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by Mad Marauder
December 18th, 2007, 11:52 am
Forum: General Chat
Topic: What is it about old school RPG's?
Replies: 23
Views: 17754

Using your imagination

What's the common thread that runs through most good, old crpgs? TEXT. And your imagination. Even when you had some graphical representation on the screen, it was the text descriptions that fired the imagination. And pages and pages of descriptions still leaves gaps that can only be filled in by the ...
by Mad Marauder
December 10th, 2007, 3:43 pm
Forum: Eschalon: Book I
Topic: The "How I came to purchase Eschalon" thread
Replies: 32
Views: 18935

I saw it on Filefront. Classic old-school RPG it said. I was downloading Quake Wars and decided to check this out. I had the first demo and played it. I liked it but wasn't quite convinced.

Then I saw the new expanded demo and played it all weekend. Great job guys! I'll be buying it tonight. :D ...
by Mad Marauder
December 10th, 2007, 3:05 pm
Forum: GameTalk
Topic: How do I find classic cRPGs???
Replies: 7
Views: 7170

If anybody's interested in the oldies...

I still play some of the old ones from way back when I first started (1985-) every now and then. I use HOXS64 emulator for PC, it's just like the old days! You can get many of the old games free at www.c64.com. and play them as they were meant to be played ...
by Mad Marauder
December 10th, 2007, 2:37 pm
Forum: GameTalk
Topic: RPGs that influenced me the most...
Replies: 136
Views: 134149

Old school

Way back when... on a C-64.
Ultima III
AD&D Pool of Radiance
Star Command (1988)
Wasteland
Autoduel
Wizardry
Etc

But my most favorite by far was SSI's Wizard's Crown and the sequel Eternal Dagger . Wasn't much on visuals (wer talk'n 8bit here), but tactical combat to the extreme! You had a party ...