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A classic RPG experience

5 Rating: 5, Useful: 6 / 8
Date: November 13, 1999
Author: Amazon User

I must disagree with the reviewer who posted below me; to give this compilation only three stars is indeed a disservice. While I agree that the third game was not that hot, the fourth is excellent -- if you can get around the bugs. It ran fine on the machines that were around when the game came out, but be aware that there may be some problems with crashing during the fourth one. If you do experience these problems, contact me; I computer game series I know of that was planned out from beginning to end before coding even started on the first game! It's well written, witty, and absolutely enjoyable (with some moments in the third being the sole exception). This compilation represents the good days of gaming, before the market became flooded with such mindless titles as Professional Bull Rider (recently released by Sierra/Havas; I'm not kidding). It also represents the good old days of Sierra, before the company was bought by Cendant and later by Havas (see www.firstones.com for details).

Also included in this compilation is the CD soundtrack from Quest for Glory V, the last game in the series, composed by Chance Thomas. It's a real treat.

The Best Sierra Series

5 Rating: 5, Useful: 4 / 4
Date: July 15, 2001
Author: Amazon User

I was first introduced to Quest For Glory when it was known as Hero's Quest. I took a gamble on it and was hooked from then on in.

So Yo Want To Be A Hero is the best game in the series. A lonely wannabe hero helping to free the land of Spielburg from the evil clutches of Baba Yaga and the evil brigands. You will be introduced to some of the characters that eventually lead you on your other quests like Erasmus, the Katta's Shema and Shareen, and Baba Yaga. The isolation in the sound effects in this game are the best and the music is wonderfully...heroic. It is heaps of fun and highly recommended. *****

If you complete part one, you will be whisked away to the faraway land of Shapier where the ruler of the Shapier's sister city, Raseir, is missing in what becomes the second part of the series, Trial By Fire. As Hero of Spielburg, your job is to find and restore the Emir. The Katta people are wonderful characters and a great pleasure to interact with. However, the sense of adventure isn't as great as part one. There is very little area to explore and you can get quite lost in the desert without finding too much. I prefered the forests of Spielburg where magical creatures lie everywhere. A great game never-the-less. ****

The third installment in this series was the worst. Wages of War could have been titled Wages of Bore. You follow your friend Rakeesh from Shapeir to Fricana. My only suggestion is finish the game so your character can be imported into Shadows of Darkness. A bit of a fizzer here. **

The fourth installment, Shadows of Darkness is very much like Trial By Fire. A nice sense of adventure and lots of places to discover. I didn't like the fighting sequences much, I thought they were harder to control than in the other installments. Baba Yaga returns too which helps you give some connection to the other installments. I still don't think this was as good as the first two; it lacked the sense of adventure and wonderful oddities the original game had. ***

Over all, Quest For Glory is a wonderful series and highly recommended!

The Only Game that i have played over and over and over...

5 Rating: 5, Useful: 3 / 3
Date: August 31, 2003
Author: Amazon User

This game is the best game that ever grace the PC gaming. It was and adventure+rpg with very nice storyline and great sense of humor in each series of this game. The only flaw in this game is the release of the IV series that have a lot of gameplay bugs, but despite that's all bugs this game is really really worth for playing and i think this because the deadline for making this game is to short and it was the first of this series that was made for Windows. Then after a long dormant of this game series there QFG V thank's god it finally be made again but also a bad news to all QFG fans because it was the last episodes of this series, sigh. I Hope this game will be remade again with better graphics, hardware support and bla bla bla and i wish there also will be QFG VI.

A great series.

5 Rating: 5, Useful: 2 / 2
Date: August 12, 2002
Author: Amazon User

Quest For Glory was, in my opinion, the best of Sierra's old adventure game series. It was unfairly overshadowed by King's Quest, which while good, was simply not as fun, challenging, or funny as QFG.

You play as a Fighter, Magic User, or Thief (or in QFG3-5, as a Paladin), each of which have particular skills you can use to further your goal (that is, to become a Hero). Starting in the Northern Europeanesque realm of Spielburg, you fight Brigands and Baba Yaga in Quest For Glory I; then take a magic carpet with some new friends down to Arabian Shapeir to defeat the evil Wizard Ad Avis. From there, you travel with the Liontaur Rakeesh to his African homeland of Tarna, seeking to expose Demons attempting to start a war. At the end, you are magically whisked away to Russian Mordavia and must stop a Vampiress Wizard from releasing an evil entity of unimaginable power.

