Check this out! - The KQ Compilations Thread

[Deloria]

I e-mailed them and asked about that, never got a reply though...

[Drunken Chinchilla]

Just another general observation which adds more weight to how likely it is that these games will actually be released...

If you check Vivendi's Amazon page they have a lot of sub $30 games coming out around the same time that these are released. The fact that they are even on Vivndi's page means that theres no way it can be a hoax by someone trying to flog their copies of one of the numerous KQ collections. So, heres keeping fingers crossed and my expectations raising just a little 

[dark-daventry]

I found the King's Quest compilation on two different websites than Amazon!

Here's one link:

http://www.softpicks.com/Kings-Quest-Compilation_B000AYFPKG.html

The next one:

http://www.elipsiselectronics.com/B000AYFPKG/Kings_Quest_Compilation.html

This game must be official if it's at three websites.

[Rosella]

Ye of little faith.

[racx_00]

I believe its official but I have also taken into note that Vivendi is releasing it, and usually they find a way to butcher everything

[MATTANDALEX]

Yeah i won't be happy until i see some great details and some coverart

[dark-daventry]

Yeah, I really want ot see some box art badly. And I hope that they have some kind of like special surprise for everyone buying it or something. Like a sneak preview of something... But then again that's highly unlikely to happen...

[Storm]

I say the new compilation will include AGDI's remakes of King's Quest 1 & 2. This was a part of the secret deal AGDI made with Vivendi to get permission to make their games

Maybe KQIX will make the cut for the next compilation!

Why the next compilation? the first part of KQ9 can make it into this one. Both of them are supposed to be released this winter...

[TheReturnofDMD]

Storm are you hinting at something? Or am I reading between the lines where I shouldn't be 

[Elessar]

I say the new compilation will include AGDI's remakes of King's Quest 1 & 2. This was a part of the secret deal AGDI made with Vivendi to get permission to make their games

Maybe KQIX will make the cut for the next compilation!

Why the next compilation? the first part of KQ9 can make it into this one. Both of them are supposed to be released this winter...

Storm are you hinting at something? Or am I reading between the lines where I shouldn't be 

It's all part of the KQIX team's promontion scheme!

Only 4 Weeks to go!

[Drunken Chinchilla]

I say the new compilation will include AGDI's remakes of King's Quest 1 & 2. This was a part of the secret deal AGDI made with Vivendi to get permission to make their games

Maybe KQIX will make the cut for the next compilation!

Why the next compilation? the first part of KQ9 can make it into this one. Both of them are supposed to be released this winter...

I wouldn't call October winter

[Elaeron]

you know, that brings up a very valid question though, which I've been trying to get answered in my impatience--just what months do qualify as winter to the KQIX team, anyway?  I mean, are we even talking before 2006 or later than that . . . but I guess that's off topic.

I betcha the compilation is real, though.  If it wasn't, Vivendi would just denounce it.  No comment?  That's a confirmation right there, isn't it?  Plus the fact that it doesn't say 1 copy available new and used, which it would if it was coming from a supplier with whom Amazon is not familiar. . .

Frankly, there is no evidence at all to suggest that it is not true and much to suggest that it is.  I mean, I hate to speculate, but this doesn't even seem like speculation to me.  It is real, as of now.

What is possible is that Vivendi is not totally committed to it for some reason, but production would have to be in swing by now in order to ship for that date, and the costs for actually porting this game to new computers are not going to set the company back at all.  Manufacturing costs, however, are what might stop it.

[Drunken Chinchilla]

you know, that brings up a very valid question though, which I've been trying to get answered in my impatience--just what months do qualify as winter to the KQIX team, anyway?  I mean, are we even talking before 2006 or later than that . . . but I guess that's off topic.

To quote wikipedia:

Astronomically, it begins with the winter solstice (around December 21 in the Northern hemisphere and June 21 in the Southern hemisphere), and ends with the spring equinox (around March 21 in the Northern hemisphere and September 23 in the Southern hemisphere). In meteorology it is by convention counted instead as the whole months of June, July and August in the Southern hemisphere and December, January and February in the Northern hemisphere.

That gives you a few months to play with

[Yonkey]

you know, that brings up a very valid question though, which I've been trying to get answered in my impatience--just what months do qualify as winter to the KQIX team, anyway?  I mean, are we even talking before 2006 or later than that . . . but I guess that's off topic.

I would consider the winter months as the ones when snow falls on the ground.  But then again, Cesar lives in Florida so...

[awesomeasapossum]

Good point! Maybe we'll all get lucky and someone can email him telling him that it's winter!

[Elaeron]

Well, I'm from Vermont, and there you never know . . . it might snow tomorrow.  Somehow, though, I doubt that will speed the arival of the game . . .

[Storm]

I wouldn't call October winter

But I would. I consider winter to start with the first rain, which usually falls around that time (right after the holidays).

Anyways, you have to stretch reality a bit if you want to come up with a good conspiracy theory Mine is - Pheonix Studios banded up with Sierra/Vivendi behind our collective back, and would release KQIX (which, in fact, had already been completed two years ago - this explains why Yonkey spends so much time on the forum) together with the KQ compilation

[racx_00]

But then they would be allowed to call the game King's Quest IX rather than KQIX

[Petter Holmberg]

I suppose this is genuine stuff... Couldn't believe it when I first saw it!

When Sierra celebrated their 15th anniversary they released the first KQ collection. It had games 1-6 plus a few extras and several videos. It's a very nice collection! I think there were different boxes in Europe and America though, although the contents were the same. I have the blue (European) version with the cover picture from KQ6 on it.

Then there was another release in a bigger box that featured KQ7 as well. I don't have one of these.

Finally, there was the Roberta Williams Anthology, a limited release that is very expensive to get second-hand, if you can even find it. It had KQ1-7 on it as well.

I think I've seen a screenshot of a really early collection (or more like a bargain bundle) predating all of these as well. It had KQ1-4 on it or so...

But this new collection, if it truly is updated they surely put MoE on it as well. That's the game they'd be most likely to sell in itself anyway. What makes me wonder the most though is the claim that all games are XP compatible. KQ:s 1-4 would be no problem, not 7 or MoE either. These still run out of the box on a modern PC just fine. But KQ 5 and 6... They used the SCI1 interpreter, heavily dependant on the multimedia capabilities and CPU speeds of the PCs that people had back then. I can't believe they actually patched up those games. Maybe they found an old hw emulator to run it through... It boggles me. Will there be any tech support offered for these products? If so, they're asking for trouble if they simply copied those games onto a CD or DVD disc.

Oh well, they're cheap, they're official and they are a great chance for everyone to complete their collection. I hope they sell well and re-awakens the adventure genre. Ok, I know they are going to be side items for them, but I hope there's a market for it so that they keep their back catalogue alive in the future as well!

[Elessar]

But this new collection, if it truly is updated they surely put MoE on it as well. That's the game they'd be most likely to sell in itself anyway. What makes me wonder the most though is the claim that all games are XP compatible. KQ:s 1-4 would be no problem, not 7 or MoE either. These still run out of the box on a modern PC just fine. But KQ 5 and 6... They used the SCI1 interpreter, heavily dependant on the multimedia capabilities and CPU speeds of the PCs that people had back then. I can't believe they actually patched up those games. Maybe they found an old hw emulator to run it through... It boggles me. Will there be any tech support offered for these products? If so, they're asking for trouble if they simply copied those games onto a CD or DVD disc.

Well, there ARE programmers at Vivendi, so they should know enough to know that KQ 5 and 6 won't work, and they'ed be able to figure out a way to make them compatible. The question is, will it run on Windows Vista?

Only 19 days to go!