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One of my most favorite games

5 Rating: 5, Useful: 17 / 18
Date: November 10, 1999
Author: Amazon User

The entire Quest for Glory series is awesome, especially if you played the games as they came out and the graphics were state of the art for that time.

QFG gives you the options of playing the game through 3 types of characters. You can be a fighter, magic user and thief. Later, in QFG 2, you can become a paladin and any imported character can become a paladin. In fact, QFG5 gives you a saved paladin character! Each character has different skills and solutions to the problems around him.

Plus, you can start with one character in QFG1 and build up his skills and then use that same character to play any of the following games. It is easier to do this since the entire series is available. QFG1-4 is packaged together in a collection, while QFG5 is sold separately.

There are mulitple cheats that you can find online, along with descriptions of the silly clowns in the game. There is also a place where you can download saved games to play as Elsa or Magmum.

My only point of contention with QFG5 is the multitude of previous characters. While it is nice to see them, the fact that there are so many irritates me. I would prefer meeting new and unique characters.

Quest for Glory 5, I hear, is the last of the series. I do believe that some fans are trying to create their own QFG game.

Anyways, if you haven't played this game, I recommend that you try. If you have, another series I recommend is the King Quest series.

What happened to the Quest for Glory series?

2 Rating: 2, Useful: 8 / 21
Date: November 10, 1999
Author: Amazon User

Quest for Glory V: Dragon Fire is one of the most cold and heartless games even Sierra has managed to produce. The game doesn't even attempt to maintain the barest vestiges of a connection to the earlier--and much better--games in the series. It pays lip service to certain characters that appeared in other games, but has no real regard as to whether the inclusion of those characters is truly appropriate or not. In what was once an incredible series with all the promise in the world, Quest for Glory V has dropped and demonstrated--through its graphics, sound, and production, but absolutely nothing else--why no one should bother with games beyond the first two in the series.

TRUELY AWESOME

5 Rating: 5, Useful: 16 / 18
Date: November 20, 1999
Author: Amazon User

I like role playing games but only certain types. Games like Zelda, who's fighting is continuous. There are those games with alternative fighting (where you make a move and must wait for your opponent to make his move). I'm sure that those games are interesting but not my type.

Quest for Glory V was the first computer role playing game I've played and I love it darely. The fighting is continuous and soooooo awesome. I was truly stunned. I recommend anyone who love role playing games to buy it.

If you've never played 1-4 (like me) then you may not be too sure about the history. But QFG V is about this hero (you) trying to solve a murder mystery (who killed the king) and fighting the dragon (once he awakes). It is my favorate game ever (although it is my first). I've played it many times. My favorate character is of course, the wizard. But you can choose from a total of four (including the paladin whom you can use).

Bottom line, Great game, neat story line, it may be tough without a guide, but that's why its called a role playing game. I hope you have fun playing the WIZARD.

A Great Game

5 Rating: 5, Useful: 5 / 13
Date: November 21, 1999
Author: Amazon User

I liked the story a lot and the action of the game. It mixes adventure and action with a good plot, which is just how I like it. The graphics are pretty good, too.

A unique take on adventuring

4 Rating: 4, Useful: 7 / 7
Date: February 05, 2000
Author: Amazon User

For those unfamiliar with the Quest for Glory series, you are allowed to choose between playing a fighter, a magician, or a thief.. also if you are a dilligent player of the series you can import a character from a previous game which gives you access to the Paladin. (Or if you know where to look on the internet, you can download a paladin elsewhere easily) Your goal is to win the rites of leadership over a land whose king was murdered and find out the truth behind his death. For whatever character type you play the means for solving the puzzles and finding the answers are different. As an added bonus, there are also numerous side quests for the various character types to complete which can double the length of the game, or you can ignore them and get to the meat of the issue if you'd rather.

Quest for Glory V is done in polygons and has multiplayer capability (if you download a patch from the Sierra website). You can choose the fighting and game difficulty in the menu screen if you want to focus more on fighting or on adventuring.

