King's Quest V is again set at some intermediate time after King's Quest IV (perhaps a year or so?), and King's Quest VI is generally thought to be set a few months after that. King's Quest VII is (I'm guessing) set a few years after that (Wow...Valanice went gray fast), as Rosella is still pretty young looking.
he games are a bit unclear as to the exact time frame between each game. Kings' Quest II is set 1 year after King's Quest I according to the manual storybook. It's unclear as to how long passed between the time Graham and Valanice got married and when Alexander and Rosella were born. Then you have 17 years before King's Quest III actually happens. King's Quest IV is set immediately after King's Quest III, and takes place in 24 hours.
King's Quest V is again set at some intermediate time after King's Quest IV (perhaps a year or so?), and King's Quest VI is generally thought to be set a few months after that. King's Quest VII is (I'm guessing) set a few years after that (Wow...Valanice went gray fast) as Rosella is still pretty young looking.
Another interesting discovery that I found over the weekend. In the Official Hint Book for King's Quest VII (the one written by Lorelei Shannon and published by Sierra), the introduction, which covers the previous six games, states that Graham was 19 years old at the time for Quest for the Crown. Now that we have his age, we can (theoretically) determine how old he is using Rock Knight's timeline as mentioned above.Huh, I'm surprised he's so young to be honest but I suppose it makes sense. I honestly had no idea. In fact I just may do a Nostalgia (http://postudios.tumblr.com/search/nostalgia) post based on this info the future :P
King's Quest I - 19
King's Quest II - 20
King's Quest III - 37 (I guess everything happening to his kingdom caused him to go gray really fast)
King's Quest IV - 37
King's Quest V - 38
King's Quest VI - 38-39
King's Quest VII - 40
Mask of Eternity - mid to late 40's, I'm guessing... Maybe 50's...
King's Quest 2015 - I'm guessing the frame story will be set with Graham in possibly his 70's-80's.
Thoughts?
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Josh
KQ canon has always been a wonky thing to begin with, then MOE came along and added a new load of confusion to the pile.
It's a new canon. 8)
Exactly. It's a reboot. A new canon. There's no way that KQ2015 is going to mesh perfectly with the original KQ1. The trailer alone should've made that obvious. Remember the time in KQ1 where Graham went river rafting? And then shot the dragon guarding the mirror with an arrow? No? I thought not.
Think of it as an alternate universe, where some of the details are similar, but not all of them.
shaking a tree to drop a beehive on some unsuspecting guards
What I consider canonical in the KQverse is the walkthrough that gets the maximum point value. Going by this idea, canonically Graham kills the witch while sparing the dragon and giant in 1, and kills Dracula in 2. Alexander being unable to save Cassima's parents is definitely non-canonical in my eyes. It's not addressed in the next two games, but I have no reason to believe that the creators themselves would think that the parents being left in the underworld is what canonically happened. It is, of course, possible to leave Edgar to die in 7 as well, though that's obviously not what was supposed to happen. I go by the TSL timeline, wherein Cassima's parents and Edgar are alive.shaking a tree to drop a beehive on some unsuspecting guards
That sounds really dickish...yet at the same time so in-character.
"And so, Gwendolyn, after dropping a beehive on some guards, I went on to donkey punch a witch into her own cauldron, murder Dracula in his sleep, and then trap a different witch inside a genie bottle for 500 years."
But in TSL's timeline, Manannan is Valanice's father, and Graham is the reincarnation of basically a God...You really But that in line with the original canon? I'd say that stretches things much more than the new game does.
But in TSL's timeline, Manannan is Valanice's father, and Graham is the reincarnation of basically a God...You really But that in line with the original canon? I'd say that stretches things much more than the new game does.
Spoilers, for Christ's sake. Not everyone has played episodes 3 and 4 yet.
And come on, you know what I meant. Besides the new things TSL threw into the mix, what happened in my eyes is, Graham kills the witch, spares the dragon and giant, and entertains the leprechauns in 1, kills Dracula and spares the lion while avoiding Hagatha entirely in 2, Alexander turns Manannan into a cat and kills the three-headed dragon in 3, Rosella saves both Tamir and Graham's life while also sealing up Pandora's Box in 4, Graham saves Cedric's life and kills Mordack in 5, Alexander saves both the Land of the Green Isles and Cassima's parents in 6, Rosella defeats Malicia and saves Edgar's life in 7, and Connor rescues the little girl from the Dimension of Death and also gets the KQ equivalent of Satan sucked into a black hole in MoE. That's what really happened, and I'm sticking to it. TSL can do whatever it wants with the plot from that point forward.
We have no reason to believe that KQ2015 is going to be anything but a reboot. They can deny it's a reboot, the same way POStudios denied that TSL would go against the KQ Companion, but in the end, actions speak louder than words.
Rock Knight, will you quit double-posting? You still haven't spoiler-tagged that post about TSL's timeline, either.
Also, how do you really feel about this new game? At first you said it should be cancelled ASAP, and now you're staunchly defending its place in the KQ canon without knowing anything about it other than what the developers want you to hear. Make up your mind.
We need to take into consideration the new King's Quest game is as much of a reboot as it is a re-imagining, so certain things will undoubtedly change.
All I'm saying is that TOG's KQ universe isn't going to mesh perfectly with Sierra's. Inevitably, there's going to be a continuity snarl somewhere, no matter how big or small. It doesn't have to go against all the major events that transpired in the Sierra 'verse, but don't expect it to be 100% faithful either. KQ already has so many different timelines, whether official or fanmade, that it's just best to take TOG's new set of games as a different canon and not try to fit a square in a circle-shaped hole.
Regarding Lamb's comments, he speaks from bad personal experience with today's adventure gaming companies, so it's not like his arguments hold no water. And after seeing that one video with those two completely unenthusiastic reporters who clearly didn't want to be there, I know where he's coming from. He may be wrong, but don't be surprised if he's right.
A couple of the articles, can't remember which, have mentioned that the way Graham can tell the story to Gwen whether to be brave, wise or humble. What I find interesting is those are all traits that Graham has been established to have... but which do we emphasize on here?
*sniff, sniff* :D I smell possibly multiple playthroughs for me~!