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Yeah, my mom got me this one for Christmas back in the 80s, and I loved it. But I always was curious about the one before it. It wasn't until the 1-4 CD Anthology came out that I got to play it.

QFG 4 was the first game I played.

Hero Quest: So You Want to Be a Hero (original)  ^_^  

K, let me elaborate, since I was in a hurry when making my earlier post. My brother's tutor was really generous and gave him some genuine Sierra CDs, including QFG 4. I played that game together with my sister and brother at first, and was hooked by the storyline and jokes. Eventually, I went to buy the anthology.  

My mom happened to see QFGI:VGA in the bargin bin at CompUSA sometime in either '93 or '94 and bought it.  I started playing it and at the time, thought it was one of the coolest games ever.

My first QfG was the Anthology, and I think I played them all. I never could figure out the puzzles. That was like, when I was six or so.

I grew up playing two. conveniently it was accompanied by the hint book. And I still remember how to spell incense

Yeah, so do I.

Strewth!  I can't believe that I'm the only person who initally played HQ before any other game in the series!  :unsure:  

I played the remake first.

I never bothered to play the original qfg 1.

I played through the original once, and beat it. I like the ending better in the original.

I never beat QfG1VGA. Couldn't. It was literally impossible with my computer.

Dosbox! (http://dosbox.sourceforge.net) Dosbox! (http://dosbox.sourceforge.net) :D  

Yeah, I know. But I didn't have an internet connection then, and now I don't have QfG1.

I just learnt from the QFMG forums that if you can prove that you did own the original copy of the QFG CD/s, then you can request for someone there (most likely Elsa) to send you the game.

http://www.questformoreglory.com/forums/in...?showtopic=1128 (http://www.questformoreglory.com/forums/index.php?showtopic=1128)

Yeah, well, I can't prove it.  

Or just buy it on EBay  :cheerygrin:

In regards to HQ, it ties with QFG4.  I absolutely loved both games, and considering the number of bugs in QFG1, I certainly prefer HQ.

QfG4 was my favorite for plot and stuff, but the bugs got annoying.

Really annoying.
 

 :P  

Or CPU Killer  ^_^  

Slowed my comp down TOO much to be enjoyable.

Hero's Quest.  I then played the rest of the titles as they came out.  (Until 5 which came much later)

I think it was back it 2000. I was in the seventh grade or so. I was a huge fan of Sierra/Lucas Arts adventure games. I played LsL6, King's Quest 6, and other games.

Ok, Confession time. I'm Romanian. A relatively poor country (well, at least we have plumbing, but we don't use computers. Right now I'm using smoke signals to tell you guys this  :P ) and so, while 20 dollars may not be that much to you over there, around here it's a relatively large sum. Hence, I cannot afford to buy original games. I have to resort to making *sigh* pirate copies.

Moving on. A friend of my dad's gave me a CD with tons of games. Camelot, King's quest 5, etcetera etcetera and the Quest for Glory series. I played them all, starting with QFG1 remake, and loved them, but got stuck in QFG 4 because of the copy protection...heh heh. I guess I got what was coming to me. Anyway, format, get a new computer, I never saw that guy that gave me the games again.

For FIVE years I searched for them, and now, finally, In 2005 I got the internet and managed to find a website where I can download them, plus QFG5 from torrent. So now, 5 years and 1 GB of downloads later, I have them all, including the PDF version of the manuals.

This has been the story of a guy that loved the game too much, and led him to his demise...or not.

Hope you're not going to tell the feds what I did  :D  

Hero's Quest, this was when i was pretty young. Probably when i was 9, so that was in 1996.

EDIT: Where can i find this torrent, and what is the best bittorrent program to use?

Hero's Quest: So you want to be a hero.

I was a huge fan of the Quest games such as Space Quest 1-3 and Police Quest 1-2 to that time and also a frequent D&D player. When I saw that Sierra announced a RPG game in the style of their previous Quest games I just HAD to buy it. I was really amazed and kept with the series since.
 

I'm not sure I'm allowed to post that here. I'll PM you  :D  

good idea =).

Keep such discussions on downloading games off the forums please. It's not legal to download them. Which also means no PMing either.

I played them all in order after buying the Collection Series, starting with QfG1 EGA.  Recently I replayed the series (this time as a fighter/paladin, since I first played as a wizard), and I tried QfG1 VGA.  Personally I think the EGA one is better, but then, I have a strange affinity for the text parser.