If there is any one thing I would nitpick about it would be the character movements, they're stiff and a bit unrealistic... but that can be easily cast aside once you begin to get into the game. Quest for Glory in its first four incarnations was a game played with sprites, so polygons add a whole new depth to it.

For someone that wants to play a fantasy adventure game this would be one of the games I reccomend. Since there are different quests for different character types you can also play this game more than once to see how things would go if you decided to be a Paladin or a thief instead of a wizard which gives it good replayability as well.

The Dragon, the Hero and the Awesome

4 Rating: 4, Useful: 3 / 3
Date: March 22, 2000
Author: Amazon User

I think Dragon Fire is the best out of the Quest for Glory series. I love the way the completion of the Rites of Rulership is so intertwined and I think it's so cool that your character can get married. There are things you can do that aren't sequecial but that makes it more interesting trying to figure out what else you can do. I also like the fact that, at the end of the game, it tells you what things you didn't do so you can improve you game and earn more and more points. It keeps track of the highest score so you can compare. And if you import a Hero with thief skills who isn't (technically) a theif you can still do the theif stuff like robbing the bank. Of course, I have a Paladin who used to be a theif, so that should be interesting...

An annoying thing about a Wizard having theif skills is that he can't get the Summon Staff spell, and I like the Summom Staff Spell. Speaking of spells, there's lots of variety, although, if you give a new charcter (i.e.not imported) who isn't a Wizard Magic skill, he won't be able to get all the spells, there are 6 he won't be able to get.

The graphics are great, although the Hero's face close up looks a little strange. The Hero's, Nawer's and Budar's dances are either funny, weird or just plain dumb depending on your point of view. The music is fantasic, I especially like the music that plays when you're swimming, and there's nothing like underwater combat. It's sad though, that you can't rescue Erana and Katrina from the depths of Hades. I always seem to feel guilty when I leave 'cause I left one behind. Feeling guilty is really dumb because it's not real, but it just goes to show how enthralling the game is huh?

Excellent conclusion to a masterful series.

5 Rating: 5, Useful: 2 / 3
Date: April 22, 2000
Author: Amazon User

While the game is very good on it's own, it is much better when viewed as the end of one of the best game series I have ever played. You'll have a greater sense of accomplishment if you've taken your little hero of Spielburg through four lands and now to Silmaria to aid more land in the grand tradition of heros the world over. However, there is actually no difference between playing an imported character or a brand new one. It has become incredibly easy to pump up your attributes quickly, and even your starting characteristics are almost enough to get you through the game safely, although the thief class needs to practice his abilities.

The story is a bit cliche, but has enough unique twists to allow it to remain interesting. The ability to marry other characters is cool, although I never have figured out how to do it.

If you are a fan of the series, you'll love the game. If you're looking for an amazing, innovative RPG, look elsewhere. This game is a fun strategy/RPG filler.

The best game series ever...

5 Rating: 5, Useful: 0 / 1
Date: May 09, 2000
Author: Amazon User

This is the final touch for the Quest for Glory (or Hero's Quest) masterpiece. I highly recommend that if you want to buy chapter 5, you should alkso buy the rest of the chapters. Trust me, these are the best games you'll ever play.

Goes out with a fizzle...

3 Rating: 3, Useful: 0 / 1
Date: June 13, 2000
Author: Amazon User

I am a HUGE fan of the quest for glory series, in fact I still play quest for glory I-IV. But quest for glory V was seriously lacking. It seemed to be tacked on and quickly thrown together. If your a fan on QfG get this just to fifnish the series but be prepared to be disapointed. The only thing improved would be the graphics. The plot and humor that made I-IV what they were just doesn't seem to be in QfG5. My adviice, buy the QfG anthology I-IV are defiantly better even if there are in VGA (and worse) graphics.

A Good Game

4 Rating: 4, Useful: 0 / 1
Date: June 21, 2000
Author: Amazon User

The Quest for Glory series is the best series of computer games there is, in my opinion. Although not my favorite of the series, (QG2, Trial by Fire is), the graphics and music are really good.

The big problem I found with it, as in almost all of my Sierra games, is that there are some bugs in the game and you need to download a patch to fix them. This is a shame, because otherwise Sierra would make the best games out there.

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