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ITT I rate you as an 80s or early 90s CRPG
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Date: December 13th, 2018 1:13 PM Author: Razzmatazz seedy ratface GO! (http://www.autoadmit.com/thread.php?thread_id=4155279&forum_id=2#37401982) |
Date: December 13th, 2018 1:17 PM Author: navy very tactful set stock car (http://www.autoadmit.com/thread.php?thread_id=4155279&forum_id=2#37402007) |
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Date: December 13th, 2018 1:25 PM Author: Razzmatazz seedy ratface I rate u as The Bard's Tale II: The Destiny Knight. This picks up shortly after the first installment of the game. The premise and main quest are provided in a single page of the game manual: 700 years ago, an archmage named Turin forged an artifact called the Destiny Wand in the molten depths of the holy mountain Krontor. The power of the wand maintained peace and prosperity for seven centuries, but then the evil archmage Lagoth Zanta, ruler of the neighboring kingdom of Lestradae, stole the Destiny Wand and broke it into seven pieces, hiding each in a different dungeon, in a puzzle room called a "Snare of Death." Lagoth Zanta's monsters and mercenaries are now roaming freely across the realm. Now, the wizard Saradon has called my party, fresh from our Bard's Tale I victory over Mangar in Skara Brae, to find the pieces and reforge the wand, promising "unimaginable power" if we do. (http://www.autoadmit.com/thread.php?thread_id=4155279&forum_id=2#37402067) |
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Date: December 13th, 2018 1:31 PM Author: navy very tactful set stock car wack. can I stick the wand up my ass? (http://www.autoadmit.com/thread.php?thread_id=4155279&forum_id=2#37402121) |
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Date: December 13th, 2018 1:17 PM Author: coral yapping shrine (http://www.autoadmit.com/thread.php?thread_id=4155279&forum_id=2#37402010) |
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Date: December 13th, 2018 1:27 PM Author: Razzmatazz seedy ratface I rate us as Pool of Radiance: A Forgotten Realms(TM) Fantasy Role Playing Epic Vol I. Part of the game's charm is the back story, which is satisfying in its own modesty. You're not out to save the world or become a god or anything. Rather, your job is to help restore a ruined city called Phlan, a minor port on the Moonsea. Once prosperous, it was overrun by monsters a few hundred years ago and fell into disrepair. But descendants of its old inhabitants have now reclaimed it, set up a City Council, hired guards, and walled off a "civilized" section, and they are now soliciting for mercenary bands to start cleaning out the monster-inhabited sections of the city. (http://www.autoadmit.com/thread.php?thread_id=4155279&forum_id=2#37402085) |
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Date: December 13th, 2018 1:28 PM Author: Infuriating kitty cat I'm replaying that game right now on DOSBOX - it's a lot of fun. Those Gold Box games are still probably the most faithful translation of tabletop roleplaying, especially the combat. (http://www.autoadmit.com/thread.php?thread_id=4155279&forum_id=2#37402094) |
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Date: December 13th, 2018 1:47 PM Author: coral yapping shrine ty that's a classic those games were almost too hard for me as little kid |
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Date: December 13th, 2018 1:48 PM Author: Infuriating kitty cat They're easier now. I never finished PoR as a kid, I think because it was so open-ended I never really got where I was supposed to be going and what I was supposed to be doing. Makes a lot more sense now. (http://www.autoadmit.com/thread.php?thread_id=4155279&forum_id=2#37402223) |
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Date: December 13th, 2018 1:28 PM Author: Infuriating kitty cat (http://www.autoadmit.com/thread.php?thread_id=4155279&forum_id=2#37402095) |
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Date: December 13th, 2018 1:30 PM Author: Razzmatazz seedy ratface I rate u as Fate: Gates of Dawn. Your only quest is to restore the function of a train. You'd have a 60-hour RPG with decent mechanics, and you'd walk away happy. Instead, the game continues for another 200 hours, with senseless plot developments, character development that becomes less and less important (my characters ended the game with dozens of improvement slots), and combat that becomes either mindlessly easy (outdoors) or absurdly deadly (indoors). Equipment upgrades slow and then stop, the economy spins out of control, and the player spends dozens of hours just getting from one place to another. (http://www.autoadmit.com/thread.php?thread_id=4155279&forum_id=2#37402111) |
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Date: December 13th, 2018 1:31 PM Author: Soul-stirring swollen abode (http://www.autoadmit.com/thread.php?thread_id=4155279&forum_id=2#37402113) |
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Date: December 13th, 2018 1:33 PM Author: Razzmatazz seedy ratface I rate u as Ultima 0: Akalabeth. Akalabeth shares what I remember as Ultima I's odd trait of awarding hit points based on the time you spend in the dungeon. If you descend with 25 hit points, go down two levels, kill five or six monsters, and head back up to the surface, the game might up you to 30 or 40 hit points. Descend again, try another level, and re-emerge and find yourself with 50. You essentially keep doing this until you have enough to brave the lower reaches and kill the monsters you've been quested to kill. Monsters appear predictably on their levels. Level 1 always has one skeleton and one thief. Level 2 will have a skeleton, a thief, and an orc. Level 3: a skeleton, a thief, and orc, and a snake, and so on down the line. The dungeons are generated every time you start a new game, but within that game, all the dungeons look the same. (http://www.autoadmit.com/thread.php?thread_id=4155279&forum_id=2#37402130) |
