Favorite games

Stryke11 · #1 March 18th, 2008, 02:54 PM

Thanks for the RL info, everyone. Perhaps my problem was starting with the Nethack variant Slash 'Em, which is likely the most complicated of the lot. I will check out the 7day ones and Crawl. I appreciate the info.

As to DF being Sims with Dwarves...well...I would actually have purchased a Sims game if it included goblin invasions you had to fight off. IMO, if you get rid of the nonsensical dwarven justice, and if noble requests were LOGICAL (like no request for glass in an area with no sand) it would be pretty much perfect. The website says the dev wants to make seiges, and army stuff in general, more cool, and that's just gravy.

Dedas · #2 March 18th, 2008, 03:22 PM

Dwarf Fortress is very, very far from finish if you look at all the planned development. It is still only in early alpha, and Toady is working on it on it day and night. I find this extremely cool.

moderation · #3 March 18th, 2008, 03:42 PM

Not counting dom3, here's a short list:

X-Com
Master of Orion I
Master of Magic
Ultima VI and VII
Civilization
Battletech: The Cresent Hawk's Revenge (wonderful tactical squad based mech game)

I also played that Magic The Gathering card game for a whlle and dom3's system of counters and counters to those counters is familiar (I think I read this in an interview with the devs somewhere...)

DonCorazon · #4 March 18th, 2008, 05:13 PM

Master of Magic - I never played this. I tried once to download some abandonware and DOS emulator but I am no tech guru and never managed to get this to run.

I see now you can buy a version on eBay for ~$80 that supposedly has been patched to easily run on XP or Vista and has the manuals on CD.

Wondering how fun it would be at this point? On the plus side, I have never played it. On the negative side, that is pretty expensive and some of those old school games are more fun in one's memory than they are when you try to play them these days.

Any thoughts? Thanks.

Omnirizon · #5 March 19th, 2008, 01:03 AM

don't click the link

NO!!! I said DON'T click the link.

ahh. you done did it. you clicked the link. you can kiss your evening goodbye.

http://www.handdrawngames.com/DesktopTD/game.asp

Wokeye · #6 March 19th, 2008, 02:42 AM

Quote:

DonCorazon said:
Master of Magic - I never played this.
Wondering how fun it would be at this point?
Any thoughts?

DC, MoM is a classic (and fun) game, but I wouldn't spend $US80 on it.

DonCorazon · #7 March 19th, 2008, 03:08 AM

Wokeye, thanks for the feedback. I wish I hadn't missed it the first time around, but suspect that it wouldn't be worth so much cold hard cash today, despite the fat and enticing manual...

moderation · #8 March 19th, 2008, 03:45 AM

Quote:

DonCorazon said:
Master of Magic - I never played this. I tried once to download some abandonware and DOS emulator but I am no tech guru and never managed to get this to run.

I see now you can buy a version on eBay for ~$80 that supposedly has been patched to easily run on XP or Vista and has the manuals on CD.

Wondering how fun it would be at this point? On the plus side, I have never played it. On the negative side, that is pretty expensive and some of those old school games are more fun in one's memory than they are when you try to play them these days.

Any thoughts? Thanks.

They're selling it for $80 on ebay? That sounds really expensive, I remember I got it for around $50 when it first came out. Anyway, I'm sure you can find it for less, or probably get it from an abandonware site otherwise. I've gotten my version working on Dosbox (on a Mac no less) with no serious problems. Check out Dosbox if you are having problems with XP, it's free and open source!

Master of Magic is still pretty fun. It is basically like Civilization with magic. What is most interesting about it is looking at the wizard creation process and seeing how it obviously inspired CoE and Dominions pretender creation. The library of spells is fun too, though not as extensive as Dom 3's. Still I have to wonder why Master of Magic never had a sequel...

B0rsuk · #9 March 19th, 2008, 06:05 AM

Quick tips on running MOM with Dosbox:

1. Download MOM from http://www.the-underdogs.info
2. Unpack to a directory of your choice
3. Run dosbox
4. Type:
mount c: /directory/with/MOM
c:
4.
type
install
(select sound blaster pro 'later' for sound and music)
5.
Type:
magic
6. Optimize CPU cycles by pressing CTRL-F12 (faster) or CTRL-F11 (slower) until it feels fast for you. There should be no delay in menu.

Note that you only have to do points 1,2 and 4 the first time. Later, just do the remaining points.

mathusalem · #10 March 19th, 2008, 07:27 AM

the version of MOM from the Underdogs is the 1.31 ?