I want Cedric
Could one of the many graphically talented folks on this forum make some kind of graphic available for general use featuring Cedric saying something like, "Watch out, Graham! It's a poiiiiiisonous post!" 
Past experience suggests it would come in handy from time to time.
Past experience suggests it would come in handy from time to time.
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I was actually hoping to read some posts that express our love for Cedric in this thread.
to stay away
from the edge
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That looks great.
That's why I made it! Free for all to use!
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Now someone needs to post something poisonous so we get to use it! Or, wait... Was this graphic already in response to my post, or one of the others in this thread?
"Alex, watch out, a POISONOUS snake!"
Hahaha...YES.
That picture is wrong on so many levels, but I can't help laughing every time I see it lol.
Sad, personal story: Somehow KQ5 was the first Kings Quest I ever played, and Cedric made sure it was the last. (I'll be playing them all through in the reasonably near future though.)
Of course, by sheer horrible luck, the only other Sierra adventure I played was the Black Cauldron game. Oops. Much later I heard there were a bunch of great ones out there, but my experience with the Sierra library as a kid was apparently playing two of the least well regarded games in their catalog.
the ultimate punishment for turning hints up.
KQ 5 is one of their greatest games... A shame you didn't like it.
At the time I liked a lot about it. I liked the look of things, especially the town at the start of the game, which (even though people were represented as not much more than little dots) always felt really bustling to me. I also liked the feeling of scope. Even though the desert and ice bits felt very tile based, just the fact that I could wander until I got lost and died was cool. I hated that I could click on the side of a cliff and fall off, though. That did not and has never made sense to me. It seems like in the early days they didn't know how to make characters pathfind well, so to solve it they turned that lack of know how into a game mechanic, which then stuck around as a style choice even after that knowledge was commonplace. Maybe that's misguided, but that's the impression I got even as a kid :P I liked that KQ5 allowed me to do more things than LucasArts games, but it seemed like the line was drawn too far with things like walking off a cliff at the click of a button -- it seemed ridiculous that a King would willingly do something so stupid that even my pet dog wouldn't. I know for people who grew up with that stuff its loved to death* because it was there at the time, but it's always been hard for me personally to reconcile!
* joke
Also: before anything is read into anything I'm saying, I should probably make it clear that I'm just talking about my personal experiences playing KQ as a kid, and it has no bearing on Telltale's game. I'm working on the Walking Dead right now and have no idea if I'll even be on King's Quest. I just enjoy talking about this stuff with people!
So no one please blame me when Telltale announce it will be a first-person hooter.
I think that's one of the big differences between Sierra and LucasArts adventures. In a LucasArts game, you aren't really controlling the player character, you're just suggesting things for them to do. They have their own thoughts and motivations and they can object to the things the player tells them to do. In a Sierra game, however, the player character is more or less a mindless avatar that you have complete control over. You effectively are King Graham, and so you need to be as careful about keeping your balance and watching your step as you would have to be if you were really there. And the games let you intentionally do stupid or dangerous things because, why not? That's what you want to do, and so you should be able to do it. Ben from Full Throttle might object to "putting his lips on that," but Roger Wilco will gladly lick a metal grating and shred his tongue to pieces if you want him to.
Hahaha...this is my new favorite Sierra/Lucasarts comparison. So true.
and yes that is the original actor from kq5
Well stated.
Technically its roughly the same as saying "I wish this forum had an image macro of Jar Jar saying 'how wude!' with a picture of a forum post."
Mesa thinks that sounds wob-underful! Oooh! Gooberfish......
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Jar Jar Binks and Cedric the Owl are a couple of bachelors rooming together in New York. Jar Jar's trying to find himself a stable relationship, while Cedric's just looking to party. Hilarity ensues when Jar Jar meets a special lady, only to bring her home and discover that Cedric invited Scrappy Doo, Orko, Snarf, and Wheelie the Autobot for poker night... in Jar Jar's bedroom!
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Genius. But also...
Just kidding.