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"visual novel RPG"?
Just like PST.
"visual novel RPG"?
"visual novel RPG"?
Lady Error Jason Liang
Care to elaborate?
This is why I've always been against lazy-ass downvote buttons on forums. If you disagree, explain yourself instead of doing a drive-by, you useless faggots.
Fuck you, that's why.
It was mainly the part that Ultima 7 and Betrayal at Krondor aged better than any other cRPG of their age. There are many others that aged far better, especially considering the primitive 3D of BaK which you mentioned. Even among 3D cRPG's, Ultima Underworld 1 & 2 aged way better than that.
I tried playing Ultima VII a couple of years ago and it was barely working on my laptop. Exult didn't really help; the scrolling was choppy and that UI is primitive. It's really the exact opposite of what the original poster is asking for.
At least Ultima V has the Lazarus remake.
Lady Error Jason Liang
Care to elaborate?
This is why I've always been against lazy-ass downvote buttons on forums. If you disagree, explain yourself instead of doing a drive-by, you useless faggots.
Fuck you, that's why.
It was mainly the part that Ultima 7 and Betrayal at Krondor aged better than any other cRPG of their age. There are many others that aged far better, especially considering the primitive 3D of BaK which you mentioned. Even among 3D cRPG's, Ultima Underworld 1 & 2 aged way better than that.
I disagree.
Jason Liang
Try Ultima VII Exult. It worked flawlessly for me, no choppiness or other nonsense.
Most of these skills are useless in the game. Just like in Megatraveller. You could use these games to generate characters for your PnP session.First time I ever heard of Twilight 2000. That skills screen is hot.
Of course if you consider all the very old (pre 1980) CRPGs, of fucking course most will be bad and will have aged badly. 90% of everything is crud.
But the games that were great in 1985-1995 are still great today IMO. And I wouldn't be surprised if the same is true for the 1975-1984 CRPGs, none of which I personally played back then.
But I played many of the CRPGs released from 1985 to 1995 - and replayed many of them -, and generally they do stand the test of time IMO.
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Fowyr
they changed to mana system. Completely changes the entire blueprint of Wizardry; not necessarily worse... but Wizardry is primarily about resource management and being able to rest anywhere combined with extremely generous shared mana pool(s) made for decidedly less strategic usage of spells.
That said, beautiful graphics are great, too. But like the famous saying goes: "A man should be able to play a story RPG, a gameplay RPG, a turn-based RPG, an action RPG, a grid-based blobber RPG, an RPG from the '80s, an RPG from the '90s, a modern RPG, a visual novel RPG, a JRPG, a graphically impressive for its time RPG..etc." Err, maybe it's just me that says that.
You really, REALLY need to play Wizardry 5. It's the best one in the series. Or at least Wizardry 6 which is the first one designed by the guy who made 7.
- Wiz 1-5 were made by 1 studio, then 6-7 were made by another one.
- Wiz 8 was made by yet another completely new studio.
This is why there is so much disagreement on which Wizardry title is "better". IMO, 5 and 6 are the best ones:
- 5 because it is the pinnacle of "classic Wizardry".
.... I thought fluent is just another guy who's too cheerful and upbeat for the Codex but now I know why he got the possibly retarded tag
fluent plays hard-core old-school dungeon crawlers. do you?
I forgive your atrocious animu avatar, but I hope to god that you're not one of those who think shit like Dark Souls and Witcher are RPGs. I only hope your Kodex Kredentials are as good as fluent's, otherwise you have no legs to stand on.
Not only does he espouse the virtues of actual RPGs, which the majority of the Codex forumites do not (they're too busy making posts about RTwP bullshit games); but he actually reviews true old-school turn-based RPGs on the RPGWatch front-page.
Sure, he sometimes shills his YT channel to us, knowing full-well that no one here gives a shit about it; but that doesn't take away from the fact that he plays and reviews true RPGs, and makes that information and knowledge available on the front page of a well-known RPG website (the 'Watch). That automatically gives him 100 times more Kodex Kool Kred than 95% of the Codex forumites have.
The good ole' Codex is too busy nowadays covering KickStarter blog updates about vaporware RPGs that aren't turn-based, and in most case, don't even classify as RPGs!
Therefore... I recommend giving him the benefit of the doubt, as he currently does more for real RPGs getting widespread coverage than the Codex.
But I vowed in that moment that the next realm would have trees and forests that looked like trees and forests, and cities and sunshine and lakes and stars at night, and no more would searching for stairs down suffice… - D.W. Bradley
okay, okay, jeez.fluent plays hard-core old-school dungeon crawlers. do you?
I forgive your atrocious animu avatar, but I hope to god that you're not one of those who think shit like Dark Souls and Witcher are RPGs. I only hope your Kodex Kredentials are as good as fluent's, otherwise you have no legs to stand on.
Not only does he espouse the virtues of actual RPGs, which the majority of the Codex forumites do not (they're too busy making posts about RTwP bullshit games); but he actually reviews true old-school turn-based RPGs on the RPGWatch front-page.
Sure, he sometimes shills his YT channel to us, knowing full-well that no one here gives a shit about it; but that doesn't take away from the fact that he plays and reviews true RPGs, and makes that information and knowledge available on the front page of a well-known RPG website (the 'Watch). That automatically gives him 100 times more Kodex Kool Kred than 95% of the Codex forumites have.
The good ole' Codex is too busy nowadays covering KickStarter blog updates about vaporware RPGs that aren't turn-based, and in most case, don't even classify as RPGs!
Therefore... I recommend giving him the benefit of the doubt, as he currently does more for real RPGs getting widespread coverage than the Codex.
EDIT: think his pre-Dung Lords game was called Wizards and Warriors.
I agree. I don't care for specific sub-genres, I play what I want to play at the time.I was being a bit silly there but the point is that I think it's good to broaden your horizons and try different experiences. Yes I love old-school dungeon-crawlers and hardcore RPGs but I'll also play a JRPG or Diablo-style RPG, etc., if it's decent.
Except maybe Lucas9, but I think he's taking more enjoyment from trying obscure and old games than actually playing it, maybe the equivalent of trying out many fancy clothes but ended up buying a hoodie jacket for the nth time.I don't think, in all honesty, there is anyone who truly plays games just to say they did.