Play Any Old Stuff ??
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I still really enjoy both Betrayal in Antara and Return to Krondor. [Sadly had to give up on Betrayal at Krondor. The very ancient graphics began to affect my eyes - and the re-mastered version (don't know if it ever got made) wasn't sticking to the original game.] But I was a latecomer to RPGs so I bet some of you diehards here re-play even older stuff ??
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Re: Play Any Old Stuff ??
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Even though I left gaming for several years, my favorites were the ones with which I first came in contact; the Forgotten Realm series based on the Advanced Dungeons and Dragons rule sets from the late 70's. I still have the Commodore 64 versions of several of the games and ones that were updated to play on Win 98, but it would be nice if someone would bring them into today's graphical standards. They were mainly text based with crude 8 bit graphics, tinny midi-music and dialogue, but I can still get into the games even today. Pool of Radiance, Curse of the Azure Bonds, Gateway to the Savage Frontier are just a couple of the titles from that era - Awesome stuff, but nearly unplayable on current PC's/Platforms. When I got back into gaming and started playing almost exclusively Adventure games, it was Gameboomers that brought be back to RPG's with KOTOR
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Re: Play Any Old Stuff ??
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You've seen this collection on GOG, TM? That has some of the games that you mentioned. There's lots of old stuff I like to play: Anvil of Dawn, Zanzarah, Anachronox, Return to Krondor, the Quest for Glory series, and the list goes on.
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Re: Play Any Old Stuff ??
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I'll have to monkey around with them again to see if I can get a screen that's bigger than a smartphone Check the ***.conf files in the game folder that GOG installs. Relevant lines might be for fullresolution= windowresolution= output= scaler=normal3x PhilsComputerLab on YouTube made "Tweak Guides" for some of the games GOG released on DOSBox where he went into detail about what these lines did and how to get the picture larger than a postage stamp. He doesn't have anything specifically for the Forgotten Realms Gold Box games, but look for something of similar vintage, maybe this -- https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Ss3OQAY1WtU&list=PL5T8bmLxd_T0QGChQWeqhEnFp3ioEtZ2h&index=21
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Re: Play Any Old Stuff ??
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The last REALLY old games I played were the re-released Zork games, the original Infocom ones that ran on DOS ("You have been eaten by a Grue"). This was perhaps three or four years ago. I think I must still have them somewhere.
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I think I'm quite ready for another adventure.
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Re: Play Any Old Stuff ??
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" You have been eaten by a Grue". Ahhhhh, Those never to be forgotten words !!
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Re: Play Any Old Stuff ??
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And of course I still fire up Deus Ex GOTY from time to time, or some of the oldest Bioware games. I rarely finish those now, but it's still fun to roll a new character.
Last edited by hagatha; 10/28/17 01:05 PM.
I think I'm quite ready for another adventure.
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Re: Play Any Old Stuff ??
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...or it can turn into an obsession. I had the same issue when I started playing RPG's Sharon. I wanted to be a little of everything. The problem is that many games gear character development trees to build a specific character type, attempting to multi-class in a system that's not built for it inevitably leads to failure, usually at a critical point in the game. Any RPG that highly touts its character development features and that's truly worth it's salt should provide a different experience based on the character type that's chosen. That way you can start out with the character type that's usually the easiest to get to know (basic warrior type, usually) and then branch out to different characters in subsequent play-throughs. Arcanum is definitely one of my all time favorites.
I feel a lot more like I do now, then when I first got here
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