/vr/ - Retro Games

>>357176
Might and Magic, Eye of the Beholder, Bard's Tale, Wizardry.

Have you played Loom? It's a nice Sierra style game but the puzzles are not as infuriating as the Quest series can be. Actually, a lot of the Lucasarts adventures are good, particularly the Indiana Jones ones.

Oh, I just noticed you said RPG. Play Loom anyways.

The SSI Gold Box games are cool and there's a metric shitton of them. Try Curse Of The Azure Bonds. Just go look them up. They're like classic Ultima but better.

The Ultima Adventure games are pretty fuckin neato too, precisely because they weren't in your typical fantasy universe.

>>357192
>level 1
>red slime
You run, motherfucker. How badly do you want that Copper Sword?

The Magic Candle.
Quest for Glory.
Darklands.
Betrayal at Krondor.

I'd differentiate between Adventure Games (King's Quest) and the RPGs though.

>>357248
HAHA not my screenshot, but one of my favorite games ever

>>357282
>Betrayal at Krondor
Pretty good writing on that one, if I recall. Much better than your typical kill the evil wizard, return the orb stuff.

>>357187
Apparently if you buy the new Bard's Tale, you also get the original Bard's Tale trilogy.

>>357176
You're in luck, here's a 3x4 I made.

>>357308
Once a year or so I pop it in and just level up outside the beginning. Feels good to just fight, rest, fight, level up. Like hitting my head against a wall but in a good way.

>>357309
Yah, it's very good actually.

>>357337
I never got the appeal of DQ1, it's the most trivial and repetitive grind shit imaginable. I can't think of a single thing that DQ3 didn't do better.

>>357331
>Crystalis
My favorite game of all time. Don't even have to think about that decision.

>>357328
Wizardry is terrible and I wouldn't even recommend it to a masochist.

>>357309
What's funny is that people mistake the writing for the original author but it was actually all done by Neal Hallford and John Cutter.

>>357353
I completely agree with you. I just like playing the beginning for a couple hours or so, nostalgia feels and all that.

>DQ3
And I can't think of a single thing that DQ4 didn't do better.

>>357362
>Wizardry is terrible
The hell are you on about.
>and I wouldn't even recommend it to a masochist.
He posted Wiz 7, not Wiz 4.

thanks bros, this is awesome.

>>357239
Fate of Atlantis is one of my all-time favorite games. So definitely trying Loom now

>>357362
Your face is terrible

Wizardry is a goddamn paradise to masochists.
>>357374
Class changes, less story binding, being actually able to play a 4-man party from the start...?

>>357370
>Loom
It's so good. It's really quite beautiful. I don't want to hype it too much, but I remember it being pretty fuckin magical. It's on the short side, though. Warning: save before you cast OPEN on the sky.

Maybe I'll play it this weekend. I think there's a SCUMM emulator for Xbawks.

>>357386
>Wizardry is a goddamn paradise to masochists.
I would love to see Etrian Odyssey fans to try and play a Wizardry game.

>>357386
>Class changes, less story binding, being actually able to play a 4-man party
Hmm, I like them both. I see your point, but I really like the characters in 4 rather than build-your-own. Agree to disagree.

>>357398
Holy shit. Loom is on Steam for $5.

http://store.steampowered.com/app/32340/

>>357398
I love me some Loom. I really need to go replay it some time.
>that setting
>that music
>that first minute opening to Swan Lake

>>357398
I love me some Loom. I really need to go replay it some time.
>that setting
>that music
>that first minute opening to Swan Lake

>>357441
>that ending
>those feels

>>357447
Is that an actual thing in Space Quest?

>Latex Babes of Estros
Obviously Leather Goddesses of Phobos. Oh Space Quest, you so funny.

>>357424

What about the Etrian Odyssey fans that started with Wizardry, but like EO because it doesn't feel like the masochism tango?

>>357459
Yep, they're in "Software Excess" in Space Quest 4.
Several parodies of Sierra games and others.

>>357457
Bro, do you even Wizardry? Why go masochist-lite? We're grinding and drawing our own goddamn maps.

On the Wizardry note: there are a bunch of JP Wizardry games on the consoles that look pretty cool. Have there been any fan tra

>>357482
>any fan translations?

>>357476
That is straight up hilarious.

>>357482
There's a few of their Llygamyn remakes. (that tend to be a lot easier but still not easy)
Not sure about the rest, a few of the very anim-u ones seem to have got official releases.
But with the sheer number there has to be at least one good original Japanese one.

From what i've heard the Japanese fanbase wasn't as keen on later releases, mostly because they got shit console releases.

>>357482
The only original Jap Wizardry games available in english are Wizardry TOTFL (PS2), the PS3 one and Wizardry Xth2 (a.k.a. Class of Heroes).

D&D Warriors of the Eternal Sun on the Megadrive.

>>357379
Am I the only one who legitimately enjoyed Wizardry IV? It was hard as balls, but the feeling you get when you finish it... Especially getting Grandmaster Adventurer. That was a 'high' I haven't experienced again yet.

>>357447
>BOOM is a post-holocaust adventure set in post-holocaust America after the holocaust.

>>357239
Don't Forget Unlimited Adventures and the piles and piles of fan made rpgs for it. Including hacks and programs to further extend the game. Glorious and still has a community to this day. I enjoy it greatly and have carried my team thru 7 modules so far and still going. Love watching them grow in power and experience worlds.

>>357176
inb4 I get slammed by elitists for asking, but what model is that? Also, do we have a general opinion on the BEST overall DOS machine? I really need one so I can get all my ultima/sierra games going again

Someone posted Albion already, but if you want a really awesome adventure in a huge world play Ambermoon.

It's the same 3D real-time dungeons, TB combat and top-down mix minus the sci-fi elements but with a lot more freedom and exploration and not-so-broken combat.
You get to ride horses, travel the seas and fly on brooms (and much more) and crawling through dungeons solving puzzles and riddles, all that good stuff.

It's an amazing game, even better than Albion.

>>357447
>BOOM is a post-holocaust adventure set in post-holocaust America after the holocaust.

Would play

>>357176
http://www.hardcoregaming101.net/wonderboy/wonderboy3.htm

>>357176
http://www.hardcoregaming101.net/xanadu/xanadu.htm

>>367027
also this

>>357176
http://www.hardcoregaming101.net/crystalis/crystalis.htm

>>357176
http://www.hardcoregaming101.net/oasis/oasis.htm

>>357176
http://www.hardcoregaming101.net/quintet/quintet3.htm

>>357176
http://www.hardcoregaming101.net/shadowrun/shadowrun.htm