Thank you, GOG! :D

This release made my day! I've been waiting for this one for ages so I can finally complete my collection of Sierra Quest games! Also nice to see that there's both the VGA and original version of Quest for Glory 1. Thank you very much, GOG!

CowboyBebop is a actually ninja. I thought I'd get to create a game page on the wiki for the first time, but when I finished it and pressed save it turned out that he beat me by 3 minutes

This is the fifth time I've bought this game.

And I don't regret it at all. I remember pouring over the well made Adventure's Coorespondence text and fighting with my siblings on who would play next. I was a fan since the original release. People can keep their Space Quest and King's Quest. This is the best Quest for me.

FINALLY they get a re-release, and on GOG no less! I don't think these have been printed since the last Collection or whatever they called it so many years ago. Good job GOG! :D

And yes, AGDI's remake of II is fantastic. (I need to actually finish it one of these days... maybe after I buy the series here. :)) Definitely needs a stickied link in the GOG forum.

Well played, sir.

No, exporting works fine with either version.

That said, while I personally prefer the remake (because I'm just a sucker for 256 colors) the EGA version is definitely one to consider. VGA was unfortunately a step back in some regards, the combat system most notably.

So do I, but but... the CDs could break someday! :)

Ah, so they did include the NRS patch. Thanks for the info.

Would you happen to know if I-VGA and III are also pre-patched with NRS?

It's okay. Even has a few areas where it's better than previous games: actual 3D environment and no mini-game for combat means you can actually try to be stealthy as a real strategy for the thief, which is pretty cool, though like most of the game mechanics it's not very well fleshed out except for a few areas where they explicitly designed it to be possible.

Certainly I can complain. It is pretty rough in some areas, does lean too heavily on lackluster combat, and if you're a fan of one particular character from IV, they didn't get the voice actor back and it shows. :/

But if you're a fan of the series, definitely worth playing. It's still QFG, still headed up by the Coles. It's no XCOM Enforcer or anything. :)

Personally, I would say I and V are the contenders for worst in the series. I is very weak on story, but can be forgiven because it's at least decently well balanced on the stats end and has the excitement of starting out on the journey. V has a better story, though sometimes they try too hard to tie all the games together, and combat/stats are a weak part.

I only recall a couple of those (it was no IV) and I think most if not all are fixed by the unofficial NRS patch.

1 had better balance for the fighting/stats (read: any) but otherwise I agree, I prefered III to I.

I'd say IV is a pretty good contender too. It and II are my top two faves. If you forced me to pick I'd probably go with IV.

bazilisek is right, that shouldn't turn you off from these. Most deaths are instant, there aren't really any "oh no, you didn't find the needle in the haystack before you left town and now you're screwed." Circumstances where you can save yourself into a corner do exist, but many are easily avoided, along the lines of "if you throw this unique inventory item away for no reason you won't be able to make this critical potion later." The few "you have now saved yourself into a stuck state" things I can remember are time limit related, and they are always pretty clearly called out when the clock first starts ticking as "oh no, this happened and you now have a limited number of game days to address this problem." It's not like some of the earlier Sierra games where you're constantly banging your head against a wall because you didn't foo the bar a few scenes earlier because there was no apparant need to.

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You got into King's Quest but not QFG?

After loving the + remake of KQ2, I dragged myself through most of the King's Quest games and I'm really not sure why. I guess I just kept figuring they'd get better. VI was the only one (aside from that fan-made enhanced remake of II) I didn't look back on and go "well, that was a waste of time."

Even the worst QFG game, I was still glad I played. :)

That's made by the same team that does the Sierra VGA remakes (AGDI) right?

Right, except they use a different company name for their commercial releases (himalaya studios).

Yes, they are. Both of them.

Nice that there are fewer dead ends, but even one would be too many if its one of those "miss an item in the beginning, game is unwinnable hours later" deals.

Thanks, does look interesting though I will admit I always preferred playing the thief than the mage so I'm not sure about a mage focused version.

Now don't quote me on this, but part of the charm of the QfGs is that the setting is very much an open world, meaning that if you miss an item, you can (almost?) always go back for it later, because the whole world is accessible to you pretty much all of the time. The game is really a strange RPG/adventure hybrid.

From what i understand you choose a class based on the elements.. so maybe one of the mage types will play like a thief..I could definitely imagine an air mage being based on hiding&tricks... guess we'l find out sometime this year :)

I can't think of any at all. There are sme Miss this item or this conversation and have to beat the game the hard way, or even, get a different ending, but there is no "unwinnable"

Both the original and the remake used versions of the SCI engine (SCI0 and SCI1.1 respectively). The AGI engine was used on the even older games. (KQ1-2, SQ1-2, PQ1, LSL1)

Nah, it doesn't do that. Err, well, possibly in II? My memories a little fuzzy. I think multiple possible solutions should still prevent you from being absolutely stuck in most cases, though, you just might be locked out of the "optimal" route if you don't have a certain item. That game can be a little hard to figure out as it has the strictest time limits, but a fair amount of quests are optional. And playing the VGA version of II with point-n-click should make it a fair bit easier than with the orginial parser.

As I said in my post above, where "dead ends" happen it's mostly about time limits; and they're generally signalled so that you can make a save when the clock starts. Only if you neglect multiple saves and save yourself into a position where you don't have enough time left to solve the necessary puzzles would you be truly dead-ended by those.