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Date: December 13th, 2018 1:31 PM Author: Glittery pink crackhouse potus does an rpg have an ending or is it open-ended? (http://www.autoadmit.com/thread.php?thread_id=4155279&forum_id=2#37402115) |
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Date: December 13th, 2018 1:34 PM Author: Razzmatazz seedy ratface Either, but most RPG's of this era has a defined end goal. (http://www.autoadmit.com/thread.php?thread_id=4155279&forum_id=2#37402139) |
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Date: December 13th, 2018 1:33 PM Author: exciting friendly grandma (http://www.autoadmit.com/thread.php?thread_id=4155279&forum_id=2#37402133) |
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Date: December 13th, 2018 1:36 PM Author: Razzmatazz seedy ratface I rate u as Hydlide. The game wasn't originally on my list because it never had a western PC release. I assumed that its PC release in Japan was in Japanese. This turns out not to be true--it's not true of Dragon Slayer or Dragon Slayer II, either--and it makes me wonder what part of JRPG history I'm missing. Why would so many games be released only in Japan but in English? Were Japanese youths in the 1980s so versed in English that developers could simply assume they could read the text? Either way, why not Japanese? Was it harder to display Japanese characters even on Japanese PCs? (http://www.autoadmit.com/thread.php?thread_id=4155279&forum_id=2#37402155) |
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Date: December 13th, 2018 1:46 PM Author: coral yapping shrine the status screens might be there's no real reading in Hydlide iirc (http://www.autoadmit.com/thread.php?thread_id=4155279&forum_id=2#37402211) |
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Date: December 13th, 2018 3:55 PM Author: nubile disturbing hospital regret lmao hydlide ftw (http://www.autoadmit.com/thread.php?thread_id=4155279&forum_id=2#37402870) |
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Date: December 13th, 2018 1:41 PM Author: Fishy Pocket Flask (http://www.autoadmit.com/thread.php?thread_id=4155279&forum_id=2#37402180) |
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Date: December 13th, 2018 1:44 PM Author: Razzmatazz seedy ratface I rate u as Wizardry Scenario #3: The Legacy of Llylgamyn. Wizardry III is cheerfully indistinguishable from Wizardry or Wizardry II except for the specific dungeon. Everything else--graphics, controls, character classes and races, spells, and gameplay--are essentially the same. I say "essentially," because there do appear to be some new monsters, weapons, and armor. Instead of leather and chain mail, for instance, you have a "cuirass" and a "hauberk." (http://www.autoadmit.com/thread.php?thread_id=4155279&forum_id=2#37402202) |
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Date: December 13th, 2018 1:46 PM Author: Fishy Pocket Flask what are ur thoughts on albion (http://www.autoadmit.com/thread.php?thread_id=4155279&forum_id=2#37402214) |
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Date: December 13th, 2018 1:52 PM Author: Razzmatazz seedy ratface I haven't played it yet. (http://www.autoadmit.com/thread.php?thread_id=4155279&forum_id=2#37402244) |
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Date: December 13th, 2018 1:45 PM Author: sadistic chestnut sound barrier really tough guy (http://www.autoadmit.com/thread.php?thread_id=4155279&forum_id=2#37402206) |
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Date: December 13th, 2018 1:48 PM Author: Razzmatazz seedy ratface I rate u as Phantasie III: The Wrath of Nikademus. In addition to hit point damage, both monsters and PCs can take bodily injuries, a feature that I believe first showed up in SSI's Wizard's Crown. These injuries include simple injuries, breaks, and amputations. Thus, you can have the odd sight of a character with all his hit points but missing both legs. Breaks and injuries heal through rest and spells, but amputations can only heal through high-level spells and potions. (http://www.autoadmit.com/thread.php?thread_id=4155279&forum_id=2#37402227) |
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Date: December 13th, 2018 1:51 PM Author: coiffed pisswyrm useless brakes that's a great rating (http://www.autoadmit.com/thread.php?thread_id=4155279&forum_id=2#37402239) |
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Date: December 13th, 2018 1:52 PM Author: sadistic chestnut sound barrier really tough guy 180 (http://www.autoadmit.com/thread.php?thread_id=4155279&forum_id=2#37402246) |
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Date: December 13th, 2018 1:51 PM Author: coiffed pisswyrm useless brakes (http://www.autoadmit.com/thread.php?thread_id=4155279&forum_id=2#37402240) |
