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Lucky Day Dragon
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AD&D Core Rules: 10/10 points |
OK - you have to give a 10 to the system that started it all. Here's to Gygax and Arneson even tho they hate each other now. |
Anachronox: 5/10 points |
I would have liked to have played this more but the controls were horrible. Arrow keys should turn!! |
Arcanum - Of Steamworks and Magick Obscura: 9/10 points |
A few minor quirks here and there were vastly made up for by the sheer immensity of the game. Very intersting Steampunque athmosphere - sort of reminds of of Space 1889. I always thot this would be an excellent proggie to make a prequal for Martian Dreams. Its fallout meets BG. Excellent story biggest diff with BG is the sidequests were interesting and actually seemed part of the game. My favourite being the gnome breeders. I'm going to write some fiction soon on their relationship to the Bene Tleilax!
Far from perfect - game could scroll to crawl at times with too many chars, and of course the balancing issues. The biggest problem the developers made was releasing it with DirectX 8. The game was made for 7 and how were they to know MS were going to mess around with audio buffers and graphic card acceleration. |
Autoduel: 10/10 points |
Not really an RPG but Drive Offensively! The Life You Save may be Your Own.
C'mon - when are we going to see Auto: Fallout Edition? |
Baldur's Gate: 7/10 points |
Movement was slow and sometimes got tedious. Good story but sidequests got meaningless. Icewind Dale was much better. |
Baldur's Gate 2 - Shadows of Amn: 9/10 points |
BG meets Icewind Dale. This game combines the best elements of both. And in the case of of BG's pointless sidequests-some of the worst.
The romances are excellent. |
Bard's Tale 2 -The Destiny Knight: 9/10 points |
It was the 3D towns, the better use of guilds to level up then Wizardry, and the music that drags you in. |
Deus Ex: 7/10 points |
I think of this game as more of a shooter than an RPG. |
Diablo: 1/10 points |
Here's to the genius in marketing who thot that would be great design for box art and a great name. Yeah, every parent rushed out to buy that for their kids. It must have been the sales figures for Ultima 8 that inspired them - or going for that core base of "Rush" fans who also play video games. |
Diablo 2: 1/10 points |
Horrible mindless. Addictive at first, yes, but I was waiting for something interesting to happen. Cut scenes could have been interesting if there was any depth to the game but there's not. Automatic teleports? Stupid! Thousands of useless magic items? Stupid! I kept thinking they could have made a nice RPG out of this. |
Elder Scrolls 3 - Morrowind: 10/10 points |
WOW!! biggest drawback so far is I haven't been able to figure out if turn instead of strafe is available on the keyboard. This annoys me with many games to know end. Also, I'd like someone to make a way for intelligence to be usefull for combat for crying out loud! |
Fallout - A Post Nuclear Adventure: 10/10 points |
An absolute joy to play-although I liked Fallout 2 better. The third unofficial sequel to Wasteland and it plays much much better. The tongue it cheek humour, the atmosphere, the easy use of controls, the multiple ways to play the game, the hidden gems, what more can I say? Oh - Bull shannon meats McGyver. |
Fallout 2: 10/10 points |
I liked this better than Fallout I. Its a shame an expansion never came out. C'mon - I want III !!! |
Final Fantasy VII: 1/10 points |
Why not give me a game I can actually play - not a movie I have to move a few buttons to watch. The characters looked like Lego. |
Freedom Force: 4/10 points |
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Gothic: 5/10 points |
I would have loved to play more of it - I heard so many good things about it. Unfortutnately, the controls are so horrible I didn't bother getting much farther than the opening gate. |
Heroes of Might & Magic: 9/10 points |
The first PC Game I ever bought with my own money was the C$40 I spent on a little known game called King's Bounty. It was incredible. I never saw a video game system like it.. The thing that disgusted me tho was - I finished after playing it solid for 3 days straight - and they never made a follow up. Until... |
Icewind Dale: 10/10 points |
Excellenet! Excellent! Best of the Infinity Engine games. Great story, fantastic music, beautiful scenerey. Only two drawbacks was in party movement and the horrible expansion pack that cost too much money. |
Icewind Dale - Heart of Winter: 5/10 points |
I was completely disgusted at how short this was. Where was the intriguing story? Where was the motiviation driving you? Where was the plot twists? Sure the Barbarian war was cool but c'mon 1 000 000xp for rescuiiong a girl trapped in a well? |
King's Bounty: 9/10 points |
See my comments on HoMM |
Moebius - The Orb of Celestial Harmony: 9/10 points |
Drawing on some ideas from the Ultima titles as far as gameplay (the top down "tile" system, "blowup" combat, an ethical system) Moebius had some neat oriental themes. The heads were hilarious. Game play was essentially the same on all four sides of the disk but the game got progressively harder on each-save games could be an issue! Being turnbased, timing was critical - especially in the combat. Features some of the largest graphics to date for an RPG.
