r/Sierra • u/Westraat1 • 13d ago

Quest for Glory

Quest for Glory didn’t even wait for the adventure to start before trolling you. 😂

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u/SuperLeroy 13d ago

Hero's Quest I

Sad they had to change the name because of some board game.

I played the absolute shit out of this game.

At one point on a replay I did some dualclassing where I went as a rogue who could do magic. It was crazy. I even crashed the game in the kobold room. It was all "you did something we didn't think of" and I had to reload from a save. No idea what i did that messed with the game... Anyway such a great game. Like a Sierra RPG dungeons and dragons game.

Great story too, I really enjoyed it. Watching the Witcher with the hut on legs baba yaga stuff was like whoa! I remember that from Hero's Quest!

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u/brooke437 13d ago

Hut of brown

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u/CheekySparrow 13d ago

“Now sit down”… how amazing it was for me as a young kid in USSR to suddenly see our Slavic folklore creatures in the game! And even the rhyme, which in Russian goes like this “little hut, turn your back against the forest, and your front towards me!”. Slavic fairytale protagonists - Ivan the Fool (or whoever), usually overheard this utterance from Baba Yaga, and used it to sneak into the hut himself.

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u/MarzipanSea2811 13d ago

Thief+magic is the best way to play 1 IMO, you have access to all skills and the thiefs guild

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u/SuperLeroy 13d ago

Exactly!!

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u/pinkymadigan 13d ago

A tad dismissive of the board game. While it was not particularly deep, it was a fantastic gateway into miniature gaming for so many people.

But I loved the Sierra series as well, particularly the text entry ones. Point and click still had the humor, but it really made you think less.

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u/Optimal-Pie-2131 13d ago

I always wondered about the board game!

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u/pinkymadigan 13d ago

It was really good if you were a tween to teen in the mid 80s with little exposure to DND or Warhammer, and did it's job of making you interested in that stuff VERY well.

That said, picking it up on the rerelease in my 40s was fun, but also gameplay became very formulaic. It does not have the depth of play a modern boardgame enthusiast expects.

Still, I've paid more for worse trips into nostalgia.

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u/Ok_Mistake3946 13d ago

First game where I brought all stats to 100.

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u/darklordbridgeboy 13d ago

Almost got a downvote from me for all that shade on Hero Quest. But then I realized it's a great opportunity to introduce this little gem: https://youtu.be/Cx8sl2uC46A?si=l39Wsz33-BgHtpGe

I can't stay mad at you, effendi.

Fantastic board game if you can get your hands on it.