30th July 2003, 6:31 PM
As I later realized, it couldn't have been Megarace (after reading reviews on what Megarace actually was), so erase that from your mind. I suppose I'm the only one who's played it here, whatever the game was called...
In any case, I do believe you should go ahead and at least try KQ7, since that one defeats any problem you might have with constant death or getting stuck. If you find it too easy, which may just happen, keep in mind that's not the norm. I suggest you go ahead and play it. Oh, the game was designed for Windows 3.x, so even if you have the win95 remake, keep in mind you will have to do some things like set the resolution and color depth to 640x480 at 256 colors to really see the game correctly, that and it's not in true full screen mode so unless you aren't too annoyed at the idea of accidently raising the task bar I'd suggest disabling aways on top. Yeah, it's annoying, but that's the breaks when dealing with old Win 3.x games (they really should have optimized the Win95 remake more...).
If you have the win95 remake (hardly a remake at all really... but hard to call it a port since it's not really being ported to an OS it couldn't be played on before...), keep in mind it had a couple nice features added like the ability to save without quitting (the first time around, since the death system had been tweaked as it was and you couldn't get stuck, they figured being able to save while playing wasn't really needed. Several people annoying by things like random power outages and OS crashes forcing them to start games from long ago since they couldn't save without quiting made them put it back in), and the ability to adjust walking speed (in case you find the normal character movement speed just too slow, hit + to speed things up, just like in all the old KQ games, shame it was missing from KQ7 in the first place).
Well, with annoying things like that in mind (and you may just have the old 3.x version anyway, in which case I must insist you get the latest patch for the game from Sierra due to a couple random glitches that could prevent you from completing the game, much like the Grim Fandango random glitches), perhaps you might still enjoy this game for what it is, a simple little adventure in a fantasy world with... FAIRIES! Oh yes, lately Sierra has been dropping the ball even more than normal (darn the internal rot of current era Sierra...), and so I haven't been able to find any patches for my older games. I do believe that may include the 3.x version of KQ7 (the 95 version never had any patches fortunatly), in which case you may in fact need to go around online to find the patch.
Wow, I started out trying to get you to play the game but I think I may have ended up shying you away even more. I know lots of work like that is often enough to get me to say "eh, maybe later" over and over again for like a year :D.
And yes, you must get The Dig. It's a fun game indeed. I wouldn't call it the best adventure game I've played, but I might say it's above average.
In any case, I do believe you should go ahead and at least try KQ7, since that one defeats any problem you might have with constant death or getting stuck. If you find it too easy, which may just happen, keep in mind that's not the norm. I suggest you go ahead and play it. Oh, the game was designed for Windows 3.x, so even if you have the win95 remake, keep in mind you will have to do some things like set the resolution and color depth to 640x480 at 256 colors to really see the game correctly, that and it's not in true full screen mode so unless you aren't too annoyed at the idea of accidently raising the task bar I'd suggest disabling aways on top. Yeah, it's annoying, but that's the breaks when dealing with old Win 3.x games (they really should have optimized the Win95 remake more...).
If you have the win95 remake (hardly a remake at all really... but hard to call it a port since it's not really being ported to an OS it couldn't be played on before...), keep in mind it had a couple nice features added like the ability to save without quitting (the first time around, since the death system had been tweaked as it was and you couldn't get stuck, they figured being able to save while playing wasn't really needed. Several people annoying by things like random power outages and OS crashes forcing them to start games from long ago since they couldn't save without quiting made them put it back in), and the ability to adjust walking speed (in case you find the normal character movement speed just too slow, hit + to speed things up, just like in all the old KQ games, shame it was missing from KQ7 in the first place).
Well, with annoying things like that in mind (and you may just have the old 3.x version anyway, in which case I must insist you get the latest patch for the game from Sierra due to a couple random glitches that could prevent you from completing the game, much like the Grim Fandango random glitches), perhaps you might still enjoy this game for what it is, a simple little adventure in a fantasy world with... FAIRIES! Oh yes, lately Sierra has been dropping the ball even more than normal (darn the internal rot of current era Sierra...), and so I haven't been able to find any patches for my older games. I do believe that may include the 3.x version of KQ7 (the 95 version never had any patches fortunatly), in which case you may in fact need to go around online to find the patch.
Wow, I started out trying to get you to play the game but I think I may have ended up shying you away even more. I know lots of work like that is often enough to get me to say "eh, maybe later" over and over again for like a year :D.
And yes, you must get The Dig. It's a fun game indeed. I wouldn't call it the best adventure game I've played, but I might say it's above average.
"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)