DOS

[Anonymous No.8800840]

Fuck all that console stuff, discuss and recommend some DOS games.
There are a shitload of Dungeons and Dragons games, which are worth playing?

[Anonymous No.8801080]

>>8800840
may as well start with the King

[Anonymous No.8801175]

>>8801080
he wouldn't have an ankh on his clothes if he's dressed like a crusader

[Anonymous No.8801182]

>>8800840
The gold box series
Wasteland
bards quest
Wizardry
Might and Magic I-III

[Anonymous No.8801224]

Monkey Island
Dune 2
Discworld 1 and 2
F117A Stealth Fighter

[Anonymous No.8801230]

>>8801080
I tried to get into this series but the only one I had fun with was the original. the ones I tried after the original where all extreme WHERE THE FUCK DO I GO simulations

[Anonymous No.8801450]

>>8800840
I'm an oldfag and never had a console (apart from a Pong as a child).
Then only Ataris, Amigas and PCs, fiddling around with Config.sys and Autoexec.bat.

[Anonymous No.8801708]

Play Terra Nova

[Anonymous No.8801758]

>>8801708
You should probably listen to this guy. Sounds like he knows what he's talking about.

[Anonymous No.8801809]

>>8801450
ok retard

[Anonymous No.8801892]

>>8801230
>Ultima 1 appreciator
Out of 1-6 it's the only one I've legit beaten. You only have a single character and it's easy to bullshit your way through the entire game.
I beat Ultima 2 with an "improvement patch" that makes it less grindy, it's a janky but funny game. You're supposed to grind for random drops, that can be randomly stolen, and when you level up you improve random stats. The most efficient way is to get on a boat and fire at enemies on land, then pick up the drops. It's like playing a shitty MMO in a single player game from 1982. But it has time travel (it's basically Chrono Trigger early alpha) and you can land your spaceship on other planets.
The other ones have good ideas (morality system and living open world) but they force you to engage with the boring old rpg shit more, and Lord British thinks waiting around for something to happen is a good puzzle design.

[Anonymous No.8801939]

I've recently discovered Legend adventures. While certainly not the best of the genre, they are beyond comfy. If you like (bad) puns, give Companions of Xanth a try.

[Anonymous No.8801959]

[Anonymous No.8801962]

>>8801708
Based

[Anonymous No.8802102]

>>8801450
What the fuck are you trying to say, anon?

[Anonymous No.8802105]

>>8801080
Here's the Box Art in HQ..

[Anonymous No.8802254]

>>8800840
Lands of Lore

[Anonymous No.8802381]

[Anonymous No.8802387]

>>8800840
Ultima Underworld

[Anonymous No.8802618]

>>8800840
>There are a shitload of Dungeons and Dragons games, which are worth playing?
The 'Gold Box' games, and the very one you posted are good. The some of the real time ones (Eye of the Beholder, Ravenloft) can be interesting but are oh so exploitable and fairly shallow D&D adaptations due to it.

[Anonymous No.8802630]

Are there any CGA games worth bothering with? Or can I just assume there's always a superior version elsewhere?

[Anonymous No.8802676]

>>8801175
It's not real.

[Anonymous No.8802697]

>>8801175
welcome to ultima retard, where the ankh is a key symbol throughout the game.

brain dead fucking zoomer.

[Anonymous No.8802728]

>>8800840

[Anonymous No.8802780]

>>8802381
Good recommendation. Takes a while to get into but it’s a great game.

[Anonymous No.8802804]

>>8801175
it's the avatar's symbol you absolute retard

[Anonymous No.8803443]

>>8802630
Probably, PC was a garbage machine in the CGA era that mostly got low effort ports.

[Anonymous No.8803487]

I was going to suggest some of the old Raven Software catalog (Necrodome, Take No Prisoners, Mageslayer) then realized all 3 of them are early Windows titles

[Anonymous No.8803491]

THOSE LIZARDMEN IN DISCSIPLES OF STEEL ARE SO HOT

[Anonymous No.8803848]

>>8801230
just emulate a trained version

[Anonymous No.8803852]

>>8801809
Cope, console pleb.
PC is masterr ace.

[Anonymous No.8803931]

What year/hardware era/games would you all say heralded the PC as a legit gaming platform that could actually hold its own against consoles and other home computers?

That's not to say there were no good games in the early DOS era, of course, but you have to admit what >>8803443 said is mostly true. I think VGA was when parity with competitors became possible (though it wasn't fully realized until the 90's), and Doom is when it embarked into greatness.

[Anonymous No.8804029]

>>8802105
fantastic, here's a nice map of Britannia as payment

[Anonymous No.8804359]

>>8803491
Pics or I don't believe you.

[Anonymous No.8804378]

>>8803931
>Doom
Amiga fags didn't become jealous of the PC until Doom came out.
The arrival of Doom spelled the slow, crumbling end of any platform that couldn't run it.

[Anonymous No.8804392]

>>8803931
>What year/hardware era/games would you all say heralded the PC as a legit gaming platform that could actually hold its own against consoles and other home computers?
Around 1990 assuming the game had VGA and sound card support. There were still a lot of EGA and PC speaker sound games kicking around until VGA+sound officially became the bare minimum.

[Anonymous No.8804640]

>>8804392
Keep in mind a lot of so-called VGA games were little more than glorified EGA games. Hell, some games that touted VGA support didn't look any different when set to VGA mode compared to EGA. Obviously this was done for compatibility purposes, as many people were still using EGA and even CGA and Hercules hardware, but it often meant limiting the game somewhat. It took a few more years for PC to finally move on from catering to ancient hardware and truly taking advantage of what was possible.

