I was a fan.

256 colors would be too few.

I agree that the system is pretty terrible. I'm not one of those who thinks games must have multiple manual save slots (though I do see the value of those), but the way KQ7 manages its single slot is just confusing and unappealing. You can manually delete all the save games by going to wherever you ...

The windowed mode apparently requires that your desktop resolution be set to 16 bit color, so it might not be possible on a recent Windows.

There's one screen of field/orchard, but it's implied to be much bigger than just that. And just to be really clear, I'm not criticizing the game for that sort of symbolic representation. Walking through an actual-size valley in real time would get really dull. And showing many streets full of resid...

That brings up something I'd been thinking about. It's easy to get too literal when looking at how a game portrays a setting. However, with finite file size and artist time, any reasonably large setting would necessarily need to be simplified in order to make it into the game. Even though the game s...

Perhaps since the look is so recognizable, we don't view it as particularly unique. It's pretty easy to make Tarna recognizably Egyptian. Hmm... the only Egyptian thing I found about Tarna are the step-pyramids. Lots of different cultures - Mesopotamia (the Great Ziggurat of Ur), for instance - hav...

I do like when the cultures interact, but for that, you'd first need to establish a baseline of what belongs to which culture's identity. We do see some of that. The kattas and Abdulla Doo are from Shapeir and Brauggi is from the north. In QfG2, Rakeesh and Uhura are from Fricana. However, for the G...

(It doesn't make any sense to treat Austrian as separate from Germanic. Trying to define "German" in the context of a work set not only in the past but in a fictional universe that's merely inspired by our own would be complicated, but "Germanic" is a more broad term, which unambiguously includes et...

I did appreciate that about QfG. It made the games more interesting than if they were just generic fantasy. I do think QfG1 is the weakest in this sense, though. It's not just a Germanic setting (which would include Scandinavia and England); it's a specifically German setting, as indicated by the na...

It may be worth mentioning that, adding some French to an otherwise English sentence can sometimes add a certain je ne sais quois.

Not sarcasm, but a joke. What notbobsmith did was observe that the typo resulted in a legitimate French word (-ez is used in a second-person plural conjugations) and jokingly comment on that observation. As you yourself noted, just having one french word (and one that grammatically doesn't fit) in t...

It's hard for me to guess things, anyways. Usually, I'll either be able to state with reasonable certainty what something is or be unable to say anything at all. It's rare for an image to plausibly have several but not too many answers.

You're probably right. The best pictures would be those that elicit a "wow, I've been through that screen so many times but never noticed that particular detail" response, but those tend not to happen. Instead, it'll either be something that can't be guessed just because it's so small or generic-loo...

Looks like the witch's forest in KQ5, but EGA.