History Videogame / QuestForGlory

* ConcealingCanvas: Common.

* TheCommandments: Tarna's legal system in the third game.

* AndTheAdventureContinues: The endings to the first and fourth games are this, and you can choose for the fifth to be this. The third is a proper {{Cliffhanger}} and the finale of the second has the Hero resting on his laurels for a couple of months before [[CallToAdventure the call]] crops up again in the third.

* AndTheAdventureContinues: The ending to [[spoiler:the fourth game. The final game can end like this if you so choose]].
** Also the end of the first game.

-->--'''The Hero''', (talking to himself) in the '''''Quest for Glory 1''''' VGA remake

Back in the [[TheEighties 80s]] and throughout the [[TheNineties 90s]], {{Sierra}} was big in adventures. We had ''[[KingsQuest King's Quest]]'', ''PoliceQuest'', ''SpaceQuest'' and everything you could stick a "Quest" to (and a couple of other ones). What most of these have in common, though, was that they used variants on the same engine and thus had the same game play, first using the parser ("get item") then using a more "traditional" (for adventures) point and click interface.

* ''QuestForGloryI: So You Want To Be A Hero?''
* ''QuestForGloryII: Trial by Fire''
* ''QuestForGloryIII: Wages Of War''
* ''QuestForGloryIV: Shadows Of Darkness''
* ''QuestForGloryV: Dragon Fire''

* StayInTheKitchen: Several characters in [=QFG5=] make disparaging remarks about Elsa's fighting ability; considering she's the strongest NPC warrior in the game, however...
** In the first game, she can OneHitKill the hero. Then again, this is because of [[AWizardDidIt the magic spell possessing her]].
*** The spell only made Elsa forget who she was. It didn't affect her fighting skills at all. She really is that good.

* FoodPorn: Anything made by Shema, Sloree, Scoree, Bella, or Marrak. Subverted to the point of NauseaFuel by Gnome Ann's cooks.

* FoodPorn: Anything made by Shema, Sloree, Scoree, Bella [[YourMileageMayVary (if you like garlic)]], or Marrak. Subverted to the point of NauseaFuel by Gnome Ann's cooks.

* MadScientist: Bunch of these running around in the fourth and fifth games, most prominently Doctor Cranium in the fourth. Unifying themes with all of them include obsessive love of pizza and obstinate disbelief (even in the face of the obvious) in all magic.

* SealedEvilInACan: Each installment, beginning with "Trial By Fire". [[CaptainObvious The actual sealed evil]] is Iblis, not the elementals.
** The elementals were actually meant to attract someone that could fulfill the prophecy that would release Iblis.
*** If you didn't defeat the elementals by weakening them and ''sealing them in their proper container'', you'd get a game over and a message stating that the elemental grew too powerful to defeat and that it destroyed the city of Shapeir.

* {{Whoring}}: By design, where you constantly repeat a task to improve a skill.

* EccentricMentor: Erasmus, although he is quite a bit of a goofball.

* FanSequel: [=QFG4.5=] "So You Thought You Were a Hero?" is a parody sequel to the fourth game which disregards the fifth and largely takes place in Spielburg. Also various others in production that never seem to get anywhere (Hero6 being the most prominent example) and a bunch of parodies including QuestForOrgy, and QuestForYrolg.

* TheMentor: Only paladins get one. Rakeesh to paladin players in the 3rd and fifth game. [[spoiler:The Paladin Piotyr in the fourth game, despite being dead for several decades.]] The Famous Adventurer to a degree in the fifth game and prior to the first: It's his writings that taught you to become a hero.
** A bit of this with Erasmus for mage players in the second game, as he is the only one who will sponsor your entry into the Wizard's Institute of Technocery in Shapeir in ''Trial by Fire''.

* BreakingTheFourthWall: The VGA remake doesn't allow you to rob the sheriff's safe twice or you will be arrested for "blatant power-gaming."