[Anonymous No.8804669]

Anyone here happen to know this game I'm thinking about? Pic very much related. You had 2 players each with a cursor that controlled a mass of pixels and your objective was to surround the opponent to take part of their pixels and grow your mass of pixels.

[Anonymous No.8804735]

>Fuck all that console stuff,
with you there
>discuss and recommend some DOS games.
DOS GAMES??? F U C K OFF!!!

why why why is there only AIDS on this board!!!

[Anonymous No.8806006]

>>8804669
Liquid war?

[Anonymous No.8806025]

>>8804359

[Anonymous No.8806276]

[Anonymous No.8806506]

trying to play the goldbox games but I'm a zoomer

[Anonymous No.8807996]

>>8806276
Do I need to be versed in the books to enjoy this?
I'm familiar with the first Riftwar book; The Magician but that's it.

[Anonymous No.8808158]

>>8800840
You posted the one most playing, when it comes to that era of D&D games. The others aren't quite as good, except Betrayal at Krondor.

[Anonymous No.8808594]

>>8800840
This is on sale on GOG but only 15% off. Why doesn't this go on sale more often? Not sure I want to drop $8.50 on it but I've been wanting to play it forever.

[Anonymous No.8808872]

>>8808594
so just download it for *free* elsewhere?

[Anonymous No.8809127]

>>8806506
At least you're trying. Keep trying and they'll make a man of you.

[Anonymous No.8809162]

>>8807996
No. Betrayal at Krondor has characters from the books (some of them playable), but the story is standalone. The heart of the story is Gorath, who is an original character. Feist later adapted the game's story into a book called Krondor: The Betrayal and wrote several sequels to it.

[Anonymous No.8809167]

>>8807996
No. Betrayal at Krondor has characters from the books (some of them playable), but the story is standalone. The true protagonist of the story is Gorath, who is an original character. Feist later adapted the game's story into a book called Krondor: The Betrayal and wrote several sequels to it.

[Anonymous No.8809174]

I tried some "first person" dnd games that predate doom and uuw, and holy fuck they are unplayable.
The "first person" view only renders like 2 tiles in front, and is less useful than the mini map for actually playing the game, despite taking up 80% of the screen

[Anonymous No.8809176]

>>8809174
Which ones?

[Anonymous No.8809191]

>>8809176
The eye of the beholder series in particular.

[Anonymous No.8809196]

>>8800840
i wish this game had old school DOS graphics. it looks so fucking ugly to me.

[Anonymous No.8809253]

Quest For Hussein:
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=nNygoF773Ls

[Anonymous No.8810219]

>>8809127
Can you be my father figure?

[Anonymous No.8810349]

>>8804735
Okay then wiseguy, what do (you) want to talk about?

[Anonymous No.8811249]

pool of radiance death sound effect

[Anonymous No.8811517]

>>8806276

This game is excellent as well as the sequel

[Anonymous No.8811546]

>>8804735
GTFO tard

[Anonymous No.8811554]

D&D? Or RPG? Because there's a difference.

Best old D&D games that I've played are Dark Sun: Shattered Lands (sequel's too convoluted) and Al-Qadim (takes a while to get into, but I'll never forget it). There are many later games that are much, much better, such as Baldur's Gate, IceWind Dale, PlaneScape Torment, Temple of Elemental Evil...

But if you want FRP of any brand, I'd recommend Might and Magic 4-8 and Wizardry 8 as God-tier games.

[Anonymous No.8811556]

>>8809196
hold my beer

[Anonymous No.8811559]

Bonus. Thank me later

[Anonymous No.8813060]

>>8802381
>In medieval Germany, reality is more horrifying than fantasy
That is also true in modern Germany

[Anonymous No.8813067]

[Anonymous No.8813070]

Setup Guide for using Roland Sound Canvas VA with DOSBox & ScummVM
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=WumRboSfn90

>DOSBox Guide
1) Install Sound Canvas VA
2) Install loopMIDI: https://www.tobias-erichsen.de/software/loopmidi.html
3) Launch both loopMIDI & Sound Canvas VA
4) In loopMIDI create a port for Sound Canvas VA to interface through
5) With both loopMIDI & Sound Canvas VA already running, run DOSBox
6) Type "MIXER /LISTMIDI" into DOSBox to see all available MIDI device IDs - as you can see, Sound Canvas VA is listed under "2"

You are now ready to use Sound Canvas VA in DOSBox. However, MS-DOS games all come with their own audio setups & they need to be configured individually if you want them to take advantage of your new virtual MIDI device's capabilities. There are a number of ways how you can achieve this. Choose whichever suits you best:

7a) Easiest option is to just run a game's audio setup - pick Sound Canvas VA for music playback only, you still want Sound Blaster 16/Pro for SFX & voices (If asked, by default MIDI is available on address 330 & interrupt 2 while Sound Blaster is on address 220 & interrupt 7)
7b) Load a per-game custom config file - copy the 3 highlighted lines from "Lands of Lore (DOSXBox ECE).txt" to enable Sound Canvas VA
7c) Use one custom DOSBox config file across all games - enabling Sound Canvas with the same 3 settings (not recommended)
7d) Use a frontend GUI for DOSBox and set up the corresponding options that way

https://www.dosbox.com/wiki/Configuration:MIDI
https://www.dosbox.com/wiki/MIDI_software_devices
https://www.rolandcloud.com/getmedia/1b9a8e2f-da5b-4ac4-a903-60d1c6dcd648/scva-manual-e.pdf

[Anonymous No.8814416]

>>8800840
Commander Keen

[Anonymous No.8814421]

>>8814416
Even Better, Secret Agent 1, 2 and 3, from Apogee

[Anonymous No.8814473]

>>8800840
Love me Shattered Lands, but the sequel is unplayably buggy and has a lot of stuff that doesn't fit Dark Sun lore.