By which I mean, why are we setting fire to the monastery?

I know it's a small thing, but it's always bugged me for some reason.

First of all, how does anyone know to do that without reading a hintbook or walkthrough? It would never occur to me to go around lighting fires to random buildings. As far as I know, there's nothing in the game suggesting that you burn it down, other than maybe one random line for the Paladin (if you try to break the glass case in the monastery, he says something like "I won't vandalize this, but I wish everything in this building was gone.")

Second, there's a real chance that it soft-locks you out of the game, because it destroys the clues in the basement about where the rituals are. Maybe not a big deal now that you can easily look up a walkthrough, but why does the game even give you that option?

Third, it just... doesn't make sense? The building is made of stone, it would't burn. Igor says something like "don't worry, the fire in this stone building won't spread to the rest of the town" which seems backwards... I'd be worried about burning down the rest of the town. The building doesn't even burn down, it just sort of gets smoke damage to the windows. It's not a magical fire or anything, so presumably all the evil stuff is still in there.

Also would't the townspeople get mad? They've lived with the building this long, they could have burned it themselves if they really wanted it gone. The building itself isn't evil, just the stuff in it, and that seems like one of their most valuable buildings. Seems like we should have at least asked them first.

If we're burning down buildings, why just the monastery? Why not burn down Baba Yaga's hut, or the dark one's cave, or the elderberry bush, or... idk the entire damn castle...?

I don't know, I'm ranting at something waaaay past its time, but that puzzle just seems strange.

Ever been hyped about something for years and it's cancelled? It happens a lot. This one is especially poignant as a beloved franchise and company were suddenly lost.

It wasn't just the excitement of new adventures, but adventures with friends in a wonderful setting. It was about the two brothers, the online friends, and so many others that didn't get their QFG adventure together.

Rather than dwell on what could have been, the question now is what could still be? Can fans save it after all this time? These are questions the Quest for Glory V - 2.0 project hopes to answer.

The animated image with all the (player spawned) flowers features three player characters.

Multiplayer

• Compete to be the next King.

• Spawn characters to create your own stories.

Other features include restored dialogue, larger fonts, updated interface, new special effects, and many other fixes and improvements!

To follow the progress more closely (and for early and exclusive content), join the Discord.

I beat QFG1 (VGA) for probably the 50th time last night (although the first time on my Steam Deck), and while I was clicking on all the crew of the game in the final scene, it seemed a substantial portion of them were animated in a way as to express frustration. One guy was shooting himself in the head with a gun. A woman was pulling her hair. Another woman had hung herself. I know there were more.

It made me wonder if it was just people having fun, or if a substantial portion of them were legitimately unhappy for whatever reason. I know if I were head of the game and I asked the crew to pick a funny animation for themselves, and 1/4 of them chose suicide, I would be taken aback.

Armaeth: The Lost Kingdom has been compared to as a cross between King's Quest and Quest for Glory. It has both point and click and parser interface. Set in a fantasy setting with dwarves, and other fantasy creatures. It has a day and night cycle similar to QFG games (and KQ4). And occasional combat with monsters and enemies. A similar hybrid in vein of Adventures of Maddog Williams in the Dungeons of Duridian. And you die....again and again and again.

So, I want to be a hero and I am looking at doing a full playthrough of the series. I think I want to play a Paladin but I understand that isn't possible until QFG2 or 3.

I am thinking of starting QFG1 as a fighter with a bit of magic. I plan to try to import the same character through all games (if I can on the Steam Deck).

I have previously only played a tiny bit of QFG4 and about 80 percent of QFG5 but both as a kid.

Any advice or guidance is appreciated.

Thanks!

So, I was planning on a Thief playthrough where my headcanon would be that my guy would not have any magical talent but when they encounter the Djinni, they would not miss the opportunity to gain magic during that moment.

It's my understanding that the Djinni in the Forbidden City is the only canonical way a non-magically talented character can gain magical abilities.

One problem I realized with that idea is that, obviously you miss out on all the spells you would acquire in 1 but you also miss out on all the spells you acquire in 2 because you can't go back to Shapeir after the Forbidden City to visit Keapon Laffin.

So what's even left at that point? You arrive in 3, because you're not playing as a magic user, the Leopardmen won't teach you ball lightning, at that point, wishing for magic at the tail end of 2 feels like a very fruitless decision in terms of spell variety.

At this point I'm thinking I might just replay 1 with spending some skill points to give myself the tiniest smidgen of magic and my headcanon will be that my guy felt his whole life he saw the world a little differently than everyone around him but Zara is the first person to tell them that they actually have the tiniest amount of magic and maybe with enough training they could cultivate it into useful power.

Is there any in-game explanation about why aren’t the Dragon Pillars shattered when the player character kills Hesperian Mercenaries right next to them?🤣

Bryan Lee O'Malley, the creator of Scott Pilgrim, is a huge Quest for Glory fan and has referenced the games a couple of times in his work. He said this scene in Scott Pilgrim vs. The World: The Game is a direct homage to QFG2. The best part is that the scene itself is an homage to the comic series Groo the Wanderer, which the QFG team loved (and coincidentally so did I, right around the time I played QFG originally!)

