Comments on: Quest For Quest For Glory II Complete!

By: Xander77

Xander77 — Sat, 30 Aug 2008 10:49:03 +0000

Also, the combat is freaking stupid.

I’ve contrasted and compared with the original game. In it, going into the desert with a starting thief character, engaging in combat with the first thing that crosses your path and spamming “attack” is a guaranteed win, several fights in row. In this game, doing the same with a starting fighter, at the minimal difficulty setting is an insta-death. Bullshit.

By: Okami

Okami — Thu, 28 Aug 2008 14:07:06 +0000

Not again. Another sudden death that I just couldn’t foresee.

Ok, that’s it. I’ve had enough of this game. The next person who tries to tell me, that games were much better “back then” and that nowadays games are just “dumbed down” I’ll punch squarely into the mouth.

This game is so full of dead ends and sudden death situations that it hurts! I’ll never again complain about Oblivion’s quest markers or anything like that. Challenging games are one thing, but games where you have to save every 5 seconds, because you never know which action might lead to a sudden death, without even getting so much as a hint are just plain unfair and lazily designed.

By: Quirk

Quirk — Thu, 28 Aug 2008 02:29:20 +0000

Me, I’ve got stuck at a point where I’m being asked a question (would I like to share tea?) and seem to have no means of answering “yes”. What am I missing? Even switching to the parser’s not helping.

Edit: found it. Apparently I have to click on myself with the talk cursor…

By: Okami

Okami — Wed, 27 Aug 2008 14:03:30 +0000

Ok, so I went ahead and downloaded the game. Created a character, talked to everybody, got lost in those darn alleyways for hours (and I played with the simplified system), found a money changer to.. change my money, got lost in those darn alleys again and finally made my way back to the inn, where I bought the map.

Hooray for the map! At last I can just click anywhere in the city I want to go to. So I go the fountain plaza and buy a basket. Because I liked the cat that sold it. Since I had the basket on my cursor, I immediatly clicked with it on the first thing in my path, which turned out to be a guard. Which told me that the basket had been stolen from it and then arrested me and hacked off my hands.

Restart Retry Quit

*sigh* It feels like I’m 14 all over again..

By: Xander77

Xander77 — Wed, 27 Aug 2008 06:27:31 +0000

Huh. I really hoped I’d like the game this time around… but it’s still unpleasant, and the added bugs + the fact that a bunch of puzzles are actually made harder due to pixle hunting…. yeah.

By: CLLMM

CLLMM — Tue, 26 Aug 2008 21:48:33 +0000

Calder, I suggest Dosbox so you can slow it down at that point or use the timer patches from http://www.tawmis.com/collector/Patches-Updates/Patches-Updates.html

By: Calder

Calder — Tue, 26 Aug 2008 17:40:25 +0000

WOW is the first word to come to mind (and not the addictive, life rotting kind). I first played the QFG series when I was like 12 or 13 when they re-released all the games as a set. I even remember being so hardcore into it as to suffer through the parser interface with my half-retarded barely teen mind. The fact that its been updated so that my horribly impatient post teen mind can re-live the adventure is nothing short of amazing!

Now If only I could find a find a fix for the QFG IV swamp glitch that works on XP/Vista my life can be complete.

By: Geoff

Geoff — Tue, 26 Aug 2008 15:46:54 +0000

Fantastic.
I loved the QFG games, but never played 2 because I couldn’t cope with the graphics and parser. This is a glorious thing they’ve done. Also, I concur with Pseudonym – QFG 4 was the best, but too buggy to complete.

By: Ozzie

Ozzie — Tue, 26 Aug 2008 15:00:55 +0000

Is the Wild West game on their site any good?

Well, there’s a demo. Personally, it disappointed me.
I loved their version of KQII which is at least a thousand times better than the original one. I think I played through it 6 or 7 times. A very well written, atmospheric and quite open-ended adventure (there are many alternative solutions and it is at times quite non-linear).

Al Emmo is just not funny. Really, the humor is grating.

By: N

Tue, 26 Aug 2008 14:11:16 +0000

Talk about dedication…Thy did a sh’bangin’ job indeed. I think I still have my QfG1 character somewhere in my save folders, I’ll definitely check this out… The second game is the only one in the series I didn’t play due to the graphics, I’m a svga whore I guess… oh the lushness of it all…

By: Pod

Pod — Tue, 26 Aug 2008 13:11:05 +0000

ACTUALLY Walker the original alleyway nonsense was copy protection. You needed a map to get round it :(

By: James G

James G — Tue, 26 Aug 2008 11:07:30 +0000

I could never get into Sierra games, the seemingly random deaths annoyed me far too much. Hell, I remember playing one of the Space Quest games and I had just started, within about fifteen seconds a flying robot zoomed onto the screen and shot me. I don’t think I had even moved.