King's Quest II: Romancing the Stones Version 3.1

AGD2 · Sat 14/03/2009 19:11:27

Update: September 12th, 2010

King's Quest II: Romancing the Stones (Version 3.1) has been released for both PC and Mac. You can get the latest builds from the King's Quest 2 page on the AGDI website.

Also, King's Quest I: Quest for the Crown (Version 4.1) is now ready for both PC and Mac. You can get it from the King's Quest 1 page.

Important: Remember to uninstall any previous versions of both games from your system prior to installing these new ones. Since we have changed installer software, the latest versions shouldn't be installed over an existing installation of the games, as this has the potential to leave ghost files behind when you later uninstall. Also, note that save game files aren't compatible between different game versions.

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Hey, all!

Over at AGD Interactive, we have just released Version 3.0 of King's Quest II: Romancing the Stones, a remake based on the 1985 original, King's Quest II: Romancing the Throne, by Sierra On-Line. We first released this remake in 2002, and over time have received feedback and comments which we have taken on-board. We have spent the past three years enhancing and embellishing the game to an even higher level of quality. We hope you enjoy the results of our hard work! Regardless of whether you've played this remake previously or not, Version 3.0 includes a great many new features and improvements. Be sure to check it out. There's new content for veteran players and newcomers alike!

To celebrate the brand new release, we've also launched a new KQ2 sub-site at:

http://www.agdinteractive.com/games/kq2/

Here are a handful of screenshots which contrast the enhanced backgrounds in the remake (right side) to those of Sierra On-Line's AGI original (on the left).

And, for good measure, a few additional screenshots of just the remake:

VERSION 3.0 FEATURES
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This version includes many new features and improvements. Some of the major ones are:

-Fully enhanced backgrounds.
Every screen has been completely re-edited and re-detailed to classic Sierra-quality.

-New dialog pictures
Redrawn and edited to a higher level of quality (no more head-bobbing while talking!)

-A new professionally narrated voice track for all in-game comments
A major feature that was lacking from previous versions. Over 3,800 narrator lines!

-Lip-synced character speech.
For added detail and voice enhancement. Over 1,000 lip-synced character lines!

-Ogg Theora movies/cutscenes
For smaller filesize and also better Linux & Mac compatibility.

-Speech & Music Packs now included as part of the download.

...Plus all of the other familiar enhancements that are unique to King's Quest II: Romancing the Stones, like the revampled plot, deeper characterizations, additional puzzles and quests! All that and more awaits players in Version 3.0.
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For in-depth information, you can check out the King's Quest II Announcement Thread here at the AGD Interactive forums.

Visit our games page to download your Enhanced copy of King's Quest II Version 3.0 now! The filesize weighs in at 321 MB.

Hope you guys like the improvements. Have fun!

Spike4072 · Sat 14/03/2009 21:12:36

Yay I have been wanting to play this again for a while. I had your old version but forgot to copy it when moving to my computer. Will be great to play with the new improvements.

Leon · Sat 14/03/2009 21:28:12

Congratulations with another fine release.
Looking very good as always. Be playing this later on.. first wait for the download to finish....

magintz · Sat 14/03/2009 22:12:30

Wow! Looks awesome. Congrats.

Azure · Sun 15/03/2009 08:34:28

It's out hooray

Been meaning to get through this!

Buckethead · Sun 15/03/2009 17:35:39

Yay!

Unlike King's quest I, I haven't played this one grey yet. I hope this also has the option to disable death ends.

Erpy · Sun 15/03/2009 17:38:14

It never really had dead ends to begin with. So there's no option to disable it.

Buckethead · Sun 15/03/2009 18:11:28

I remember that I once flew away with the carpet but couldn't go back because I didn't have all the items.

MusicallyInspired · Mon 16/03/2009 04:39:11

There are tons of "death ends" but no "dead ends." And you can go back and forth on the carpet as many times as you like. You just have to be in an appropriate area (that goes for the original as well as the remake).

Dualnames · Mon 16/03/2009 08:29:12

Congrats people!!!!

Frodo · Mon 16/03/2009 23:20:51

This is fantastic! Thanks for all your hard work.

cosmicr · Tue 17/03/2009 02:21:34

Quote from: AGD2 on Sat 14/03/2009 19:11:27
-Ogg Theora movies/cutscenes
For smaller filesize and also better Linux & Mac compatibility.

so there is a linux version? or do we have to use the 2.72 version that's available?

MusicallyInspired · Wed 18/03/2009 15:16:08

No, you use Wine to run the Windows executable in Linux. Not sure about MAC, probably the same thing though. Apart from a minor mouse acceleration issue, it runs perfectly.

tombom62 · Thu 19/03/2009 22:36:06

Quote from: MusicallyInspired on Wed 18/03/2009 15:16:08
No, you use Wine to run the Windows executable in Linux. Not sure about MAC, probably the same thing though. Apart from a minor mouse acceleration issue, it runs perfectly.

Linux, it works amazingly, I use linux almost 99 percent of the time. For MAC, there's also a port of wine. See here http://davidbaumgold.com/tutorials/wine-mac/

cosmicr · Thu 19/03/2009 22:56:25

so what difference would the ogg format make if its running in wine anyway?

tombom62 · Fri 20/03/2009 02:37:29

Quote from: cosmicr on Thu 19/03/2009 22:56:25
so what difference would the ogg format make if its running in wine anyway?

Wine doesn't support the format they were using before, so instead of seeing the logo, you'd just see an error. (It would then continue the game, so it wasn't a huge problem) Now, it works great. go to winehq.org and get one for your distro.

Bob · Sat 21/03/2009 01:59:08

I'll have to replace the one I'm playing with this version...thanks for the announcement!

Are there any additional challenges in this release?

The graphics look awesome, btw. Can't wait to hear the voices.

Puddleglum · Mon 23/03/2009 01:54:48

I am loving it!! Thank you

AGD2 · Mon 13/09/2010 05:54:56

I didn't want to create a new thread for this announcement, so I thought this would be the best place to post it:

King's Quest II: Romancing the Stones (Version 3.1) has been released for both PC and Mac. You can get the latest builds from the King's Quest 2 page on the AGDI website.

Also, King's Quest I: Quest for the Crown (Version 4.1) is now ready for both PC and Mac. You can get it from the King's Quest 1 page.

Important: Remember to uninstall any previous versions of both games from your system prior to installing these new ones. Since we have changed installer software, the latest versions shouldn't be installed over an existing installation of the games, as this has the potential to leave ghost files behind when you later uninstall. Also, note that save game files aren't compatible between different game versions.

Sslaxx · Mon 13/09/2010 14:01:45

Quote from: AGD2 on Mon 13/09/2010 05:54:56
I didn't want to create a new thread for this announcement, so I thought this would be the best place to post it:

King's Quest II: Romancing the Stones (Version 3.1) has been released for both PC and Mac. You can get the latest builds from the King's Quest 2 page on the AGDI website.

Also, King's Quest I: Quest for the Crown (Version 4.1) is now ready for both PC and Mac. You can get it from the King's Quest 1 page.

Important: Remember to uninstall any previous versions of both games from your system prior to installing these new ones. Since we have changed installer software, the latest versions shouldn't be installed over an existing installation of the games, as this has the potential to leave ghost files behind when you later uninstall. Also, note that save game files aren't compatible between different game versions.

So what's changed? Oh, and you need to change the disclaimers at the bottom of the pages to say Activision, not Sierra.