They hated Drangon's Lair for the mad controls too back in the day.
It was pretty, they said. Yeah it was nice. But really almost wasn't a game.
Still it was entertaining. Just not much of a game.
Then the Ace something came. That didn't go too well with critics either :)
Space Ace or something.

oh dear, activision.

prior to this going live, ken and roberta were sorta saying that we'd "like" what the odd gentlemen were doing, but...

activision, you done pissed in my wheaties. this is /not/ what i'd like/want.

i must say that a couple of things stuck out to me:

the music felt movie-trailer generic, but sort of fitting and i kind of liked that.

the graphics are pretty good. i see some of the original game in there. graham's most definitely "sir" again and not "king," but by the same token, he looks too young - they're turning him into "generic 18-25 year old dude." not excited for that :(

which leads me to my next point. a lot of it looked like cut scenes, but there were one or two bits that /did/ look like game play and...it looks like a side-scrolling platform game. do i mind those? not in the least. i bought and played shovel knight from end to end and loved it a great deal. do i think king's quest should get messed up with that kind of thing? no. a similar stylistic leap was tried in mask of eternity. pretty much /no one/ liked that game. [i didn't mind it: the way i played it was to just "strip" every vestige of king's quest from it in my head, that way, it was just "another generic tomb raider" knock-off - and played like that, it was middling, if forgettable.]

so, sorry, activision. this isn't what i wanted you to do with a resurrected sierra. i'm reserving /real/ judgement until i see gameplay, but my "fake judgement" right now is...urgh. no.

Looks like Trine to me. I am okay with that.

Sorry, but is it confirmed the game will be a huge QTE, or is it an assumption from the OP?

No, it was a joke of sorts on my part. It looks like Dragon's Lair, if you could control it beyond the QTEs.

EDIT: I'm actually very much sure it's some sort of either platforming or The Cave-esque game.

Ha, is anything on that box representative of the actual game? Possibly the shield.

Don't know... King's Quest as an action platformed (how this looks like) or King's Quest as a visual novel (what telltales does now)... not sure which one is worse :)

Concerning the trailer I would lie if I said that was what I was expecting... but then again it's just a trailer, maybe it will play as a regular point and click and those were only cinematics.

I'm not sure about it yet, i will wait and see some actual gameplay videos before judging it.

except that there's /definitely/ elements of kq1 in there:

the dragon. the magic mirror?

those are all elements of the original game. i think what they're going for is a "re-imagining" of sir graham's rise to king graham. i was /very/ wary of that, too. i dunno who i'd trust in the modern era to make a new king's quest, but i went and looked up "the odd gentlemen" way back when, when they were announced as working on this project and i found it a sort of very weird fit.

telltale, while closer to an "adventure game house" are a company i have...issues with. i'm not sure they could do the source material justice.

From back in the days when you could have "Put on your thinking cap!" on the box as a selling point.

The Odd Gentlemen did actually post a concept pic of Graham a while ago where he was shown in different ages. The idea apparently is that old Graham is telling stories from different parts of his life. So this could end up as retelling of best bits from 1,2, 5 and some other stories, where we see also age approriate Graham.

Well, at least it made me want to replay the original games. It's about time for my annual Sierra run anyway. Thanks, Activision.

That's just about the only thing. Well, that and the fact that Graham's a knight. *g* It was the IBM PC, Jr. Entertainment series version of KQ, on a 5.25" floppy.

Yep. Back in the day... a good thirty years ago, I think.

If so, I'd like to know why all the parts they showed in the trailer were from the first game: The shield, the dragon, the giant, the gnome, the staircase, the well.... If they're doing multiple game bits, it would've been nice to see more of the other parts. Either way, he looks way too young for the first game. He was supposed to be the king's best knight, and you don't get that at age 17. :P

One possible explanation: Daventry didn't have the Chest, Mirror nor Shield in the first place. So Grahm earns his knighthood in the court by collecting these items during his youth, and later recollects them in King's Quest I, a couple decades later. This means that Grahm was too inexperienced to permanently deal with the dragon, giant, and other threats to the kingdom, but he managed to obtain various treasures to see Daventry through hard times up until those items were stolen.

Mind, I don't expect that the developers would try something like that. Odds are that this is a re-imagining of the first game.