Really Obscure RPGs

[KeighnMcDeath]

Not really a rpg but elements are there:
Dungeons of Kremlin (1995)

Dungeons of Moscow (2021)

Propaganda? I think not.

 

[Morpheus Kitami]

I don't remember anything RPG-related in any of Gelios's titles. They're not even like Strife or Pathways into Darkness where you get NPCs to talk to and increased health and accuracy as the game goes on. Its just like any other FPS from that time, except Russian.

 

[Cryomancer]

Anyone here played Daemonsgate??

 

[V_K]

It's very unfinished. The starting city is utterly huge and utterly empty. There are quests (outside of the city) that cannot be completed because their dungeons haven't been implemented. Combat is RTwP but for some reason in an entirely different interface, which is ugly and unwieldy.

 

[KeighnMcDeath]

I almost get Red Crystal Vibes


Your basics:
MOCAGH STUFF
Mobygames info
AtariGamer
ATARIAGE HELP (small pdf help file with toen maps)
Bitchin' Cover

Take a look at the Atari Lynx version (nog listed on mobygames as this is some obscure port.

Notice no one ever got into a fight in the vids... or am I missing something.

maps

And yeah a GameFaq

 

[KeighnMcDeath]

Oh... this might help


RIGHT!

Now you know how to play the most epic game of all time.

 

[Contagium]

Anyone here played Daemonsgate??

I just watched the video on the Steam page for gameplay, the player had enormous difficulty just trying to exit a doorway. Hard pass in 2022.

 

[V_K]

Notice no one ever got into a fight in the vids... or am I missing something.

There are no fights in the starting city. And the quest to escape it takes a loooooong time. Most of it spent walking past non-interactive buildings - that map you posted is actually a 1:1 representation of what's in the game, but with one exception, only the labled buildings can actually be entered. And there are no side quests. This screenshot of the combat interface is the only one I could find:

What you don't immediately see on this screenshot is that this tiny knight sprite is used to represent any combatants, irrespective of their species. Oh, and it's RTwP. Oh, and the only magic in the game is summoning magic - there are no spells that you can cast directly in battle. Yes, combat in this game is extremely exciting.

 

[KeighnMcDeath]

Oh boy..... so no LPs finishing the game?

 

[ghostdog]

Oh... this might help


RIGHT!

Now you know how to play the most epic game of all time.

That promo video was awesome!

Too bad it seems the actual game is clunky as fuck.

 

[mindx2]

Oh... this might help


RIGHT!

Now you know how to play the most epic game of all time.

That promo video was awesome!

Too bad it seems the actual game is clunky as fuck.

The video isn't a promo as the VHS tape is actually in the game box!

 

[octavius]

I'm glad I skipped Daemonsgate on my play list. I see I commented it "sounds boring". The most exciting thing about it must be those maps Keighn posted.

 

[KeighnMcDeath]

Lol. I should dig deeper instead of a casual search. Maybe I should make a Daemonsgate thread..

launchbox lynx


NOTES ON TOWN LOOT/TRAINING!

patchnotes '94
When i look at gog download it displays 111193 next to the exe so that looks like nov 11 1993 version. I'm not sure what a patch does. I'll look for a thread.

Another Review

People on GOG asked about the soundtrack from CD. It wasn't good in midi so maybe this ripped version is ok. Daemonsgate OST

 

[Skdursh]

Redaxium

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

Bro, move on already. Windows 7 is a dead OS. It is no longer supported by Microsoft (or anyone else) and as a result is completely insecure against malware and attack. Continuing to use Win7 is akin to holding up a sign in the middle of a US prison that says, "HAX0RZ, PLZ CUM RAEP ME! PWN ME HARDER, DADDY!". Besides that, by continuing to use it you are technologically kneecapping yourself as it lacks the fundamental APIs necessary to run many modern games and going into the future it's only going to get worse as engines and developers end support so they can move on to modern tools. It's pure brainlet to keep using it. If you're adverse to Win10 then just get a modern Linux distro. You can play essentially any singleplayer game you want on Linux these days, only multiplayer games are a potential toss up and that's only because of anti-cheat software not being viable across vast number of Linux distros that exist as the anti-cheat devs cannot account for all of them and as a result account for none of them. Even then, if you really just gotta play the hottest popamole multiplayer it's still possible to get around the issue by instantiating a Win10 VM. These days Steam itself has it's own inbuilt support for Linux with Steam Play that allows you to play almost every singleplayer game across Steam through the standard launcher without needing to do any additional configuration. It literally "just works".