*** The fan-remake of the second game adds another one: [[spoiler:if you request Katrina as your sponsor for the WIT exams, the wizards are so incensed that they teleport you to the Mordavian swamps, with your HaveANiceDeath message informing you that you aren't strong enough to survive because you skipped a game.]]

* VaporWear: Uhura of the Simbani wears only a large tribal necklace as a top in the third game, and in the remake of the second. Justified as it's the standard garb of a Simbani warrior, Uhura being the only female member.

* FanSequel: [=QFG4.5=] "So You Thought You Were a Hero?" Also various others in production that never seem to get anywhere (Hero6 being the most prominent example) and a bunch of parodies including QuestForOrgy, and QuestForYrolg.
** It should be noted that some parts of [=QFG4.5=] have been {{Jossed}} by the fifth game.
*** Not really Jossed, since [=QFG4=] 1/2 was made AFTER QFGV came out and [=QFG4=] 1/2 was never meant to be canon or even fanon to begin with.

** The brigand wizard from [=QFG1=] turns out not to be what he seems. [=QFG3=] doesn't really have a dragon. [=QFG4=] has [[spoiler:Ad Avis]], who also qualifies as TheStarscream. [=QFG5=] has a literal dragon as the BigBad, and TheDragon in the form of a corrupt merchant.

* AntiHero: The Thief character can do some pretty dickish things in his sidequests.

* TheDevTeamThinksOfEverything: Certain commands produce amusing results; the most famous is "pick nose", which has you use your lockpick on yourself, either killing you or opening your nose depending on how skilled you are. ''Trial by Fire'' has a few of its own, such as "put down lamp" making your character verbally abuse the item, "drop lamp" makes you break up with it, and "give Ferrari the bird" has... well... [[FlippingTheBird the obvious result]].
** The last one isn't as much of an example of this trope as you'd think, though, as you have a bird and you need to provide it to Ferrari -- it's pretty much guaranteed that the player is going to type that. (Partly because [[ButThouMust the only commands that the parser accepts at that point include the words "give" and "bird."]]) More The Dev Team Makes funny interface jokes sometimes.
*** The dev team clearly ''does not'' think of everything, considering how frequent (especially) the fourth game crashes with the error message "you tried something we didn't think of".
** The "pick nose"-thing was taken even further in the remake of the second game. Not only could you pick your nose, but surrounding characters actually had a wide range of reactions to it... ranging from giving you a weird look, making fun of you, or throwing you out of their house.

* ActionMom - Uhura (No, not [[StarTrekTheOriginalSeries that one]])

* AntiHero - The Thief character can do some pretty dickish things in his sidequests.
* BagOfSpilling - Played with; games 2, 3, and 5 partially avert it by letting you retain your money and some of your items (though your money is confiscated near the climax of 2, limiting you to the "prize money" you get for saving Raesir). Game 4 plays it straight with the justification of a botched teleport spell, but in the long run there's a slight subversion as in game 5, Rakeesh will return something that you left behind when you teleported.

* BattleThemeMusic - In all the games, though how it is done varies. Some games simply have the same tune in all battles, or have one or two variants (ie. easy and hard combat). The fourth game has individual themes for every foe, some of which may qualify as CrowningMusicOfAwesome, due to the [[http://66.49.226.244/digital/qfg4cd/QFG4Track22.ogg Power of Rock]].
* BellyDancer - The profession of the slinky and seductive Nawar, one of the possible love interests for the Hero. The zaftig bar tender/former harem girl Budar also does this in the fifth game, as does the Hero himself (the comedic male version of the trope). In the second game, the Hero's Katta friend Shema dances in the inn owned by her and her husband.
* BloodierAndGorier - In QuestForGloryIII, many death animations show the hero melting, (if poisoned,) impaled by a spear, or turning into a food product such as a hamburger or (in a famous easter egg) a pizza. (When eaten. And no, it is not as graphic as you think.) While it is not overly bloody, it is certainly more so than the first two games. This is surprisingly {{Inverted}} in the fourth and darkest game, in which some deaths just show (vegetarian!) food products if the hero is eaten, and most deaths just show the hero falling. Only few examples avert this.