Oh, and between Dosbox and the belzorash patches, the bugs in QfG4 really aren't a big deal anymore--I didn't even have to use a slowdown utility my last time through.  Although Dosbox doesn't help if you only have the Windows version (like in the aforementioned Collection Series  :) ).  But the belzorash fixes worked wonderful for me.

Gotta love those belzorash patches. They worked wonders on both QFG3 and QFG4 (fyi, it got rid of error 52 completely)!!

Actually, I still had a problem with QfG3 even after installing the patches--the Simbani initiation wouldn't work.  So I e-mailed Belzorash (or NewRisingSun, whatever he actually calls himself) in order to inform him that the patch wasn't working.  I thought I'd have to resort to Turbo or CPUkiller, but Belzorash responded promptly with the information that he hadn't actually tested that fix yet, and asked for a saved game of mine just before the bug.  Shortly after I sent him one, he sent me a new version of the patch for me to test.  It worked perfectly, and he updated the patch on his site.

So he seems like a great person.  I am very impressed by what he has done.  :paladin:  

As am i! Amazing work.

If only he could create a patch for QFGI VGA version that actually lets me save games without any problems *hinthint*

Ok, my bad. Sorry.

God, I hate my country...:glare:  

Stupid laws. It's not like anyone would really care, but I suppose the rules must be kept.

I guess. There is a saying which iunno if im allowed to say here or not, but fyi, there are NO swear words in it.

I bought the remake of QfG1 off eBay, since all the fun on the official Sierra boards seemed to be on the QfG forum. And no, I don't even know what the point of that was.

I thought that the original QG1 was better. it actually had an import file for qg2

HQ1. Was there anything greater, as a child?

I never got into those other 'quest' games, like King's Quest and Space Quest and stuff, because of the text parser thingy at the bottom. Constantly. And you'd have to type and move and time it right or you'd die....

Anyways, I beat the Quest for Glory series sometime a week or two after Dragonfire came out. I played them in order, beat them in order, though I did start 3 before beating 2. It's just... my way. I was a child and was scared away from 4, but I went back after my testes dropped and whooped Avoozl's butt.

Then I found my old, borrowed, backup copies of several adventure games. And my like, 5 disk Roberta Williams anthology CD set thing... which I revered. So, I beat all the king's quests prior to VGA (AGDI), whooped... that stupid wizard that scared me as a kid... made it to 4 and gave up, started Space Quest, and beat alluf 'em. :D Somewhere in there I played through LSL 1, 2 and 3, but I... didn't find them appropriate for my age (14/15)... Maybe I should have shied away at the opening thing... but the questions were sooo easy! Anyhow... I also beat Conquests of Camelot and Conquests of the Longbow... Both of which are top notch games...

Okay, the point of all of this typing is losing it's evidence, so I will state it now before posting: I whooped these games. You should too. Find them. They are in great supply on Ebay. Borrow them from a buddy. Ask... someone... <_< and I am sure that if you are really interested in playing these games, these people can help you procure them by giving tips for finding them.

I highly suggest you play through them, if you love the adventure game Genre. Ask any AG fan for a list of these games, and I'm sure you'll get a whopping list that you'll play through till you're a grandparent.

By the way, I've never played Police Quest. Is it a good series?

[edit by Swift] Nice try, Kail. You don't get to do that here.

I hear in Police Quest, you get to pull people out of cars for being Three MPH over the speed limit and beat them into unconsciousness with your nightstick.

It's called "Realistic simulation" and "Getting into character". *drumfill*

you can't even give a valid ticket for 3mph over

Yeah. But you can beat up people with your nightstick. That's realistic cop simulation...

Rats, they figured out my code... *rubs his mischievous, curly moustache!*


Kicking it back on topic... I should find a place to LEGITIMATELY BUY Police Quest. So that I can beat people up with a nightstick. Just like in LA!

or search around until you find one of the abandonware sites. I found a copy of warcraft I on one of those.

On any legitimate abandonware sites (and yes there are some of those,) Any Sierra/Vivendi game is ESA protected.

I wish I could be all 'stickin' it to the corporate man' on these forums, but since I can't...

Legalism!

Actually, it took me quite a while, but I found the QFG series, well, only 1-3 on one of them. But it took a LONG LONG time. I won't tell anyone the name for two reasons:

1:It's illegal.

2:I don't want them to find out and shut that down too.

And you probably had to purge your computer for a straight week to get all the crap off.

