There was a way to practice lockpicking in qfg3. I can't remember it but there was. (maybe your chest in the hotel). The real downer was climbing, that had only some places to practice. A way to get much better at some skill in short game time was to go to the big tree, or the peace lake and (possibly) the bat rock . Since those places were blessed by erana you could regain your stamina in the shortest rest (10 minutes).

This is also the first game in which the climb skill exists. It's hidden and you need to know the thief sign and use it with the rope seller to get it.

Sorry, the acrobatics skill.

Yep. Acrobatics is in but its not a skill perse. Basically if you are a genuine thief then you can do it on the rope and on the practice logs.

As for climbing you can practice on that tree in the forest (where manu takes you) its a royal pain in the ass but going up and down its possible, just don't as for a rope and it will work.

Man its been so long since I played these games and wrote that guide for another website. 😒 I've drifted, I guess one of these days I need to sit down and play through 1-5.

I'm one of the few who likes qfg5, many people wrote it off due to fear of change and 3d.

What you call fear of change, I call disappointment that they gave up a consistent play style in favor of basing the fifth and final game in an epic series around what was a flashy new technology at the time. I don't have much right to complain though, as I never got much past the third game.

Trivia: I remember reading an interview with the authors (a husband and wife team - don't remember their names at the moment) where they said they had originally envisioned a four part series, with each part being associated with one of the four fantasy elements (earth, air, fire and water) or something like that. They said that what we know as the third game was an extra game that they felt needed to be made to make the overall storyline more cohesive. Not sure how good my memory is though, so take it with a grain of salt (as with most everything I say)...

You are correct, the 3rd game was actually supposed to be "Shadows of Darkness", just finish QFG2 and you will see a ad for QG3:Shadows. I assume that meant they were going for the vampire story with ad avis right away. They changed their mind and made 3 in tarna. Thank-god really....My fav is #3!! 😁

Honestly if you play QFG5 without expecting it to top the other 4 then its great. It takes awhile to get used to the action combat but I love it. The fact that every character can use all their abilites makes it a plus anyway. The seperate quests and the fact that you might not complete a quest if you aren't fast enough was interesting.

Maybe it was the arcade sequences that turned me off. I had a pretty slow computer at the time that I first played it. I thought QFG2 had the best combat by far.

Lori Cole and Corey Cole are the developers names. I have 5, but have never finished it. Never held my interest long enough.