Definitely. I learned a lot of stuff from, amusingly enough, King's Quest. However, I was pointing out that they used the number 2 instead of the word "to" in their sentence, which is somewhat ironic.

I'd pick Space Quest 4+5+6, although Space Quest 3 is one of my favorites in the series and worth a look too. I'm just not the biggest King's Quest fan, the only one I really like and would recommend is King's Quest 6. Tierra's/AGDi's (and IA's) remakes do a good job of making the first three games in the King's Quest series worthwhile though. Similarly, IA's Space Quest 2 remake makes the worst game in the Space Quest series decent. I'd suggest playing the originals only to see just how much the fan efforts have managed to improve
them.

EDIT: Sierra's parser games were some of my first games when I moved abroad and started learning English.

Real life is also notoriously bad with paths you're walking on suddenly becoming extremely narrow, if somebody else watches you not straight from above. It also gets much worse, if they are moving away, since the path shrinks in their eye, unlike you. And if a spiral staircase is involved, you're hosed.
At least KQ is better than their Mystery House, that one is downright horrible. And free... Watch the first 3 of both series on Youtube. Then pick between player-abusive movie-reference humor of SQ and "look, dear, I can cram a ton of fairy tales in one game thing" of KQ.

Don't know much about King's Quest but if you go for Space Quest this might help you decide for yourself where to start:

Space Quest 1 was the basic Sierra "quest game" template set in space. It was very short and simplistic. Space Quest 2 still used the same template but was considerably longer and more diverse. It had "acts" which each had a different mood, cutscenes, a villain and some memorable situations but was still quite a primitive game.

Space Quest 3 was where the series became interesting. The engine had a very noticeable upgrade. It's also the game that set the series' distinctive style. I don't know what I can say without giving spoilers but it did things that no adventure game had done before.

Most people seem to say that either 4 or 5 is the best. 5 is my personal favourite. SQ4 is all about time travel - slipping between past and (hypothetical) future Space Quest games while pursued by the Sequel Police! It was another big jump in technology from SQ3 and had a mature engine with 256 colours, voice and motion-captured animation. Space Quest 6 has you command your own ship and its dangerously-uncooperative crew as you save civilisation from a rather gruesome fate.

Good starting points are 1 if you're a completionist, 3 if you want to play from where it starts getting good but don't mind playing a game that shows its age, or you could skip straight to 4 for a "modern" experience. In my opinion, jumping straight to 4 and 5 could be the most enjoyable way to play.

Space Quest, hands down. It wins by having Gary Owens as the narrator.

Ah, missed that. I'm so used to "internet speak" that I hardly even notice these things anymore.

off topic :

I'm offering 6 Steam keys for these :

King's Quest 4 + 5 + 6
Space Quest 4 + 5 + 6

http://www.gog.com/en/forum/general/classifieds/post2159

Already mentioned many times above I guess, that King's Quest is more serious, and if you want good laugh go with Space Quest. I suggest just play them all actually, one at a time, be with walkthrough or not.

Are people deliberatly making the spelling mistake In Space Quest ?
It's been 2 times in the same thread by 2 different posters, so I was wondering :s



PS : No actualy it's the same Poster (The OP) ; my wrong...
He /She might be dyslexic, if it's the case sorry :s; I really thought it was different posters.

There never was a commercial VGA version. There was a SCI version though.

EDIT: It occurs to me that you probably meant to say SQ1, which did have a VGA remake, and not KQ1.

there's this, which you can try out and see if you like:

http://www.agdinteractive.com/games/kq1/about/about.html

No, I meant KQ1, and yes indeed it had VGA graphics. But, it was panned by fans because they changed some of the puzzles and got the typical you can't colorize that response. The remake came out in 1990 and I remember it fondly.

This should clear that up. https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=fXtGUDksY8A

That's the SCI version.

I figured that out after I posted. But, it's a VGA game, which is where you confused me. It had twice the resolution of what the previous game had. VGA has 16 color and 8 bit color modes.