loon: Wow, man! Those remakes are amazing! I'll start from this "new" King's Quest because it looks adorable!
They really are beautiful; and I actually consider AGD's King's Quest 2 remake to be one of the best adventure games I've ever played, which is kind of amazing, considering King's Quest 2 - Romancing the Throne was actually one of the weakest games in that series.
While their take on KQ1 was basically a flawless, direct translation of the old version to VGA graphics and a point & click interface, they went all-out on KQ2, expanding and improving nearly every aspect while keeping the basic core intact, probably because the original is generally considered to be the black sheep among the early King's Quest games.
That's why they named their version "Romancing the Stones" to distinguish it from the original.
King's Quest 3 didn't really need such a massive overhaul, but they added quite a bit there, so they opted to title it "To Heir is Human Redux" instead. As a very interesting contrast, Infamous Adventures' KQ3
is a very direct remake, with almost no changes.
They even managed to get King Graham's original voice actor, Josh Mandel, who was a designer and writer at Sierra Entertainment, to voice the character again in these remakes.
InfraSuperman: EDIT: Fixed a link. Stupid brackets.
loon: I jus played a little this KQ1 remake. It looks outstanding (despite of 320x resolution), but this character falling down from almost every point is the game is (literally) killing me ;)
That's pretty much a staple of Sierra games. Nearly everything will kill you, so "save early, save often" was one of their mottos.