Corsair...unlike you, I don't click porn banners  :rolleyes:  

that was cold

Actually, I know of a very good, mostly legal abandonware site that doesn't give you bad crap like that.

I don't like where this conversation is heading. Please don't discuss abandonware in this forum.

I don't click the porno banners, you get crap with the download.

Now..I played QFG2 first. I don't know if that's truth or lie, but just TAKE IT AS TRUTH!

well, I enjoyed QG2. I still remember how to spell incense.

I hated one thing. I failed to join the EOF about two times. Only by clicking the mouse on the weapons, did I manage to get away from the big dude. The direction keys didn't work.

You failed the EOF? Steam steam lol get me three dozen Krispy Kremes kthxbi.

Well, I managed to do it...eventually. But that was a long time ago in a galaxy far far away.

Lucas, eat your heart out.

He can't. I already did.

"Quest for Glory 3: Wages of War" was my first  ^_^

Nothing against the 4th one but I don`t think it was a great continuation, it was.... wierd  :huh:  

Er... A) Uneat his heart.

B) Raforever... you poor, poor soul.

eh? what do mean?  :huh:  

Pardon the suddenness...
I played it first, too!  I've played all of them (meaning all *3* versions of QfG1)...

...except for QfG5, and a friend of mine is going to hook me up with that too!

Incidentally, I'm not a very good gamer, as the first time I ever beat any of them (the first one) was a couple of weeks ago, and I haven't beaten any since either.  I've been playing since I was 5!

Pardon, my bluntess, kind sir, but "God damn!"  :blink:

Ok, I'm done... :P  

Beware the soap poisoning... *washes your mouth out* =P

Three versions of QFG1? What third version?

Hero's Quest: So You Want to Be a Hero?, the original release.
Quest for Glory: So You Want to Be a Hero?, the release after the name change
Quest for Glory VGA Remake, the um....... terrible one, lol.

I didn't know they renamed it after it became QFG.

Really, if you look at it very very technically, there's 4 versions..
Hero's Quest (original)
Quest for Glory (changed name)
Quest for Glory VGA (the remake)
Quest for Glory 1 (the release with the collection)

but the story is the same, right?  

Yep.

two in ega graphics and two in vga

Actually, 3 and 1, lol.

(New member in the area)

I am a D&D fan and I was a huge Paladin supporter. When I heard this game featured a Paladin as a character, I persuaded a friend of mine to loan me his disks.I played it as a Fighter because I found no Paladin( and despite my poor English I made it through .  Though I thinked the Paladin becoming to be a visible quest, I managed to become one in QFG3 just a year ago)  . But I fell in love with the game and when the Anthology came out(in Greece I mean) some years back( 4 or 5 years back) I played all of them( and enjoyed them better since my English had improved quite a bit). I think though that the best one is 2.

Going to flame yourself with DrMatrix again?

DrMatrix: OMG, U R such a n00b!!!!111one

QFG 3 was teh bestz0rz!!!!11

 ^_^  

I'm not DRMATRIX, that incident must have been a jest from my roommate.

Then how do you explain the dead kitty I found in your closet?

Enough of this please. As long as this doesn't happen again, let's move on.

Ah well, it was fun while it lasted... ^_^

Now to entertain myself. May I run around in circles? Oh, may I please?

*hops around anxiously*

I played QFG 1 first. then 3,then 2, then 4,then 5. lol.

You can use your account to post, Warman.

nah, I don't want to. besides, I lost my password for it and stuff anyways. I'm not going to post much on here anyways so.

The first QFG i have ever played was the first QFG1 the orginal on MAC.. Old skul!
 :wizard:  Once that happend i was hooked, played every one execpt #5 ewwww. tryed but couldent bring my self to play longer then 5 min it made me sick.  

QFG5 wasn't THAT bad.

I actually found it pretty good. Though 3 remains my favourite.

QFG 5 rocks. if it was a what  game series was the best, I would say the Total War series, but since we talking about QFG.  I had a Mac computer too, I play QFG 1-3, but for QFG 4, since they had those bugs in it, at the beginning and crap, I would play the saved games already on the QFG 4 game  :o  but oh well.

If it weren't for the copious bugs, QFG4 would be the best one in the series, hands down. As it is, it ties with QFG2 for the lead, at least, in my book.

QFG 2 was great but for one thing: Raseir. BAH! No map and nothing to do while you were there waiting for days to pass.

