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KeighnMcDeath

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Hmmm... I guess they figure random for replay value eh?
 

KeighnMcDeath

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What game was this again?
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I was trying to find the b/w macintosh pics of Shard of Spring & Demon's Winter, if any, and this was in the search engine but didn't link correctly.
 

JarlFrank

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What game was this again?
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I was trying to find the b/w macintosh pics of Shard of Spring & Demon's Winter, if any, and this was in the search engine but didn't link correctly.
The text in your screenshot says "Your journey continues in the realm of Hera!" so I simply googled "Realm of Hera CRPG" and found a post by CRPG Addict playing an Ultima clone named Hera:
http://crpgaddict.blogspot.com/2017/09/hera-won-with-summary-and-rating.html

EDIT:
Specifically, your screenshot is from the DOS version, subtitled The Sword of Rhin
 

KeighnMcDeath

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:argh: :argh: :argh: :argh:
Did you know, I bought that version with the fugly fucker and the game did NOT work? It was fucking borked right off the bat. And funny, later when I bought a boxed wizardry 8 it had two of the second disc but didn't have the first disc. The rest of the package was fine. And because I bought it and shelved it for a year before opening it (HEY! It was fucking only $5 on sale), I couldn't return it.
Fucking Sir Tech fuckery production.
:argh::argh::argh::argh:

The chick version looks better. Not sure why they thought bobble-fucking head was a good cover.
 

Lord_Potato

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:argh: :argh: :argh: :argh:
Did you know, I bought that version with the fugly fucker and the game did NOT work? It was fucking borked right off the bat. And funny, later when I bought a boxed wizardry 8 it had two of the second disc but didn't have the first disc. The rest of the package was fine. And because I bought it and shelved it for a year before opening it (HEY! It was fucking only $5 on sale), I couldn't return it.
Fucking Sir Tech fuckery production.
:argh::argh::argh::argh:

The chick version looks better. Not sure why they thought bobble-fucking head was a good cover.
And here we have the simple answer to the age old question: Why did Sirtech go bankrupt?
 

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Der Druidenzirkel, some shitty attic RPG/adventure.

It's the infamous Druid: Daemons of the mind, one of the nails in Sir-Tech coffin.
You should have posted the original cover as well.

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Lol the German distributors saw this and straight up said "Yeah we're not gonna use that cover. Here's what we'll do: half-naked barbarian chick, sinister wizard dude, spaceship and ancient ruins in the background. Got it?"

Higher quality version of that top tier box art:
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Always neat to see the mentions of Druid every now and then.

When I was a kid and games were rare (and carefully circulated among friends on scratched, barely readable CDs), the top-tier game that everyone played was Baldur's Gate. So one day, a buddy of mine calls me all excited and proclaims that he found "an RPG just as awesome as Baldur's!" Naturally, I rush over to his place, we turn on the PC, and there's the effing Druid: Daemons of the Mind on the monitor. Which we still proceeded to play over the next couple of weeks, as there was simply nothing else available.
 

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If it's made by Paragon, it's probably a piece of matabolism discharge matter.

BTW, it's covered (somewhat) on The CRPG Addict.
 

La vie sexuelle

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Der Druidenzirkel, some shitty attic RPG/adventure.

It's the infamous Druid: Daemons of the mind, one of the nails in Sir-Tech coffin.
You should have posted the original cover as well.

3947308-druid-daemons-of-the-mind-dos-front-cover.jpg
Lol the German distributors saw this and straight up said "Yeah we're not gonna use that cover. Here's what we'll do: half-naked barbarian chick, sinister wizard dude, spaceship and ancient ruins in the background. Got it?"

Higher quality version of that top tier box art:
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The German cover is better in every way, and not just because it has a naked woman or John Cleese. It has soul.

The British one is a typical bongland grotesque, but in a really bad way.
 

Odoryuk

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Does Dawn of Magic count? It's pretty shitty though, maybe that's why it is so obscure. Taught me an important lesson to not to expect good games from a bargain bin.

 

KeighnMcDeath

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Same goes for movies. Looks like the game has a sequel as well.
Dawn of Magic
Time of Shadows

Edit -- Is there sone sort of difference between the GoG version and the Steam version.

GOG is $2.99 & includes three other downloads for concept art, artworks, and

STEAM is $9.99 and you can view the manual.

Both are 2.5 gigs in size while the internet archive for first game is 4.5 gigs.

Reviews state meh to yuck in many cases. I guess the first game has issues why GOG/STEAM couldn't secure it for sale.

Edit again...

WARNING!!!
Before going through with the game launching I advise the use of the crack as the game uses the "Starforce Protection" which is a known harmful DRM that can break your system. Under no circumstances allow yourself to launch the game and install the Starforce driver. You've been warned!! Also be wary of other games that use the same Protection.
 
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Jack Slash

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Seems link from archive for starforce removal is borked. Maybe this page is better? https://www.star-force.com/support/drivers/

Anyone care to risk it on this game?
Do you refer to the link in the review on archive.org? The part that says "Download and start the SFREMOVE utility application (https://www.star-force.com/support/sfdrvrem.zip) and wait for it to remove the Starforce protection from the computer." ?

If yes, then the poster simply pasted the link incorrectly. You can still download the very same StarForce removal utility from the official website by clicking here (sfdrvrem.zip).

On the topic of Dawn of Magic - I remember that when it released, the gaming magazines hyped it up something fierce and it was the hottest thing of the month thanks to the unique mechanic of changing your character's appearance based on the most commonly used magic type. And I think we were simply starved for a good Diabloid at the time, after beating the recently released Dungeon Siege 2. However, of my entire group of friends, only one guy had enough patience to play the game to completion, and he never mentioned it again for as long as I knew him.

Starforce didn't help, too - there was no easy way to share the disc among each other, so the game was destined to die in limbo.
 

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On the topic of Dawn of Magic - I remember that when it released, the gaming magazines hyped it up something fierce and it was the hottest thing of the month thanks to the unique mechanic of changing your character's appearance based on the most commonly used magic type.
Finally found these pics.
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The idea of wizards turning into something utterly inhuman as they become more proficient with their element was cool AF. Shame that the game itself was crap.
 

KeighnMcDeath

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Do you really need a no-cd since it would be a mounted iso? There's a few first google choices: game burn world, game copy world, and lonebullet. The last two were being bitches so GBW it was. I really hate those sites.
 

Zed Duke of Banville

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On the topic of Dawn of Magic - I remember that when it released, the gaming magazines hyped it up something fierce and it was the hottest thing of the month thanks to the unique mechanic of changing your character's appearance based on the most commonly used magic type.
Finally found these pics.
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The idea of wizards turning into something utterly inhuman as they become more proficient with their element was cool AF. Shame that the game itself was crap.
Possibly inspired by the Dark Sun campaign setting, where extremely high level wizards gradually transform into either a dragon or an avangion.

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