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Voted Larry

Going to do a series of these, where the winner of each catergory will go into the next.

So, say LSL1EGA wins... then the next one will be:

LSL1EGA
LSL2
SQ2
PQ2
KQ2

I figure give each of these polls about a week.

I voted KQ1.

Although I really liked the PQ series, I think I preferred SQ1 to PQ1.

I went with KQ1 - it was the first EGA '1st' in a series that I played.

I've always liked the SQ series to the KQ series. I just find it more entertaining, more "up my ally." I've never playeed PQ or LSL, so can't say anything there..

audiodane wrote:I've never playeed PQ or LSL, so can't say anything there..

Say what?!??

Tawmis wrote:

audiodane wrote:I've never playeed PQ or LSL, so can't say anything there..

Say what?!??

RUN, Audiodane. RUUUUUUUN!!!

I actually never played any of the EGA versions for more than about 5-10 minutes. I started getting into adventures around 1991 when the VGA remakes had already been done, and when I tried to play the original EGA variations I'd just get annoyed and give up in short order.

jujigatame wrote:I actually never played any of the EGA versions for more than about 5-10 minutes. I started getting into adventures around 1991 when the VGA remakes had already been done, and when I tried to play the original EGA variations I'd just get annoyed and give up in short order.

Well, any of the EGA games prior to KQ4 do look pretty damn ugly. If you hadn't played them when they were originally released (and therefore feel nostalgia toward them), it'd be hard to look at them, even in the early 1990s.

I have trouble looking at ANY of EGA or VGA game nowadays. They're just so damn ugly and pixelated. I know it's not the game's fault, but it's difficult to put up with the terrible graphics and antiquated interface used them.

DeadPoolX wrote:I have trouble looking at ANY of EGA or VGA game nowadays. They're just so damn ugly and pixelated. I know it's not the game's fault, but it's difficult to put up with the terrible graphics and antiquated interface used them.

I would disagree with that, DPX. EGA, ok, definitely pixelated and "ugly", looking at it more than two decades later. But VGA, with the beautifully hand-painted backgrounds, no. I love the VGA artwork, not just for nostalgic reasons, but definitely also for the beauty of it. Of course people have different tastes.

Nice comeback by Graham and Roger by the way. And hardly any love for Sonny it seems...

Rudy wrote:

DeadPoolX wrote:I have trouble looking at ANY of EGA or VGA game nowadays. They're just so damn ugly and pixelated. I know it's not the game's fault, but it's difficult to put up with the terrible graphics and antiquated interface used them.

I would disagree with that, DPX. EGA, ok, definitely pixelated and "ugly", looking at it more than two decades later. But VGA, with the beautifully hand-painted backgrounds, no. I love the VGA artwork, not just for nostalgic reasons, but definitely also for the beauty of it. Of course people have different tastes.

Compared to the absolutely amazing graphics we see today in games, yeah, VGA is hard to stomach. I'm not blaming VGA, as it's over 20 years old and for that age looks decent. However, you'd never convince me that VGA looks anywhere near as good as the graphics in games like Mass Effect 2 or Deus Ex: Humen Revolution.

I agree with Rudy on this one. Do I wish that we could get games like the classics with modern graphics? Of course, but the old VGA graphics had their own charm. Obviously the VGA graphics were limited by the technology of the time, but the effect is not unlike that of an Impressionistic painting. Comparing them with modern graphics would be like comparing an Impressionistic painting with a photorealistic image.

We'd have to give modern games about 20 years before really deciding which ones really were on par with the classics. I look at the Deus Ex trailers and it looks amazing, but we're so saturated with similar games that I can't really single out this one game just yet for it's look.

I'm picking KQ1 out of that list. It's my first game ever, holds the most nostalgia, and the actual quest itself is very simple, non-linear, and has a lot of surprisingly memorable moments and locations (i.e. the troll bridge, Rumplestiltskin, dancing leprechauns, the Gingerbread house, etc.) In spite of the "Sierra logic" it has in places, it's an otherwise well-designed game. The other three are fairly more linear and/or story-driven and the puzzles are a lot more uneven.