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Quest for Glory 4 1/2 (2001)

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All is not well in the Valley of Spielburg. Elsa has disappeared (again) and the sheriff has been murdered. The rest of the valley is in chaos and the influx of heroes has done little to calm it. Your job is not done. It's time to go back to Spielburg.

For those of you who haven't played Quest for Glory series: it all started in 1989 when Sierra created first game, combining classic third person point and click adventure with RPG (upgradable statistics, side quests, battles) and on-the-edge humour. Five installments have been released so far. 4 1/2 mixes ripped-off VGA graphics with original story and potentially offensive dialogues and narrator's comments. It is heavily inspired by first chapter - So You Want to Be a Hero: Spielburg and almost all of its citizens are present and story centers around disappearing of Elsa, baron's daughter.

While made with Adventure Game Studio Quest for Glory 4 1/2 is a DOS game. You can experience trouble running it or you may be unable to run it at all. Game is also notable for numerous bugs and frequent crashes. Nothing will be ever done about it - official site is long dead and project not supported anymore. Even official AGS site lists authors as "unknown", so game is now considered something between freeware and abandonware.

Important note for players: Please safe your progress very often in several different save slots. Otherwise you might not be able to complete the game!

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  • Game license: Freeware
  • Game hunter: Pater Alf
  • Game proposer: eMTe
  • Download count: 3501
  • Platforms:
    • DOS
    • Windows 95
    • Windows 98
    • Windows XP
    • Windows 2000
    • DosBox
    • Windows 7/Vista

Genres

  • Point and Click
  • Adventure
  • RPG

Ratings

  • Game hunters' rating: (0 of 6)
  • Overall: 4.00 (1 vote)
  • Playability: 4.00 (1 vote)
  • Idea: 4.00 (1 vote)
  • Technical: 3.00 (1 vote)
  • Graphics: 4.00 (1 vote)
  • Music: 3.00 (1 vote)
  • Extras: 2.00 (1 vote)
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  • Blake00 :
    oh and another update.. I also originally asked for help on the Elsa problem in an old QFG4.5 thread over at the infamous adventures forum & its unintentionally started a rather interesting movement!

    They appear to have their hands on the authors source code and discussing the possibility of updating the game to the latest version of AGS! This would eliminate all of the current problems with getting the game to work on modern systems and possibly fix some other bugs too!

    http://www.infamous-adventures.com/forum/index.php?topic=1263.15

  • Blake00 :
    Will do! I'm doing a nice map as well.

    You guys have a great site here.. and I think you are the only ones who host the rare windows version of the game so I'll have to put the word out as there are some fans in other forums having immense trouble with the dos version!

  • Chroelle :
    You took the words right out of my mouth there PA. :)
  • Pater Alf :
    Just tell us when it's done. We would be happy to have it on our site as well.
  • Blake00 :
    Thanks guys.. never mind I got it on my own anyway lol.. The walkthrough neglects to tell you to go back into the graveyard catacombs. When I was there to ‘rescue’ the witches dorky son he wouldn’t let me take his evil candle but it suddenly dawned on me that he’s now back with mommy so I can take it from the catacombs unchallenged. Sure enough it worked and the evil candle melted Elsa’s icy prison! Within 5 minutes after freeing her I’d completed the game with over the max 500 points, woohoo!! Great ending too.. had a lot of laughs!

    I’ll finish re-writing the walkthrough and put it up on my site and submit it to some other sites so that others can enjoy the game with minimal hassle!

  • Pater Alf :
    I completed the game and I remember that I was first stuck at that point too. There is a solution, but after 2 years I can't remember what it was. Sorry! Maybe you could post your savefile here? I I could play the game from this point on, I might remember again...
  • Drasir-Vel :
    I haven't played it.
  • Blake00 :
    Hi guys, I’ve been following the only walkthrough in existence for Quest for Glory 4 ½ at

    http://www.agagames.com/AGSwalks/walkthrough.php?game=47

    Unfortunately its wrong in many places.. I’ve been attempting to rewrite my own walkthrough to give to communities with the correct directions and better quest order with no duplications. However I am stuck in the game.. have pretty much completed nearly all the quests but I have been unable to save Elsa stopping me from finishing the game (she gives you the secret entrance & rhyme to enter the castle).

    In the walkthrough it says once you’ve dressed up as a bad guy and got past the guards and then used the ice ring to scare off the ice demon it then tells you to click on the frozen Elsa to thaw her out. But when I click on her the game (in its usual crude humour) just cracks a joke about ‘feeling her up’ as she’s frozen and can’t catch you. That’s just great and all but how about the bloody thawing and rescuing??

    Has anyone here finished the game? Was an item needed to unfreeze her? Or is my game broken?

  • eMTe :
    If you cant run the game at all you probably downloaded DOS version. Try Windows version, it will at least run. Prepare for buggy and crashy ride though.
  • Pater Alf :
    Which version did you download? For the Dos version you might need DosBox. And which system do you use? I'm not sure the Windows version of the game runs with Windows Vista.

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