Really Obscure RPGs

[KeighnMcDeath]

Did anyone mention Star Command? Damn sure someone did. I sort of had wasteland vibes x Centauri Alliance

 

[KeighnMcDeath]

Still digging around ancient hard drives and I hit this: http://www.dzikosoft.com/rpg-xls/info.html

If pic didn't load and they should since its png off the site then just look at screenshots on the site. And xls rpg... neat.

 

[Fluent]

Still digging around ancient hard drives and I hit this: http://www.dzikosoft.com/rpg-xls/info.html

If pic didn't load and they should since its png off the site then just look at screenshots on the site. And xls rpg... neat.

Sad that a 1.0 version of this never came out. It sounds great...

 

[octavius]

Did anyone mention Star Command? Damn sure someone did. I sort of had wasteland vibes x Centauri Alliance

Not that obscure, being an SSI game.
I played it about ten years ago, but it bugg(er)ed out on me halfway through.
Quite good game, but not a "must play" unless you're a completionist.

 

[Mikeal]

So I was browsing m'abandonware and found some of the cRGPs below. Any opinions/warnings about them?

Heath: The Unchosen Path
Goldenland: Cold Heaven
Zlatogorye 2
Hexx: Heresy of the Wizard
The Fate
Dragonfire: The Well of Souls
Night Watch
NightStone
Another War
NeverEnd
Shadow Vault
Kivi's Underworld

 

[V_K]

Goldenland: Cold Heaven
Zlatogorye 2

Same game. Arcanum wannabe with Slavic flavor. Get it if you like fetch/fedex quests because that's the only thing you'll be doing in the game.

Hexx: Heresy of the Wizard

Very fun but not really an RPG, more like real-time squad tactics with some Adventure elements.
Sorry, brainfart - mixed it up with Hexplore. Hexx is a real-time free-scrolling blobber with mid-90s visuals. Doesn't really have anything to offer.

Dragonfire: The Well of Souls

Kind like Diablo (real-time, isometric) meets PnC Adventure (static backgrounds, some minor puzzles). Worth it for getting a chance to play a murderous duck.

Heath: The Unchosen Path

Oh boy. Oh. Boy.

 

[Narushima]

This is a title I've played when I was younger and I don't know how to run it on my computer.

Sounds like you need a VM running Windows XP.

 

[Morpheus Kitami]

Hexx: Heresy of the Wizard

Found it fun the last time I played it, but get any unofficial fan patches you find lying around. There's a glitch in the regular version that removes all the small keys you have whenever you change floors.

Night Watch

The one based off the Russian book, right? Seemed interesting, but I didn't get very far. It required you to do modify a file or something to run it. Something about how it reads how much memory you have,

 

[negator2vc]

Night Watch
The one based off the Russian book, right? Seemed interesting, but I didn't get very far. It required you to do modify a file or something to run it. Something about how it reads how much memory you have,

Yes, both Night Watch and Day Watch (it's sequel) are based on the Russian books (using the book lore with new player's characters).
The easiest way to play them is with VM in a controlled environment especially since at least Night Watch came with one of those
crappy DRM system that can easily mess newer OS.
That's what I use for most of the older windows games even though most of them could be played with wine (I am a linux user). I only use wine for newer windows games that are too slow or unplayable in VM.

 

[Lord_Potato]

So I was browsing m'abandonware and found some of the cRGPs below. Any opinions/warnings about them?

Heath: The Unchosen Path
Goldenland: Cold Heaven
Zlatogorye 2
Hexx: Heresy of the Wizard
The Fate
Dragonfire: The Well of Souls
Night Watch
NightStone
Another War
NeverEnd
Shadow Vault
Kivi's Underworld

Here's my minireview of Heath: the Unchosen Path.

And of Another War.

Zlatogorye 2 (Golden Land, sequel to Heath) was published only in Russian and Spanish, so I did not play it. Cold Heaven is an expansion pack to Zlatogorye 2.

Shadow Vault seems like poor man's Fallout: Tactics. Never went far with this one.

 

[KeighnMcDeath]

More games need more English translations. I'm not a robot so I can't read Russian.

 

[Lord_Potato]

More games need more English translations. I'm not a robot so I can't read Russian.

You could always try your chance with Spanish :D

 

[KeighnMcDeath]

Maybe I am a robot... I only read English.

 

[unseeingeye]

Hexx: Heresy of the Wizard

Hexx is a sort of sequel, or what I believe was supposed to be a remake initially (I may be misremembering, though) of Bloodwych, which in my opinion is a better game.

 

[JarlFrank]

Cross-posting from a different thread this was just posted in:
https://www.mobygames.com/game/dos/crime-fighter

 

[KeighnMcDeath]

Sort of get Cobra Mission vibes in a way.
Crime Fighter
published by author in 1993, running on MS-DOS
type: strategy
perspective: bird's-eye
player options: single player

other: Shareware
languages: GER

Technical specs
hardware: Enhanced Graphics Adapter,
display: raster

Authors / Staff
Peter Steffen. (Author I assume)

Trivia


Remake
The game is a remake of the Commodore 64 classic Mafia made by Igelsoft in 1986.

