MOE in TSL

[atec123]

KQ VIII VGA...

Great idea! 

Yeah.

I think if we end up doing it though, it will be a bit more 3Dish, but still using AGS and the classic KQV interface.

I would love to see it in VGA too though, but the 3d in ags idea sounds good to me as well.

Yup!

Speaking about VGA, I would like a KQIV VGA...

http://www.mmgames.org/KQ4/SMF/
really small team and seem to be lacking direction and artists.
I hope it gets done some day.  I would help if I had any pixelart skills or anything....

[Jujuba]

KQ VIII VGA...

Great idea! 

Yeah.

I think if we end up doing it though, it will be a bit more 3Dish, but still using AGS and the classic KQV interface.

I would love to see it in VGA too though, but the 3d in ags idea sounds good to me as well.

Yup!

Speaking about VGA, I would like a KQIV VGA...

http://www.mmgames.org/KQ4/SMF/
really small team and seem to be lacking direction and artists.
I hope it gets done some day.  I would help if I had any pixelart skills or anything....

Oh, they are still alive!

[atec123]

seem to be.  although not much real progress seems to have been made recently.  I really hope they finish it some day.  if not, I hope someone does.  Then we would have the first 4 VGA remakes complete and have 1-6 in that style.  that would be awesome.

[dark-daventry]

Wow! I was just thinking about the KQ4 remake the other day! I'm surprised it's still going. I hope it continues to keep going! I want to see the project completed!

[KatieHal]

I thought that one was dead, too--glad to see it's not! I also hope they make it. I really love KQ4, it'd be great to see a remake of it.

[atec123]

Wow! I was just thinking about the KQ4 remake the other day! I'm surprised it's still going. I hope it continues to keep going! I want to see the project completed!

I am surprised too.

I recommended the guy making the TSL remake to go check it out and see if they need his help.  I really want that project to be completed.

I thought that one was dead, too--glad to see it's not! I also hope they make it. I really love KQ4, it'd be great to see a remake of it.

yeah.  especially the KQ4+ they were considering.  But just want to see a straight remake first.

[Arkillian]

Question- is Mask of Eternity worth playing? I hear alot of bad reviews on it. Why has it got such a bad rep?

[crayauchtin]

It's a good game, it's just not a good King's Quest.

[Arkillian]

Is it a point click game like Kings quest? Or does it have a more speed based set up? Like... it is a quest game, right?

[waltzdancing]

Mask is not a point and click game. It is an action-adventure game where you have to collect pieces of a mask to save everyone.

[Arkillian]

Oh- I probably wont like it as much then. I like turn based games, or games where I'm not rushed. I'm nto very good at games where things leap out at me 

[waltzdancing]

Mask is in TSL but here is a link to a summary of KQ8 so you know what happens.

http://www.postudios.com/blog/?s=Mask+of+eternity

[Arkillian]

Ah- thank you Did any cool events happen besides hack/slash/boss fight type stuff?

[waltzdancing]

Not really. That review really sums it all up.

[Arkillian]

Oh- I see O.O

[crayauchtin]

Like I said, not a good King's Quest.

[Lambonius]

MOE was a decent game in its day--it was more atmospheric than most action adventure games from that time--but, like Sierra's FMV experiments, the early 3D action adventure titles that they did (MOE included) have not withstood the test of time.  Even getting it to run today is a pain (unless you buy it from GOG.com), and the gameplay has been surpassed by just about every other action adventure/rpg type game to come out since. 

[Baggins]

There is actually alot more to the game than that review portrays... It's kind of a return back to King's Quest I in puzzle variety. But the story is probably one of the deepest in the entire series, full of plenty of symbolism. However, the problem arises that you can literally miss alot of the story, since quite a few of it is affected by the more non-linear aspects of the game, and if you do certain things out of order, you can miss some of it.

Personally I don't think its the best of the series... but I imo, I think its more compelling than KQ7. Certainly one of my favorite games in the series. My least favorite ending in the series though. The journey is the best part of it, and unfortunately the ending turns out to be quite a bit anti-climactic.

[KatieHal]

I've never really played it myself, but that all matches what I've heard and gathered from it--it was a pretty good action-adventure game, but the plot really sounds like a game that was written without KQ in mind at all but then had the KQ name slapped on at the last minute. Not what happened, I know, but that's the impression it's given me from what I've heard and read.

[Lambonius]

I've never really played it myself, but that all matches what I've heard and gathered from it--it was a pretty good action-adventure game, but the plot really sounds like a game that was written without KQ in mind at all but then had the KQ name slapped on at the last minute. Not what happened, I know, but that's the impression it's given me from what I've heard and read.

Well, from what I understand of its development, Roberta herself was pretty heavily invested in the creation of the game's story early on, but had a lot of creative control over the gameplay wrested from her as the development progressed, leaving us with a game that didn't really fit her vision as much as she would have initially liked.

*Then again, she's been quoted numerous times in interviews adamantly defending many of the design decisions that went into the game, so I dunno.