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On Sun, 1 Mar 1998, Noman wrote:

> Matthew Murray wrote:
> > 
> >         Of >course< the earlier Sierra games are worth playing.  They were
> > much better in terms of gameplay and writing (you know, the IMPORTANT
> > things) than the crap that passes for computer games today.  Start at the
> > beginning with the original King's Quest, and move on forward from there.
> 
> I fail to see what was good about >writing< in earlier Sierra
> games.. Games like Quest for Glory 2 or Space Quest 3 or
> Police Quest 2 were good because they were interesting games
> with better puzzles... Writing was not their strength...

	I disagree.  Quest for Glory II had a >very< interesting story,
and the story of Space Quest III: The Pirates of Pestulon, while no great
work of literary art, was more than sufficient for the purpose it needed
to serve, and better than most of the crap we put up with today.  Besides
which, the game was >entertaining<.

> I don't think all of the Sierra adentures (and all of the Zork
> games, text or graphics) combined, can match Gabriel
> Knight 1, in plot, writing and story.... In gameplay,

	The first Gabriel Knight game had its moments, but I don't think
it was quite as great as you do--Sierra has had some other good games
storywise, and there were parts of The Sins of the Fathers that were so
formulaic and predictable that they weren't very evocative.  At least not
to me...

> believe it or not, GK1 gave me >more< freedom to try things
> out than any text parser ever did, IMHO...

	It depends on the games, of course...

> I agree that Sierra adventures have gone down... and I'll
> think a 100 times before buying GK3 or QG5. I found GK2, an
> extremely pointless game, and QG4 was so-so.

	I rather liked The Beast Within, though it was not without its
problems.  Quest for Glory IV was drop dead boring.  Better than Quest for
Glory III by a country mile.

> --
> Noman, who thinks that KQ6 was the best Kings' Quest by a
>        BIG margin...

	Hooboy...  Sorry, that statement invalidates the rest of your
message.  ;)

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