* CrossoverCosmology - Baba Yaga, Djinns and more exist within the same universe, depending on the place.

* DoesNotLikeShoes - Katrina seems to be barefoot in some scenes.
* EasterEgg - Boy howdy.
** One of the most famous examples is in [=QFG2=], where using X-ray glasses at a certain time allows you to see [[FanService pixelated VGA boobies]].
* EccentricMentor - Erasmus, although he is quite a bit of a goofball.

* FanNickname - Often thought to be averted, since the name of the main character is known, among many fans, as Devon Aidendale, a name taken from a strategy guide. WordOfGod says it was just the name of that writer's character and insisted that the hero is supposed to be whoever you want them to be.
* FanSequel - [=QFG4.5=] "So You Thought You Were a Hero?" Also various others in production that never seem to get anywhere (Hero6 being the most prominent example) and a bunch of parodies including QuestForOrgy, and QuestForYrolg.

* FantasticRacism - The Liontaur-run city of Tarna is an example. A lot of liontaurs make no secret out of the fact that they consider humans an inferior species. Humans and most liontaurs live segregated in Tarna, with humans being forbidden to enter the liontaur section of the city. Liontaurs are the only ruling class and humans have to live on the lower plateaus of the city, so liontaurs literally look down on them.
* FantasyCounterpartCulture - Justified, since Gloriana (the world of ''Quest for Glory'') is [[WordOfGod an alternate Earth]].

* FetchQuest - Naturally, some of the quests fall into this category. The adventure game/RPG hybrid nature helps here though, and lots of times you need to think on how to restore the soul of a woman turned into a tree, how to build a flying machine, or how to capture a baby antwerp, rather than simply ferrying raw materials to some guy who'll do the thinking for you.
* FighterMageThief - The three classes your character can be. A fourth class, Paladin, can later be unlocked.
* FlatEarthAtheist - A lot of the Scientists believe there is no such thing as magic... in spite of there being plenty of mages whose magic is easy to verify empirically that it does indeed work. In the last game, some went so far as to try and murder a few of them. [[spoiler:It turns out that they consider all magic that does work to be "the crime of altering reality".]]

* FriendToAllLivingThings - Erana. She objects to being given flowers as a gift, because it kills the flowers...

* GondorCallsForAid - The end of [=QFG3=]. Also, the end of [=QFG5=].
* HalfHumanHybrid - Erana and Zara, half human, half faerie folk. Yorick is also commented on seemingly "having Gnomish blood in him". Also, Goons are considered half-human, half-ogre.
* HandshakeSubstitute - The Thief Sign, which is incredibly silly on purpose, so that non-Thieves will just write it off as a seizure or something.

* HeroicMime - From the third game on, whenever you "speak", a dialogue box says something like: "you tell the people about your exploits". He has said a few things in the earlier games, mainly to Aziza and to himself, as well as have the narration box quote you.
* HeroicSacrifice [[spoiler:Katrina in the fourth game. Gort, Toro, Erana, and possibly the protagonist]] when facing the Dragon. All of the above are intentional, and the first is perhaps the best example, as [[spoiler:if the player is engaged to Erana, and tells her that he will sacrifice himself, after her protest (and, as I recall, declaration that she'd rather she die than the player), Gort instead offers to sacrifice himself so that the couple can be together.]] Points are awarded for averting this as it's considerably more difficult: the sacrifice cuts the dragon's health in half.

* {{Improv}} - In the fourth game, the voice actors of the 3 farmers in the inn actually abandoned their own scripts and improvised their lines based loosely on the actual ones, resulting in hilarious dialog that's only captured in the voice friendly version of the game.
* ItOnlyWorksOnce - The Ultimate Joke. Also, the thermonuclear blast spell, albeit for [[ExactlyWhatItSaysOnTheTin different reasons]].
* JackOfAllTrades - It is easy to make the Hero into one of these, especially if you start with the first game and import your character to the others - it's relatively cheap to buy new skills in the first game, and gets progressively more expensive in the later games. So yes, you can be a Fighter or Thief who can cast a few spells, or a Magic User who can throw rocks and climb trees like a pro.

