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Post by Nathan P. Mahney on May 9, 2005 14:38:50 GMT
The Bard's Tale was completely impossible! I defy anyone to get out of Skara Brae! I got my behind kicked from here to the Adventurer's Guild in almost every house I entered. I had a solution guide with maps for all the levels, but I never managed to get past Inn Cellar level 2 because every encounter seemed to be: "You face death itself in the form of 5 Kobolds, 3 Trolls, 1 Assassin, 2 Goblins, a Werewolf, His Mother, 1 Giant, The Giant's best mate, His Brother-in-law, and 1 Ogre." It is a hard, hard game, and I love that! Before all these pansy-arse auto-mapping shenannigans, when real gamers used graph paper and a pen, gol-darn it! And encounters didn't have to make sense, because you were just happy that the damn things were in more than 4 colours! Anyway, you didn't even scratch the surface of what makes Bard's Tale so frightfully hard. The monsters are nothing (though the fight with 99 Berserkers, 99 Berserkers, 99 Berserkers and 99 Berserkers is a justifiable classic). I'll give you a small taste of what you missed - * Squares where no light sources work. * Squares that teleport you with no warning (and always to tunnels that look the same!) * Antimagic fields. * Squares that spin you around and mess up your compass. * Worst of all - squares that do all of the above at once. God... That game gave me ulcers, but I cherish it dearly. Too big?!? Too big is the Ultima staple. They're all expansive, and do more to try and realise an interactive world than most games. They're also the most non-linear RPGs I've ever played. On my second run through Ultima VI I used some clever tactics to finish the game in 3 hours, with only a single battle.
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Post by Zipp on May 10, 2005 2:11:45 GMT
I never got much into computer games. Too many updates needed, too little support multiple platforms, too much work to install and keep fixing and downloading patches, etc etc etc.
The last few games on the computer I played were Longest Journey, Deus Ex, Icewind Dale...
Now I'm sorta getting back into it. Now that I'm a full time MAC user, things seem to work better where computers are concerned. When games come out for the MAC, generally I check em out. Even so, the most recent game I've played is probably The Sims.
Now, console games on the other hand... ;D
... my collection is quite large.
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Post by Laguna Blade on May 10, 2005 7:04:59 GMT
OFF TOPIC for a while, but.... Ahem..so Zipp finally found his avatar ;D congrats2...I wonder for how long will you stick to it? And,..erm GB, that is your seal of GB I presume...? ;D
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Post by outspaced on May 10, 2005 9:33:05 GMT
And encounters didn't have to make sense, because you were just happy that the damn things were in more than 4 colours! I beg to differ. I was playing it on a Spectrum +3 (with a 3" FDD, meaning I didn't have to keep rewinding the tape and letting it play for 10 minutes every time I needed to load a new level), and the gfx were cack. Thing is, Eye of the Beholder does all of the things you mentioned, just in a less annoyingly-impossible way.
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Post by Nathan P. Mahney on May 10, 2005 12:44:35 GMT
I beg to differ. I was playing it on a Spectrum +3 (with a 3" FDD, meaning I didn't have to keep rewinding the tape and letting it play for 10 minutes every time I needed to load a new level), and the gfx were cack. I played it on the C64, and yeah, the graphics were not so good there, either. Pretty good for the day, though. Hey, Eye of the Beholder is a classic! And I liked the annoying impossibility! Games today are just too easy. Everything is geared towards you finishing it faster so that you can buy the next one. Sure, the plots are more satisfying, but I don't get the challenge that I used to. I miss rifling through sheets of graph paper while I'm playing games. On the topic of FF, I've played one of them on the SNES - you start of as a dark knight called Cecil, and end as a paladin (cool game). Which number was that one?
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Post by Ghost Bear on May 10, 2005 13:06:34 GMT
And,..erm GB, that is your seal of GB I presume...? ;D It's the seal I use to seal all of my correspondence. It's something Winterhawk made for me over at TotS, where they have a rather large roleplay element to the boards. -GB
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Post by Relenoir on May 10, 2005 15:39:36 GMT
On the topic of FF, I've played one of them on the SNES - you start of as a dark knight called Cecil, and end as a paladin (cool game). Which number was that one? That would have been Final Fantasy 2 in the U.S., which was FF 4 in Japan. It was re-released a few years ago with Chronotrigger in a dual-game package called 'Final Fantasy Chronicles'. Yes, it was a great game!
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Post by Black Cat on May 10, 2005 17:22:31 GMT
That would have been Final Fantasy 2 in the U.S., which was FF 4 in Japan. It was re-released a few years ago with Chronotrigger in a dual-game package called 'Final Fantasy Chronicles'. Yes, it was a great game! I just finished FF2 on my GBA and it wasn't like Nathan described it.
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Post by Zipp on May 10, 2005 18:58:35 GMT
Black Cat, you are confused. You played the actual FF2. FF2 was never released in America until origins, and what we got was called FF2 but was actually FF4, where you start as a black knight named Cecil. It is one of the best FF games to ever hit the market.
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Post by Relenoir on May 11, 2005 3:15:45 GMT
FF2 was never released in America until origins, and what we got was called FF2 but was actually FF4, where you start as a black knight named Cecil. It is one of the best FF games to ever hit the market. You aren't kidding about that! My friend and I borrowed it from my brother when we were roommates, and from the opening scene with the music and airships flying we were hooked! We'd stay up almost all night playing that thing. It was such a blast! I miss those days. . . I went to visit him this weekend, and had to force myself to leave the room because I didn't want to see too much of the Revenge of the Sith game he got this weekend. ~Relenoir, who wants to go play FF now. Edit: One of the best things about it was being able to have 5 people in your party at a time. Wahoo!!! ;D
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Post by North Star on May 11, 2005 10:34:38 GMT
Bah. Buying the book and game before seeing the film. Travesty!
NS.
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Post by Relenoir on May 11, 2005 11:25:22 GMT
I bought Phantom Menace and Attack of the Clones before the movies came out, but I refused to read them until after I saw them! ;D Haven't bought Revenge of the Sith yet, but will soon.
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Post by outspaced on May 11, 2005 11:38:10 GMT
Bah. Buying the book ... before seeing the film. Travesty! I know! Look at those fools who couldn't wait a mere 50 years for The Fellowship of the Ring to come out!
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Post by North Star on May 11, 2005 12:57:27 GMT
50? 60, my friend The Hobbit first came out in 1937 and we're still waiting for that film! Not sure about LotR though. NS.
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Post by outspaced on May 11, 2005 14:45:19 GMT
Fellowship & Two Towers, 1954; Return of the King, 1955. Which is 50 years ago! (Or 47 years before the first film (2001), to be accurate.)
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