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King’s Quest ‘2015’ (All The Positive Talk)
Yeah i guess thats good.
Though personally id prefer the overall polished product of the first chapter with QTE’s, instead of the much less polished product of the 2nd without qte. We’ll see 
Really excited about that new chapter.
I loved both the first and second chapter (with a slight preference for the second chapter) and love how they vary the game concept from chapter to chapter.
If they continue like this, this game has the potential to become my new favorite game.
its already new fav for me, giom, but i add(or elaborate); maybe it could represent a new breakthrough/presentation to be followed for years to come?
I still haven’t played the second episode, but surprisingly enough I didn’t really mind the QTE events in the first episode. Usually QTE’s feel a bit tacked on, but there the Odd Gentlemen had found a decent enough middle ground where the events meshed better within the gameplay itself.
Not that I’m saddened from their decision to remove them completely.
Okay, I finally got around playing EP2. So overall, it was okay, but I did like the first episode better, as it felt more like a KQ game to me. It was the whole cave setting that did bring it down a notch, as it just didn’t look as vibrant and lively as the first episode does. I did like the humour though, but I do hope EP3 goes back to outside world like EP1 is.
The whole food angle was pretty good premesis. It does bring in a solid strategy puzzle, especially if you’re like me and start obsessing about that everyone should live. I ended up stopping my first play through just to get in the better direction. And after that I went it through the third time, just to make sure I’d get the optimal resolution.
It’s pretty easy to see why there’s people who don’t like EP2 that much, as the biggest puzzle of it is more of a strategic one instead of typical adventure fare. Personally I liked it and there’s even now some things in it I didn’t manage to figure out, despite I did manage to keep all the humans on their feet. I also like the story is showing how Graham matures as a person and as a ruler, which is something the originals never really did touch that much.
I don’t know if this goes into ‘positive talk’ but why don’t the developers and everyone else refer to this game as King’s Quest IX. It is, after all, the ninth instalment of King’s Quest, and that way it doesn’t get confused with the first game, which is also called ‘King’s Quest’.
Because it would make people think that the story is a continuation of the 8 previous games and that they need to have played those to enjoy the new one.
Would it? Are any of the other games continuations? I thought they were all just loosely connected stories.
Oh well. I’m just going to keep calling it King’s Quest 9.
Would it? Are any of the other games continuations? I thought they were all just loosely connected stories.
Oh well. I’m just going to keep calling it King’s Quest 9.
They are stories that progress on the same time line. Whereas this game is a reboot, which goes back to the beginning of that timeline, re-tells and re-writes it in its own way. So calling it kq9 wouldnt make much sense. One could argue calling mask of eternity KQ8 didnt make the most sense ..though it still presumably occurs after kq7. And the rest of the series is pretty heavily driven by a chronology.
Point taken, but calling it “King’s Quest” is stupid.
Call it anything - Monarch’s Expedition or something. Or at least give it a subtitle.
Have you played it Oscar?
It’s Graham telling his past stories his granddaughter (daughter ot Alexander) and Gart (son of Rosella) of how he became king and so on. It’s all based on the original saga so it should be called Kings Quest and 9 wouldn’t make sense,
It’s more connected to KQ than VIII.
well calling it KQ is definitely the right thing to do. And i suppose really there are subtitles: for each episode.
Have you played it Oscar?
No. I don’t play episodics until they’re complete. Besides, I haven’t even completed KQI-IV or VIII and I doubt I will be soon. Not a huge fan of the series.
I’d call it more of a soft reboot more than a sequal really. That’s why it would make as little sense to call it KQ9 as it would make little sense to call Batman Begins Batman 5.
It’s a lovely little game all in all and I’d wager it’s easier to approach for even those that didn’t like the original games.
I don’t know if this goes into ‘positive talk’ but why don’t the developers and everyone else refer to this game as King’s Quest IX. It is, after all, the ninth instalment of King’s Quest, and that way it doesn’t get confused with the first game, which is also called ‘King’s Quest’.
Many other ips also get base name and new tagline for new comers.
Like new Ratchet which is basically a remake.
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