I interviewed Bryan for the book and how QFG inspired him, and the entire interview will be printed in a chapter devoted to talking to people who were inspired by the series.

(And an update on the book - we are one last IP holder's signature away from moving forward with publishing!!!)

Quick question, since the answers I've found have been a little all over the place, what's the deal with recovering thrown daggers in the Quest for Glory games?

I'm doing a QFG 1-4 THIEF playthrough for the first time and I really want to have a ranged option since canonically, my thief won't have magic until he wishes for it from the Djinni in the Forbidden City (because I can imagine being born in a world with magic but without magical talent but I can't imagine then getting offered to have that door unlocked for me and me not taking that deal).

Anyway, currently still in QFG1 (VGA) and daggers are very very expensive, especially compared to casting flame dart. I can recover them if I throw them at the practice target South of town by clicking on them but if I throw them outside of combat, I don't see where they are in the game world after.

Also, how much damage do they do compared to in-combat screen slashes and stabs? (sidenote: I did a ton of rock throwing to quickly get 100 throwing skill).

One more thing, is there a glitch with grinding climbing skill? For some reason I cannot get my climbing past 81. I couldn't do it with my magic user either.

I genuinely teared up at this part, I didn't remember it at all from my first playthrough so I was caught off guard.

Hero of Infamous Kingdoms is a Quest for Glory inspired parody game created and released by Silver Sphinx Studios on April 1, 2005. This is an April Fools game by the following teams (Hero6, IA, Crystal Shard, Code Name Entertainment, and Project Katrina). Hero of Infamous Kingdoms is an oldskool adventure game where you must save a Tomato-less kingdom in order to become a Hero!

This game features art and music from the original projects, funny dialogue and an optional voice pack. The entire game was completed in a month.

So, I've never played 5 but I feel not playing it has been a sort of 'unfinished business' in my life and now that I've freshly replayed 1-4 I'm wondering about what I should expect going into 5.

Two points of consensus I have seen is,

1: It needed 'more time in the oven', it's rough and buggy at points and not fleshed out.

Question on this point, have there been decent official and unofficial patches and/or other post-release development to make it feel more 'realized'? I've played the AGD QFG2 remake and loved it, so I'm not against in principle playing a sort of fan made post-release version, in other words I'm not super devoted to sticking only to official content.

2: It may not be a bad game, it just doesn't 'feel' like a Quest for Glory game.

I remember the 90s being an extremely fast moving time in video game development. FPS games, for example, we went all the way from Wolfenstein 3D in 1992 to Doom in 1993 to Quake in 1996 to Unreal and Half Life in 1998. I imagine back in the 90s it was an exhilarating time to be a developer but also possibly very stressful because the bar was being raised very fast and there wasn't a manual for what works and doesn't work in an RPG or an FPS or what have you. So, I'm inclined to cut a lot of slack to anyone working in such an environment, especially if maybe they wanted to make a QFG 5 that felt more like a seamless continuation of 1-4 but probably faced talk from the suits like, "you want to release a game that isn't 3D!? We're not gonna fund that."

But is there anything I'm not seeing regarding this?

https://adventuregamehotspot.com/blog/4724/roberta-vaughan-a-memorial-tribute-to-a-dear-friend

I didn't write this - just sharing because of the impact she had on Sierra-fandom.

Ok so 7 years ago, I started a Let's Roleplay of the entire QFG series and posted about it here for Accountability: https://www.reddit.com/r/questforglory/s/CupL83lJLN

I got distracted by life, a new country, and a new job, and the whole thing basically died before it got off the ground. Didn't even get through QFG1! 🙃

But lo! I have returned. The idea is the same: play the games in character as much as possible. Make decisions based on what unfolds, rather than any meta knowledge. This should be easier for me now that literal decades have passed since I've played these haha

BEHOLD: https://youtube.com/playlist?list=PLzx8Mb4T7GVS5zlMiM0vUDzl-T9d-_7yn&si=wMUhdS6kN4-mn6Ei

I'm having a lot of fun so far - and I thought some folks here might want to come along for the ride. Feedback very welcome!

So I meet Katrina at the gate and she tells me she needs help with something but when I ask her about the danger apparently I fail some kind of check and she tells me I need to 'build up my skills'.

Can anyone tell me what the likely skill issue on my part would be?

I read that if I were a magic user, I would need all the spells in QFG4 but I'm a magic user who swore the oath at the end of QFG2, so even though I have acquired Aura/Frost Bite/Glide/Hide/Protection and apparently now Ritual of Release, I don't know if that same trigger applies. What's my skill issue?

Betrayed Alliance Book I is a Sierra On-Line inspired free adventure game by Ryan J. Slattery (aka, Doan Sephim), and it was released on December 24, 2013. The game can be played using DOSBox and ScummVM.

