Posted September 28, 2018
misteryo: Hello!
I think of this as the perfect kind of game to appeal to GOGgers. Isometric. A gauntlet for a mouse pointer. Pixelated. Intrusive UI. But most of all Difficult Long cRPG.
Here are the rules:
1. Be a human - or at least half-human. Come back, Thespian!
2. You may only enter for yourself, but you can do anything you want with you winnings.
3. Say you are in if you are in.
4. Write a paragraph - at least 5 sentences - on what you love about a specific RPG from back in the day. (The time period is not strictly defined, but if you write about The Witcher 1 I will tell you to get off my lawn and I will disqualify you.)
5. The contest will end sometime Sunday Sep 30 Eastern Standard Time (I believe that is Dateline -5 hrs.)
6. Whatever important rule I forgot is hereby covered.
Cheers!
Thanks for the great giveaway... let's check your rules and give it a try... I think of this as the perfect kind of game to appeal to GOGgers. Isometric. A gauntlet for a mouse pointer. Pixelated. Intrusive UI. But most of all Difficult Long cRPG.
Here are the rules:
1. Be a human - or at least half-human. Come back, Thespian!
2. You may only enter for yourself, but you can do anything you want with you winnings.
3. Say you are in if you are in.
4. Write a paragraph - at least 5 sentences - on what you love about a specific RPG from back in the day. (The time period is not strictly defined, but if you write about The Witcher 1 I will tell you to get off my lawn and I will disqualify you.)
5. The contest will end sometime Sunday Sep 30 Eastern Standard Time (I believe that is Dateline -5 hrs.)
6. Whatever important rule I forgot is hereby covered.
Cheers!
1.) ok (I guess ;-))
2.) ok
3.) I am in...
4.) I still fondly remember the original "Bard's Tale" on the Commodore 64 (and later Amiga 500 - both should fit your "back in the day" requirement nicely :-)).
There is not a single part of the game that stands out as specially lovable but it was the whole experience of playing it (for hours!):
- creating and recreating the optimal party by rolling the dice dozens of times for better character values,
- running through the city to get enough experience to level up before entering the dungeons,
- finding your first mithril items and other improved armor & weapons in the sewers,
- creating maps on paper and marking scripted fights (with trapped chests!) and special locations,
- running out of dungeons to the nearest temple with poisoned party members (because you had no appropriate healing spells yet or no more spell points) before you die,
- finding still better and better items, some of them so late in the game that you hardly had time to use them,
- solving (sometimes almost impossible) riddles without the benefit of walkthroughs, cheats and no internet help available yet,
- and finally "winning" the game by killing the evil mage Mangar on the fifth level of his tower!
Of course I also enjoyed games like "Pools of Radiance", Wasteland, and later on the PC the "Eye of the Beholder trilogy", Diablo I & II (never III because of the evil online-DRM!), Wizardry 8, and many others but the first and original part of the Bard's Tale series will always have a special place in my memories!
5. & 6.) OK!