* KarmaMeter - Honor, but only barely. It only matters if you want to be a Paladin, or already are (allowing you to unlock new skills). [[spoiler:Wizards who want to marry Erana also need sufficiently high honor.]]
* KnifeNut - Bruno in the first game [[spoiler:and fifth game, as the ASSASSIN.]]

* KnightErrant - Let's face it, the capacity for evil of all classes of Hero are limited, but the Paladin is the exemplar of the Knight Errant. Rakeesh also meets the criteria for a Knight Errant. He's somewhat past his prime by the time he and the Hero meet, but that doesn't stop him from getting around.

* LargeHam - Baba Yaga

* LovableRogue - Ugarte. The hero if you are a thief.
* LostForever - It is EASY to mess up becoming a Paladin in the second game, mainly by taking dishonorable actions like killing unarmed people or peeking at dressing slave girls (that being said, there's only ''one'' action that will ruin your chances to become a paladin on its own: killing the griffon. Everything else simply affects your chances). May, however, be subverted because you can choose to be a Paladin in the third and fourth game by using your old save.

* MagicVersusScience - The scientists are all portrayed as {{Flat Earth Atheist}}s to a man. Some go so far as to try and assassinate several of the mages.

* {{Minotaur}} - Traditional, except not quite as bloodthirsty as in mythology.
** Although since we only see ''two'' in the entire series, and the second one (Minos' bodyguard) seems to be quite bloodthirsty, it's hard to say which one is the typical example.
* NonHumanSidekick - Manu the monkey in the third game, for the Hero. Some NPC wizards also have familiars, most notably Fenrus (the rat familiar of Erasmus). Frequently misspelled as [[NorseMythology Fenris]] in the fifth game.
* OldSaveBonus - Explained above

* PettingZooPeople - So very many... The setting favors these over the traditional Elves and Dwarves of Tolkien/D&D style fantasy.

* PrestigeClass - Paladin
* RedemptionEqualsDeath - See Heroic Sacrifice above.

* StayInTheKitchen - Several characters in [=QFG5=] make disparaging remarks about Elsa's fighting ability; considering she's the strongest NPC warrior in the game, however...

* TheDevTeamThinksOfEverything - Certain commands produce amusing results; the most famous is "pick nose", which has you use your lockpick on yourself, either killing you or opening your nose depending on how skilled you are. ''Trial by Fire'' has a few of its own, such as "put down lamp" making your character verbally abuse the item, "drop lamp" makes you break up with it, and "give Ferrari the bird" has... well... [[FlippingTheBird the obvious result]].

* SchizoTech - Justified by WordOfGod saying a global cataclysm caused time to advance differently in different parts of the world, explaining why (for example) one part of the world is set in ArabianNightsDays while another has a MadScientist playing {{Frankenstein}}.
* ScienceIsWrong - Scientists tend not to be portrayed positively, being either obstinate, foolish, or even malicious, and they fanatically cling to their belief in a purely scientific reality in a world where people can literally shoot lightning from their hands. Meanwhile, homeopathy is a legitimate means of curing things (though most likely involves the judicious use of magic).

* ScrewDestiny - In the fifth game, [[spoiler:a prophecy says it will take a willing sacrifice to seal the dragon. Or you can just be powerful and badass enough to ''outright'' kill the thing!]]

* SealedEvilInACan - Each installment, beginning with "Trial By Fire". [[CaptainObvious The actual sealed evil]] is Iblis, not the elementals.

