Did you cry? (Ch5 spoilers)

[RubiconVale]

...when it went to EGA (ty Dwight Knight) graphics and the music was Greensleeves? I cried like a baby.

[Doctor Chad]

The Greensleeves part was EGA....

But yeah, it made me tear up. Even moreso when it got to the actual VGA section, since that was my first real KQ game that I beat on my own.

It really made me remember the old King's Quest IV marketing slogan "Can a video game make you cry?"

[ClassicalCherg]

I cried a grand total of 4 times throughout the chapter. It really hit home for me, as someone who lives with their grandmother. She sometimes can't remember details, she's fragile and could easily fall and hurt herself with no means of contacting anyone.
The character development, animations/expressions and music really made this a stand-out chapter.

[rognik]

I'm a monster, as I didn't cry once in this game. However, I did get very excited and nostalgic when I saw the graphics throwbacks.

[caoclo]

They sure did an awesome job on this game. That bit' of the old games was a nice touch!

[Doesnotcompute83]

Originally posted by rognik:

I'm a monster, as I didn't cry once in this game. However, I did get very excited and nostalgic when I saw the graphics throwbacks.

I am also a monster too. I also got very excited and nostalgic of the "acid trip" dream though I was more excited of the Land of the Dead sequence than the KQ1 reference. I guess us old folks do not get sadden over such an ending, but we get all weak in the knees when we see references to the older titles.

[ToastButler]

I laughed during the callbacks to previous games. So well done, down to the compression on the voices in the KQV sequence and the "I don't understand 'armer'" joke in the KQI text parser. I learned to spell thanks to messages like that back in the original KQIII, so that amused me particularly.

I /cried/ during all the scenes with Graham and Gwendolyn. My second grandfather passed away a few days ago, so maybe it was a bad time for me to play the game, but bravo, Odd Gentlemen. Bravo.

[Capt_Lycanthro]

This chapter did seem to make my den dusty all of the sudden.

[apple_pi]

yep.

[Brynwall]

Yes... I was a blubbering baby...

[LibreOffice Writer]

I'm not usually emotionally invested in video games, but when it suddenly shifted like that, I just bawled. I literally stopped playing and just cried as I stared at the screen. My little brother laughed when he got to that spot, but it's...

I guess for me, it was just that it was suddenly like being smacked in the face with my childhood. I grew up playing the Kings Quest games and it was just a really moving moment for me to suddenly see the new turn into the old.

[Doesnotcompute83]

Originally posted by Mabel:

I'm not usually emotionally invested in video games, but when it suddenly shifted like that, I just bawled. I literally stopped playing and just cried as I stared at the screen. My little brother laughed when he got to that spot, but it's...

I guess for me, it was just that it was suddenly like being smacked in the face with my childhood. I grew up playing the Kings Quest games and it was just a really moving moment for me to suddenly see the new turn into the old.

I think the scene varies from person to person. As someone who also grew up playing the classic series (I am a child of the 80s), the scene wasn't heartbreaking enough for me to be broken up about it. I think it is because of King Graham's death being a happy one or a positive one. To clarify, Graham dying can be viewed as natural because of his old age - one can argue whether or not the liquid Graham absorbed caused his demise as it was a story that was told by Gwendolyn. However, for other titles such as Life is Strange and Walking Dead season 1, I was heart broken since their deaths were not natural and the series revolved a lot around these characters. For King's Quest, I felt the game was more about the people around King Graham rather than himself

[rknight718]

What got me was seeing this:

http://images.akamai.steamusercontent.com/ugc/221067364543324257/AFD3B4390E2F764423BF29D2A08C7E9FEDC61B96/

[Rüdiger J Simpson]

i did not really cry, but my eyes got a little wet at the end

when you play gwendolyn, looking at the carpets on the wall and seeing the stations of grahams life. and then you enter his room and he's gone.

[b9thirty99]

Yes. Because I playing King's Quest was a dream come true. I hope I get to see Gwendoline's adventure.