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Old 04-11-2005, 06:25 PM   #1
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Having recently played GK3 and read the GK2 novel, I wanted to share my thoughts on what the next game might have been like, had it been made.

From the ending of GK3, we know that (spoilers!)
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Grace has left carrying what will be Gabe's child in 9 months. It's pretty certain that she went to a monastery in Tibet (or Nepal or India maybe) for training Shadowhunter monks, whose head lama had written her by email.


And there's the famous easter egg in GK3, wherein if you search for "gabriel knight 4" on SIDNEY you get an entry about ghosts.

Well, at the start of the Gabriel Knight II novel, Gabe is trying to write a sequel to The Voodoo Murders. He starts with an idea about a "haunted ashram" (or monastery), and is about to drop a package from India into his protagonist's lap when writer's block hits. Furthermore, his mental image of the novel's hero in Indian garments is called "self-parody."

Now, Jane Jensen seems to occasionally tease us with hints about what might lie ahead in the series. (For example, she did this with Wolfgang alluding to an "old legend" about the Schattenjaegers' origin in GK1, and its revelation in GK3. Moreover, the GK2 novel shows us Grace's desire to put all of the Schattenjaeger library on a computer, as she's done by GK3.)

Is it possible that she intended the next chapter in the series to be set in a haunted Asian monastery? Would Gabriel have gone tracking Grace down and found himself dealing with ghosts?

Or do you all think I'm reading too much into things? Comments, please.

EDIT: Of course, just because Gabriel goes to Asia doesn't mean Grace will still be at the monastery by the time he arrives...

EDIT 2: This is a nice, but incorrect, theory, as others have pointed out. Instead, it appears Gabe would've gone to Scotland.

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Old 04-11-2005, 07:11 PM   #2
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Its likely enough, its more or less what I have surmised, but alas! It doesn't look like there will ever be a Gabriel Knight IV, so I guess we'll never know.

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Kind of off topic...Who was the composer in GK II? I think i learned about him in my music class..
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I thought Jane Jensen said ghosts in Scotland.

Coop - do you mean Robert Holmes (Sierra composer) or Richard Wagner (actual real life opera composer)?
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I believe it was Scotland that came up in S.I.D.N.E.Y. after you searched.
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I still say that Sierra should pry its cold, dead, stiff hands off of the rights to Gabriel Knight, and let J. Jensen make GK4!!!!
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wagner..and i did learn about him. pretty cool
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Old 04-11-2005, 11:21 PM   #8
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Spoiler:
I know they had sex, but how can you be sure Grace got pregnant? I've played that game through 6 or 7 times, and never got a confirmation from the game itself.
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I hate you so much for posting a topic with that title.
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I know they had sex, but how can you be sure Grace got pregnant? I've played that game through 6 or 7 times, and never got a confirmation from the game itself.
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Well, in the game's resource file there's a comment that mentions the pregnancy. Also, in fiction every single one night stand leads to pregnancy. Rule of thumb.
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OK, I was wrong. It would have been England or Scotland after all, according to this interview with Jane Jensen.

Still, I admit it would have been neat to see Gabriel traveling to the mountains of Asia...
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I know they had sex, but how can you be sure Grace got pregnant? I've played that game through 6 or 7 times, and never got a confirmation from the game itself.
See this thread.
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Still, I admit it would have been neat to see Gabriel traveling to the mountains of Asia...
Or seeing him and Grace again at all, for that matter.
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why doesn't somebody just email Jane Jensen and ask her

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if Grace got pregnant?
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All right, my posting this (misguided) theory seems to have aroused a lot of ill will. I'm sorry if I opened some old wounds. Now can we let this topic die?
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All right, my posting this (misguided) theory seems to have aroused a lot of ill will. I'm sorry if I opened some old wounds. Now can we let this topic die?
I don't think it's aroused ill will. (That frowny face looks so sad!)
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I hate you so much for posting a topic with that title.
I guess I didn't realize, being so new to the series, how bitter its fans are over not having the story continued. For me it's easier to accept that the story is left incomplete, just like that of Loom, for example.
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I guess I didn't realize, being so new to the series, how bitter its fans are over not having the story continued. For me it's easier to accept that the story is left incomplete, just like that of Loom, for example.
Ahh. Yeah, GK fans are still kinda mad about it. (But I don't think Fop really meant that he hates you. )
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Ahh. Yeah, GK fans are still kinda mad about it. (But I don't think Fop really meant that he hates you. )
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