Space quest and Kings quest

[Firehawk455]

I would like to see Space Quest game to made soon. I realyl loved that seroes and I hope you will make quests quest 3 and up soon.

[Afflict]

I was never keen on the whole kings quest thing truth be told sierra made alot of very "Childish" Games
The space quest thing I wont mind seeing, however alotough I was sold to police quest...

[Rui 'Trovatore' Pires]

Just to make sure, do the "childish" games, in your opinion, include King's Quest? And at any rate, WHAT childish games do you mean? Other than Mixed-Up Motrher Goose, I can't think of any. I certainly wouldn't imagine King's quest as childish, or Space Quest, or Larry, or Torin, or Gabe Knight, or Laura Bow, or the High-Res adventures, or Shivers, or Phantasmagoria, or Quest for Glory. By the logic I think you're appliyng, you'd also condone such films as Lion King, Last Unicorn and Secret of Nimh as "childish". And particularly Secret of Nimh is everything BUT childish. Fantasy != childish.

[Afflict]

In regard to the Childish game :

Mixed up mother Goose.

Freddy Pharkas Frontier Pharmacist

KINGS QUEST! I really couldnt stomach the first kings quest the second one briefly and the third and fourth
i never really bothered with. All the same , and they mixed in fairy tales... Personaly i didnt enjoy them until
I played Kings quest 5 enjoyable, and no6 seven I never played and then Mask of eternity put me off again.

Other than that Sierra has really good games.

No I dont think that lion king is childish, I respect the art work I think power puff girls are childish and mindless
and that our youth should stop watching such crap! No wonder the tens of today direspect and mistreat every
authority they see!

[Rui 'Trovatore' Pires]

HOW is Freddy Pharkas childish, do tell? At any rate I assume by your response that the fact that they had fairy tales makes them childish... so I assume that would make Sigourney Weiver's "Snow White" childish too, yes? After all, it IS a fairy tale, after all. Or "Shrek", is that childish? But it's stock full of fairy tales! Not to mention American McGee's Alice... King's Quest 1 and 2 are, by today's standards, rather lackluster, but they never suffered from childishness - they're simply rather uninteresting "romps" and little more. Later on the series evolved enough, and I hardly think you can call KQ3 or 4 childish. If anything, "The Black Cauldron" is aimed to a rather younger audience (and mother goose too, of course), but that's about it.

[BerserkerTails]

Of all of Sierra's adventures, Freddy Pharkas is one I wouldn't call childish, I mean...

Spoiler

Isn't there a puzzle near the end where you bleed to death if you don't use a bandana/cloth thing on your other ear after it's been shot off?

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[AGA]

Plus there are whores!

[DragonRose]

I honestly laughed when you said FPFP was "childish." The way I figure, if every third joke would require a parental explanation, it's not childish.

And you can't go writing off the Kings Quest series until you've played KQ6. It's seriously the best of the whole series. (Jane Jensen co-wrote, and it was awesome. Coincidence? I THINK NOT!)

[2ma2]

Is it just me than doesn't think the Power Puff Girls are childish? The whole of CN purely scriptwise is adults writing for adults, packing it in slapstick gore for kids. Some elements are based on experience and knowledge only people thatb has atleast lived 16 years of age, give or take a few, may comprehend.

But the Kings Quest series (looking at the actual SERIES) is a rather sordid affair. It has it bright moments, sure, but it also has dark moments of dooom!

[matt]

Phantasmagoria

Yup, if there is any game that's more aimed for kids...

[Andail]

This is a rather strange discussion. Are adventure game childish? Sure, playing them isn't like reading university theses, complimenting lawns or building pipe collections.
In the same time, modern people would say that adults can certainly enjoy adventure games, so it all depends on which platform you stand on.

[Gilbert]

Well I'll say the most childish Sierra game is, TA DA!, LSL1.

Why? Don't agree with it?
They cared for the kids, so they put rectangles with the word "censored" to cover up some of the action scenes. How thoughtful of them.

On the other hand I'll say the KQ series is no where near the childish limit, as there're brutal deaths and scary bitches witches and monsters.

[MillsJROSS]

It all depends on what we define "childish" as...I suppose. Is it a term intended purely to encompass children and their ignorance, and thus the environment will lend to a more instructive tone. Or by "childish" do we mean sophmoric, where ignorance isn't really an issue, but the level of maturity is low.

I don't think Kings Quest really follows into either of the two options above. It isn't sophmoric and it's not really instructive. Kids can enjoy it, yes...but so can adults. Although, I can't say that I can actively play this game and enjoy it because I'm an adult now, because I might be biased towards it. But I'm fairly certain my parents, who were adults when the game was released, don't share that bias.

Early Sierra made games to be family oriented. Kings Quest is one of these...LSL is probably not one of these (of course I say this while having played it when I was about ten, and I was able to enjoy it then, although I'm sure many jokes went way over my head). But for most of their games, there was an emphasis on a family game, rather than appealing to one group over the other.

But to each their own.

-MillsJROSS