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by Larec
September 13th, 2006, 10:03 am
Forum: GameTalk
Topic: Pool of Radiance
Replies: 37
Views: 29113

Every once in a while, I go back to the goldbox games. Ohhhh, other people laugh at me for it, and some of my friends think I'm certifiably nuts for keeping them on my PC(s), but I know better. I boguht the interplay archives back in 1997 when it first came out. It had Menzobarranzan, all 3 Beholder...
by Larec
September 10th, 2006, 7:05 pm
Forum: Eschalon: Book I
Topic: working economy vs. realism
Replies: 12
Views: 8706

That's true what you said about Fallout. Not so much Fallout 2, but especially Fallout 1. The amount of goods you could sell really unbalanced everything. Sure, merchants would run out of bottle caps, but then you'd just take their ammo and stim packs. I'd have close to 150 stim packs by the end gam...
by Larec
September 10th, 2006, 6:57 pm
Forum: GameTalk
Topic: RPGs that influenced me the most...
Replies: 136
Views: 113177

Well, the first CRPG I played was Ultima Exodus. This was in 86, and I was only ten years old at the time...so to a wannabe computer nerd like me, it was like finding the holy grail. Took me two years to beat it, which when looking back now, seems pretty sad. After that, I got into the Gold Box game...
by Larec
September 10th, 2006, 6:54 pm
Forum: General Chat
Topic: Here Comes A New Fan!
Replies: 3
Views: 5692

Here Comes A New Fan!

I've been following this site (and the game) since it was first mentioned on rpgdot...and I have been waiting impatiently for its release ever since. I'm happy to see small developers like Basilisk making RPGs like this. Partly because it proves that the "little guy" spirit isn't dead (Gar...