History Trivia / GabrielKnight

* GenreKiller: The infamous [[MoonLogicPuzzle "cat hair mustache" puzzle]] in ''Gabriel Knight 3'' is cited by Website/OldManMurray as one for adventure games as a whole. To be somewhat fairer, though, he didn't consider ''Gabriel Knight'' to be a particular killer, merely a good case study for how the genre had embraced nonsensical "puzzles" and FakeDifficulty to the point of becoming utterly unapproachable nonsense.

** Accessing SIDNEY in ''Blood of the Sacred, Blood of the Damned'' gives you a lot of seemingly irrelevant information about hauntings in Scotland, which WordOfGod has confirmed was intended as a teaser for the fourth game. After it became apparent that ''[=GK4=]'' wasn't going to get funding, Jensen apparently briefly considered turning her material into a novel. Needless to say, fully twenty years on neither a game nor a novel has appeared yet, and though ''[=GK4=]'' is still officially on Jane Jensen's to-do list, there's no telling when or if it'll happen at this point.

* GenreKiller: The infamous [[MoonLogicPuzzle "cat hair mustache" puzzle]] in ''Gabriel Knight 3'' is cited by Website/OldManMurray as one for adventure games as a whole.

** Accessing SIDNEY in ''Blood of the Sacred, Blood of the Damned'' gives you a lot of seemingly irrelevant information about hauntings in Scotland, which WordOfGod has confirmed was intended as a teaser for the fourth game. After it became apparent that ''[=GK4=]'' wasn't going to get funding, Jensen apparently briefly considered turning her material into a novel. Needless to say, nearly twenty years on neither a game nor a novel has appeared yet, and though ''[=GK4=]'' is still officially on Jane Jensen's to-do list, there's no telling when or if it'll happen at this point.

* GenreKiller: The infamous [[MoonLogicPuzzle "cat hair mustache" puzzle]] in ''Gabriel Knight 3'' is cited by Creator/OldManMurray as one for adventure games as a whole.

* AllStarCast: While making the first ''Gabriel Knight'', everyone at Sierra probably stopped working when Creator/MarkHamill, Creator/TimCurry, Creator/MichaelDorn, Creator/MaryKayBergman, Creator/JimCummings, Creator/JeffBennett and so many other stars stopped by their office to record their lines.

* AllStarCast: While making the first Gabriel Knight, everyone at Sierra probably stopped working when Creator/MarkHamill, Creator/TimCurry, Creator/MichaelDorn, Creator/MaryKayBergman, Creator/JimCummings, Creator/JeffBennett and so many others stopped by their office to record their lines.

* AllStarCast: While making the first Gabriel Knight, everyone at Sierra probably stopped working when Creator/MarkHamill, Creator/TimCurry and Creator/MichaelDorn stopped by their office to record their lines.

* PlayingAgainstType: [[Creator/TimCurry Tim]] "Too scary to play the [[PrecisionFStrike fucking]] [[{{Franchise/Batman}} Joker]]" [[Creator/TimCurry Curry]] is the hero? And [[Creator/MarkHamill Mark]] "Actually played the fucking Joker" Hamill is the BumblingSidekick?]]

* PlayingAgainstType: [[Creator/TimCurry Tim]] "Too scary to play the [[PrecisionFStrike fucking]] [[{{Franchise/Batman}} Joker]]" [[Creator/TimCurry Curry]] is the hero? And [[Creator/MarkHamill Mark]] "Actually played the fucking Joker" Hamill is [[TheSidekick the bumbling sidekick?]]

* PlayingAgainstType: ''[[Creator/TimCurry Tim]] [[PrecisionFStrike fucking]] [[Creator/TimCurry Curry]]'' is the hero?

