Trivia / Quest for Glory

• Feelies:
  • The DOS games came with "The Famous Adventurer's Correspondence School" books.
  • Quest for Glory II came with a nice watercolor-looking map of Shapeir.
• The Other Darrin: Within the same game, surprisingly. John Rhys Davies voices all of the narrator's lines, including those that contain quotes from other characters (such as Dr. Cranium's "Don't knock; come on in!" or Punny Bones' "Oops, sorry! Seems I forgot about my burglar alarm!" when you knock on the doors to their lab and bedroom, respectively, even though Jeff Bennett voices all the rest of Dr. Cranium's lines, and Hamilton Camp the rest of Punny Bones' lines).
• What Could Have Been:
  • The Coles have said on record that several intended features had to be cut from the series for various reasons, usually time and technical limitations. For example, the first game was supposed to have different races (Gnome thief, Elf wizard, Centaur archer, Human jack-of-all-trades) and a large Goblin warren maze; the former was replaced with the three classes, while the Goblin base remains as The Artifact of the latter. Similarly, the fifth game lost the ability to use bow and arrow, multiplayer, and to play as Elsa, over the course of its development.
  • Other artifacts of the first game: The workshop appeared to be occupied in the original version of the first game (the remake made it more clear that it serves no purpose); it, along with the butcher shop, barber shop, and bakery were probably intended to serve some sort of purpose that was scrapped, and thus are always closed in the final version.
  • The second game, Trial by Fire, was meant to be a 256-color VGA game, which would have made it Sierra's first, until Ken Williams decided to reserve the honor for their latest flagship game, King's Quest V. As a result, Trial was relegated to EGA status. A fan-created VGA version was released in 2008.
  • After Sierra closed their offices at Yosemite, the Coles tried to buy the QFG IP from Sierra, but to no avail.
• Word of God:
  • The series was originally intended to be four games, but in the design process for Shadows of Darkness the Coles decided that going from an evil wizard to an Eldritch Abomination was too far a jump for the Big Bad, and made Wages of War as a transition. In a 2008 interview, they added that after completing Trial by Fire, they felt that Rakeesh and Uhura were "crying out to have their stories told".
  • The Coles have said that Gloriana, the games' setting, is an alternate Earth which suffered an explosion of magic, creating the various animaloid races like Liontaurs, as well as making time flow differently in different parts of the world (hence the Schizo Tech).

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