A word of warning: All of these games are rather old; the first three are DOS only, the fourth runs in Windows, but requires you to change your palette to 256 colors. Added to this, QFG3 and 4 have several bugs, a few of which are not solved in the patches. Also, some newer Windows systems may not run the DOS games correctly, however my Win2K system runs it fine with VDMSound provided DOS sound emulation. If you're running Windows 98, you should be fine.

A great collection.

5 Rating: 5, Useful: 2 / 2
Date: November 24, 2002
Author: Amazon User

I remember playing the original Quest for Glory (then called Hero's Quest) on my XT computer with CGA graphics and being instantly addicted to the series. This was one of the first computer games that gave the player the opportunity to chose a character class and have it affect game play, despite it being easy to blur the lines between character classes.

The cameos and continuation of characters (and stories) from game to game really made the series great. By the end of the series you were sad to see your hero settle down.

I highly recommend this collection.

BTW: My favorite would have to Quest for Glory 2.

Pls re-release for newer computers

5 Rating: 5, Useful: 2 / 2
Date: December 02, 2003
Author: Amazon User

I miss these games and games like it that Sierra used to make, pre Half-Life. I played Space Quest, Police Quest, Gabriel Knight, Leisure Suit Larry, and Kinq's Quest, but my favorite has always been Quest for Glory, which I played when it was still Hero's Quest. Of these, my favorite is number 2 "Trial by Fire" because it is such a long, involved story with many interesting Zelda-like quests. Except Zelda never had a button that replaced townsfolk with clowns!

There are no games like these any more. Please bring back the puzzle adventure game Sierra!

Definitely a half and half collection.

3 Rating: 3, Useful: 5 / 12
Date: November 10, 1999
Author: Amazon User

This collection must get at least three stars despite the fact that two of the games it includes are among the worst adventure/RPG titles ever released by any company ever. The remaining games are really that good! The first two games in the series are truly spectacular, and fully display everything that is capable of the adventure gaming genre. (And, depending on the way you want to look at it, they demonstrate what all could be done with the "limited" resources of the late 1980s!) The last two games in the collection are abjectly horrid and should be avoided at any and all costs. Poorly written, implemented, and thought out, ignore them altogether, and get the collection entirely for the unequaled So You Want to Be a Hero? and Trial by Fire.

Some of Sierra's finest.

5 Rating: 5, Useful: 1 / 1
Date: April 20, 2000
Author: Amazon User

It's such a pity Sierra has stopped the RPG's in the QFG or King's Quest style of gameplay. The QFG system my favorite since the hero actually has some statistics that change throughout the game and develop him into a stronger hero, rather than KQ's static characters. Being able to fight monsters in different ways and having variable spoils is more fun than always having to throw a pie in the bad guy's face in order to get crystals. Variable amounts of money are fun, though effectively useless as you'll spend what you need to at the beginning and then amass something like eight hundred gold coins and have nothing to spend it on but...uh...fruit and bottles. Oh well.

The import system is another thing I love about these games. If you build up an awesome character, he can continue his quests in other lands. He can become stronger, learn new skills, and save new lands. Sweet!

I recommend buying this set for a bunch of awesome games really cheaply, plus a cool pseudo-classical soundtrack not available any other way. Get QFG5:Dragon Fire, too. It kicks ...

Notes: The fourth game's got some glitches. Save your game right before a place you know has a glitch. In the swamp, set the speed down to the lowest setting, kill the monsters, and set the speed back up. By the big pillar, just walk off by clicking right on the edge if the slimy path at the very top, and you shouldn't have any problems.

The quest for glory series is the best games I've played!

5 Rating: 5, Useful: 1 / 1
Date: October 25, 2002
Author: Amazon User

Wishing and trying for the past few months to get a hold of the QG Anthology. I have been out bid at ebay every time I've tried to buy this great anthology. I have the whole collection but the first 3 are on discs instead of the CD rom that the anthology comes on. I love the one on one playing action and adventure these games have and the puzzle figuring helps keep my mind alert. This is something I need to keep my disablities from taking over and keeping me in bed. I am up and out of bed and using my mind when I play these games . Thanks Sierra for making such a wonderful series...

Classic RPG's

5 Rating: 5, Useful: 1 / 1
Date: January 28, 2003
Author: Amazon User

This series was the one that introduced me to the world of RPG's, and no other game could have done it better. The stories themselves and being able to play as a fighter, magician or thief make for multiple plays of all 4. Get them separately or get them together, but get them!

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