Which is the best Quest for Glory? Finished!
 

So which is your favourite, which is the best of these games to you? Or do you not like any of them? Don't just vote in the poll give us a post telling us why as well.

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Edit: My favourite is the original EGA version of QFG1 it is just about the best game I have ever played. And I still whip it out when ever I feel that I need some good classic gaming. But all of the games besides 5 and some of the fan games rank very high in my favourite games list.

It's a close call between Part 1 VGA, and Part 4 Shadows of Darkness for me. Love both games! :3:

But voted for Part 4, cos I have a thing for vampires and werewolves :D

I really love 3, I've replayed that sooooo many times it's a bit mental.

But I also really enjoyed 5, although I may be the only person in the world. It felt a bit separate to the previous games, and more of a love letter to the series in general. I thought it was a nice way to end the series.

Also, we should have another poll titled, "how angry on a scale of one to ten did that horrific alley navigation system make you in QF2?" ;)

You ever tried the AGD remake for that? They improved the alley navigation no end! :OK:

Maybe it is just because I used the map and have a good sense of direction and how to read a map from different angles but I never had trouble with the alley system at all. I know I am one of few people, so maybe it is just a bit of luck.

Possibly, or you could be demon spawn.

WHICH IS IT DARTH, WHICH IS IT?

Could it be both? I think it might be both.

Same to me. But I've picked QfG1 VGA because you had there several quest to become a hero that weren't linked to each other.
Also you had different areas, like woods, mountains and ice-world.

What I also liked was the QfG2 and the fan remake.

Got to be QFG 4 for me, the darker setting is a nice change from the previous 3 games, and it has some of my favourite artwork as well :D

I'd definitely say QFG1 EGA (original). Probably one of my fave games ever, one of the most innovative Sierra ever did, and just wonderfully open and immersive. The sequels and remake were great (though I was never very keen on 3 and didn't finish 4 until a few years ago due to bugs) but nothing ever quite recaptured that first game experience for me. I love that the whole series actually feels 'complete' to a degree, though, with 5 being an actual 'ending' rather than just another game like most series.

I did actually, and was impressed. I'm a big AGD fan, I don't think they've made a bad remake yet :)

Shadows of Darkness!

In spite of it being a buggy mess when first released, it had loads of great horror references and some really fantastic characters. The voice-acting in the CD-ROM version is also very good, and I think it's in the ISO cellar so everyone should go and play it RIGHT NOW. Also, read my review! (actually, maybe don't, I'm not sure how good the writing of the review was, it was a long time ago).

So for me it goes: QfG4, 1(EGA), 2, 3, 1(VGA) and a very distant last... 5.

Really don't like qfg5, can't bring myself to play it for very long at all (never finished it, unlike all the others).

I prefer the 2nd game, because I love the all 1001 nights ambience and the storyline. Although it's a bit linear and almost impossible to navigate without a map.

Trial by Fire without any doubt, the others look like crap in comparison.

"Shadows of Darkness" -as it has most interesting setting and story of all.

I know I'm definitely in the minority here, but I voted for Dragon Fire. I love the soundtrack (best in the whole QFG series I think), and I love how it functioned as both a love-letter to QFG fans and a proper ending to the series. Great stuff. The more enhanced focus on combat never really bothered me, because as a thief I wasn't getting in fights anyway :D

I have a special bond with Quest for glory 1 (ega)
That was the first game for pc that my father bought me many years ago.
It was awesome and colorful for the time.

Also quest for glory 4 is absolutely wonderful.

This is going great guys, up to 40 votes but don't stop here. Keep going, keep telling us about your favourite best Quest for Glory game or why you don't like them.

This is my all time favorite series. Ever since I was eight years old and saw my friend's dad playing the original EGA version of "So you Want to be a Hero" I've been hooked. My favorite is between Part 1 and Part 4. I have to go with Shadows of Darkness even though Hero was my first love. The storyline was so much deeper in Shadows that it really sucked you in. Part five was a horrible steaming pile. It especially made me mad that in part 5 the character's choices within the game were so constrained, especially to who you could marry.

