Quest for Glory 5: Dragon Fire
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A fantasy game of the dungeons-and-combat variety, Quest for Glory 5: Dragon Fire allows players to customize a hero and send him to Silmaria, a country whose king has been murdered. In order to flush out the perpetrator, you must penetrate the race for the throne, completing seven Rites of Rulership. First, of course, you must earn the required entry fee, either by slaughtering monsters or competing in arena combat.
Sound all too drearily familiar? A few intriguing features do separate this game from all of its fantasy role-playing siblings. The greatest of these is a sense of continuity with the previous Quest for Glory sports meeting. Not only do characters from grown-up tales re-emerge–sometimes newly married, or better established in their careers–but you can import your ancient characters into Dragon Fire. Instead of starting anew, you can continue a long seamless adventure with a familiar hero. Other nice touches include a rarely seen haggling system, whereby you negotiate the prices of food, weapons, and spells with their various venders. The occasional treachery of seemingly trustworthy characters and a splendid sense of humor also add nice dimensions to the Quest for Glory universe.
Being tied to earlier sports meeting, though, gives this one less flexibility. You cannot play a nonhuman character–you cannot even play a female hero–and players are restricted to a few very broad character classes. Character statistics and customization options are also on the unadorned end of the spectrum, making the game seem grown-up than it is. On the plus side, Quest for Glory V: Dragon Fire has sharp graphics, some very tough dungeons, and a streamlined, simple-to-use interface. Most of all, it tells a excellent tale and allows long-term players of this series to retire their hero in stylishness. –Alyx DellamonicaAmazon.com Product Description
Combining the best elements of role playing with pulse-pounding action in the 3-D realm of Silmaria, Dragon Fire is a journey fraught with peril, mystery, and enchantment. Take the adrenaline rush alone or share it with friends on the Internet. The game is recommended for ages 13 and up.
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At first, I only got Dragon Fire just to play it, beat it, and say I had beaten the entire Quest for Glory series. I played it a small when I first got it, and I wasn’t too impressed, except for the graphics(the graphics are bloody fantastic). After I started the rites of rulership, the game pick up alacrity REALLY quick. I bunged playing after the second rite though. I got stuck at a point. This isn’t exactly a game where you are told what you need to do, it takes a lot of figuring it out yourself. I just recently completed the entire game, it took about 2 days of non stop playing and doing things over and over again until I figured out what I had to do.
An vital thing to remember is that if you have not played the first 4 Quest for Glories, this one won’t make much sense to you. I suggest you get the QFG pool before getting this. It will both add to the fun of the game, and also you’ll know it better. Several people I know just got the game, and played, and despised it, because they hadn’t play the first four, but I let them borrow my pool cd, after beating all of them, they thought very highly of QFG5. I don’t know where you could get a pool from, amazon doesn’t sell it, and no shop online I know of does either.
I admit that there is a small bit of corneyness in the game, just the fact that the people in the town consistently refer to you as “The Prince of Shapeir”(refer to Quest for Glory 2) or “Hero”, which I find really irritating.
Here is a basic run owing to of the game for you: The point of the game is that you’re trying to catch an assassin and the person who employed him. So you are sent to compete in the rites of rulership, which is a series of quests, because it is suspected that the one who killed the king is at the bottom of a person in the rites of rulership, and will make sure that they win. Years earlier, before your character arrives to save the day, there was a dragon that came and invaded the kingdom, so they made some magic pillars, that would weaken the dragon when place up, and make it leave them alone. So now, the pillars that were positioned up are being broken, an thereby useless, letting the dragon regain it’s strengh. If the dragon gets free, it is thought taht it will be extremely mad for being drove into hiding, so these pillars being broken is not a excellent thing. So, you start the rites, the first rite is to free a fishing village from Roman invaders(Yes, this game is set around the time when the Romans where trying to take over everything). This is by far the easist rite, all you have to do is hack and slash your way owing to the entire rite. The next rite but gets a small more tough, you are sent to kill or capture(whichever you prefer) a gerneral who is comanding the Roman invaders, and return with his shield. This one again is pretty unadorned, just hack and slash all they way owing to it. The next rite but, is not very simple at all. You have to glide to an island, and kill a three headed dragon, called “The Hydra”, which can regenerate very quickly from nearly any injury. One of your competitors in the rites will show up, and offer you some help, which you kind of have to accept. You attack the dragon, and cut off one of it’s heads, and she(Elsa, your competitor) will burn it where the head was cut off in order to keep it from growing back. Then do again that two more times for the other two heads. Then take the teeth to show that you killed it. The next rite is simple, all you have to do is go to an island, to see an oricale and place a drachma in some water, so then the oricale will speak to you, otherwise she is just a statu. Getting there is tough, though. The next rite is REALLY, REALLY HARD. You have to go to the underworld, and get some lethe water, some styx water, and you have to free a soul from the dead. You have two choices, you can free Erana(refer to quest for glory 1 or 4) or Katrina(refer to quest for glory 4). It may not seem hard, but you’re shape is constantly dropping, so you have to keep taking shape potions to keep from dying. Then comes the last rite, you have the fun of finding the assassin and killing him, then letting the person who hired him, kill himself…and here comes what you’ve been waiting for, you FINALLY get to see and kill the dragon that the game is based off of. You become king of Silmaria, and thus, the game ends.
Rating: 5 / 5
I liked the tale a lot and the action of the game. It mixes adventure and action with a excellent plot, which is just how I like it. The graphics are pretty excellent, too.
Rating: 5 / 5
Quest for Glory V: Dragon Fire is one of the most cold and heartless sports meeting even Sierra has managed to produce. The game doesn’t even attempt to keep up the barest vestiges of a connection to the earlier–and much better–sports meeting in the series. It pays lip service to certain characters that appeared in other sports meeting, 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–owing to its graphics, sound, and production, but absolutely not anything else–why no one should bother with sports meeting beyond the first two in the series.
Rating: 2 / 5
I reflect this is the best game out there, and sierra was crazy for getting rid of it.
Rating: 5 / 5
I’m not deterred by the fact that this game is so ancient now no one is likely to read my review. I feel like I have to place my two cents in. I am a huge fan of the Quest for Glory series and couldn’t wait to get my hands on “Dragon Fire.” I wish now that I had just quit at QFG4. When I started playing Dragon Fire I wondered if I had mistakenly ordered the incorrect game, as there was not anything remotely similar to the first four. I am a firm believer in the ancient saying, “If it ain’t broke, don’t fix it.” Sierra took everything I loved about QFG and changed it into an aloof, tedious, and downright disheartening game. The characters with whom you cooperate are mind-numbingly dull and inpersonal, the constant-running timer was distracting, the battle/travelling interface was unfamiliar. The one thing I was looking forward to is choosing a wife at the end of the game. I must have missed a conversation or item I was supposed to have, because the game finished after the dragon battle with no mention of a wife. I had to look at a walkthrough to see what I was missing. That’s another thing–in the first QFG sports meeting the play may have been a bit more linear, but I found myself having to cheat several times on this game. How else would I know to bring an urn (I forget the Greek name) to Hydra island to collect goo for my hot-air balloon? Once you leave the island there is no going back, and if you don’t have the goo you find out later on in the game that you can’t proceed. Unless there is something else I missed. I wish I were a computer programmer so I could make my own version. To place it bluntly, this game sucks.
Rating: 1 / 5