 

[Morpheus Kitami]

Crime Fighter was neat, but its very poorly balanced. Successfully pickpocketing or stealing from the docks gets you the same amount of points as the bigger actions. And actions difficulty didn't really correspond to how difficult they were, pickpocketing was a pain and was hard even at full stats, while stealing from the docks or houses required you to play a Sokobon-clone to steal stuff. Fun though, once you get full equipment and a full team.

 

[50726f73706572]

https://store.steampowered.com/app/1577940/Redaxium/

Redaxium. Has a 20% discount going. Not many people are aware of its existence.

Edit : Now 50% off for Autumn sale!

 

[RNGsus]

The tunnel to another island and the magic items outline nail it.

Yendorian Tales 2-3, I think is a masterpiece of "balancing". Every your item, even enchanted to the max, every your spell, is completely obsolete in the next area.

For every crafty asshole there is a screw with inverse rifling. One of the two had an isolated midgame area with some special invulnerable monsters (meaning, with fuckton hitpoints) and special weapons existing solely to kill them (meaning, with fuckton damage). The weapons were supposed to disappear upon leaving the area... but there was a way to take them outside that I have found. For the rest of the game, I found enemy resistance rather underwhelming

Which of those two should I play, or is the whole trilogy good?

 

[50726f73706572]

Redaxium

Can I run it on Win7, tho? It says Win 10, but want to be sure.

Hello Gandalf the FEDitron.

Redaxium may or may not run on other OS. I'm not even sure it will for Windows Eleven.

As i've explained before I can't support operating systems I don't run my self.
It's a slippery slope that I don't want to fuck around and find out on.

If you value your money you shouldn't fuck around and find out yourself.
But given the cheapness of the game maybe some don't care.

IIRC one of the refundable things on steam is when you can't even run a game you just bought.
That said i'm not sure how strict they are if you knowingly didn't meet the minimum specs.

I've done nothing to anchor my game to Win10 api, or Debian10 api specifically.
Linux users may find the game runs fine on various distros. Ubuntu, Mint, most likely to work as well.
Windows users will probably run into file lookup issues or permission issues or need some .NET thing.

 

[Fowyr]

Which of those two should I play, or is the whole trilogy good?

I played only Yendorian Tales 2 and 3. Both are pretty good for scratching that M&M3 itch. First part is Ultima-clone, as I remember.

 

[mondblut]

The tunnel to another island and the magic items outline nail it.

Yendorian Tales 2-3, I think is a masterpiece of "balancing". Every your item, even enchanted to the max, every your spell, is completely obsolete in the next area.

For every crafty asshole there is a screw with inverse rifling. One of the two had an isolated midgame area with some special invulnerable monsters (meaning, with fuckton hitpoints) and special weapons existing solely to kill them (meaning, with fuckton damage). The weapons were supposed to disappear upon leaving the area... but there was a way to take them outside that I have found. For the rest of the game, I found enemy resistance rather underwhelming

Which of those two should I play, or is the whole trilogy good?

2 and 3 are very same-y, if you like one, you'll probably like the other.

1 is a very different beast, it's an Ultima 6 copycat, not World of Xeen copycat.

 

[KeighnMcDeath]

Probably should play u6 first but i believe there is a BEST version of U6 but I don't recall. Some sort of mix of FM-Towns/DOS?

I actually now wonder how many U6 clones and likes there are? Not U7 but 6. I also thought there was a u6 in the u7 engine project (i know of the DS mod but wonder why no U0-4 DS mod).

 

[KeighnMcDeath]

I need to get into OCD-mode and fix some picture & location links in this thread.

Anyway, I was stumbling around Freegames and noticed RuneSword & RuneSword 2. So I looked up Crosscut games (CommonWeath Software at one time) Seems RuneSword 2 is now WAS associated with Shrapnel Games Inc according to mobygames (or is Shrapnel Games different from the INC? Inc does have Scalywag: Lair of the Medusa)

Anyway, I noticed:
Games (appleII)
Dragon Side II: The Twisted Speare (1986)
Bronze Dragon: Conquest of Infinity (1985)

You can find them a few places like:
Index IF archive AppleII

But what the hell happened to DungeonDelvers? Seems ZOMBIEWARE. I did dig up a few pics though:

Spoiler

 

[curds]

Anyway, I was stumbling around Freegames and noticed RuneSword & RuneSword 2.

One of the Runeswords was possibly the first RPG I ever played. They were more toolsets than games, but had a fair few modules bundled with them. Runsword 2, I think, used The Exorcist theme song as its menu tune.