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I need suggestions for DOS games so what was your fav game/what is the best game

>> No.389828

Wizardry IV
A lighthearted dungeon romp for all ages

>> No.389860

well you already got blood so you clearly have good taste.

besides that id recommend beneath a steel sky, a point and click adventure game, and a pretty good one at that,
its free on gog as well so you wont have to pay anything.

https://secure.gog.com/gamecard/beneath_a_steel_sky

also not dos but blade of darkness is a pretty good game.

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>>389828
I've wanted to find a good rpg for DOS so I've been trying to play Arena but I've never been good at those types of games.

>> No.389871

>>389861
Don't worry, Wiz 4 is very forgiving

>> No.389879

>>389860
Blood always was a fav of mine even from when i was a kid. I had an old emachine "Never obsolete" and i played blood and wolf3d

>> No.389880

Master of Magic.

>> No.389889

rockstar

simulates a life of a rockstar

write songs, record albums, go on tour, do a lot of drugs

it can be hard to run though

>> No.389902

captive

>> No.389907

>>389902

oh wait don't play captive, i forgot the pc version is bugged to shit

>> No.389920

Realms of the Haunting. A Point and Click Adventure + First Person Shooter game where you go through dimensions.

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This can only get better, time to start looking up some of the other games. I like gog but they have a very narrow collections right now. Ive been going to theisozone.com to get the full versions of most of them though

>> No.389973
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>>389871
Downloaded it from myabandonware gonna play it soon.
>>389880
waiting for a download to finish so i can grab it from the other site.
>>389889
mildly interested seems like it could be odd
>>389920
about to look into it

>> No.390008

Duke3D/Blood/Shadow Warrior
Tie Fighter Collector's CD

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>>389805
Betrayal at Krondor.

Best DOS RPG. Some say best CRPG ever.

>> No.390085

>>389973
Abandonia is my goto site. It's got tons of rpgs to check into

>> No.390119

>>390024
My favourite RPG of all time. Very unique experience. There's nothing else like it.

Doom is best played on a multiplayer source port called Zandronum, not in DOSBox, by the way.

>> No.390207

>>390024

If you can get the disk version for delicious cd music score.

>> No.390219

>>390207

Also darklands, albion and aleshar if you can figure out the sextant.

>> No.390221

>>390219
ooh and ragnarok/valhalla for an old roguelike style.

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>> No.390413

any Commander Keen
my favorite by far

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>> No.390419

>>390396
What game is this? I remember playing it on a demo disk as a kid..

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>>390419
Blake Stone.

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>> No.390458

>>390432
Stay Tooned?

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>> No.390468

CD FREEWARE
CD DWOODS2
DWOODS2

DWOODS 2 general?

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>> No.390482

why is your desktop background dirty dishes?

>> No.390491

>>390424
>scanline filter on dosbox
why?... and how?

>> No.390497
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>>390491
>Why
first pic I took with this fitler, and I fucked up the resolution.
>how
- first, you need d-fend reload (or a dosbox frontend)
- Next, you download this dosbox version: http://ykhwong.x-y.net/
- you use it to replace the dosbox you had in your d-fend folder
- now, you desactivate any filters you use with your game in d-fend
- you launch your game in window screen mode
- You must now see some an option bar.
- Click on Video->output->Direct 3D
- Click on Video->Resolution->Fullscreen->Desktop
- Click on Video->Direct3D Pixelshader
- Choose CRT.D3D.br.fx or CRT.D3D.fx or what you want.
- Go now in Fullscreen mode.
-Enjoy

>> No.390504

>>390459
>a filter that actually adds a washed out look

hahahaha, that was the worst part of cheep old monitors, why the hell would some one do this to themselves? no one can possibly actually want to go this far with their silly nostalgia can they?

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>>389871
>Wiz 4 is very forgiving

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>>390504
Without filter.

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>> No.390521

>>390510
oh... so it was actually part of the art style then, now I feel a bit silly

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>> No.390816

bump

>> No.390827

>>390482
that's what im wondering too...like..the hell?

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>>390482
>>390827
First off nice work noticing that here is the full pic. Second I am surprised this thread is still alive, i went to bed and woke up and it still hadn't 404'd.

>> No.394408

>>390521
>part of the art style then
No, it was just an ugly game.
There was no "CRT art style" beyond doing what you could to make 320x200 look good.

>> No.394668

>>390408
>Realms of the Haunting
FUCK. I forgot I was attempting a playthrough of that. So fucking good.

>> No.394702

>>390504
People using filters for DOS games are particularly retarded, because those games all used line doubling on the original hardware and had sharp pixels with no visible scanlines.

>> No.394743

>>394702
>Crt monitor = lcd monitor

>> No.394757

>>394743
>implying that CRT monitors didn't have super crisp displays. The display of a CRT monitor was way sharper than LCDs until quite recently.

>> No.394813

Wizardry 4 will make you cry tears of blood.

Relatively forgiving, but still good, dungeon crawlers is the Might and Magic series. Start with either 3 or Worlds of Xeen.
A bit harder but also great is Dark Heart of Uukrul.

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>>390008
Oh. My. Fucking. God. I forgot all about shadow warrior, thank you so much I must play this game again.

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>>394743
DOS games were displayed on "high resolution" (as it was called back then, low resolution by modern standards) CRTs. They never had visible scanlines.

Attached image is nearest neighbor scaled to correct aspect ratio using integer ratios (note that the pixels are not square, so it needs to go to a minimum size of 1600x1200), then converted to linear RGB colorspace, then gaussian blurred, then scaled back down to a more practical size with the imagemagick default scaling. The linear colorspace is highly important because without it the blurring will make the image look too dark.

This is how DOS games actually looked, not some ugly scanline filter. And if you want DOS games to look like how they should have looked if technology was better, just skip the blur step.