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Vorador
Noble Knight
Joined: 06 May 2002
Posts: 214
Location: Pit of the Damned |
That's really cool that you found a game in your drawer! I've never played Darklands, but i've heard it's really cool. Congratulations! 
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Thu May 09, 2002 2:26 pm |
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entrails
Eager Tradesman
Joined: 07 May 2002
Posts: 47
Location: UK |
I must admit tha every time i rebuid my box i reinstall darklands:)
Fantastic game way ahead of its time just sad that there was no sequal and that it was so badly bugged:( |
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Thu May 09, 2002 2:31 pm |
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Yog Sothoth
The All in One
Joined: 01 May 2002
Posts: 1086
Location: Between Space and Time |
I can say without error that is the father of Daggerfall and Morrowind! 
Great great game! (incredible the change of season... on the ground! the first time i thought my video card broke...)
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Thu May 09, 2002 2:44 pm |
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Lintra
Elf Friend
Joined: 23 Apr 2002
Posts: 9448
Location: Bermuda, the triangle place with SANDY BEACHES |
Yog Sothoth,
Just got off the phone w/ my brother. The Dragon toasted his party as well. There is, however, a trick to defeating it. He can not recall what it was, but a friend of his *did* beat it.
As to main quest...he recalls there was something, but not what. I, too, am too busy for the near future to play it (assuming the old disks still work, a big assumption). But I forsee a few bleak days in the summer when it is rainy out...then what?
I am not sure I can run DS on my current system, and there is NO WAY Morrowind runs, so its back to the oldies. |
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Thu May 09, 2002 2:48 pm |
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Yog Sothoth
The All in One
Joined: 01 May 2002
Posts: 1086
Location: Between Space and Time |
IT EVEN WORKS IN WIN!!!! It's without doubt a great game 
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Thu May 09, 2002 2:51 pm |
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Lintra
Elf Friend
Joined: 23 Apr 2002
Posts: 9448
Location: Bermuda, the triangle place with SANDY BEACHES |
quote:
Originally posted by Yog Sothoth
IT EVEN WORKS IN WIN!!!! It's without doubt a great game
It does? Cool. How much work to get it to do so? |
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Thu May 09, 2002 2:53 pm |
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Yog Sothoth
The All in One
Joined: 01 May 2002
Posts: 1086
Location: Between Space and Time |
BTW @Lintra: thanks for calling so soon your brother! However now my curiosity has grown up!!!
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Thu May 09, 2002 2:54 pm |
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Yog Sothoth
The All in One
Joined: 01 May 2002
Posts: 1086
Location: Between Space and Time |
No time, just Lucky!!
I've done nothing. I've installed it and then played... hehe
(I've WinME)
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Thu May 09, 2002 2:56 pm |
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ButtOfMalmsey
Village Idiot
Joined: 07 May 2002
Posts: 785
Location: Mississippi |
There are several ways to defeat the dragon, but the easiest is to find the saint who is most effective against dragons. That was probably my favorite facet of the game, the saints and the character creation. Classic party was a female leader type, who was charismatic, good at hand to hand fighting, and a smooth talker, backed up by a brute smasher guy, an alchemist, and a priest type with lots of saints. I always got sidetracked from the main quest, though- so many side quests, and I was alwasy trying to get a hold of the highes quality philospher's stone and find new saints.
I spent a good two years of my life playing this game, with breaks for FPS occasionally. I oughta try and find my Darklands Gold edition and see if it works in XP.
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Thu May 09, 2002 4:09 pm |
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Lintra
Elf Friend
Joined: 23 Apr 2002
Posts: 9448
Location: Bermuda, the triangle place with SANDY BEACHES |
quote:
Originally posted by ButtOfMalmsey
There are several ways to defeat the dragon, but the easiest is to find the saint who is most effective against dragons. That was probably my favorite facet of the game, the saints and the character creation. Classic party was a female leader type, who was charismatic, good at hand to hand fighting, and a smooth talker, backed up by a brute smasher guy, an alchemist, and a priest type with lots of saints. I always got sidetracked from the main quest, though- so many side quests, and I was alwasy trying to get a hold of the highes quality philospher's stone and find new saints.
I spent a good two years of my life playing this game, with breaks for FPS occasionally. I oughta try and find my Darklands Gold edition and see if it works in XP.
I'd totally forgotten about the saints and philosopher's stone. Very very cool. I *am* going to go home and find the dozens of disks and see if it works. After Jaz's feed back on DS - why try the demo? This game I remember as being tops.
Thanks for unlocking the memory banks. |
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Thu May 09, 2002 5:49 pm |
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What a great game. It's nice to read that people have not completely forgoten this marvelous work. It was fun blowing up the hotel and getting run out of town. I think my reputation was about -60 everywhere in the world. Also a good history lesson about the time period. Great memories. |
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Thu May 09, 2002 10:28 pm |
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ButtOfMalmsey
Village Idiot
Joined: 07 May 2002
Posts: 785
Location: Mississippi |
And the game had such potential for expansion across Europe. The map was primed to allow new regions. So sad that they never achieved the necessary success to force a sequel/expansion. Can you imagine going into Spain? Or Poland/Lithuania? Or Italy? Makes my webbed toes tingle just thinking about it.
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Fri May 10, 2002 3:23 pm |
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Yog Sothoth
The All in One
Joined: 01 May 2002
Posts: 1086
Location: Between Space and Time |
You are all right!
The philosopher stone was very hard to improve (and very expensive too)
and the saints are always the wrong for me (i was always in the midle of a storm! How many winters passed in the wilderness... )
BTW: What is this Darklands Gold? I never heard of it... 
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Lintra
Elf Friend
Joined: 23 Apr 2002
Posts: 9448
Location: Bermuda, the triangle place with SANDY BEACHES |
quote:
Originally posted by ButtOfMalmsey
And the game had such potential for expansion across Europe. The map was primed to allow new regions. So sad that they never achieved the necessary success to force a sequel/expansion. Can you imagine going into Spain? Or Poland/Lithuania? Or Italy? Makes my webbed toes tingle just thinking about it.
Webbed toes?
But seriously, you are right, the game had tons of unrealized potential. |
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Fri May 10, 2002 4:33 pm |
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ButtOfMalmsey
Village Idiot
Joined: 07 May 2002
Posts: 785
Location: Mississippi |
Darklands Gold was a CD-ROM repackaging of the game, with the bonus editor included, and the manual and hint book on the CD-ROM. Of course it didn't run from the CD. I really need to find it. Time to dig through my old game boxes.
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