Planet Bob

I had a ton of fun playing the Quest for Glory series. In fact, I enjoyed most of Sierra's games. Just this past week I spent some time reading Ken and Roberta Williams' website here:

 

http://www.sierragamers.com/

 

I think I read just about everything on the site (not including the manuals and such).

 

..Al

Just this past week I spent some time reading Ken and Roberta Williams' website here:

 

http://www.sierragamers.com/

 

Wow, thanks for this one, that's quite an impressive resource

 

Did you hear the news a few days ago, that TellTale will do a couple of Kings Quest episodes? I think right now they're still running Back to the Future and Sam & Max season 3, but they might arrive right after those.

Again with a little help from a walkthrough I managed to complete a second quest tonight. It seems I always need a little push in the right direction. Once I know *where* to do something I often manage to figure out *what* to do on my own

 

I also managed to add some more spells to my magic repertoire, I think I'm only missing one more spell now.

 

Else I'm missing things everywhere. Some spirit wants some spores, an ice giant wants a big fruit, a talking voodoo skull wants a glow-in-the-dark gem... I'm just totally clueless where any of these might be located...

So, tonight I spent a lot of time playing a little mini game against another wizard. Nothing special, but I've seen much worse mini games in other adventures

 

The third quest was pretty funny, I got transmogrified into a frog twice amongst others. What I did not like tonight were two riddles, which I actually did kinda solve, yet still didn't succeed:

 

- First I was supposed to bring fruit to an ice giant. I brought him 10 apples, but it didn't seem to work. Correct solution: Bring him 50 apples

 

- Second I was supposed to catch a seed from some plants. I tried the "Fetch" spell 3 times until I gave up. Correct solution: It does work after 5 tries

 

Brilliant game design, eh?

My mission came to an unexpected and sudden end tonight, when I discovered what I consider a game breaking bug.

 

At a certain point in the game a dryad must've dropped a magic acorn, which I was supposed to pick up. According to the official hint book this was the one and only chance in the game to get it and well - I missed it. Game Over.

 

Of course I could use the save state from the previous day, but I really don't want to replay the last 2-3 hours just because of yet another game design idiocy...

 

Some future day the "Playing..." series may see its sequel "Quest for Glory II", but first it'll continue with something else.

Bad game designer - no twinkie! (although I don't know which those particular infractions fall under). IMHO the first two are partially excusable if you were given some indication you needed more. (Giant like apples, but giant still hungry! The spell had no effect, but next time you might get lucky.)

 

HHGttG was infamous for requiring the player to do things long before knowing they were required. Forget to feed the sandwich to the dog and it's game over much, much later in the game.

Now that's one selection of really excellent articles! It should be a must for every aspiring game designer to read those! Thrice!