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Date: December 13th, 2018 1:56 PM Author: Razzmatazz seedy ratface I rate u as Demon's Winter. The skill system is original--there's really nothing else like it in the era--but also somewhat poorly executed. Because the cost for acquiring skills outside your "class" is so high, you're effectively limited to a small selection until late in the game, when level increases have hopefully increased your intelligence. It was also needlessly difficult to acquire some of the skills. If you didn't start with Spirit Runes (which are the only really necessary spell class in the game), you have to trek all the way to the north pole to find the college. I just realized that I never found the school that teaches turn undead (turns out it wasn't a school but rather part of the priesthood skill.) (http://www.autoadmit.com/thread.php?thread_id=4155279&forum_id=2#37402270) |
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Date: December 13th, 2018 1:59 PM Author: coiffed pisswyrm useless brakes great thread. i rate you as wasteland (http://www.autoadmit.com/thread.php?thread_id=4155279&forum_id=2#37402281) |
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Date: December 13th, 2018 8:13 PM Author: Razzmatazz seedy ratface 180 tyft (http://www.autoadmit.com/thread.php?thread_id=4155279&forum_id=2#37404288) |
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Date: December 13th, 2018 2:01 PM Author: exciting friendly grandma Do you remember this Dark Sun game where you were a slave in a gladiator pen? I remember playing that a lot but never getting very far. (http://www.autoadmit.com/thread.php?thread_id=4155279&forum_id=2#37402294) |
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Date: December 13th, 2018 2:05 PM Author: Razzmatazz seedy ratface Dark Sun: Shattered Lands which I played long ago but gave up on because it was buggy. Will replay it at some point. (http://www.autoadmit.com/thread.php?thread_id=4155279&forum_id=2#37402314) |
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Date: December 13th, 2018 3:18 PM Author: Infuriating kitty cat That was one of the few RPGs I actually finished. (http://www.autoadmit.com/thread.php?thread_id=4155279&forum_id=2#37402672) |
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Date: December 13th, 2018 3:21 PM Author: exciting friendly grandma Did you ever play Exile series? Exile 3 was absolutely amazing (http://www.autoadmit.com/thread.php?thread_id=4155279&forum_id=2#37402686) |
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Date: December 13th, 2018 3:28 PM Author: Razzmatazz seedy ratface Haven't played these. (http://www.autoadmit.com/thread.php?thread_id=4155279&forum_id=2#37402727) |
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Date: December 13th, 2018 3:37 PM Author: White main people (http://www.autoadmit.com/thread.php?thread_id=4155279&forum_id=2#37402771) |
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Date: December 13th, 2018 3:43 PM Author: Razzmatazz seedy ratface I rate u as The Dark Heart of Uukrul. The Dark Heart of Uukrul is "almost roguelike" in its approach to saves. You get one, and the game automatically appropriates it frequently, including after every combat, every character death, and every time something significant happens. Unless you want to cheat with frequent backups of the save folder, you've got to role-play with the punches. Death isn't exactly "permanent," though, in that upon full party death some mysterious Samaritan pays to have your lead character resurrected. If you don't want to pay for the rest, you can dump them and get a new NPC from the Adventurer's Guild--conveniently located right next door to the Mausoleum.
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Date: December 13th, 2018 4:00 PM Author: White main people Sounds kooky. (http://www.autoadmit.com/thread.php?thread_id=4155279&forum_id=2#37402898) |
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Date: December 13th, 2018 3:40 PM Author: Henna effete patrolman (http://www.autoadmit.com/thread.php?thread_id=4155279&forum_id=2#37402790) |
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Date: December 13th, 2018 3:52 PM Author: Razzmatazz seedy ratface I rate u as Keef the Thief. Perhaps what annoys me the most is how clever the game thinks it is. A rumor has it that the game was originally supposed to be a standard, classic high fantasy adventure, but that during development, one of the creators entered a bunch of joke text on each screen as a placeholder. EA liked the joke text so much that it decided to change the game to a comedy. If that's true (and I'm not convinced it is), I hope the EA executive that made that decision was fired. The "comedy" in the game is almost universally horrible. (http://www.autoadmit.com/thread.php?thread_id=4155279&forum_id=2#37402845) |
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Date: December 13th, 2018 3:52 PM Author: exciting friendly grandma Did you ever play Angband or Zangband? (http://www.autoadmit.com/thread.php?thread_id=4155279&forum_id=2#37402847) |
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Date: December 13th, 2018 3:56 PM Author: Razzmatazz seedy ratface I've played the precursor to that game, Moria. (http://www.autoadmit.com/thread.php?thread_id=4155279&forum_id=2#37402876) |
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Date: December 13th, 2018 8:15 PM Author: Bistre casino (http://www.autoadmit.com/thread.php?thread_id=4155279&forum_id=2#37404301) |
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Date: December 13th, 2018 8:23 PM Author: Razzmatazz seedy ratface I rate u as Sword of Aragon. The final battle in Sword of Aragon was the longest I've ever fought in a game, beating even the endless combats in Knights of Legend. It took four hours, and I fought it three times before I finally won. (http://www.autoadmit.com/thread.php?thread_id=4155279&forum_id=2#37404395) |