Trying to play Wasteland 1 but...

[SinVraal]

How about some other games which are must play, but aren't really similar to Wasteland?

And thx, btw.

Have you played the Gold Box games from SSI? Realms of Arkania, Ultimas, Betrayal At Krondor, Darklands to name a few.

 

[octavius]

How about some other games which are must play, but aren't really similar to Wasteland?

See my previous message.
Also read this.

 

[Morkar Left]

How about some other games which are must play, but aren't really similar to Wasteland?

Starflight 1+2. I recommend the amiga version with far superior controls and usability even when it lacks some complexity from the dos-version according some reviews (mass calculation of ship and equipment)

 

[General Maxson]

Woohoo bros! Thank you all. Now, I'm almost set for life. :D Yeah, I played some of those games, but not nearly all. I always wondered how different Starflight is compared to one of my favorite games, Star Control 2, but never got to playing it...

 

[SinVraal]

Woohoo bros! Thank you all. Now, I'm almost set for life. :D Yeah, I played some of those games, but not nearly all. I always wondered how different Starflight is compared to one of my favorite games, Star Control 2, but never got to playing it...

Very different. To put it lightly. But both games are great but Starflight is my favorite of the two. And by far.

 

[General Maxson]

Woohoo bros! Thank you all. Now, I'm almost set for life. :D Yeah, I played some of those games, but not nearly all. I always wondered how different Starflight is compared to one of my favorite games, Star Control 2, but never got to playing it...

Very different. To put it lightly. But both games are great but Starflight is my favorite of the two. And by far.

Do you also recommend the amiga version over dos?

 

[octavius]

Do you also recommend the amiga version over dos?

Starflight is one of the games where the difference in the Amiga and DOS versions is most extreme, in the Amiga's favour.
Incidentally another Star* game - Star Command - is the only game I know of where the DOS version actually had better graphics in the EGA era.

 

[Awor Szurkrarz]

About killing kids, I guess LARP too much. :D And should just kill them all (if they attack me). I thought you can save jackie without killing the dog and breaking the kids heart. And then killing the kid himself.

One could argue that bandits and similar are simply spiritually immature, so you always end up killing kids .
As for killing the kid, it's not mandatory. He attacks you only if you are next to him.

 

[Texas Red]

 

[MetalCraze]

Bashing Wasteland is rather unusual to see. Too bad Texas Red doesn't give a particurly good critique of Wasteland. Might be interesting to see what an 80's rpg enthusiasist who dislikes the game might say.

First you need to find one on the Codex and not kids fapping to it just because it's from '80s to seem cool.

But yeah you are right - you need a person with a shit taste ("80's RPG enthusiast") for this kind of game. Others just won't understand what's so good about a game with shitty production values, juvenile writing and primitive combat today. What's the point in Wasteland when you have JA2 for example? Heck - JA1 and XCom are better games too.

 

[MMXI]

What's the point in Wasteland when you have JA2 for example? Heck - JA1 and XCom are better games too.

What's the point of Fallout when you have JA2? What's the point of any game when you have JA2? What's the point in playing KotOR seven times when you could have played JA2 seven times?

 

[Johannes]

Thx bro. So far seems to me it's best to just pump IQ if only by doing that you can increase skills (well except for using them and improving ingame)?

You should only purchase 1 level of a skill from libraries/chargen, for raising a skill just use it and it'll go up. When you have the skills you need, it's better to pump other stats, HP being the most beneficial one for combat I think.

 

[Jaesun]

Yeah pumping HP is first priority. Then pumping STR (if you are melee) otherwise DEX if you use guns.

 

[Awor Szurkrarz]

First you need to find one on the Codex and not kids fapping to it just because it's from '80s to seem cool.

But yeah you are right - you need a person with a shit taste ("80's RPG enthusiast") for this kind of game. Others just won't understand what's so good about a game with shitty production values, juvenile writing and primitive combat today. What's the point in Wasteland when you have JA2 for example? Heck - JA1 and XCom are better games too.

So, JA2 and X-Com are now skill/attribute-use based cRPGs?

 

[IDtenT]

So, I guess that in 10 years Fallout will be an outdated piece of shit too and it would be autistic of you to play it.

It already is.