/vr/ - Retro Games

I tell everyone i've finished ultima underworld, when the truth is i quit it on level 7 because i got frustrated with lack of mana and game was kinda dragging

You are not a man til you play.

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How come all the major innovations in RPG's were done first and better by the West? Not trying to troll here, it honestly confuses me how that RPG's became such a big thing in Japan (after they were introduced to clones of Ultima and Wizardry), yet they so rarely try push the boundaries of impactful gameplay and challenging content, in the way that Western devs were consistently doing for at least 20 years.

Want to get into more Looking Glass games. Any tips for starting this and it's sequel?

>>3851987

How do you feel about the Ultima Underworld games?

Hey /vr/. I'm looking for games in the style of Ultima Underworld 1 and 2, Elder Scrolls (Arena and Daggerfall), and Lands of Lore 2.

By that I mean first-person action RPGs with smooth free movement (not step- or tile-based with 90-degree turns). Preferably for MS-DOS.

Any suggestions?

Not OP, but I have an Ultima question so I'll ask here instead of making a new thread: Can I just skip to Ultima Underworld?
Don't get me wrong, I will slog through every single game if it's even slightly important to the plot, but I just finished replaying System Shock 1 so I was more in a first-person dungeon-crawley mood rather than a top-down RPG mood.
And if the games are like FF or Zelda, where you can just dive into any game and be fine, then I'll have no problems skipping to the one I want

Can we get an Ultima thread going?

I just finished Underworld 1 and it was absolutely fantastic.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=PrvAfixGu6w
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=r8G0e8eqRs0

not much but i love it

>>2726709
Well then under that definition, this.

This thread kinda went the way these always do.

What people don't seem to understand is that King's Field, and by extension the souls games, were primarily influenced by old first person dungeon crawlers, primarily Ultima Underworld. with that said, my suggestions are

Ultima Underworld 1/2
Arx Fatalis (spiritual successor to Underworld by former devs of it, just as good as UU)
La-Mulana yes I know not /vr/ but it's a perfect suggestion

my suggestions that are kinda give or take are

Dragon Buster
Rastan
Maze of Galious
The Goonies 1/2
Legacy of the Wizard

Those are all suggestions that are more in line with the suggestion of Faxanadu, but aren't truly "like Dark Souls"

What you're looking for OP is metroidvania games, and dungeon crawlers, though not every dungeon crawler. Like, I wouldn't say Wizardry is like Dark Souls

What's your favorite DOS game ? Mines Stygian Abyss

I run it on DOSBOX 0.74 but i was wondering if anybody has a better way of running it. Also general Ultima Underworld thread.

I had the inventory glitch happen to me right at the end of Ultima Underworld and I had saved on all slots before noticing that one of the items required for completing the game had disappeared.

Is there any way to cheat/hack the game to get that item back? I just want to beat this game at this point.

/vr/, why aren't you playing the best retro game there was ever made right now?

Minimizing dosbox while playing this causes dosbox to crash. Any way to get around it?

Why would you even try to have this thread on /v/?

It Ultima is so influential... where the fuck are it's most intersting features in the modern games? Holy shit, games have borrowed the boring and stupid in full, they've borrowed the common-sense stuff well enough, but the truly immersive things are STILL unique to Ultima (and some later Wizardries).

How is that logical? I'm not some anti-moder game weirdo, nor do I lack understanding of the fact that most of everything isn't too good, ever. But stuff like cover mechanics or Assisred combat spread like wildfire. Stuff like "open-world" is a thing... while - well, I'm playing Underworld, and you can do a shitload if highly immersive stuff that isn't even that hard to code, especially compared to stuff modern AAAs routinely require. Why can't I type in discussion topics? Isn't it ridiculously fun and rewarding questioning NPCs about stuff you've heard about in passing?

Ultima games weren't that well written, nor did they have particularly sound gameplay mechanics. To be honest, strictly as games (or novels), they were invariably a mess. But what they did best was acheiving the unique-to-video-games immersion by using the not-too-complex mechanics that are surprisingly extinct in all of the games inspired by the series. How the fuck did this happen? I mean, of course ALL games can't be great follow-ups to a great series of games, but certainly SOME, even if one out of a hundred, should be able to be a successor, no?

Hey guys, I got a bit of a problem with the sound in this game. I'm using the general MIDI patch on the GOG version, and everything is fine and sounds good until I get in a battle. The battle music plays fine for awhile, but once a hit connects and it makes the hit sound effect, the music shuts off. I can't turn it back on in the menu, the game needs to be restarted before I can click it back on. For all my searching on Google for a solution, I haven't even seen a mention about this unusual problem. Any help would be greatly appreciated.

In any case, Ultima Underworld general

>>1006457
Terrible anti-climax.

Years ago I conquered the Abyss and assembled Garamon's bones only to be told that I needed to get the Key of Love from the mourning mage Judy to complete the tri-part key to confront the Slasher of Veils.

Unfortunately, I had shot Judy dead when she snuck up on me in the lava chamber back on level 6.

So I played it through again -- kind of fun, but with some huge flaws -- got the key, entered the Demon's lair and...

The end game is that you run away from him until you get spit out of the Abyss. That's it. Can't fight him, can't kill him...just run through this acid trip landscape until you lose him. Yawn.

>>544039
dunno why the spoilers fucked up

swear i'm not a newfag