/vr/ - Retro Games

nobody actually enjoyed those old D&D games and you can't convince me otherwise

>>10922591
Which D&D game is this?

>>10923118
I owned the Forgotten Realms archive pack and can confirm that I hated everything in it except for the Eye of the Beholder series

Menzoberranzan was cool too despite the jank

>>10923118
You've convinced me that you don't know shit about anything.

>>10922591

>>10923118
Pool of Radiance is awesome with the Gold Box Companion.

>>10923285
Sovl

>>10922591
i like kings quest 3, though its usually called an adventure game

>>10923118
They really weren't very good for a lot of reasons.

Does Mixed-Up Mother Goose count as an RPG? I always remembered it as being top-down movement before seeing it on the Internet again since the mid-90s.

>>10923118
Buck Rogers was cool tho. played it tons.

>>10922591
This reminds me I still need to do The Realm mega campaign for FRUA, I've had it bookmarked for so long that the website died.

>>10923118
You seriously underestimate 80’s nerds. They ended up making all your favorite 90’s and 2000’s RPGs.

First person to tell me what movie this is from without reverse image searching wins nothing.

>>10923548
Well this just gave me an idea for a thread so it’s Friday the 13th part 4.
Game is Zaxxon.

Times Of Lore
https://youtu.be/o0-iPZwU0MA?feature=shared

>>10923118
>you can't convince me otherwise
no, we cant.

>>10923578
peak of mount stupid or slope of enlightenment? it's kinda confusing you laid it out

>>10923170
Looks like curse of the azure bonds from that shambling mound sprite

>>10924448
I was going to say bolingbroke has way too much hp to be in curse but I think that's actually way too much hp for ad&d of any level and he's been hacked

Heart of the Maelstrom is KINO.

Ever since I turned 30, I've really grown sour on JRPGs even though they were my favorite as a kid. I think it's because I want more freedom in my gameplay as an adult and the stories don't impress me as much after many years of experiences + playing some of the greatest ones already. I never played any of the oldschool RPGs until recently and I'm really starting to like them a lot (like the original Apple II version of Ultima 1). I see how a lot of these influenced my favorite games I liked growing up and there seems to be something new that I thought I hadn't seen before.

>>10924547
The japanese still made the best old-school RPGs.

>>10923458
Yeah it's called an Adventure Game because that's the genre it's in. Only an idiot would call it an RPG.

I think mine is Phantasy Star. It's still just do delightful

>>10924883
They dumbed down the genre and made a shit-ton of plebeian yen.

>>10922591
superior taste coming through

For me it's Phantasy Star II, god the first time playing it was such a fucking ride.

>>10924967
Best 8-bit RPG imo

>>10924909
Anything fantasy themed is an RPG. My favorite 80s rpg? The Legend of Zelda.

>>10923118
A few were quite good for their time.

>>10926015
The legend of Zelda is a Perseuslike, not an RPG.

>>10926087
I bought most of them at launch and played them but they weren't good. Don't know why they didn't go for more of an Ultima-clone approach.

>>10923285
Based

>>10923528
Are all of the modules lost in time?

>>10924480
The nip SNES and PS1 versions are better but are from the 90s.

>>10925805
I really like Pool of Radiance, but I think I like Phantasy Star 2 better, so that's my vote as well. Love the dungeons, love the 80s anime sci-fi aesthetic, love the music.

>>10924547
I can no idea how someone could become enamored with JRPGs even as a child. There are some of them that are good in spite of themselves, but I have no clue how it isn't extremely obvious how limited they mostly are.

>>10925756
mother is the only 80s rpg ive completed

>>10923118
Not D&D but SSI's game Demon's Winter is pretty fun. Mindless sword and sorcery kinoslop with good dungeons and loot plus the whole map is open to explore from the very start

>>10927981
The module database itself was a different website iirc, so the modules should be around. Just have no clue what order they'd go in. I haven't messed much with the archived page though and I have to assume someone archived it.

Ive spent far 2 much time moving my charactors from module to module in FRUA. some modules I play thru a few times but its been fun. charactors are maxed out for their levels and its just a case of adventures to adventure now. its hilarious going to some old lvl 4 module and punching my way thru it and acing all the checks because I am good enough. Love me some hours lost in FRUA Modules and making my own to mess with.