My favorites were QFG2 and 4, (I can play it with no bugs! ^_^ ), then Numba 1 (The original and the remake had their good points), then 3, than 5.

Yeah, the remake had good points...

...

...If the Weapon Master didn't instantly win.

Q: How do you stop a Weapon Master from charging?
A: Take away his credit card.

*Clap* Very nice.

*sings*

There's a patch out that fixes speed issuuuuueeeeesss...

The Hyperactive Weapon Master was a flaw, but he wasn't that annoying compared to bugs like the near-impossible chain puzzle in Yorick's maze, or the colors randomly going crazy. And there ARE ways around those bugs... :thief:  

I can't stand the QFG1 remake... -_- My $0.02

*Steals the two cents*  

At the very high possibility of sounding niave or even oblivious, what is this Quest for glory? Im guessing its an old comp game, though I havent heard of it. The only old comp game I played, back when I was like.... 4 years old... was Kings Quest I believe. I dunno. I kno it was a floppy. But this quest for glory sounds fun. Is it possible to get it in some fashion?

Err...you know..."Hero 6" is going to be the sort of sequel to the QfG series... ;)  

QFG 1 and 5 I always love. I still can beat QFG 2, got to have my brother help me since he beated the QFG games like 200 times.  QFG 3 I like, QFG 4 I like to play at Night since it got like a scary setting to me in a way.

hey Inq, you can buy it on Ebay or soemthing, but it cost alot. last time me and my brother checked, it was like anywhere from 100-200 dollara :-(  which that good if you selling it cuz you that but if you wanan buy it, go dish out some cash then lol. with a 100 bucks,hell, I can go buy all the computer games in this series I like to play. I tell you about it if you like to know aobut it.

If you're lucky, you might be able to pick up the anthology (Games 1-4) for $50 American. Five isn't that great, so you aren't missing a huge amount.

Number 5 is cool. :paladin:  :thief:  

Yeah, but Five to 1-4 is like Iron to Gold.

*Counts on fingers*

1-iron, 2-bronze, 3-s...s...silver, 4-gold.

Hey, I made it!  :D  

One is Bronze, two is Silver, Three is steel, four is gold, and five is iron.

What 'choo talkin' 'bout Whillis?

No platinum? No titanium? No adamantium?

And I'm Silverbolt!  :D

...

Ok, bad joke. Sorry, eveeryone.

Forgive me, but I was asleep during my chemistry classes (except the ones where the teacher was hot), how do the numbers correspond to these metals?

Beats me. Only thing I learnt from Chemistry, Math and Physics classes was how to read greek letters.

Helped me out pretty nicely in Greece... ^_^  

Well.. my chemistry teacher was always male, so I didn't have that advantage, although his wife was hot <had a crush on her> and she taught English, and I had her class too...
But I still paid attention...... didn't retain all that much, but I can relearn it pretty fast if I want to.

ANYway!, I don't think they really have anything to do with the metals unless it's like their electron count or something >.> which I doubt.

Every metal and non-metal in Mendeleev's table of elements has it's own order number (Z) that is the proton count of each element. The proton and electron count of an atom is the same. And it's unique to every element, so yes. Every number, does indeed corespond to an element.

That concludes todays episode. Toon in next time for "Fun Facts by Silvy".

lol I do the same.  my gym teacher is 64. I am NOT joking. if I got a old lady or a man for a teacher,  I don't do as well, but if my teacher is Hot,hehehe,hmmm, " you got a A in Math Mike,good Job" wonder why,lol. :paladin:  :fighter:  

Corresponds to Value. Value corrseponds to how good each game was.

Ah, that makes much more sense.

Exactly, my bizzarely attired eastern freakish Quasi-Aquaintance.

:D  Heh...I tried to post a novel but my connection went dead before I hit submit.  So that was a sign to shorten it up a bit.
Hello hello!  New to the site.
QFG4 was my first.  A former teacher of mine got me into it.  I saw him playing it and he let me borrow QFG 1-3.  To make a long story short, it bonded the two of us.
After catching up to QFG4, he was stuck at a certain spot and we started tackling the game together.
The series really did put a major impact on my life.  When I wrote short stories, they usually were inspired by QFG.  I put up a little website with my experiences and actually had something to draw about.
After major changes in my life, new faces come, old faces go, I find myself still wanting to be part of the QFG community.
In the Spring, I'm going back to college to work on getting my CS bachelor's.  Maybe, just maybe I'll land a decent job in the gaming industry.
Alright, I'm rambling.
(trust me, you didn't want to see the unabridged version of this post)

Well...QFG4 is what introduced me to the series.  The first I played and finished was WWTBAH.

cheers!

