#graham kq

[kursed-curtain]

Took some requests again ^^

And a bonus thing I drew for myself ;p for funsies

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:D

Watercolor brush my beloved loll

I missed the original Graham pile, but I'd love to open a new box of Graham Crackers with you, if you want to add a Graham to the canvas! :3

Original idea by @skiploom

[kelseymichikoart]

Huevember #15 🔮

A knight to remember

[vancruejovi]

King Graham redesign (by me) 👑

[gwydionae]

"That old witch caught Graham 'toad-ally' off guard."

[thegreenisles]

Hey! I finished up another little resource I've been slowly putting together.

I've put together a turnaround reference of every character in the game, with every alternate appearance, both full bodies and profile views.

The full body views include a hatless young Graham for scale. There is a bit of an issue regarding characters with armor- I'm not very savvy with blender admittedly, and all of the metal comes out really dark. It isn't too bad, save for Manny, who doesn't even have his green feather. I'd like to fix those once I can. Also, capes are omitted. I think that only applies to Graham and Whisper though.

I'll be finishing up doing the same for the animals at some point, and I'm planning on making a few references for certain character's weapons, or other interesting items.

Also- along with the profile views, I included some of Graham's head at every angle by 10 degrees, from head on, lower, and upper angles. Thought it would be helpful to see how his hat works from any direction. The images are huge, here's a gif of them all together.

Hope these will come of use! I've been working on it for a while.

[allhailkingsquest]

“I got to know a really amazing person when we were about 5 years old or so back in the late 80's and had been best of friends since. King's Quest 5 started our love of adventure games. We played it together, mapping out the world on a graphing paper, and making notes on everything. It took us so long to beat it as kids, but we were hooked. We circled back and played all the King's Quests together - me typing / clicking usually and him with his notepad and graphpad detailing out each thing we noticed each scene and building a map.

“We went on to play through all the Quest for Glories, Space Quests, Police Quest 1-3 (we never did beat 4) and various other Sierra games together. [...]

“Back in December last year we lost him very unexpectedly. It’s been devastating and has taken the people in his life time to figure things out again. A few weeks ago a group of his close friends decided to get tribute tattoos, mine on my wrist to remind me of my friend, and through it take him on little adventures with me. I thought I'd share it with you all. It’s still healing and a bit dry, but it’s coming.” - ImDanDavidson

[theadventurerslog]

Side Quest: King's Quest 1 AGDI Remake

Hey, guess what? New kind of entry. Sort of: my KQVI replay screensharing fits here too but tagging-wise, new, because I didn't think of it then.

There are sometimes going to be games I play I want to talk about but not do a full let's play style journal on, so that's what side quests will be.

In this case I got curious about the fan made remakes of King's Quest 1 - 3, which can be acquired here: https://agdinteractive.com/games/games.html.

So yeah here's yet another version of King's Quest 1.

Story and structure it's the same game. It's very faithful in that regard. However, it uses a point and click interface, although you can also walk with keys. It's essentially the same interface as V and VI down to config options and saving. There is also an option to turn off dead-ends. I don't know exactly how that affects puzzles but no doubt a worthwhile option for people who don't want to worry about that.

Visually it's very similar to and clearly based off KQ V and VI as well. Some of the screens have visually changed environmentally, which did cause me some confusion with my map.

And some things are still entirely familiar.

There is voice acting including Josh Mandel for Graham as he was in KQ V and the tiny bit in KQVI which was very cool of him to do. Although, his audio quality is noticeably different from the rest. He only speaks at the beginning and end however. All the descriptive text is decently narrated as well, though I am, I admit, spoiled by KQVI's narrator. I just love him.

Characters also have portraits.

The troll's an interesting take...

Here's the rat.

It's a bit of a mix of the AGI and SCI versions, more SCI than AGI. The Rumpelstiltskin puzzle uses the AGI solution with the backward cypher instead of simply his name backward. The stairs from the cloud land are the scarier SCI stairs however.

The beanstalk is still my enemy, though I had an easier time with it despite the SCI version also letting you click to move. I only fell a couple times!

On the other hand I had a lot more trouble with finding the path on the clouds and fell several times there...

Weirdly, the game in a way felt emptier to me. I think because Graham barely talks in the game and there isn't the text parser to play around with, so there isn't the opportunity to just try as much or type silly things. And there isn't a whole lot to interact with in ways beyond looking at them. (no talking to everything in sight like KQVI for example). Obviously your mileage would vary depending on how much you do goof around.

