20th June 2006, 2:00 PM
The Williams duo don't seem to take issue either. They just warn that Sierra might, which so far Sierra is shying away from. Sad to see that the original makers of the series don't have legal ownership of it... Sierra, ah the days when it was still awesome...
But anyway, yeah "Silver Lining". That should be interesting. To be honest I'm glad they took off the "IX" part anyway because they'd just have to rename it if in some distant alternate future Sierra actually decided to MAKE KQ9.
Still intend on playing what amounts to interactive fanfiction. KQ2 was fun, and almost a different game. What I had issue with is that apparently they had a vampire writing the story, like IN ALL FANFICTION, and so they had to take Dracula, rename him Alucard, and make him essentially the greatest misunderstood "dark hero" in the game. The whole thing reeked of the same stink that permeated Sword of Mana's "all the monsters are actually misunderstood, I'm a Japanese goth writing fanfiction!" story :D.
Screw vampires! If people are running around pretending to be vampires, there should be vampire hunters running around too!
:D
That meaningless inane rant aside, fun game with fun puzzles and apparently the cross was rendered powerless "SURPRISE! You're dead!".
But anyway, KQ3 should be great fun once I get around to actually installing it. Get KQIV remade and some decent frontloaders for KQ5-7 (all they need are front loaders, they are already up to the same graphical standard) and you have a done deal. For KQMask I ended up having to install a "glide wrapper" (special program that emulates 3DFX functionality for select games and only those select games) just so I could enable a lot of the higher graphical functions in the game, but it works fine outside of that (so long as I enable XP's "compatible with windows 98" option in the shortcut to the game).
Onto another rant, I'm getting closer and closer to saying "autorun is overrated" and just permanently disabling the autorun functionality of my cd/dvd drives. Too many horror stories of things like Sony's rootkit CDs and stuff to warrent having it on anymore and to be honest what did it ever save me? A couple of clicks?
But anyway, yeah "Silver Lining". That should be interesting. To be honest I'm glad they took off the "IX" part anyway because they'd just have to rename it if in some distant alternate future Sierra actually decided to MAKE KQ9.
Still intend on playing what amounts to interactive fanfiction. KQ2 was fun, and almost a different game. What I had issue with is that apparently they had a vampire writing the story, like IN ALL FANFICTION, and so they had to take Dracula, rename him Alucard, and make him essentially the greatest misunderstood "dark hero" in the game. The whole thing reeked of the same stink that permeated Sword of Mana's "all the monsters are actually misunderstood, I'm a Japanese goth writing fanfiction!" story :D.
Screw vampires! If people are running around pretending to be vampires, there should be vampire hunters running around too!
:D
That meaningless inane rant aside, fun game with fun puzzles and apparently the cross was rendered powerless "SURPRISE! You're dead!".
But anyway, KQ3 should be great fun once I get around to actually installing it. Get KQIV remade and some decent frontloaders for KQ5-7 (all they need are front loaders, they are already up to the same graphical standard) and you have a done deal. For KQMask I ended up having to install a "glide wrapper" (special program that emulates 3DFX functionality for select games and only those select games) just so I could enable a lot of the higher graphical functions in the game, but it works fine outside of that (so long as I enable XP's "compatible with windows 98" option in the shortcut to the game).
Onto another rant, I'm getting closer and closer to saying "autorun is overrated" and just permanently disabling the autorun functionality of my cd/dvd drives. Too many horror stories of things like Sony's rootkit CDs and stuff to warrent having it on anymore and to be honest what did it ever save me? A couple of clicks?
"On two occasions, I have been asked [by members of Parliament], 'Pray, Mr. Babbage, if you put into the machine wrong figures, will the right answers come out?' I am not able to rightly apprehend the kind of confusion of ideas that could provoke such a question." ~ Charles Babbage (1791-1871)