Thread 11777113

Out of the entire King's Quest series nobody seems to remember this one and probably for a good reason.

>>11777113 (OP)
easy to figure out

>Disneyslop graphics
>you play as not one but two gril characters
>one in KQ4 was tolerable but two is going too far

tl;dr Roberta Williams jumped the shark and made a self-indulgent game that only appealed to herself and which featured her self-insert avatars

>Queen Valanice would like Rosella to get married
>however Rosella apparently after her previous adventure in KQ4 decides she liked adventures so much that she's not interested in that shit and...accidentally goes Alice in Wonderland mode and sucks herself and her mother into Wackyland and hilarious hijinks ensue - can they escape!?

It's actually got a sort of anti-feminist message.

The visual style in this game makes my head hurt.

>>11777143
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=7rfVE2JvLqA

The technical gimmicks that looked cool in 1995 haven't aged well, I'd argue even the classic '80s KQ games dated better than this.

>>11777149
man, Sierra could not into talkie games. compared to LucasArts' talkie games this is comically awful and wooden-sounding.

>>11777113 (OP)
I'd play it if there was some Rosella nude sprite hacks.

>>11777116
>which featured her self-insert avatars
it's the best way to write a story or make a game.

>>11777167
the Lord British standard is better; author is some monarch or controlling god-figure in-universe who sends (You), the real hero, in the right direction.

>>11777558
another point for TekWar then

>>11777116
>Disneyslop graphics
I don't have a source, but supposedly the studio that made the animation is the same studio that made the Zelda CD-i cutscenes.

>>11777624
You're right:
https://www.mobygames.com/company/7604/animation-magic-inc/games/

>>11777597
It's not a bad example considering the ego on Shatner. His commissioner(?) character sounds stressed and overworked and like he doesn't have any patience dealing with anyone.

Most authors would make themselves a king or god or the main character in order to give them an excuse to act selfless, wise, and heroic. LB consistently making himself invulnerable when he realized people murdered his character is how it can go wrong.
>NO, RESPECT AND LOVE THIS CHARACTER! HE'S SO COOL AND GREAT!

>>11777705
>The main company couldn't keep up; no wonder Ken and Roberta packed it in and retired a year later.
It was nowhere that cut and dried, or pretty.
Sometime after KQ6, Sierra ended up getting bought or had a merger with some other company, with the understanding the Williams would still lead and run Sierra. Less than a year after the event, the other people were making all decisions and excluding Ken from everything. Finally he gave up and left. Roberta tried to keep the dream alive, but even on the KQ games she was getting outright ignored by the programmers and artists, who would do whatever they felt like. Finally the stress got to be too much and she quit.
Ken wrote a short book about Sierra from the start to their end with it, called Not All Fairy Tales Have Happy Endings, released about 4-5 years ago. If you wanna know why Sierra was such crap after KQ6, read it.

>>11777113 (OP)
I remember it because my folks bought it for me. In german. I speak zero german, and they thought I'd learn the language like that. I did not.

Worst of all, I finished the game through trial and error by clicking randomly and on the few things that made sense.

>>11777624
>>11777646
oh my goodness this is awful!

>>11778108
Apparently the animation work done by Animation Magic, Inc. was of such poor quality, Sierra artists had to waste development time fixing it in house.

>>11777158
Why do you want to look at slightly above average naked chick?

>>11778150
That's common for Sierra. Quest for Glory 4 is often considered as the pinnacle of the series, yet its original floppy disk release was almost unplayable. Most of the bugs were only fixed in the CD version.

>>11777113 (OP)
I remember it. It sucked. Hard. Easily the worst of the series.

The King's Quest that was so boring it killed Retsupurae forever.

Fuck you, I liked it

>>11777116
>Roberta Williams jumped the shark
How does the Queen of Softlocks jump the shark?

I don't play any Sierra games that occur beyond:
>Police Quest 2
>Space Quest 3
>King's Quest 4

just not interested

They packed it in at a good time anyway since adventure games were about to go extinct.

I never realized how many different games Sierra was knocking out around 93-95. You really couldn't keep up even if you didn't care about anything in the world besides PC adventure games. I wonder if adventure games could have stuck it out as a genre if they'd focused a bit more.

>>11780994
A large amount of they were contracted out and not developed in-house by the main teams.

>>11778607
It was already dying long before that.

>>11781190
Prove it.

>>11777113 (OP)
I'd play it if there was a Rosella nude sprite hack.