Some of the hot spots feel super finicky, so that could get irritating. I did discover when I was double-checking the help screen for something else that icons have a tiny red dot that act as the hit box point. Knowing that helped, but I still could have done with some broader or more generous hit boxes.

I think it could be good for people who want to play it but don't want to use a text parser and/or want to use the ability to turn off the dead ends. A bit more of a modern experience. Personally I think the SCI version is my preferred version, but it was an interesting jaunt anyway. II and III from what I've read and heard will have more interesting diversions and changes from the originals.

That all said impressive work for a fan project!

Three versions played now and I didn't get perfect points. I missed grabbing the slingshot. Hmph.

[cryptoriawebb]

Zounds! Tis the King of Daventry, after all these years!

A portrait of King Graham for the 40th anniversary of the King’s Quest adventure game series❤️🩵 It is my favorite video game franchise and every so often, I return to it. I have such fond memories playing them as a child as well—I was fortunate enough to have an older cousin who introduced my brother and I to them. Some of you may remember the 2015 reimagining, but I grew up with the original 80s-90s games.

For those who don’t know, King’s Quest is a fantasy adventure series that follows the Royal Family in the Kingdom of Daventry. The first game sees the heroic Knight Graham inherit the throne, and in the last (which I actually haven’t finished playing) the mantle passed to another knight. Every member of the family takes the spotlight at least once - though Graham, being the one who started it all, puts on his adventurer’s cap most often.

Though my favorite game is actually the AGD fan remake of King’s Quest 2 (and I HIGHLY recommend it to anyone, fan or otherwise,) my favorite official installment is King’s Quest 5. This is largely because Graham is my favorite character, but also I have the most memories of playing this game, along with KQ6 (which is arguably the best in the franchise, with Prince Alexander as the protagonist.)

TL;DR - I wanted to draw something to honor both this anniversary and a fond piece of my childhood, so here’s the good King Graham👑

Any other KQ fans out there? Let me know! Maybe I’ll do more art in the future…only time will tell!

[captmickey]

To go with your favorite Zelda answer, rank those monkeys and those quests!

Ooooh dastardly! Alrighty, let's do it:

Favorite Monkey Island game is Tales (I've said it's on rotation with Curse but Tales always wins by a smidgen)

In rank from most to least: Tales, Curse, Return, MI2, SMI, Escape

Favorite King's Quest game, with absolute bias, is 2015... since that one finally got me into KQ and I will always hold that Graham close to my heart, flaws and all.

Buuuuuut on an unbiased level? KQ3 hilariously enough. The timer was stressful but I remember that game being the one that made me fall for the classics.

And in order from most to least: KQ3, KQ5, KQ6, KQ1, KQ2, KQ7, KQ4 (I haven't played KQ8 personally haaaa)

(Silver Lining and Legend of Monkey Island are a league of their own)

[thechosenpumbloom]

Happy 40th birthday to Kings Quest! All credit to cover images to people at MobyGames.

Notes and observations:

Original Kings Quest indeed does have 4 different covers, one being a release for the Sega's Master System. The other Kings Quest 1 after the 4th game is a remake made in SCI engine.

Kings Quest 5 also had a NES version, which I've excluded from this as the cover is the same as the second computer release.

King Graham's Board Games is part of a Crazy Nicks Software Picks, which is a series of minigames taken from various Sierra titles. Here the titular board games aren't actually from any Kings Quest game, but rather they're taken from Sierra's Hoyle Official Book of Games Volume 3. This also appears in some of the collections.

The first two collection releases are the same, they just have different covers.

I was originally gonna write how the second collection doesn't include the original Kings Quest in favor of the remake, but it does! Its just not specifically mentioned on the box. It also includes 3 other Roberta Williams games and 4 pre-KQ games running on Apple 2 emulator.

I've excluded the Roberta Williams Anthology from this as its not directly Kings Quest related. Its mostly the same as the second collection, with few other extras and the Apple 2 version of Dark Crystal.

The Windows XP collection curiously lacks the original Kings Quest game, sticking with just the remake; This for some reason was common with all the Sierra collections at the time. It also lacks Mask of Eternity, which was hard to get run properly at the time (and still might be, haven't checked in a while.)

The last game was released in 5 separate episodes along with an epilogue. Here I'll just go with the complete release.

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[kelseymichikoart]

Red 🌹

[flurrin-art]

An Awfully Great Adventure

[gwydionae]

King's Quest V is a genuinely gorgeous game I will die on this hill