I like part 1, although I prefer the vga version because I'm not a big fan of the text parser (yes, I know QFG2 has a text parser, but the game is so great that I forgive that).
QFG2 remake by AGD Interactive is great, but they don't have the game clock config (where you can choose the speed the days last).
QFG3 looks a bit small, probably because it wasn't planned to be. The Coles said that part 2 was planned to jump to part 4, but they thought that the hero wasn't ready yet to face the Shadows of Darkness, so they made Part 3 in a hurry.
Part 4 is great with all his horror ambience, but the bugs at the time were awful.
And I still have to play part 5.

QFG 1 EGA, of course the copy I have is the Original Original Hero's Quest before they had to change the name!

Countless hours playing that game killing goblins and brigands.

Part I VGA, no contest.

I mean... the one that started it all, revamped as a point-and-click game with improved graphics and sound.

Next poll please! :D

Yep. No timelimit wins all.

I think QFG1 is the most well-rounded game, but I can't choose between EGA and VGA, so I'll say QFG4. I don't like the combat system in it, but everything else was excellent. I'd like Dragon Fire a lot more if it weren't for the combat, too.

QFGI EGA, I like the fighting style best in QFGII, but I like the setting in Spielburg better. I still haven't warmed up to the point and clicks though.

This is just a friendly reminder that if you've not played any of the series installments, we have 1-4 available on site for you, ready to go :)

Quest for Glory - So you want to be a Hero EGA

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Quest for Glory - So You Want To Be A Hero VGA
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Quest for Glory III - Wages of War
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Quest for Glory IV - Shadows of Darkness
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So now is the perfect time to get to Shapeir or battle some vampires if you haven't already! :D

First time poster here.

They are all great games so it is a tough choice. Hero's Quest wins because of the heavy dose of nostalgia I get seeing those EGA graphics along with using the text parser and the countless amounts of hours playing it. Not an important point but the box art on Hero's Quest is so much better than Quest for Glory!

Somewhere around twenty 5 1/4" floppy disks were swapped between a low density dual-drive IBM AT setup. Please insert disk 18. Please insert disk 17. Next screen, move the character north. Please insert disk 14. Please insert disk 3. Please insert disk 14. Next screen. But you dealt with it! The day that IBM PS/2 Model 30 286 with a big 20MB hard drive came into the household was a great day indeed.

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Quest for Glory has been my favorite series throughout all the games i have played so far. They had everything. Adventuring, RPG elements, smart puzzles, a storyline and especially the importing of your hero to the next part of the series really made you go and play the previous game with ALL the hero types and maximizing the stats, just so you had an slightly advantage with the new game.

I distinctly remember the time i had made in QfG I EGA a super thief (with fighter and magic elements) and then my frustration as the QfG 2 recognized him as a mage!

However i have to say that QfG 3 was my all time favorite. First QfG without a parser. Fantastic graphics (for the time), exceptional storyline, nice riddles. I really enjoyed it.

Row of preference: 3 - 2 - 1 - 4 - 5.

4 was buggy at best and 5 was not too QfG equivalent! :(

I think i still have somewhere the CD that was published with all the QfG without 5.

Love QfG!

It's a close shave, but QFG1, VGA has gotta be my top favorite. It was my first taste of the QFG series, even though QFG3 was the first one I actually got to play through. So You Want To Be A Hero? had many little quests that eventually brought everything together in the end and I really enjoyed that. I also have a fondness for beginnings in stories...

QFG4, however, WAS simply amazing--the dark and serious and sometimes even deeply emotional tones in that storyline were simply amazing, while at the same time it kept its trademark humor with many silly or witty moments. In the end, though, it's bugginess was it's ruin, and I have to place QFG1 at the top.

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