Saturday, December 17, 2011

Let's Play King's Quest II: Romancing the Stones

A Blind Let's Play
Platform: PC/Windows
Released: 1985 (original), 2010 (remake)
Genre: Adventure
Setting: Fantasy
Developer: Sierra Entertainment, Inc. (original), AGD Interactive (remake)
Publisher: Same as above
Version: King's Quest II remake: 3.1

Playlist (Begins with King's Quest I):


 First Video in the Series:



Although Daventry is fairing well under King Graham's rule, he is lonely and unable to find anyone suitable to be his queen. Upon seeing a vision in his magical mirror, he journeys to the land of Kolyma to rescue some fair maiden locked in a tower. He has no idea what her name is, nor anything at all about her, save that she is miserable in that tower, and oh yeah, she's also very attractive. Well, the rest is just details, right? Join me as I help him rescue this mysterious would-be queen!

This is the second game in AGD Interactive's series of King's Quest remakes. The game has been expanded into quite more than the original, with not only 15 more characters to interact with, but with more puzzles and exposition as well. Plus there's a full musical score and speech acting, just like in the remake of King's Quest I. This... is gonna be good.

[Total Game Time - 12:27:12]

Selected Comments From YouTube:

YOU SHOULD HAVE WAY MORE SUBS THAN THIS HUN YOU PUT OUT SUCH GREAT CONTENT WHY AM I YELLING???? I HAVE NO IDEA!!!!!!

haha what a great game! the Kings quest games are so funny!  

heh.. you have a hairy ball coconut. Really appreciate you posting these playthroughs. That half hour went by so fast.My siblings and I used to play your adventure games when we were kids, and it's not the same playing them alone. Commentary is great !We couldn't ever get into Sierra games, the puzzles seemed more geared towards adults, and we mostly played the lucasarts ones. I noticed you didn't have Legend of Kyrandia on your play list.... any hope for that being a future series ?? 

Great job  I watched it all  Loved every minute of it  Thanks


Links of Interest:

Download the game for free, For PC or Mac, at AGD Interactive's Website

Matt Chat Video Retrospective on King's Quest I - III and Remakes

King's Quest II Remake on Reloaded.org

Short G4 Video Clip on King's Quest and King's Quest Remakes

Pawdugan's Video Retrospective on the Original King's Quest II












This post has been backdated to reflect the date of the original Let's Play.

Thursday, December 8, 2011

Let's Plays???


Yes'm. Let's Plays. I'm into hobbies that are of an entertainment nature. Like, reading, movies, games (ahem), things like that.

Believe it or not, I had a radio show for two years. Two to four AM every Monday morning at a local college station. I had a blast though. Being a night-owl by heart, I really took to it. Having to be at work at seven AM made it difficult. Especially as the day wore on. Yawn-o-rama.


After that, I wanted to start my own independent comic book company. I didn't have the necessary funds to put into it, however. I knew also that I probably wouldn't have gotten all that money back.

But wow, I enjoyed reading comic books, and watching movies, and playing games. I resigned myself to being strictly on the receiving end of entertainment. Then I saw a couple Let's Plays (or LPs for short). Yes, pretty geeky, but wow, it looked fun! These people were being entertained, and entertaining others, practically simultaneously!

Keep in mind, by the way, I don't consider myself an entertainer. I'm not sure that what I do has any entertainment value at all, but please feel free to beg to differ.  ;)   But you know what, I am entertained. I'm having a blast playing through all these old games, some of which I've never finished. These games would probably remain unfinished if I wasn't doing LPs of them. Not only that, but watching prior footage (once during editing and once during YouTube playback) helps remind me to go back and talk to this NPC, or go back to this level, which has the lock that I just found a key for.

You may ask, why only retro PC and Amiga games? The answers are simple, and yes, there are two answers.

1) I love those old games. They're a slice of my childhood. King's Quest III: To Heir is Human was my first ever computer game. In a couple weeks, I'll be playing it for the first time since the 80's (well, it's the remake, but same difference), and beating that sucker once and for all. Damn Manannan, and his obsession towards two letters of the alphabet!


2) My computer sucks. I have what is called an Intel Integrated Graphics Chip. It blows. I can play more basic modern games like Return to Castle Wolfenstein or the first Portal, sure. But if I try to record them? The game slows down like hell, and then looks even worse when I play back the video. As it is, my videos are riddled with these glitches, which I believe are a cooperative fail on the part of Intel and YouTube. The videos look fine in the editing software (Windows Movie Maker or VirtualDub), and also in Windows Media Player, but YouTube doesn't like them, and thus I get these intermittent glitches. That said, this may change in a few months. I plan on getting a sleek new gaming computer with our tax return next year. With the stats on the one I've picked out, there should be no problem at all playing AND recording the likes of Skyrim, Crysis 2, and anything else out there. I might actually be able to get PCPX2 (a PlayStation 2 emulator) running for the first time in my life!

I'll be posting more on the glitches and new computer in the future. Needless to say, I have BIG plans in store for my YouTube channel. I hope to be playing through both retro and new games eventually, as well as independent games that need, and are worthy of, some attention. For the moment, I am uploading one RPG game and one Adventure game per day. I may change that to one retro game and one new game. New games will usually be RPGs, since there are very little new adventure games out there. But as far as the retro, do I play retro Adventure games... thus ignoring the old RPGs? Can't do that! Do I play old RPGs? Then what about the Adventures? Decisions, decisions.

So I'm rambling. Until next time, farewell.

Tuesday, December 6, 2011

Let's Play King's Quest I: Quest For the Crown

A Blind Let's Play
Platform: PC/Windows
Released: 1984 (original), 2008 (remake)
Genre: Adventure
Setting: Fantasy
Developer: Sierra Entertainment, Inc. (original), AGD Interactive (remake)
Publisher: Same as above
Version: King's Quest I remake: 4.1

Playlist:


First Video in the Series:



The Kingdom of Daventry is suffering from recent disasters and hardship. King Edward calls his bravest knight, Sir Graham, to his throne, and tells him there are three lost treasures of the kingdom hidden throughout the land that would end Daventry's troubles if found. If Sir Graham succeeds in his quest, he will be the new King of Daventry. Join me as I help Sir Graham find the treasures and restore the kingdom to its former glory!

This a blind let's play, meaning that this is the first time I've played ANY version of the first King's Quest game before. I know, I know...

[Total Game Time: 4:12:09]

Selected Comments From YouTube:


wow the version i played long ago certainly had no voice acting! there were so many versions of this game down the years. this one is from 2001?

Don't feed the troll?  Sounds like a lot of comments on YouTube.

• Ahhh...Sierra Games! Good times.


Links of Interest:

Download the Game For Free, For PC or Mac, at AGD Interactive's Website

Matt Chat Video Retrospective on King's Quest I - III and Remakes

King's Quest I Remake on Reloaded.org

Short G4 Video Clip on King's Quest and King's Quest Remakes

Pawdugan's Video Retrospective on the Original King's Quest I

King's Quest Series Retrospective on 1UP.com

King's Quest I Remake on WikiPedia (sub-article)

King's Quest I (Original) on Wikipedia

King's Quest I (Original) on MobyGames

King's Quest I (Remake) on MobyGames

Review (Original) on Adventure Classic Gaming

Review (Original) on Adventure Gamers

Review (Remake) on Adventure Gamers




This post has been backdated to reflect the date of the original Let's Play.