by Maxor127 » Mon Aug 28, 2006 12:10 pm
I like the King's Quest box art. It's sort of like KQ3's box, which is one of my favorites. The image in the crystal ball probably ties in with KQ8, although I haven't really played it. I guess you could argue the guy in armor and the dragon convey a false sense of what the games are about, but I don't mind. I like all of the boxes except Police Quest since it's the same as the old collection. They should've used the bloody hand box art that they planned but never released for Police Quest IV.
After looking at the boxes closely, I noticed something very disappointing. Not all of the games for each series are included. If you look closely, King's Quest says 7 full games. I'm guessing they left out KQ8, which is the one that needs XP compatibility the most and could use some enhancing. Police Quest looks like it's only 1-4. Once again leaving out the games that people might actually have trouble running in Windows, not that they were that great anyways, I was hoping they'd include one of the later FPS SWAT games since those got good reviews. Space Quest looks like it has all 6 games. For some reason Larry says it only has 5 games, so I'm guessing they left out VII. That's pretty disappointing to me and makes me think that the games won't be specially coded for XP and instead they'll include an emulator or slow down features for the DOS games. But the sad thing is that they're going backwards and including less games than the previous collections so they're really not offering anything to people who already own the older collections except for new boxes.
I was expecting all of the current games in each series PLUS MORE, like unofficial remakes and maybe some random games not related to a series similar to King's Quest including the Laura Bow and Mother Goose games. They could've spread the other less popular games across the collections and included them as well leaving some for the inevitable Quest for Glory collection. And I know VU wouldn't have done it, but if I were rereleasing these games, I would've included scans of the different manuals and box art associated with the included games, plus disk images for alternate systems or I would've just remade the games to be XP native and included new features and options like graphic enhancements similar to DosBox or IIgs sound for the older AGI games, plus MT-32 sound converted to general midi.