Dungeon Oddyssey

[SurvivalistMerc]

Have any of my fellow Dom 2 players who have a background in pencil and paper RPGs tried this? And is it any good? Something fun to play when not playing Dom 2?

(I'm asking for responses only from the folks who play Dom 2 and have previously posted in response to Posts on the Dom 2 section of the board.)

[PvK]

I've had some good fun with DO, and with Runesword II, though I would recommend playing their demos first. They're not for everyone, especially not those demanding of pretty graphics, but some players will be able to get into them.

PvK

P.S. - Note that the Dominions II disk comes with demos of both these games (and others), so you don't even have to download them.

[ February 25, 2004, 00:48: Message edited by: PvK ]

[NTJedi]

The demo for dungeon odyssey was fun... but Last I saw the price has increased from 29.99 to 34.99. Unusual for such a prehistoric game... my opinion is it has a game value of about $14.99. Definitely worth playing the demo tho.

Runesword_II... The outside movement and graphics are nice. What turned me off was the battle screens... just didn't feel right. When you play the demo you'll see.

[SurvivalistMerc]

I think I will play the demo then. I didn't realize it was on the dom2 disk. That's awesome.

[vanedor]

"What turned me off was the battle screens... just didn't feel right. When you play the demo you'll see."

What about it, exactly? I did play the demo(Last year) and I liked the fight. A nice old style tactical screen. I did not like the dungeons, though, and the magic system is difficult to understand(but I did, still). I'm looking forwards for Runesword 3.

[Karacan]

What Dungeon Odyssey tries to emulate are the good old ASCII-dungeon romping titles... which, unfortunately, it fails to deliver. It doesn't have the brilliant game mechanics of ADOM (where temperature, for example, had a huge effect on some races and monsters), it doesn't have the complexity and depth of Nethack (where, when you summon a djinn due to rubbing a lamp and it asks you for a wish, you can tell it to "kill something", and it did), and it doesn't have the fun combat and storyline system of Omega (where you had a couple of "attacks" each attack action and could set them the way you want... like, first attacking with the left hand, then feinting, then a parry, and then an attack again).
What it does have is graphics, but then again, I'd personally rather play Nethack with the vga-tiles Version.

Runesword is actually quite nice, though I agree on the "hard to get used to" magic system - it reminded me a lot on the old Ultima-herbcollections. Also, I found the combat system to be... strange, indeed. I think it got something to do with the perspective, it's rather hard to figure out which "field" the critter is standing on exactly. All in all, despite having less fancy graphic, I very much prefer the Exile series to it, though it has a more simplistic skill/character system. The module-editor in Runesword is superior to that of Blades Of Exile, though.

All in all, Runesword is definitely worth it's low price. I'd stay clear of Dungeon Odyssey though and rather check out the "basics".

That's just my own opinion, which anyone is encouraged to share or discard as he or she wishes, of course.

[Leif_-]

Originally posted by Karacan:

What it does have is graphics, but then again, I'd personally rather play Nethack with the vga-tiles Version.

Have you looked at the Falcon's Eye interface to NetHack? The graphics are actually quite nice. http://www.hut.fi/~jtpelto2/nhfeatures.html (Personally, though, I prefer Angband - and it's many variants.)

[moodgiesanta]

For graphic Rogue style games, Zangband takes the cake for me. That Falcon's Eye Version always was buggy for me. I end up just playing the Nethack port for the Pocket PC.