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Originally Posted by jollyperv
Now you're speaking my language 
Played the fuck out of Bard's Tale 1 especially, on my brother's Apple ][e when I was like 10, that game seriously blew my fucking mind...it's one of those things that probably turned me in the direction of gaming for the rest of my life.
And all the gold box games fucking ruled hard, and Ultima 3 and 4 were seriously ahead of their time as well. |
BT1 is still something that gives me warm happy glows when I think about it. FUCK.. I just realised I still remember "STFL" as a spell abbreviation. Ha. Yeah i've re-installed it once maybe 5-6 years ago thinking I could get back into it.. but it's a little hard to play it these days... A little bit of hagiography involved looking back through the mists of time... and without the map and guide etc. Although that'd probably only be a couple of google searches away. I wish someone would port it for a PSP or something... maybe with some graphical updates and a few more things.
I don't know whether it's because it's the first RPG I played that I remember it so fondly or not. I know that most these days don't do as much for me.
Ultima 4 is probably just one of the best RPG's ever. It had so much depth and so many facets. The single complaint I had with it was that when you levelled your character to 100 it flipped back over and started at 1 again which was an obvious error that these days would have been patched easily. Yeah those two are way up the list for me. I try to stay away from games these days though. Wastes too much time. I'd rather have something quick like poker or Worms on the PSP you can pick up and put down in 5 minutes than install something thats going to suck a lot of quality life or work time away... which is pretty much RPG's in a nutshell. I might wait till I have kids that are old enough to play.. that way I could at least combine dungeon crawling with "quality time" ;)