Earlier Plots

[kturcotte]

VERY excited about KQIX! Remember playing the earlier King's Quests when I was younger, but can't remember a lot about them. I'd love to play them again, but I'm on XP. Just wondering if somebody could do me a favor and catch me up and what's happened since the first King's Quest?
Thanks!!!

[Farquhar]

You can read summaries of all the plots here, cutely and thoroughly written by Cat. 

[zac353]

VERY excited about KQIX! Remember playing the earlier King's Quests when I was younger, but can't remember a lot about them. I'd love to play them again, but I'm on XP. Just wondering if somebody could do me a favor and catch me up and what's happened since the first King's Quest?
Thanks!!!

Oh and if you want to play some of the KQ games on your XP then just put the cd in, then click on the cd on My computer, then click on install and if you can manage to install it (and your game is a cd, not a floppy) then right click on the game and click: Properties and then click run in 256 colors and 640 x 480  .. at least that's what I did..

[racx_00]

The compatibility doesn't work for KQ5 or KQ6

[koko_99_2001]

You can read summaries of all the plots here, cutely and thoroughly written by Cat. 

Aww, thanks Farquar I was actually wondering if anyone enjoyed those summaries.

[zac353]

The compatibility doesn't work for KQ5 or KQ6

Yeah, I know I have to use my 98 for that, but the XP can play 1, 2, 3, 4, and 8..

[Louisiana Night]

The XP compatibility works for all except V... for me anyway(though they all are a bit buggy with it).

[awesomeasapossum]

You have to save KQ5 and KQ6's targets as bat. files. Here is a website about doing that (at least they now work on my XP!)

Click if you want to know how to make KQ6 and Kq5 to work!!!

[racx_00]

Yeah, I know I have to use my 98 for that, but the XP can play 1, 2, 3, 4, and 8..

I have 1, 2, 3, 4, 7 and 8 working, and that's without using the compatibility for them

[Elessar]

VERY excited about KQIX! Remember playing the earlier King's Quests when I was younger, but can't remember a lot about them. I'd love to play them again, but I'm on XP.

Vivendi is supposedly releasing a compilation of the King's Quest games for XP. Take a look at this thread.

[Farquhar]

Aww, thanks Farquar I was actually wondering if anyone enjoyed those summaries.

They were great. "Cat's Cute and Thorough Description", is a fitting description for them.

[koko_99_2001]

Aww, thanks Farquar I was actually wondering if anyone enjoyed those summaries.

They were great. "Cat's Cute and Thorough Description", is a fitting description for them.

Thanks. Someone had originally had "Verbose" as the word, but Jesse was sweet enough to change "Verbose" to "Thorough."

[zac353]

You have to save KQ5 and KQ6's targets as bat. files. Here is a website about doing that (at least they now work on my XP!)

Click if you want to know how to make KQ6 and Kq5 to work!!!

Hey, thanks dude I've been looking for something that could do that 

[Dirk Delshire]

I can get all the games to work except 7 and 8.
Does anybody know how to get them to work on XP?
I really want to play 7.
Yes I've tryed using 95 settings. I just keep getting an error.
I got Torrin's Passage to work but the grafix get messed up
after the Dragon cave. *sigh* 

[Storm]

I got Torrin's Passage to work but the grafix get messed up
after the Dragon cave. *sigh* 

Yeah, But that's not an XP issue, I got the same bug on Windows 98
I think there's a patch for that... not sure if that's the one though.

[Novaman5000]

I've seen it mentioned multiple times that KQ9 will attempt to fix most of the plot holes in the KQ games.  Maybe I wasn't hardcore enough when I was playing them in my youth, but I don't remember any significant holes.  Could you guys refresh my memory?  What are the plot holes in the series?

[Jafar]

How did Dracula appear at the wedding if Graham killed him?

[Yonkey]

I'll let everyone else go into specifics, but here are some things to ponder:

Why are villains always going after Graham & his family?
Why are Alexander and Rosella twins?
What connection does Connor and the Mask have to the royal family?

[TribeHasSpoken]

I always thought the motives of the villains were good enough with the exception of KQ3. Was Alexander specifically abducted for a reason, or was he just a target of opportunity?

[MATTANDALEX]

Why on earth would any one put a bridal on a snake? Not a lot of logic in that.