>>11781689
>Rosella
She's not that attractive.

>>11781292
Make me~ ;3

>>11777113 (OP)
i was saying boo-urns.

so actaully kings quest 7 has a fantastic first chapter, and also the disney visuals were great. unfortunately, unironically, the puzzles sucked and overall every chapter after the first one was trash. the real underrated reason this game was underappreciated was because the game relied too much on visuals and not on gameplay, unironically.

i always peter out and stop playing after chapter 1. i HATE everything about the goblin level(s). and the game was really obtuse.

>>11777167
If you're a retarded unimaginative hack fraud, yes.

>>11781962
>the real underrated reason this game was underappreciated was because the game relied too much on visuals and not on gameplay, unironically
That was every Sierra game going back to the very early days on the Apple II. They were in the business of selling you face-melting graphics, lol.

bump

>>11777149
>0:57-1:06
Damn straight you are. Suck it, roasties.

>>11782009
Depends how obvious it is. Guaranteed that some piece of media you like features self insert elements in some capacity.

>>11779184
There's a springboard that bounces her over it (and off the cliff beyond) and it needs to be disabled before she approaches it through application of seawater and a time-accelerating magic powder, to rust the spring. But the powder is only available in the pantry at the manor house, where it's been mislabeled as rye flour, and she can't ever get back to that location once she has completed the hot tub photo shoot quest all the way back in Chapter 2.

>>11777646
KIng Graham in : "I WONDER WHATS FOR DINNER"

>>11777128
yes, be responsible and don't act like a womanchild or there are consequences

>>11783190
What for? Just let the thread die naturally.

>>11783940
you just bumped it yourself, tard

>>11781715
>Blonde bimbo princess
>not that attractive
My gaydar is resonating

>>11781715
Says you

>>11783259
Good thing I keep a save just before the hot tub scene for... reasons.

>>11786695
I love it when Larry Laffer shows up!

>>11786665
that's the rare AGI engine KQ4. not even available in stores, only via special offer from Sierra if you were a poorfag still using an 8088 PC that was too slow for the SCI engine KQ4.

ok

>>11777113 (OP)
>family gets a pc in the 90s
>came with king's quest 7
>computer freezes while playing it
>get screamed at by parents for hours saying I broke the computer
>they call tech support which tells them to just turn it off and back on again
>banned from using the computer for anything besides homework
I hate king's quest

>>11790193
lmao, sierra'd

>>11790496
He's never been able to walk up stairs or do arcade sequences since.

>>11788589
Yeah, I played through them both and AGI version has more soul.

>>11778164
Funny Space Quest 4 is literally the opposite, it plays well in floppy disks but the CD version is almost unplayable

>>11786805
Unironicaly the peak of pc gaming

>>11790193
you must have had the initial bugged release

>>11777838
>Why Sierra was such crap after KQ6
They still had a number of memorable classics after 1992.

>Space Quest 5
>Gabriel Knight
>The Beast Within: A Gabriel Knight Mystery
>Quest for Glory 4
>Freddy Pharkas
>EcoQuest 2

And they published even more high profile games.
>Swat 3
>Half-Life
>Homeworld
>Tribes
>AVP2
>No One Lives Forever

>>11790193
This is the 3rd or 4th time you've told this exact same story in a Sierra thread, anon. Get over it. It was 30 years ago.

>>11793441
>Space Quest
Pretty cool game, developed by Dynamix.
>Gabriel Knight 1&2
Pretty good, though GK1 seems to lose direction part way through.
>EQ2
I got stuck somewhere in the jungle. I liked the first game a lot better.
>FP, QfG4
Never played.

>>11793823
>developed by Dynamix
They were a sub-division of Sierra.

>After self-publishing their games for a short while, in 1990 Dynamix was bought by Sierra On-Line.

Dynamix did Caveman Uggh-Lympics before Sierra bought them.

Man I love this game. It was one of the first big adventure games I could play in my late childhood and it just sucked me in. It really felt like playing a cartoon back then. The puzzles were brutal, but I didn’t mind. I loved the acting, the animation, the settings.

And if you got too stuck the game would even let you start on new chapters which was cool of them.

>>11793823
>>FP, QfG4
FP has its charms
QfG4 is great (when fully patched), and the rest of the series is worth checking out since you can take the same character through all 5 games.

>>11786520
>bimbo princess
Prove it

>>11793447
I will never let it go.

>>11783964
sage is not a bump, idiot.