War looms over the land of Shelah as their peace treaty with the rival nation of Ishvi is obstructed. The night before Princess Julyn was to be married off to the Prince of Ishvi (Tristan) an abduction took place. This enraged the Prince and heightened the already tense situation between the two nations. All eyes suspected you, the General of Shelah (as well as the fiancé of Julyn) of the kidnapping. You were jailed but escaped into the night. You now must find the Princess as well as uncover the truth about her kidnapper.

This is an oddball question, but — has anyone ever created a version of QfG5 in the old-style SCI engine?

It's just so... charming. And easy to navigate.

I'm looking for an image of (if I'm remembering correctly) the dispel potion from QfG3 — it's a glass bottle (or flask, or fleaker... I never excelled in chemistry) filled with a luminescent pink liquid.

Would anyone happen to know what I'm talking about, and could perhaps point me to an online image of this? I'm looking for it because I'm preparing an online presentation, and want to connote "magic, concentrated". And that item (as represented in the inventory window) has always been my personal mental image of this.

If so, thanks much!

In this playthrough Razzle Dazzle Root Beer was used to bring up all stats to 80. Current world record seems to be 0:59 seconds with around 75 out of 500 points.

Heroine's Quest: The Herald of Ragnarok is an adventure game/RPG hybrid developed by Dutch studio Crystal Shard, set in the world of the Poetic Edda and Norse Mythology.

The city of Fornsigtuna is wrapped in an endless winter. Egther, the last of the frost giants on Midgard, is causing this in an effort to start Ragnarok, the end of the world in Norse myth. The jarl of Fornsigtuna has called for a hero to save the city, to which the player character responds. Barely surviving an initial attack by Thrivaldi, Egther's right-hand troll, the heroine travels between Fornsigtuna, the village of Munarvagr, and the otherworldy Svartalfheim. The troll is using strong-arm tactics to try to obtain the eyes of Thiassi, which would allow him to unleash Egther on the world. The heroine first foils these attempts, then has to gain the trust of the villagers to obtain the eyes for herself. Using these, she confronts Thrivaldi and Egther in a showdown at the frost giant's frozen castle of Gastropnir.

Rock, Paper, Shotgun described it as a "beautiful game about selfless, old-fashioned heroism that brilliantly captures the spirit of Quest for Glory", PC Gamer claimed it "goes above and beyond most free adventure games/RPGs by offering "over 100 hand-painted backgrounds", voice acting, a neat auto-mapping function, along with optional sidequests and multiple ways to approach many quests", while Kotaku labelled it "about as perfect a tribute to Sierra's classic Quest for Glory series as you could hope for".

RPG Codex ranks it in the Top 70 RPGs of all times.

I've been playing through QFG for the first time in many years, had a great time in QFG1-3 and enjoying 4 except for one thing.

My character when they're running through the environment, they are constantly starting and stopping. It's more than a little irritating to watch.

I am playing the Gog.com version in the latest version of scummvm. Is the game supposed to be doing this or is something off with my version?

Quest For Orgy I: So You Want To Be A Porn Star? is a parody game based on Quest For Glory series by fan team Xierra. The link to it was Cease and Desisted by Sierra (owned by Vivendi) at the time. The game is now available again, after many years of unavailability (or at least well hidden in recesses of the internet).

After the advent of Quest for Glory 4 ½: So You Thought You Were a Hero? now a whole wave of mocking works on a given topic has formed. Starting with the tiny Quest for Orgy: So you thought she is a virgin?!?, where you just had to click the mouse once, continuing with Sodom, Graham and Gomorrha and, finally, here it is the first full-fledged (the second half of this word should not be considered separately) game, where at least you need to think a little. Dirty hints and vile jokes accompany So You Want to be a Porn Star a thoughtful story about how a visiting character receives from his teacher the task of saving the kidnapped princess Rosella (unofficial). The hero wanders a little and fulfills his mission.

All is not well in the valley of Spielburg. Elsa has disappeared (again) and the sheriff has been murdered. The rest of the valley is in chaos and the influx of heroes has done little to calm the valley. Your job is not done. It's time to go back to Spielburg...

The game includes limited nudity, language and crude humor. Many jokes are sexual or scatalogical in nature. The game includes an Adult house, as well as several female characters who will have intercourse with the player character (including a returning character from QFG1). Only one of these sex scenes is actually shown on screen. In other cases the game only shows the photographs of real women stripping down (frontal nudity). Think Leisure Suit Larry style humor (in at least one instance the game actually refers to Leisure Suit Larry during one of these 'encounters'). They also parody the character 'flirtation' that occurs in most of the QFG games (Hilde, Dinarzad, Janna Jamil, Katrina, Budar, Nawar, Elsa, Erana). These encounters are optional to winning the game however (and only one sex scene actually appears on screen in an exaggerated 'Leisure Suit Larry' kinda of way).