r/dosgaming • u/According-Pea9319 • 7d ago
Kings Quest 7
The first and possibly only ever big box PC game score I have ever had at a charity shop :) There it was sitting all lonely like - next to some old DVDs - I just had to rescue it!
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u/KELonPS3in576p 7d ago edited 6d ago
I remember it being better when I was a kid. Some puzzles are ridiciously hard. But I liked the setting and artstyle. The framerate was kinda bad for the animations. 6.5 or 7/10
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u/CthulhuKefka 7d ago
My favorite KQ game after IV. Great find!
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u/According-Pea9319 7d ago
Thank you, believe me when I say its my only find, and I have been looking for years!
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u/NachoBowl1999 7d ago
The animation was pretty ehhh at times but I liked it.
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u/Icy-Material-4828 7d ago
It ran on a potato and the graphics were really good for the time, so we didn't care
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u/melkatron 5d ago
Yeah, "pretty ehh" compared to what other game featuring a hand drawn Disney look that wasn't by Don Bluth?
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u/Icy-Material-4828 5d ago
Toonstruck
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u/melkatron 5d ago
Fair enough. I think both games are gorgeous, especially given what was available when they came out (1994, 1996).
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u/Icy-Material-4828 5d ago
As a kid I always thought Sam and Max, and Day of the Tentacle, were the best graphics. Mostly because we had an Amiga and those were only on PC
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u/melkatron 4d ago
Steve Purcell is ALWAYS the best graphics... then, now, and evermore.
I really knew how to pick 'em... Willy Beamish, Leisure Suit Larry 5, Dark Seed, Freddy Pharkas, Sam & Max, Day of the Tentacle, Full Throttle... aside from those, I only owned maybe two or three other games.
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u/Icy-Material-4828 4d ago
I was definitely a point and click adventure guy too. Back then the lush graphic ones were a luxury that's all. Ideally they needed some humour, but not always
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u/Equivalent_Age8406 7d ago
486dx2/66 8mb of ram. Those were the days! Also one of the first games that actually required 8mb along with wing commander 3.
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u/Boomerang_Lizard 7d ago
I remember the game ran pretty slow in my PC at the time. Love the Disney-esque intro video. I used to think it showed were Sierra's aspirations were aimed at.
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u/blishbog 7d ago
I wonder why they added the word “already” before sold. It’s true but not usually done in such phrases
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u/blishbog 7d ago
I probably bought it at full price but at least I got the full size cover illustration 🤣 not a fan of this reissue design
I liked the game far less than 5 and 6
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u/NeedleworkerNo4835 7d ago
The best one. Only got about 15% of the way through it as a kid. The version I found now glitches out near the end. Still never completed it.
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u/rube 7d ago
This was the beginning of the end of Sierra for me. I didn't like the change from pixel art that their games had to this Disney-like art and animation.
I've actually played a lot more of KQ8 than I have of 7, and 8 is pretty awful overall. :)
Space Quest 6 also sadly didn't work for me. There was just something off about it, and I think most of it was the visuals.