KQ9 Relations to KQ8

[soave]

Hi I am new here, this is my first post... I love Kings Quest, along with all of Sierra's old Quest series.  I really don't know if this has been discussed before but I was wandering if anyone could tell me how vital it is to play KQ8 to understand what is going on in KQ9.  I am sure, you can probably play KQ9 and understand it fine without playing KQ8 but I was just wondering if there would be like references that I should know about or anything.

KQ8 was horrible.  I am sorry.  It just sucked... really bad.  I know a lot of people complained about number 7 being too "Disney" but I thought it was still pretty fun.  I never beat KQ8, I didn't get very far.  KQ8 and KQ3 were the only KQ's I didn't beat.  Number 3 was pretty hard for me and would never work on my updated computers.  Hopefully AGD does a remake of it.

Just to ramble on more if you are still reading... KQ4 was the first Adventure Game I really ever played.  My dad used to play it with me and read the text to me aloud when I was a kid [I was like 3 or 4].  As gay as that might sound its true.  I remember having to go through the copy protection every time and finding the 5th word on the third paragraph on the fourth page.  

[racx_00]

I doubt you will need to have completed MoE to understand KQ9

Connor gets awarded for saving the land of Daventry, but as far as I know thats the only links between MoE and KQ9

BTW Welcome to KQIX Forum, hope to see you posting often

[Yonkey]

Welcome soave!  

You don't need to play MoE or even any of the previous KQ games to understand what's going on in KQ9.  While this game is a sequel to the series, it also works well as a standalone game since the first few chapters give you a good understanding of what happened in the past.

[Kimmie]

hellooooooo...there are quite a few ppl who dont like MoE (tbh i actually liked it, and i know im gonna get   for it)
i agree about kq3...i never got away from Mananan lol.

anyway welcome to the forum

[Shadowfax]

Don't worry Kimmie, you are not alone! (I mucked about with MoE on a friends computer, I found it quite enjoyable actually but when taken into comparison with other KQ's - such as KQ VI - then the flaws are pretty obvious!)

Still, glad to know that KQ IX will allow all us non-superdedicatedwillselltheirsoultothedevilforthenextinstallmentoftheKQgenre to keep up! (I myself have played but two of the KQ games, KQ VI/MoE, interesting contrast in styles!)

[Def Zeppelin]

I dunno if this is against the rules or not.  But www.infamous-adventures.com is remaking KQ3  

[Yonkey]

It's not against the rules, but it is off topic.  Here is the official thread to talk about the KQ3 remake.