King's Quest is out...

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And it's pretty awesome.



http://www.sierra.com/kingsquest

If you ever played any of the old series it's very reminiscent of those games (not so much the type your commands or click on everything on the screen to figure out what to do gameplay though). Only got to play a couple of hours today but really liking it so far. The art-style is incredible, voice acting is terrific and have had several moments I actually laughed out loud.

The game is episodic, which I'm not a huge fan of, but I think this works well with this type of game. Each 'story' that King Graham is telling is an episode and each episode is an estimated 5-6 hours of gameplay (5 episodes total + an epilogue if you buy the "Complete Collection").

The game also has a decent replay value. There have been several points so far where you are given three choices, each of which have some apparent effect on the game. I don't know how these play out but I'll be playing the first episode again to see what changes.

Only complaints are some graphical issues on the Xbox One and slightly longer than expected load times, but no idea if these issues are present on the PS4 of PC version.

Highly recommend it though!

(FYI - the polygon idiots have no idea what they are talking about in their review)

Edit to say: BE FOREWARNED, like the old KQ games there will be much exploration and back tracking and re-searching areas and re-talking to people. You'll get stuck, and die, a lot. The complaints of the Polygon reviewers is that there is no fast-travel and walking around to the same areas over and over was tedious. I think The Odd Gentlemen really wanted to keep the pacing like the old games in this regard. I don't count it as a negative, but take it as you will.

UPDATE: A patch was released for the game that shortened load times significantly (though they still seemed random as to when they would appear). Finished the first episode. Everything I said earlier holds marginally true. The voice acting and the actors they used are perfect - there's even some great references to movies the voice actors have been in. I found most of the puzzles a bit easy and didn't die as much toward the end as I did in the beginning (perhaps this is geared for the younger crowd?). Some of the puzzles also had zero set-up which hurt the flow of the story. Still 4-5 hours of gameplay and I'm restarting a couple of new games to play with the different decisions you can make at key points. Still recommended.

Sorry - didn't really mean this thread to be a review...

4 out of 5 Gig 'Ems
bbattbq01
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Wait, what?!? This happened??? I was just thinking about KQ the other day!
bbattbq01
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Boo they want 40 bucks for it... Will wait for sale!
wee_ag
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nm... TA is unbroken - see OP for update
Jackass2004
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Ahh good ol Sierra. Haven't seen that name used in a long while since they got acquired.
Need to redo lesiure suit Larry with some updated porno chicks.
c-jags
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Lost a lot of time with my dad playing these in the 80s.

I think 6 was the last one I played. Was that the sister and wife?
staedtler
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Redo the Police Quest / SWAT games!
Philip J Fry
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Space Quest please!
Dr. Horrible
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Space Quest please!
This!
mhayden
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Wow -- thanks OP, this is my youth.
Goldie Wilson
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Watch out Graham! A poooooisonous snake!
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Downloaded chapter one for free with ps gold and I think this game is brilliant. Just finished chapter one tonight. Agree with most of what the OP says. Great voice acting and great story telling with enough "big" choices that you will want to replay it again to see what happens. Just a really well made game.

Highly, highly recommend at least checking out the first chapter.
Jackass2004
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Roger Wilco approves.
Joe Cole
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Picked up Ch 1 for free and enjoyed it. Game looks so good that the kids were able to just sit and watch because it looked like a cartoon movie to them. Definitely a flashback to old days of Monkey Island 2. I pulled up a youtube of Monkey Island and wow....we have come a long way

I heard Chapter 2 is good, may pick it up when it goes on sale one day. Game is fun , but the constant walking around back and forth gets a little tedious

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I have PS plus... Where can I get chapter one for free? Shows as 9.99 on PS store.
They release two free games a month. I think this was one of the games for December.

If you miss the download that month, I don't think you can go back and get it for free.
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Here are this month's offerings:

http://blog.us.playstation.com/2015/12/30/ps-plus-free-games-for-january-2016/
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