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CRPG Virgin Club Anonymous Wed Jun 13 05:28:34 2018 No.4835447 [Reply] [Original]

Given that I grew up with late 90s isometric RPGs with easy mouse interfaces, what is a good option for a babby's first oldschool CRPG? The earliest I've gone is Arena and Daggerfall, which I find easy to play due to being single-character, real-time affairs. But blobbers with mapping scare me away like nothing else. Wat do?

Anonymous Wed Jun 13 05:34:05 2018 No.4835449
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>>4835447
Lands of Lore is an easy introduction to blobbers. It has an easy mouse interface and it auto-maps.
Then things like Eye of the Beholder or Dungeon Master are so well designed that you actually don't need a map. At least I could easily orient myself in those.

>>	Anonymous Wed Jun 13 06:30:37 2018 No.4835517 File: 326 KB, 1024x689, darksun_1992_ad_4a[1].jpg [View same] [iqdb] [saucenao] [google] Blobbers are a fringe genre for a reason. Don't do it man. If you wanna go old school play something like Dark Sun or Al-Qadim.

>>	Anonymous Wed Jun 13 08:27:43 2018 No.4835698 Might & Magic 3-4-5 are all readily accessible, pretty, and fun to play.

Anonymous Wed Jun 13 09:26:07 2018 No.4835746

I'm into Shin Megami Tensei, what are some games that have battle systems like those games. Not necessarily negotiation, but battles centered around strategic buffs/debuffs and status ailments.

I'm also into Etrian Odyssey. What games can bridge me from those games to more tradition dungeon explorers?

>>	Anonymous Wed Jun 13 09:34:38 2018 No.4835757 >>4835746 >>4835698

>>	Anonymous Wed Jun 13 09:38:39 2018 No.4835759 >>4835757 >>4835698 Are the SNES ports any good?

>>	Anonymous Wed Jun 13 09:58:09 2018 No.4835765 >>4835759 http://www.honestgamers.com/619/snes/might-magic-iii-isles-of-terra/review.html

>>	Anonymous Wed Jun 13 10:17:36 2018 No.4835785 Grab Stonekeep boy.

Anonymous Wed Jun 13 14:06:59 2018 No.4836134

>>4835517
Al-Qadim is an easy introduction to CRPGs. You really don't have to care much about the stats. It's almost Zelda-like in its simplicity. Then again it's been over a decade since I last played it.
Dark Sun can be randomly hard due to combat in the beginning. You might end up restarting a few times if you're new to the game.

Anonymous Thu Jun 14 02:59:15 2018 No.4837186

What software is good for crpg mapping? I'd love to break out grid paper and a pencil to try and replicate what a newbie would have experienced years ago but A:I have a terrible tremor that makes me terrible at drawing and B: I don't have the space to do it

What do you guys recommend?

>>	Anonymous Thu Jun 14 03:21:56 2018 No.4837217 >>4837186 >tremor Just use a ruler dude. Shit excuse.

>>	Anonymous Thu Jun 14 03:50:38 2018 No.4837265 >>4837217 I just want to map on my computer, I don't have room :(

>>	Anonymous Thu Jun 14 03:51:52 2018 No.4837268 >>4837265 Are you living in a broom closet?

>>	Anonymous Thu Jun 14 03:52:48 2018 No.4837269 >>4837268 basically, yeah i also travel a lot

>>	Anonymous Thu Jun 14 03:55:44 2018 No.4837271 >>4837269 sorry there's no software which can do this, a few developers have tried but it's too resource intensive

>>	Anonymous Thu Jun 14 03:58:28 2018 No.4837276 >>4837271 what about excel?

>>	Anonymous Thu Jun 14 05:10:14 2018 No.4837337 File: 1.93 MB, 2000x2633, 1517100972572.jpg [View same] [iqdb] [saucenao] [google]

Anonymous Thu Jun 14 05:42:13 2018 No.4837352

>>4835447
>>4835449
Dungeon Master it's a great place to start. Go with that and then decide if it's a genre for you, then play some of the other recommended games.
I'll add Waxworks, and Ishar series. Or if you prefer a modern take on the genre try Legend of Grimrock, but it's not /vr/ material.

>>	Anonymous Thu Jun 14 05:53:46 2018 No.4837359 >>4837186 Grid Cartographer

Anonymous Thu Jun 14 06:42:27 2018 No.4837389

>>4837337
this list bugs me.

I myself had more problems with Lands of Lore (normal difficulty, the hard difficulty is even worse) and some unlucky situations in which enemies could kill you in just a few hits or the famous "THE ACID BURNED MY ARMOR!" forcing you to reload if you didn't want to run around naked or with a TORN SHIRT. It could get really messy real quick in the later levels, too and the real-time aspect made it rather hectic sometimes.

Realms of Arkania on the other hand is all turnbased and if you understood that you should take some basic shit with you (Shoes, blankets, Food) you were fine most of the time. Weapons and Armor weren't that expensive and could always be repaired by some smith. Fights were harder in the beginning but once you use bows you couldn't really loose. So I would actually say that RoA was an easy game, while LoL ranks from easy-hard (depending on the difficulty setting).

>>	Anonymous Thu Jun 14 06:44:00 2018 No.4837390 >>4837389 or better: RoA was a medium-diffcult game. It had some harder parts, too; just to clarify.

Anonymous Fri Jun 15 07:50:41 2018 No.4839479
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>>4835447
Recently been playing older CRPGs for the first time, trying to get deeper in the genre.

If you could get into Arena and thought it was alright, absolutely play Ultima Underworld. It's like Arena but actually amazing, the best dungeon crawl I have played. Blows Arena out of the water in most respects, even being 2 years older. Try to play with Roland MT-32/CM-32L audio if you can, it's far superior to any other option.

Betrayal at Krondor is a great one if you're looking for something more story focused. The biggest hurdle will be figuring out where to go next rather than any obscure systems or gratingly difficult combat.

Dark Sun: Shattered Lands is very good, a cross between the gold box D&D games and the Infinity Engine games. You'll feel right at home if you grew up with those late 90s isometric RPGs because it's very much a precursor to those games. Great intuitive interface with mouse control.

>>	Anonymous Fri Jun 15 08:38:26 2018 No.4839525 >>4837271 How is showing a colored grid map with some notes too resource-intensive? I could do that in one afternoon.

>>	Anonymous Fri Jun 15 10:18:03 2018 No.4839679 >>4837276 LaTeX is the only choice.

>>	Anonymous Fri Jun 15 16:35:41 2018 No.4840198 >>4835517 Technically, Dark Sun is the setting, the actual name of the game is Shattered Lands. But really, OP,>>4835447 you want this game. >>4839479 Ultima Underworld is just about perfect.

>>	Anonymous Fri Jun 15 21:44:10 2018 No.4840748 >>4835447 Might and Magic is pretty easy to get into the Goldbox games with the Goldbox Companion are also super straight forward and remain some of the best D&D games to exist

>>	Anonymous Sat Jun 16 16:28:02 2018 No.4842148 >>4837271 Is this a joke?

>>	Anonymous Sat Jun 16 19:54:49 2018 No.4842505 >>4839525 No you couldn't, you idiot.

>>	Anonymous Sun Jun 17 01:48:45 2018 No.4843176 >>4842505 >t. brainlet

>>	Anonymous Sun Jun 17 11:02:58 2018 No.4843791 >>4842505 I could get it working in one afternoon, obviously packaging it up nicely and adding lots of features would take longer.

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