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Post by DieuxDesCimetieres on Apr 15, 2020 5:50:30 GMT -5
crystallogic13 , speaking of Lords of Midnight, I tried to play the ZX Spectrum version a couple weeks ago without reading the manual first and it was the most obtuse RPG experience I've ever had, haha. Definitely one that requires the manual. I had this on C64 back in the early 90's; it was the cover-mount tape on Zzap64 or some such magazine, but I no longer had any kind of manual. I don't know how many hours I spent trying to play it but never got anywhere, never understood what to do. The game always remained a total mystery to me. I got the remastered version as a freebie on GoG, but I'm afraid to play it. There's too much mystery involved in that "unplayable game" for me to every actually play it  |
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Post by crystallogic13 on Apr 19, 2020 1:26:07 GMT -5
If you like Icewind Dale 1 you will love ID2, it's much better and very strategic fights, lots of puzzle solving and very tight, must play also and it deserves all the credit it gets.. Too bad we'll never see a remastered of it as they lost their source code.. As for Lords of Midnight,it had such a magical atmosphere and I was checking it on emulator, I also want to go do a full playthrough sometime, but as DDC above said, sometimes some games you like to keep on for later afraid that you gonna break the mystery and just keep on postponing it.. But I don't think that I will ever really go through LoM, there are so many many other stuff I want to check.. But it's a great thing to live in an era that you have all these great choices , hard but satisfying!!
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Post by crystallogic13 on May 11, 2020 14:46:35 GMT -5
So, in preparation for Baldur's Gate 3, I decided to make another full playthrough of the whole Baldur's Gate games.. With the exception of Dragonspear which I haven't experienced (nor the EE Enhancements) I have great memories and already I'm pumped for the run.. Eventually I decided to go all in and not just play all of Bg1,SoD,Bg2,ToB but go a step beyond into the mods world and install the EET (Enhanced Edition Trilogy) which besides uniting the whole in one single game, is anything best to manage/add mods, which I did with the essential ones (or so I read - Unfinished Business, NPC, Dark Side of The Sword Coast and maybe couple others)..
Started the game, created a Fighter which I will dual to Mage after lvl 13 and ventured forth..
... And it felt great people.. This is like good old wine, it only gets better with time..
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Post by atavisticbeast on May 13, 2020 3:20:23 GMT -5
I have been playing a morbid and crude JRPG (Made whit RPG maker, but looks like made in the 90's) called Fear and Hunger. Pretty cheap on Steam. It's about a dungeon-prision filled whit grotesque and depravated horrors on wich there's a npc we must find for different reasons whit every one of the initial characters. I will let these two (2) videos. www.youtube.com/watch?v=BYYxzq1iJWswww.youtube.com/watch?v=6lLtw3ejnGs |
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Post by DieuxDesCimetieres on Jun 18, 2020 13:09:28 GMT -5
Hot damn! GoG is offering the entire The Eye Of The Beholder trilogy free right now. Just over 22 hours left to claim it, so don't dawdle!
