Which did you prefer?

[Pwincess]

...and elaborate your answer    

[Ignus_Draconus]

HQ. you could actually export your character

[Jafar]

You could export your character in the remake also.
Anyway, I liked them both the same. They both have their good points.

[Jigen]

I dunno, I think dying everytime your character runs out of stamina sorta cancels out any good points it had.

[Corsair5]

That got a bit frustrating.

[Jafar]

It was frustrating, but after working out some, it was never a problem for me.

[Corsair5]

Sure. All you do is pump about 40 of your fifty start points into Vitality at the beginning, and you don't have too much to worry about.

[Jafar]

I usually spend my points in other places and spend them evenly, but yeah, that would work too.

[Jigen]

Yeah, but I shouldn't have to, the game should work properly instead.

[Corsair5]

It worked just fine. That was how they intended it.

[Kailkay]

I liked HQ, and here's why.

Way back when, I had a nightmare of a Kobold Wizard living in my basement.
I used to think Baba Yaga lived inside my wall.
I believed that if you didn't run up the stairs, the troll living in the laundry room would get you.
I loved watching dad pound on the up arrow key until his finger bled. And STILL lose to the trolls.  
I loved hearing uncle Martin recite that 'house of brown, now sit down' speech.
I hate playing with mouses because I can never click right where I need to, and end up dying often as a result.
I loved the very first time I saw my 8 year old cousin beat the game.
I hate MoSlo and like software. With a furious passion.
All a man needs are the 16 colors you get in a 16 pack of crayons. That and ducktape.

HQ meant a lot to me. Sure, they renamed it and rereleased it as QFG later still EGA and all... But it just wasn't the same. There was no high-speed-hero. There was no freezing your character if you fired a flame dart poorly, no oops error if you killed a mantray with a dagger.

Fending off beasts with your bare hands, casting calm in combat, sleeping in the forest 'neath the trees, falling into a bottomless pit, having the giant bird-hut crush you. Sigh, what wonderful ways there were to die in the original that I have yet to pull off in the 256 color version.

[Paladin0707077]

I like them both, but only because of the order I played in.
I playe HQ first because I wanted to start at the VERY beginning (and I grew up with EGA-graphics style KQ), so I played and eventually beat it and life was glorious.
Except I didn't manage to get full points. And the reason for that was simple.
I didn't talk to everyone about everthing I could have.
That's where QFG came in. It was much easier to talk to everyone and figure out what to say. I also found it was far easier to beat the game with that interface, instead of having to guess what the designer intended.
Then I went back and beat HQ and got maximum points.
So yeah, I call it a tie: both were fun. HQ had more craziness and nostalgia. And QFG was just plain easier.

I now have a new reason to love the QFG/HQ series: I now have a new GF. She only plays two series of games: KQ and QFG. And she hasn't yet beaten the latter. I'm helping her do that now. Which means QFG is acutally IMPROVING my relationship with my GF.

So tell me, if I placed the game disc on a lepper's forehead, would he spontaneously heal and begin to dance for me? And if so, would it me good enough for a Broadway Musical?