* ShoutOut - So very many. Just to begin with, each game features a nod to a famous comedian or comedy troupe, including the Three Stooges in [=QFG1=], the Marx Brothers in [=QFG2=], Sanford & Son and Laurel & Hardy in [=QFG3=], and Rodney Dangerfield in [=QFG4=] (sadly, ''Dragon Fire'' lacked such a reference).

* StartXToStopX - Quest for Glory II, III, and IV all have this. In IV, for example, the only way to drive the [[EldritchAbomination Dark One]] away from Mordavia is by completing the rituals to summon it TO Mordavia ([[spoiler:in order to also free the spirit of Erana who was also trapped with the Dark One, so she could complete her spell of banishment]]).
* StatisticallySpeaking - Subverted.
* TalkingAnimal - Fenrus the rat, the familiar of Erasmus (also a PungeonMaster), a fox who gives you some advice in the first game, and Manu the monkey in the third.
* ThievesGuild - A staple in the series for Thief characters. There are active guilds in the first and fifth games. The fourth has a guild that's mostly abandoned.
* TooDumbToLive - A character can train his lockpicking skill by typing "Pick Nose". If your skill is too low, you jam the lockpick in your nose and kill yourself.

* UnexplainedRecovery - In [=QFG1=], the fighter has to fight Toro apparently to the death, although the game [[NeverSayDie never confirms that he is dead.]] Toro is then seen alive (with his arm in a sling) when the credits roll, and is seen again in [=QFG5=].
* {{Unwinnable}} - Mostly averted. While there are instances of this (it is a Sierra series after all), most of the deaths are either the result of the hero not being strong enough, not being careful enough, or just a case of ViolationOfCommonSense like dropping your own sword before combat.

* UnwittingPawn - The Hero accomplishes the villain's goals approximately 3 times out of 5. And still manages to [[OutGambitted out-gambit]] the villain each time. Usually by being at the RightPlaceAtTheWrongTime, or just a plain old IndyPloy. The Hero is, starting with the second game, [[StartXToStopX directly responsible for the bad things that happen in every game, and then directly responsible for making things right afterwards.]] Sometimes there's a prophecy about it. Most times the hero just says ScrewDestiny.
* VideoGameCrueltyPotential - Despite the protagonist's supposedly noble demeanor, you can get away with a staggering amount of cold-blooded butchery without a game over: Killing a helpless [[TalkingAnimal talking fox]], killing the baronet of Spielburg, and killing the Chief Thief in Mordavia, just to name a few.

* WeirdTradeUnion - The Adventurers' Guild and the ThievesGuild. Sometimes the attendant jokes are dropped, such as "Local ###" or regarding union dues.
* WhatCouldHaveBeen - The Coles have [[WordOfGod 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 TheArtifact of the latter. Similarly, the fifth game lost the ability to use bow and arrow, and to play as Elsa, over the course of its development.

* WizardNeedsFoodBadly - You die of starvation if you go too long without eating and can dehydrate without drinking in the second game.

* YetAnotherStupidDeath - See TooDumbToLive, above.

* LadyOfWar: Elsa von Spielberg

* Whoring: By design, where you constantly repeat a task to improve a skill.

The four first games can be found as Abandonware on certain sites. You may need {{DosBox}} to run them (especially the fourth one who is tricky to make work properly), or you can use [=ScummVM=] to play the first three, but they are highly worth checking out. The second game has a [[http://www.agdinteractive.com/games/qfg2/ VGA fan remake]] that is compatible with modern computers.

* IGotBetter - In [=QFG1=], the fighter has to fight Toro apparently to the death, although the game [[NeverSayDie never confirms that he is dead.]] Toro is then seen alive (with his arm in a sling) when the credits roll, and is seen again in [=QFG5=].

* BrickJoke: The QG3 documentation lists "Thermonuclear Blast" as a possible spell. It only appears at the end if the [[BigBad demon]] succeeds in opening the gate for the BiggerBad to past through. In QG5, someone finds a scroll enabling the player character to learn the spell, which could be used to defeat the dragon in the final battle.