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Post by crystallogic13 on Jul 1, 2020 13:59:17 GMT -5
Hot damn! GoG is offering the entire The Eye Of The Beholder trilogy free right now. Just over 22 hours left to claim it, so don't dawdle! While I own it already physically in 90s original CD collections (Interplay Ultimate RPG Archives, Forgotten Realms Archives) I kinda feel bad I missed it since I want to see it in my collection.. It's like relaxating therapy seeing it in the collection.. On the games themselves, while I played a lot the first few levels of EOTB 2, I always felt I had to play 1 first (light OCD  ) but eventually I seriously started 1 couple of years ago.. Got to lvl 4-5 where some poisionous spiders came along and no/zero potion to be found.. Aaaaaargh!!! Those where hard times we played baaaaaaaaack when we were kids.. I even had a map ready in recent trys but still the game is great but hard as #$%^... One of the best though, If i dont see myself finishing 1 to import chars to two, I will just go to unfinished bussiness in part 2... Always listening Dungeon Synth nowadays to similar game sessions |
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Post by DieuxDesCimetieres on Jul 3, 2020 14:04:47 GMT -5
Hot damn! GoG is offering the entire The Eye Of The Beholder trilogy free right now. Just over 22 hours left to claim it, so don't dawdle! While I own it already physically in 90s original CD collections (Interplay Ultimate RPG Archives, Forgotten Realms Archives) I kinda feel bad I missed it since I want to see it in my collection.. It's like relaxating therapy seeing it in the collection.. On the games themselves, while I played a lot the first few levels of EOTB 2, I always felt I had to play 1 first (light OCD ) but eventually I seriously started 1 couple of years ago.. Got to lvl 4-5 where some poisionous spiders came along and no/zero potion to be found.. Aaaaaargh!!! Those where hard times we played baaaaaaaaack when we were kids.. I even had a map ready in recent trys but still the game is great but hard as #$%^... One of the best though, If i dont see myself finishing 1 to import chars to two, I will just go to unfinished bussiness in part 2... Always listening Dungeon Synth nowadays to similar game sessions It's been something like 25 years since I last played any Eye Of The Beholder game. I started on the first today, and man oh man... it's tough. Figuring out the layouts of the levels when you always turn 90 degrees, clicking on stuff that's all over the screen in real-time. I tried to draw maps of the levels by hand, as in the olden days, but I always find I start way too much in one edge and the paper runs out. Some user friendly changes to games since then aren't all bad |
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Post by crystallogic13 on Jul 12, 2020 11:51:12 GMT -5
Indeed mate, I can't even stand thinking about mapping on graph/square paper dungeons nowadays, even more so when in games like EoB series(with invisible teleporters) or the old (not remastered) Bard's TAle 1 where at some point not even light spells or torches worked so at some point in some later dungeon at each and every square you had to recast light spell or something like that.. I can't go back to the old hardcore stuffdays, I always prefer quality of life improvements.. I was so much happy for example back then when Ultima Underworld via a scroll had an excellent, excellent excellent automap feature.. Today since I can no longer stand it I just print for example in EoB 1 the map levels of the internet (while in the old days you just bought an official or unofficial hint guide or a magazine in its Adventure/RPG hotline section)..
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Post by atanii on Feb 1, 2021 14:05:54 GMT -5
Hi Dungeon Dwellers, Am I the only one here who really liked M&M 7? I don't know how but I got hooked so much but I've beat the game twice (almost 3 times) in a row. I like that kind of old graphics (it has it's own nostalgics, maybe a bit depressing feel) that games like M&M7, Tes II: Daggerfall...had. - The falling 2D "sprite snow" on winter themed levels / parts in those games are beautiful. Rain too. Recalling Tes: Arena I loved the asthetics...but ironically somehow I just couldn't play that game too much... As for M&M 7, playing Arcomage, wandering through those lands...and the music, I loved the music. It was a bit strange, somehow surreal but good experience. If someone is interested in the soundtrack: www.youtube.com/watch?v=m7QRJoWoWt4Tried to play M&M 6 too, but somehow I just can't keep playing it, it doesn't have 'that something' I've felt playing M&M 7, maybe I should try M&M 8 someday. I'm planning to play World Of Xeen it this year...for now Dragon Age takes most of the time I'm spending with games. And for some extra, Hybrid Heaven has a sweetspot in my heart. Played it as a child...and I loved it grim, dark atmoshpere and it's "martial arts RPG" gameplay mechanic. Never played it through sadly...my second-hand N64 console was old, used and it gave up. |
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Post by forrestdweller on Feb 7, 2021 17:51:31 GMT -5
Loved reading all your entries but surprised these were not mentioned yet.