One, don't double post. Two, what's WWTBAH?

:blush: WWTBAH is called a brain fart.  What I meant was soyouwanttobeahero.  Thanks for pointing out that I'm an idiot!   8B
Actually, its a game show idea that never made it to VHF.
And sorry about the double post.
And sorry about the double post. :P
If I could delete the dubble post, I would.

On a serious note.....  Glad to be part of the community.  Even though you may not take me seriously now, or ever.  (I don't recommend you taking me seriously.  My sense of humor got a little off while I was in the Navy)  I'm here for a while.

CHARGE!!!! :wizard:

P.S.----to comfort you all, this message has been edited like 4 times so you wouldn't see triple and quadrupal posts.
Moderators around the 'net love me :heart:  

So I'm guessing the message in your sig comes from personal experience.

Mine does.

Who me?
Ummmm....where did I get that phrase????
*starts neuralnet search*
Oh yeah....my high school Chemistry teach used to say that alot.  Funny guy.  Sometimes we all wondered if he did have his frontal lobe removed.  He had a lazy eye and he used that for great material.  We spent more time laughing our butts off than actually learning.  And we set alot of stuff on fire!!!

Yay! fire

Technically, a man is always warm by your definition. After all, body temp is 97.6 degrees farenheit (Don't ask Celsius, I never did figure out the conversion rate.), and according to the weatherman, that's at least warm, usually considered hot.

Celsius = 5/9 (Fahrenheit - 32)
(9/5 * Celsius) + 32 = Fahrenheit

I already do enough math at school, thanks.

I love math ^_^ It used to be like a hobby for me.

I used to love Math too, until I took Further Maths (AKA Further Madness).

98.6?

Yeah, I always get that mixed up. Because I'm always 97, not 98 for some odd reason.

Interesting... at about around 18, my average body temperature jumped from 98.6 to like 99.1

Meh...you imperial americans and your measurement system.  <_<

 

*sends the thread back on topic*

Assuming Trial By Fire is the one that had the rat and wizard, the building with the eyeball, and the faries that danced you to death... that's the first one I played(I lost the discs long ago, so I can't start the game to be sure). ;)  

No, the one you're thinking of is So You Want To Be A Hero.

So You Want To Be A Hero:
- Mountain valley setting below the treeline.
- Magic shop with eyeball that follows you.
- Karl, your friendly neighborhood gate guard.
- Big frost giant.
- Fairies that dance you to death.

Trial By Fire:
- Desert setting.
- Keapon Laffin at the magic shop.
- Groucho Marx impersonator at the saurus pen.
- Endless labyrinth of city streets.

Wages of War:
- African jungle/savannah setting.
- Effendi.
- Liontaurs.
- Walking waffles.

Shadows of Darkness:
- Eastern european setting.
- Igor and the perturbed scientist.
- Cave with a mouth.
- Necrotaurs.  'Nuff said.

QFG V: Dragon fire

3D Graphics

Also 'nuff said

In which case...

*doesn't vote, because he's not sure if he's thinking of Hero's Quest or Quest for Glory*

I'd guess it was Quest for Glory though.

Hero's quest was the original name of the QFG series.

QFG5: Woohoo, we've got 3D graphics. It doesn't make up for the awful fighting system, but oh well.

Come on...QFG5 wasn't THAT bad. My personal favorite fighting system was the QFG 2 one. The least favorite: QFG4.

Personally, 5's system was the worst, though I hated HQ's fighting system.  I liked 4's the best. Once you figured out how it worked, it was a LOT of fun.

It's true that QFG5 wasn't as good as the others, but after reading SPECIAL.txt, I can forgive them.

Special.txt?
 

I didn't like the overland maps in 3 and 5, and I didn't much like the combat systems in 3&4 because you had the buttons that you had to click to attack, made things clumsy. five had a hokey system, only two attacks, and you couldn't dodge.

QFG2's was the best combat. I've been saying that for years.

I've been agreeing for years.

And I've been repeating since yesterday.

and I've been off topic for five minutes

The problems begun with 4. While a great storyline, its combat system was terrible to my opinion. In 5 it just got worse. The best combat system as have been said was 2.