* HeyItsThatGuy: The fan Grace meets in chapter two of ''The Beast Within'' is [[Series/MightyMorphinPowerRangers Ms. Appleby]].
* HeyItsThatVoice: Creator/TimCurry as Gabriel in the first and third installments. Also [[Series/TheKingOfQueens Leah Remini]] as Grace (first game only), [[Series/StarTrekTheNextGeneration Michael Dorn]] as Dr. John, and MarkHamill as Mosely! Iconic, veteran voice actors Creator/JeffBennett and Creator/JimCummings also had minor roles.
** Hell, just check out [[http://www.imdb.com/title/tt0109865/fullcredits#cast the imdb page]], and prepare to have your mind ''blown''.
** Some of the voice actors have done voice work in the ''Franchise/MetalGear'' series, including Jennifer Hale [[VideoGame/MetalGearSolid (Naomi Hunter]] and [[VideoGame/MetalGearSolid2SonsOfLiberty Emma Emmerich)]], Gregg Berger and David Allen Thomas [[VideoGame/MetalGearSolid3SnakeEater (The Pain and The Sorrow respectively)]], Richard Doyle [[VideoGame/MetalGearSolid3SnakeEater (The Fury]] and [[VideoGame/MetalGearSolid4GunsOfThePatriots Big Boss)]], and Dorian Harewood [[VideoGame/MetalGearRisingRevengeance (Prime Minister N'Mani)]].

** Accessing SIDNEY in ''Blood of the Sacred, Blood of the Damned'' gives you a lot of seemingly irrelevant information about hauntings in Scotland, which WordOfGod has confirmed was intended as a teaser for the fourth game. After it became apparent that ''GK4'' wasn't going to get funding, Jensen apparently briefly considered turning her material into a novel. Needless to say, nearly twenty years on neither a game nor a novel has appeared yet, and though ''GK4'' is still officially on Jane Jensen's to-do list, there's no telling when or if it'll happen at this point.

** The motorcycle in ''Blood of the Sacred, Blood of the Damned'' was supposed to be driven in a first person perspective. An arcade-style sequence where Gabriel escapes the Night Visitors, who pursue him as swarms of bats, was also planned, but eventually scrapped.

* HeyItsThatVoice: Creator/TimCurry as Gabriel in the first and third installments. Also [[KingOfQueens Leah Remini]] as Grace (first game only), [[Series/StarTrekTheNextGeneration Michael Dorn]] as Dr. John, and MarkHamill as Mosely! Iconic, veteran voice actors Creator/JeffBennett and Creator/JimCummings also had minor roles.

** Unlike Gabriel, Grace has been played by a different actor in every game: [[KingOfQueens Leah Remini]] in the original, Joanne Takahashi in the live action ''Beast Within'', Charity James in ''Blood of the Sacred'', and Cissy Jones in the remake.

* HeyItsThatVoice: TimCurry as Gabriel in the first and third installments. Also [[KingOfQueens Leah Remini]] as Grace (first game only), [[Series/StarTrekTheNextGeneration Michael Dorn]] as Dr. John, and MarkHamill as Mosely! Iconic, veteran voice actors Creator/JeffBennett and Creator/JimCummings also had minor roles.

* PlayingAgainstType: ''[[TimCurry Tim]] [[PrecisionFStrike fucking]] [[TimCurry Curry]]'' is the hero?

* GenreKiller: The infamous "cat hair moustache" puzzle in ''Gabriel Knight 3'' is cited by Creator/OldManMurray as one for adventure games as a whole.

** Some of the voice actors have done voice work in the ''Franchise/MetalGear'' series, including Jennifer Hale [[VideoGame/MetalGearSolid (Naomi Hunter]] and [[VideoGame/MetalGearSolid2SonsOfLiberty Emma Emmerich)]], Gregg Berger and David Allen Thomas [[VideoGame/MetalGearSolid3SnakeEater (The Pain and The Sorrow respectively)]], and Richard Doyle [[VideoGame/MetalGearSolid3SnakeEater (The Fury]] and [[VideoGame/MetalGearSolid4GunsOfThePatriots Big Boss)]].

* PlayingAgainstType: ''[[TimCurry Tim]] [[PrecisionFStrike fucking]] [[TimCurry Curry]]'' is the hero?

** None of the original voice actors reprised their roles in the 20th anniversary remake, due to the original audio quality being too poor to salvage, and concerns that the actors (now several decades older than the characters) would no longer sound convincingly like twenty- or thirty-somethings.

* HeyItsThatVoice: TimCurry as Gabriel in the first and third installments. Also [[Series/StarTrekTheNextGeneration Michael Dorn]] as Dr. John, and MarkHamill as Mosely! Iconic, veteran voice actors Creator/JeffBennett and Creator/JimCummings also had minor roles.