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MEEP! crem...@nospam.earthlink.net (Chris Remmers) wrote:
>Unforunately, I haven't heard much about the game. CGW recently had a
>"100 hot new games" feature, and failed to even mention Quest for
>Glory V even though they stated in the article that there aren't too
>many adventure games in development. So what's going on? Is this game
>going to be terrible?
I've been plugging away with a relatively low-end P-150 for a little over a 
year now, and I was thrilled to see how well the demo for QG5 ran when I 
tried it out a week ago. I wasn't so thrilled, mind you, with Sierra's 
heavy-handed approach to installation ("We'll insist that you install the 
demo in this particular directory, and here are some other lovely demos for 
completely unrelated commercial services, and pardon the mess while we dick 
around with your Start menu, and..."), and the keyboard-based controls were 
pretty dreadful, and I have no idea how Sierra thinks that they'll be able 
to get a workable multiplayer game out of the thing, but as far as the 
engine itself goes, I haven't been this impressed with an adventure game in 
years. There aren't nearly enough games that dabble with 3D graphics that 
handle anywhere near this well.
  Plot-wise, who knows? It looks like yet another Ultima-style go-here-do- 
this-go-there-do-that sort of game, but how many adventure games don't end 
up being like that?
  This, folks, is insightful commentary.

-me

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