[OT] does anybody know about any good rpg's?

[Gwaihir]

Originally posted by Alpha Kodiak:

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Originally posted by Gwaihir:
(Yeah SIR-TECH! I even got a Apple IIe emulator so i could play the original Wizardry, although that was before Wiz8 came out. Sadly, they are no more.)

If you like Wizardry, track down a copy of Interplay's Wizardry Archives. You get Wizardry 1-7 for the PC. Some of them are a little tricky to get running on modern computers, but I got them going on an old 486 I had sitting around. RPG heaven!

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Hehe, yep. i done did that a'ready. But i never actually finished all 7, I only played through 1 and part of 2. I started to port 1 to the TI-83 calculator though! problem is, the rendering of the wireframe view kinda too 8 seconds every step. not so hot. I guess if i weren't so lazy and wrote it in Z-80 assembly, it would run up to speed, but i kinda let the project drop. The chargen and combat running stuff was good for D&D after a little tweaking tho.

to Phoenix-D: yeah, i hate that, i have a bunch of classics I used to run on my Win3.1 machine (486DX, baby!), and no matter what i do, i can't make them work right on my 98 system. (props to 98 for being able to run almost all of them, but the speed is unmanageable. MoSlo is a great tool though, it has allowed me to keep a few oldies (anyone every heard of Fantasy Empires? Silicon Knights, SSI, TSR? sad, SSI and TSR are now owned by Ubi Soft and Wizards of the Coast, respectively, but Silicon Knights lives on!)

[ May 01, 2003, 06:32: Message edited by: Gwaihir ]

[Stone Mill]

Originally posted by HEMAN (1)Baulders gate Shadows of amn, + Throne of baul expansion.3rd Perspective =you see your party.From a top slant view.Mostly a non-liner.

Ditto on this; this game is truly magnificent!!! It was one of the few that really staggered me.

[narf poit chez BOOM]

fantasy empires? i can't get the combat slow with mo'slo on 1%! what is the mhz requirement on that anyway?
note, it came from kmart in a 5-pack of other old games, so all i have is a code-sheet.

[Xaren Hypr]

I liked playing with Bard's Tale Construction Set and Adventure Construction Set on my old comps (486DX and IBM XT, respectively), and I know..ACS is not really an RPG, but it's a lot of fun to me. Don't quite know where my copies of them ended up though .

Ahh, the good old days of 5-1/4" floppies and Monochrome/CGA monitors...

[Gwaihir]

Originally posted by narf poit chez BOOM:
fantasy empires? i can't get the combat slow with mo'slo on 1%! what is the mhz requirement on that anyway?
note, it came from kmart in a 5-pack of other old games, so all i have is a code-sheet.

Nor can I, and that's on my PII 350! But you pretty much have to run combat yourself, especially if you're attacking a castle, or for fun (Wheee, Magic User go BOOM!).
I played it originally on a 33 MHz 486DX Windows 3.1 machine. Along with a bunch of other classics. Once i got to the highest level, I decided to try to get to max level as fast as possible, and I started over - - - I made it in four campaigns. If your opponents are high-level enough (at least 10 levels > yours), you can really gain a lot of levels in one go! Higher level opponents aren't too terrible of a threat, they just get high-level heroes, which means that they get magic faster initially and get nasty artifacts. It really sucks when you have four huge masses of troops about to roll into enemy territory and suddenly all four get death spelled. If playing vs. high-level chaotic magic Users, never let troops sit in one place, unless you enjoy being whaled on.
The hardest scenarios were a decent challenge though.

[Kamog]

It seems like the web sites that used to have ROMs you can download for Super Nintendo and other emulators are all gone. A year ago, there were all sorts of places where you can download old games for different game systems, but now when I try to go back the old bookmarked pages, either they've disappeared, or the sites don't have any downloads anymore. Maybe they got shut down because of copyright issues?