These games have received a bad rap undeservedly. |
Moebius 2 - Windwalker: 9/10 points |
A tighter story than Moebius one but much shorter. The Oriental themes are even more beautiful than the origianl. These games get a bad rap undeservedly. Two of Origin's gems. They made Worlds. |
Neuromancer: 9/10 points |
Based on the book that coined the phrase Cyberspace and made the internet cool. The graphics could be crude but the story is intriguing. Near the beginning of the game you can even chose to sell your own bodyparts for ca$h. Gameplay is in two parts, "Reality" and "Virtual Reality". Virtual reality is where the real action is sending up virusi and ice, but half the fun is getting there. The one thing that left me scratching my his is the surprise ending which I had to find old cheat docs to confirm I was there. I game similar to Neurmancer out there called Uplink. |
Neverwinter Nights: 10/10 points |
Just get this higher than Fallout for crying out loud. |
Planescape: Torment: 6/10 points |
Plan Escape - It was all right. Original looking people and world. Lots of dialogue. Something about it I just couldn't get into tho. I think Fallout was much better. The game is a good play but way way overrated. |
Questron: 8/10 points |
One of the better Ultima III ripoffs (More like Ultima I really), Questron had a few good things going for it. Mountain climbing and casinos were two. The end scene was a real surprise. It was surprisingly long and entertaining. |
Siege of Avalon: 9/10 points |
(Hmm, I think you meant 10 Brassi - who chose 1 as the default anyway?) I bought the game based on the free chapter 1. Excelent game. Great story. Addictive - immersive. Biggest problem I had was really really bad party AI. Requires some fast micromanagement in combat. Also, In some parts north is south -figure that out. |
Space Rogue: 9/10 points |
Ultima in space mixed with a unique Spaceship simulator. The space sim people were scratching their head at the RPG of it all and the RPGers went yuck, SciFi! Great game-I had loads of fun, but I think I took the wrong item near the end of the game. |
System Shock 2: 10/10 points |
The bomb! |
Ultima 3 - Exodus: 10/10 points |
The best Ultima ever made! Its Wizardry with cities and wilderness. It has a music score that hooks you. You'll never get The Wanderer out of your brain (I haven't for 20 years). No game captures D&D type roleplaying so expertly on a computer. Its never crashed once! |
Ultima 4 - Quest of the Avatar: 9/10 points |
Great sequal to Ultima III. It was a definite gestalt shift in any RPG format; it brought a whole new paradigm to any gaming.
however, I feel the morality system was too works based. It didn't account enough for real human nature and which is why I think many Ultima III players found it frustrating. |
Ultima 9 - Ascension: 6/10 points |
The most anticipated game of 1998 - mostly because of we were looking to give redemption to the creators of Ultima Online. How can they do that to us twice? This had the shell of a potentially good game.
Although no one's lips moved everyone was unique, and the graphics could be jaw dropping sometimes - espcially moonglow. Some good puzzles and dungeoneering and music that makes you cry. |
Ultima Online - Renaissance: 1/10 points |
I want my money back. Odd, this is also the highest that idiot, Ammon777 has given an Ultima. |
Wasteland: 5/10 points |
Back in the day it was another poor ripoff of Ultima 3. I remember playing this on my Apple //c and the disappointment at how crude it was. The Fallouts did a much better job of capturing the theme. |
Wizardry 1 - Proving Grounds of the Mad Overlord: 10/10 points |
Single handedly brought computer games out of the arcade. Mapping Mapping Mapping. A Great level up system (one that BG and NWN can't figure out!). Spell system is still the coolest anywhere; it's a shame DW Bradley got a hold of this system because he killed it. When I tell people I jsut finished playing Wiz 8 the first thing they ask me is, "Tiltowait?" And I lok sad and say, "No, they killed it with number 5." Ahh, the kobolds deserved Tiltowait. Apparently based on Ubliette made for mainframes. Attack, Attack, Attack, Parry, Parry, Parry. It was the first game I've ever seen a modding utility for - Wizfix. |
Wizardry 4 - Return of Werdna: 10/10 points |
Considered by many as the hardest RPG written it certainly was for me. Saint Proverbius asked in his Arcanum review how many games let you join the badguy. This is the first RPG made where you ARE the badguy. In the venerable Wizardry series this game stands out for that reason. Not to mention the mind numbing puzzles you have to solve trying to escape the ubliette. |
Wizardry 8: 10/10 points |
I'm giving this a 10 to offset lower scores like the set. its really a 9.7 :). Amazingly addictive. Took me 5 months. Really wish the kept he old spell systems. Would love to have Tiltowaited the Trynnies. |
Wizardry 8: 10/10 points |
Single handedly brought computer games out of the arcade. Mapping Mapping Mapping. A Great level up system (one that BG and NWN can't figure out!). Spell system is still the coolest anywhere; it's a shame DW Bradley got a hold of this system because he killed it. When I tell people I jsut finished playing Wiz 8 the first thing they ask me is, "Tiltowait?" And I lok sad and say, "No, they killed it with number 5." Ahh, the kobolds deserved Tiltowait. Apparently based on Ubliette made for mainframes. Attack, Attack, Attack, Parry, Parry, Parry. |