All of these are 2D or 2.5D old school mmorpgs. But they are all free online MMO's for the PC only. Sandbox mmorpg:
Ashen Empires
Story based mmorpg: Elderlands www.elderlands.com/ |
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Post by novarena on Apr 25, 2022 10:27:34 GMT -5
I can't stop replaying Neverwinter Nights 2. I've already passed all the side branches of the plots. I brought together the most unexpected characters. And I beat all the heroes. Probably, this game should have bored me for a long time, but I'm not bored yet. I don't even play that much in Dark Souls III. Probably, NN2 is one love in my life, and I have very pleasant feelings for this game. My boyfriend also installed this game after my long persuasion to do it. He installed the game on a RAID disk, and something broke. Do you think he should do something about it on his own, or is it better to go to hard drive recovery near me? I've never encountered this since I don't have a RAID. |
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Post by andrewwerdna on Apr 26, 2022 1:30:58 GMT -5
Chronicles of Myrtana: Archolos, mod for Gothic II, absolutely mandatory for any Gothic fans. So amazingly good. I recommend installing the voice pack even for those who don't speak Polish, which I don't, because there is so much good inflection in the voices that it really complements the English text.
It's basically a whole new game, entirely new environments and story that arguably rivals the originals.
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Post by andrewwerdna on Apr 26, 2022 1:40:17 GMT -5
I can't stop replaying Neverwinter Nights 2. I've already passed all the side branches of the plots. I remember liking the main campaign and Mask of the Betrayer, but was really disappointed with how complex and unapproachable the toolset was. The toolset of the first game was so intuitive and fun to use that I could even rig up some basic stuff in my early teens. The vast amount of excellent downloadable modules was a testament to that. I'm sure there are some good modules for NWN2, but I was never able to find any that hooked me. |
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Post by crystallogic13 on Apr 26, 2022 14:49:06 GMT -5
I was a NWN 1 fanatic back in the day, loved even the main campaign , despised by many (but why?), I loved both expansions Shadows of Untrentdide and of course the great Hordes of the Underdark.. Played a lot of the modules of the neverwinter vault but eventually I wanted to play something else and got distracted.. I even bought the Premium modules (Kingmaker) but at that point I was already in a break and never got to play even more modules.. GREAT games, great memories, loved the 3.5 rules implementation on PCs (dont remember the tabletop ones but I loved how my main hero was a wizard class, duel wielding weapons and had a party of followers/summoned creatures, even my beloved golem!).. Eventually I got very anxious to get to NWN2 with the expansion Mask of the Betrayer making waves BUT, as soon as I loaded up for the first time NWN 2 I had total disbelief and difficulty with the camera view.. Awful.. It ruined the game and didn't have ever the courage to get used to it which is a shame I know.. Even though today there's not much quality available time to enjoy an oldschool (or recent ..) RPG, at least, listening to Dungeon Synth I can appreciate reading about RPGS (and gaming in general).. But since we're at our revered RPG thread, let me make a heads up for a nice free quality book by some good dude (originating from RPG Codex I think) about almost the entirety of the cRPG genre : crpgbook.wordpress.com/ (direct link to the pdf crpgbook.files.wordpress.com/2022/04/crpg-book-expanded-edition_3.2a.pdf ) .. Endless respect to the guy for making it free for all to enjoy!! So much stuff in there, it's always in many versions down the road which makes it even more whole.. |
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Post by Damage Cloud on May 10, 2022 22:13:28 GMT -5
Big fan of the Zork series. Fantasy text adventure from the early 80s The imagery from the first game of an ancient abandoned flood control dam in a fantasy story still is one of the most inspiring images in fantasy to me personally. Im sure its nothing entirely out of the ordinary in fantasy media of the era, but it was my first exposure to that kind of thing in ~6th grade, and its really stuck to me i have two songs with titles referencing the series in some way, Overture for Rack and Pendulum and Temple of AgrippaOutside of the original trilogy it gets real stupid, but i think it's a fun, campy, kind of stupid instead of just frustrating. |
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) but eventually I seriously started 1 couple of years ago.. Got to lvl 4-5 where some poisionous spiders came along and no/zero potion to be found.. Aaaaaargh!!! Those where hard times we played baaaaaaaaack when we were kids.. I even had a map ready in recent trys but still the game is great but hard as #$%^... One of the best though, If i dont see myself finishing 1 to import chars to two, I will just go to unfinished bussiness in part 2... 
i'm a newbie here, thanks for the approval!