most in the series thanks to some pretty poor design choices.

Out of the first 3 games, I really recommend playing KQ1 and KQ3. KQ2 is pretty much just together shoestringed pieces that make very little sense.  KQ3 has a bit different approach to the first 2 games and has interesting experiments in narrative.

Visually KQ5 is a very nice game and the storytelling ain't bad either. But I do think the puzzle design is at places a step backwards from KQ4 and KQ5 has more puzzles with very abstract logic. I think it might be, as just like Al Lowe said, he didn't at first understand that going from parser to icons made his puzzle design too easy, Roberta might have realized that and made some of the puzzles of KQ5 more obscure because of that. And that lead into some pretty clunky puzzle design.

KQ5 is actually a pretty interesting step backwards for Roberta. KQ4 is much better game and has a pretty solid design overall. Also I've always liked Colonel's Bequest a quite a bit, which still is IMO a solid game with fairly logical puzzle design, which has none of the "pie in the Yeti's face" kind of puzzle design.

I think going from parser to icons threw her off the balance, just like what happened to Al Lowe with Larry 5, which beame too easy because of it.

Here's a classic one, and propably one of the most difficult puzzles in adventure game history, straight from King's Quest 1, the original AGI version. The official SCI remake had simplified one.

"The name of the gnome"-puzzle.
Now, you need to guess a name of the gold spinning gnome, who is, if you know your fairytales, Rumpelstiltskin. If you try with that, no cigar, as that's not quite the answer the game wants, despite you'd be on a right fairytale.
 
In  a place that has nothing to do with Rumpelstiltskin you can find a not that says "Sometimes it's helpfull to think backwards.". If by some leap of logic you arrive into a conclusion that that particular note is related to the gnome
you can try to write the name Rumpelstiltskin backwards. But that's no dice either, as that's not quite the answer the game is seeking. And there's no other hints it will give you either about the solution.
 
And the solution is, that you need to throw the alphabet backwards and choose letters that are in the same location as would the original letters of Rumpelstiltskin be.  Yeah. I doubt there was many people who solved that one, espceially
with the small amounts of hints the game gave you. And if you didn't know the fairytale itself, good luck trying to even get in the same page with the puzzle, as the game has no mention of the gnomes name anywhere, it just expects
that everyone knows the fairytale.

In the SCI remake it was simplified so, that it actually accepted the Rumpelstiltskin spelled backwards. And even then it was relatively difficult puzzle.

Yeah, don‘t deflect now, ya hear! Besides, regardless of who‘s responsible for the fuck up, this is some top-tier internet drama. And it might get even topper-tierer, check this shit out. I think I just made an entitlement in my pants.

I also have this crawling suspicion that the paying customers entitled kids that got suckered in by this little mix up will be the most business this this game will ever see. And now that they had their fancy new $5 toy taken away from them, I doubt they will be back to get the game proper at the obligatory christmas sale, even if the price should drop to a more reasonable amount. Customer trust can be a bitch sometimes.

Oh well, easy come, easy go.

It's not entitlement if you buy something thinking it  is a full game if it's not labeled as something else. It's the sellers fault, not the customers. (disclaimer, I have not bought it.)

At least something good came from the whole Replay debacle: I got to know Jeroen, Tom, Serena and other magnificently magical people who deserved so much better.
 
Jeroen's a truly cool guy who loves adventure games and has fantastic facial hair.
 
Tom is a true friend who barely sleeps but stays up making cool shit all night instead.
 
Serena is, well ... need I say more?
 
And, for better or worse, it totally brought the community even closer together.
 
So there's that. ;)

I'm pretty sure Activision is the one who shelled out the moolah to produce all of GK20th, they were the money bags before they shut that other dev down before POS and I doubt Jane or POS shelled their own money in order to do pick up the pieces and put it together. That's why they can't release Linux version of it for an example, as Activision wouldn't allow it.

I do find it baffling, that some people think game characters should all be cut from the same cloth, as in being heroic and chivalric and all that jazz. I do wonder why they do feel like writers should shackle themselves in regards of what kind of charcaters they write.  Some people do kind of miss the point in that to write something is not the same thing as to advocate something.  Not always atleast.

 

I do find it baffling, that some people think game characters should all be cut from the same cloth, as in being heroic and chivalric and all that jazz. I do wonder why they do feel like writers should shackle themselves in regards of what kind of charcaters they write.  Some people do kind of miss the point in that to write something is not the same thing as to advocate something.  Not always atleast.

 

I need to say, that I don't mind about the idea of adding new puzzles, but at the same time they should fit the game as well. The ones I've seen just feel out of place and the kind of that they wanted to add something but didn't really know what.

Here's Fester

FullHD here: http://fav.me/d81c9j8

Here's Fester

FullHD here: http://fav.me/d81c9j8

Here's Fester

FullHD here: http://fav.me/d81c9j8

Here's Fester

FullHD here: http://fav.me/d81c9j8

Here's Fester

FullHD here: http://fav.me/d81c9j8

Here's Fester

FullHD here: http://fav.me/d81c9j8

Here's Fester

FullHD here: http://fav.me/d81c9j8

Here's a little something I just finished and you guys might recognize.

 

Yes I am. I can proudly say I don't need everything to be spoonfed to me. Just the big chuncks. Pre-chewed if possible.

Here's a bit larger vesion of the render in fullHD resolution: http://tomimt.deviantart.com/art/Employee-of-the-week-483116955

Here's a bit larger vesion of the render in fullHD resolution: http://tomimt.deviantart.com/art/Employee-of-the-week-483116955

Here's a little something I just finished and you guys might recognize.

 

Here's a little something I just finished and you guys might recognize.

 

Here's a bit larger vesion of the render in fullHD resolution: http://tomimt.deviantart.com/art/Employee-of-the-week-483116955