 

[Sotomonte]

I almost get Red Crystal Vibes


Your basics:
MOCAGH STUFF
Mobygames info
AtariGamer
ATARIAGE HELP (small pdf help file with toen maps)
Bitchin' Cover

Take a look at the Atari Lynx version (nog listed on mobygames as this is some obscure port.

Notice no one ever got into a fight in the vids... or am I missing something.

maps

And yeah a GameFaq

How we say in Spain: "en peores plazas hemos toreado".

The more I read about Daemonsgate the more I need to play it...

 

[DavidBVal]

Lol. I should dig deeper instead of a casual search. Maybe I should make a Daemonsgate thread..

Very ambitious, and maybe overmarketed beyond their tech capabilities. A pity they couldn't pull it off as intended.

 

[JP78]

This thread has 45 pages so, maybe someone has mentioned (a not so obscure game): Clans which is sort of the percursor of Dragonfire the Well of Souls (Which has already been mentioned).

 

[JP78]

Figured it had been mentioned. Ok. I'll take my chances that Rol Crusaders and Nightstone two spanish RPG's, have not been mentioned yet.

 

[Baron Dupek]

This thread has 45 pages so, maybe someone has mentioned (a not so obscure game): Clans which is sort of the percursor of Dragonfire the Well of Souls (Which has already been mentioned).

Not sure if it was mention there but Ross made review and frankly - wouldn't touch that no matter what

 

[KeighnMcDeath]

I love Ross game reviews. My ma thinks he sounds like

No Ma... definitetly NOT!

 

[Morpheus Kitami]

This thread has 45 pages so, maybe someone has mentioned (a not so obscure game): Clans which is sort of the percursor of Dragonfire the Well of Souls (Which has already been mentioned).

Not sure if it was mention there but Ross made review and frankly - wouldn't touch that no matter what

Plus the way Ross describes it makes it sound like some weird action-adventure game rather than a RPG. It is worth pointing out that he didn't play the game right, you can and have to stunlock enemies to conserve health, but the rest of it still stands.

 

[KeighnMcDeath]

This was probably already posted but another link is fine imho:

The site I found it: HERE

direct link and it is HUGE (takes forever to dl
CRPG BOOK Expanded Edition v3.1a

 

[El Presidente]

Clans sucks. I played it back then and it was already clunky. All it has going for it is the atmosphere and that's it.

 

[rusty_shackleford]

Three shareware games -- Two ultima likes(one early, one later) and a Zork-like text adventure.
http://excelsior-rpg.com/default.htm

11th Dimension Entertainment's products are distributed as shareware. That means you may download a FREE copy of any of our games. If you enjoy our games, we ask that you register them.

Searched around on the forum and only found a couple comments about the games.

Can't quite put my finger on why, but I really like that art projection style. Shame there's so few games that used it.

The Excelsior games have an interesting plot

In Excelsior Phase One: Lysandia, you take on the role of a "Fixer," a demi-diety under the employ of the Grand Council of World Watchers - a group of dieties who created and oversee the multiverse. Unbeknownst to the inhabitants of the many worlds of the multiverse, history is predetermined by the Watchers. Occasionally, however, something goes awry and history veers off its planned course. It is the job of the Fixer - donning an appropriate guise - to travel to the world in question and set history back on course.

 

[Cael]

Three shareware games -- Two ultima likes(one early, one later) and a Zork-like text adventure.
http://excelsior-rpg.com/default.htm

11th Dimension Entertainment's products are distributed as shareware. That means you may download a FREE copy of any of our games. If you enjoy our games, we ask that you register them.

Searched around on the forum and only found a couple comments about the games.

Can't quite put my finger on why, but I really like that art projection style. Shame there's so few games that used it.

The Excelsior games have an interesting plot

In Excelsior Phase One: Lysandia, you take on the role of a "Fixer," a demi-diety under the employ of the Grand Council of World Watchers - a group of dieties who created and oversee the multiverse. Unbeknownst to the inhabitants of the many worlds of the multiverse, history is predetermined by the Watchers. Occasionally, however, something goes awry and history veers off its planned course. It is the job of the Fixer - donning an appropriate guise - to travel to the world in question and set history back on course.

That is a rather more coherent plot than most modern RPGs...