El Ravager wrote:...if your contention is that streamlined play, cartoony graphics, and a simplified GUI are incongruous with established King's Quest ethos. If that's your argument and you marginalize Kq7 since it didn't live up to your expectations of what a King's Quest game should be, then your argument has basically become about fanon rather than canon.
Not at all. I don't discount the story line of KQ7, just the things listed are the
very things that made it less enjoyable than the previous ones. If you had a favorite restaurant that once served you a bad meal and another restaurant was going to serve the same food, but gave every indication they were going to do it just like the bad meal, you might be a little reluctant to try it on blind faith.
El Ravager wrote:If you want to say "I don't like the way TellTale does their games, so I probably won't like this take on KQ," then that's fine.
I don't like the way TellTale does its games, so yeah, I don't have a great deal of hope. As I said, time will tell.
El Ravager wrote:But you can't say that any of those three elements (I'll grant the episodic comparison may have been a bit of a stretch) are essentially incongruous with established King's Quest ethos without stripping Kq7 out of the timeline. And once that threshold is crossed, it becomes totally subjective. Maybe the only "real" King's Quest games are the ones that star King Graham, or the ones that have a text parser, or the ones that are AGI, etc.
As I said, I don't discount the story line of KQ7, but it does not mean that I want one that tries to do the same things.
El Ravager wrote:Remember that Kq3 was initially deemed too radical a departure from the established series, too. But I don't hear anyone arguing that anymore...
But you do still hear many fans complain that KQ7 was a let down.
Collector wrote:many found KQ7 very disappointing. The transition to cartoony graphics made it not feel very KQ like...
Just because Sierra released a KQ that fell short does not mean that future ones should make the same mistake.
I am not trying to belittle your views, but understand why many have reservations.