Where should I start?
Now whilst I spent a lonely geeky teenagehood obsessively playing almost all the classics of the point and click genre, the one notable exception was always the King's Quest series. I'm sure given its reputation and Telltale's involvement that I'll pick this up but I was wondering if there were 1/2 games most typical of the series that might be worth me playing to get a feel for what to expect?
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I personally liked KQ6 the best... so... maybe give that a gander.
really? What the purpose of owning the rights if they aren't going to make any money of them?
So no one else does either. Also if they were to want to, they could use any of the artwork...etc. for anything they choose.
You mean, aside from reselling them like they are already doing?
But there's also this to look forward to at some point.
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=goGXW2hzUVI
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=sf09eXkZiNo
Also, you don't need eBay, you can buy the AGI original on Good Old Games.
I think it is not valid to assume that a newcomer will automatically prefer the products of newer technology. I am an old hand at computer games, so cannot use that as an example, but whenever I start investigating a whole new thing in other areas, I still like to start at the very beginning, which in this case would be the Sierra originals. I am sure there are others like me out there.
Obviously it is a different story if the newcomer in question has in fact expressed a preference for later graphical (or aural or whatever) styles. But most importantly, apart from and in addition to the graphics and audio, I think the whole experience is different when playing the remakes. Or at least 90% different. Consider the huge difference in the very personality of the original and the ("faithful") remake version of Psycho.
This is not intended to disparage the KQ remakes - I think highly of them - but to point out that the experience of playing a remake actually bears very little resemblance to playing the original, because not only is the sensory data received even more different from one to the other than when interacting with any two human beings (with people, at least the visual focus and level of detail will be nearly identical, for example), but the very feel is different because both the engine and interface are different.
Obviously both experiences can be equally rewarding in their own right; none of this means that one or the other is any worse or better. But with respect to the remakes, none of them are the Sierra games, just like the remake of Psycho is not the Hitchcock film. They are more like cover versions of a song, perhaps.
In any case, I went on too damn long. Again.
Oh, but I adore what I have seen of the KQII SCI remake. It really does look like authentic vintage Sierra.
And yes. Hopefully I'll actually find some time to work on it (KQ2SCI) in the near future. I haven't touched it in ages.
Actually, I hadn't even tried the remakes out at all until about a month or so ago, as for some reason I've never liked fan made remakes of anything, pretty much... maybe I've just had bad luck with the few remakes I've tried in the past.
But once I started playing the KQ1 AGDI remake... I was blown away.
Really amazing remake, and so true to the feel of Sierra... it's a fantastic accomplishment.
Brandon, this is very cool, I had no idea you were doing this! I just wanted to let you know the links on the Youtube page don't work for me (it redirects me to www.commerceculture.co.uk homepage).