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Dungeons! Anonymous Sat Jan 10 05:45:09 2015 No.2171287 [Reply] [Original]

what's your favourite one, even if full of errors and flaws?

what do you personally consider the best of the genre objectively?

(I'd rather you say two different games!)

do you like the genre, do you prefer older, or newer dungeons?
wide open world, or never really leaving the underground?

>>	Anonymous Sat Jan 10 10:59:47 2015 No.2171548 I'll bump this thread, I am really itching for a good dungeon crawler.

Anonymous Sat Jan 10 11:06:05 2015 No.2171553

>>2171287
the dungeons in Quake are fucking fantastic. there are some maps with an open ceiling though and it is by no means a dungeon crawler but what dungeons there are? exhilarating and heart pumping, with a fuckload of clever secrets and challenges around every corner

Anonymous Sat Jan 10 12:08:52 2015 No.2171646
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>>2171287
so let's say, cutoff at Arx Fatalis?
or Dark Messiah?

what are the best grid-lock dungeons?

For me it's definitely OP's Stonekeep!
(best weapons?)
oh the memories...

>>	Anonymous Sat Jan 10 12:12:12 2015 No.2171656 File: 820 KB, 680x510, sad.gif [View same] [iqdb] [saucenao] [google] >>2171646 boy, it hurts me I finally after years got Arx Fatalis but couldn't get it to run and it started crashing always ;_;

>>	Anonymous Sat Jan 10 17:18:20 2015 No.2172031 to me, being buried deep down some endless tombs with moribund lighting is just the true dungeon, never hoping to see daylight why was the desperate fighting for life in nameless undergrounds with some crazy monsters so damn enjoyable?

>>	Anonymous Sat Jan 10 20:23:44 2015 No.2172304 dungeon bump!

>>	Anonymous Sat Jan 10 20:48:14 2015 No.2172335 File: 89 KB, 642x479, MWDevil[1].jpg [View same] [iqdb] [saucenao] [google] It's Ultima Underworld but I'll bring up something obscure and post a pic of Moraff's World.

>>	Anonymous Sat Jan 10 21:03:20 2015 No.2172357 >>2171656 did you try running it through arx libertatis, the open source port?

>>	Anonymous Sat Jan 10 21:13:23 2015 No.2172374 I love Arcana for the SNES and I have no idea why, because by all rights it seems like it's pretty mediocre. My favorite of all time is EO which is not /vr/.

>>	Anonymous Sat Jan 10 21:14:13 2015 No.2172378 >>2172357 first time i hear of it, i have to try it, thanks!

>>	Anonymous Sat Jan 10 21:24:52 2015 No.2172391 >>2171287 Im an oldfag (zork old), but some of my my favourite atmospheric dungeons were from Diablo (original). Man that ambient goatman soundtrack still gives me goosebumps, both creepy and nostalgic.

>>	Anonymous Sat Jan 10 21:27:18 2015 No.2172394 Would Roguelikes count for this? If so, ADOM's Caverns of Chaos gets my vote.

Anonymous Sat Jan 10 22:04:02 2015 No.2172448
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I'm very fond of the dungeons from the old school Zelda games before it went 3D. Not that I dislike the 3D ones but for some reason moving and fighting in the older ones felt super fluid and right.

Anyway I like dungeons that have multiple types of environments and several paths you can take.

>>	Anonymous Sat Jan 10 22:17:11 2015 No.2172474 >>2172335 Man, great memories. I played that game a ton, had a copy from a bbs and was so impressed i bought it and they sent me a ton of other free games.

>>	Anonymous Sat Jan 10 22:29:28 2015 No.2172493 File: 42 KB, 256x224, Brandish_SNES_ScreenShot2.gif [View same] [iqdb] [saucenao] [google] brandish was such a good dungeon

Anonymous Sat Jan 10 23:51:42 2015 No.2172668

>>2171287
Tales of Destiny's City of Rodeon.

There's this feeling of sadness and loss inside of there. Because this used to be a city full of thousands of people. And no matter what they (The Aetharians) did it's still tugs on the heartstrings.

That was the cool thing. You could imagine what the cities of the Aeropolis looked like when they were alive.

It doesn't pull any punches or glamorize anything. The Surface Dwellers won the war but the Aetherians were almost entirely exterminated. And completely exterminated by game's end. :(

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=UiQkk8Z5l5w

>>	Anonymous Sat Jan 10 23:57:07 2015 No.2172675 >>2172474 Yeah it was basically the best shareware game ever. That and Hugo.

>>	Anonymous Sun Jan 11 04:28:41 2015 No.2173110 what about Albion? i have some fond memories of crawling with my party almost dead, hoping there weren't many fights left in the caves and shit

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