duerer
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Hello Fellow RPG Fans,
I'm a CRPG newbie and I am looking for a great game to kill some quality time with.
Since I am old, grumpy and jaded, I am not interested in Oblivion, NWN and any game which uses 3D graphics.
Old-skool games would be great, because I may run these in a window, aside my daily job. Fun diversion for the grinding days, I'd say, heh-heh...
So, can you recommend me a great old-skool Rpg?
I am thinking on the following games:
- Magic candle (heard that MC 1 is the best of the series)
- Excelsior Phase 1-2 (which one is better?)
- Ultima V or IV (which one is better? Or go for Lazarus - even if it is in *gasp* 3D?)
My preference on Rpgs are the following (in order of priority):
- Fun and original gameworld (Ultimas definitely have an edge here)
- ... with an interesting, *evolving* story (not sure if the Ultimas do have this one. Magic Candle perhaps?)
- Sense of achievement (that is, fun and meaningful leveling!)
- Interactivity / NPC act-react (Does any old-skool Rpg has this similar to U7?)
- Combat / Magic system (heard that Ultimas suck here)
- No insane micro-management (hmmm, heard that MC is extremely micro-management oriented)
What I've played (ahem) so far (and my comments on these):
- Arcanum (Great ambience. Liked it and finished, but had to cheat because of imbalancing issues)
- Baldur's gate (Liked it at first, found extremely boring later on. Never finished.)
- Morrowind (great for the first 10 minutes, gave up after 2 hours)
- Gothic 1 (found too hard at the beginning and gave up)
- Avernum 4 (bored to death hafway and gave up)
- Geneforge 1 (really liked the diplomatic possibilities. Unbalanced gameplay seriously ruined the fun, adn gave up - see: trap rooms)
- U7-Serpent Isle (Still playing using Exult. Cool gameworld/story, very bad combat)
Also, I am not a Tolkien fanatic. If you recommend a sci-fi game, I would be more than happy.
Thanks in advance.
I'm a CRPG newbie and I am looking for a great game to kill some quality time with.
Since I am old, grumpy and jaded, I am not interested in Oblivion, NWN and any game which uses 3D graphics.
Old-skool games would be great, because I may run these in a window, aside my daily job. Fun diversion for the grinding days, I'd say, heh-heh...
So, can you recommend me a great old-skool Rpg?
I am thinking on the following games:
- Magic candle (heard that MC 1 is the best of the series)
- Excelsior Phase 1-2 (which one is better?)
- Ultima V or IV (which one is better? Or go for Lazarus - even if it is in *gasp* 3D?)
My preference on Rpgs are the following (in order of priority):
- Fun and original gameworld (Ultimas definitely have an edge here)
- ... with an interesting, *evolving* story (not sure if the Ultimas do have this one. Magic Candle perhaps?)
- Sense of achievement (that is, fun and meaningful leveling!)
- Interactivity / NPC act-react (Does any old-skool Rpg has this similar to U7?)
- Combat / Magic system (heard that Ultimas suck here)
- No insane micro-management (hmmm, heard that MC is extremely micro-management oriented)
What I've played (ahem) so far (and my comments on these):
- Arcanum (Great ambience. Liked it and finished, but had to cheat because of imbalancing issues)
- Baldur's gate (Liked it at first, found extremely boring later on. Never finished.)
- Morrowind (great for the first 10 minutes, gave up after 2 hours)
- Gothic 1 (found too hard at the beginning and gave up)
- Avernum 4 (bored to death hafway and gave up)
- Geneforge 1 (really liked the diplomatic possibilities. Unbalanced gameplay seriously ruined the fun, adn gave up - see: trap rooms)
- U7-Serpent Isle (Still playing using Exult. Cool gameworld/story, very bad combat)
Also, I am not a Tolkien fanatic. If you recommend a sci-fi game, I would be more than happy.
Thanks in advance.