Pemptus on 10/12/2011 at 17:19
We were REAL MEN back then. Or perhaps boys with a ton of spare time.
Chimpy Chompy on 10/12/2011 at 18:03
Quote Posted by icemann
Playing Eye of The Beholder 1. After playing Baldurs Gate 1 & 2 I now properly understand the fine art of rerolling character stats till their somewhat decent
While I do enjoy playing old RPGs, this is one old mechanic that pisses me off. Totally pointless.
Jason Moyer on 10/12/2011 at 19:41
The fake walls in 80's RPG's were great. Even worse - remember the teleporters in Bard's Tale that made it nearly impossible to map some dungeons? *shudder*
demagogue on 10/12/2011 at 19:51
Remember when we still actually mapped dungeons?!
I have good memories playing through Bard's Tale 2.
They were unforgiving, but at the time that just goaded you to push on.
I tried playing through Wasteland not too long ago (for the first time).
In some ways it recaptured that old spirit. In other ways ... times have changed.
Sulphur on 10/12/2011 at 20:51
I used to map layouts in Infocom text adventures instead - my sense of direction was (and sorta still is) questionable at best. Man, all those sheets of sprawling box-by-box gridded layouts spilling out across the desk, until I was fed up and got up and went to irritate the cat. We had way too much free time when were kids.
Mr.Duck on 10/12/2011 at 21:09
I'm playing Skyrim.
Al_B gifted me Skyrim.*
Playing Skyrim.
Skyrim.
*THANK YOU, THANK YOU, THANK YOU, THANK YOU, THANK YOUUUUUUU!!!!! - I will repay this HUGE favor, kind sir! :D
SKYRIM!
Al_B on 10/12/2011 at 23:13
Just enjoy it - it's certainly not perfect but it's well worth playing.
Thirith on 11/12/2011 at 09:28
I used to love making maps in these games, but after 15+ years of not doing so I wonder whether I'd still enjoy mapping out dungeons and cities. Also, since my spacial awareness isn't that great I'd end up with these hugely distorted maps of the cities in e.g. Arcanum, where geography would go all wonky and Lovecraft...
Thirith on 11/12/2011 at 13:09
Quote Posted by icemann
I usually just did the dungeons since the cities and villages were generally alot easier to remember.
I bow to your superior memory then. I remember thinking that in
Ultima VI's Britain had become way too big for me to remember where NPCs were... and then
Ultima VII came along and Britain felt twice as big.
On a different note: just found the Silent Nations in
Planescape Torment... and for frustrating-yet-satisfying old-school fun in between I've returned to
Super Meat Boy, which I never finished the first time around. It's the
Demons' Souls of jump'n'runs.
Volitions Advocate on 11/12/2011 at 23:45
Quote Posted by icemann
For me the last game I mapped out the dungeons for was Phantasy Star 1 (Sega Master System). Had half of a note book filled with the maps. Once all jotted down was quite useful.
Though I'm sure that to an outside observer it would look like the writings of a crazy person :p.
that game was SOOOOOO frustrating without a stack of graph paper and scotch tape.
