RPGs that influenced me the most...

Adrageron · Post by **Adrageron** » August 23rd, 2006, 3:44 am

The RPG that made me a fan of the genre was:
The Dark Heart of Uukrul

I also enjoyed playing:

old shcool RPGs
Planescape: Torment
Might and Magic 3-8
Wizardry 7-8
Ancient Domains of Mystery (ADOM)
Lands of Lore 1
Realms of Arkania 2: The Star Trail

modern RPGs
Gothic 2
The Elder Scrolls 3-4
Divine Divinity
Space Rangers 1-2
Evil Islands

Rollor · Post by **Rollor** » August 24th, 2006, 6:28 am

Oh another one I forgot.. Space Rangers 2:).. A very nice space rpg where you fight the robots.. It had some very fun quest. Like one where you are some 3 legged animal with alot of eyes and have to eat, dig your hole deeper, and then atlast fight the big guy:)

Probably doesn't make much sense if you haven't played the game:/

Saxon1974 · Post by **Saxon1974** » August 29th, 2006, 12:54 am

Hmm not sure I could create a list without leaving some out....but here is a shot at it.

I think it all started for me with Ultima III. My dad got a C64 and bought me dungeon algebra, I hated it! But my cousin had Ultima III and used to stay at our house alot. He showed it to me and from that day on I think we fought for the PC after school everyday for a year at least!

Others I have found memories of are:

Ultima IV
Ultima VI and VII
Wasteland (not huge into post nuclear games but this one was great)
Bards Tale II
Might and Magic I and II (didnt play Xeen series that much)
Gold box Games (Pool of Radiance etc....)

I have played almost all of them over the years but these jump to mind for me.

Del137 · Post by **Del137** » August 29th, 2006, 1:56 am

ADOM
I.V.A.N.
Daggerfall
Master of Magic
Age of Wonders

Sanctus · Post by **Sanctus** » August 29th, 2006, 9:25 am

Oh yeah ADOM was the only old rpg I played

YouTube · Post by **BasiliskWrangler** » August 29th, 2006, 9:38 am

I recently looked at ADOM...it does appear to be a really cool game.

I don't have the time to play it right now, but I'd like to hear more about what made ADOM such a great game for you guys.

Saxon1974 · Post by **Saxon1974** » August 29th, 2006, 1:43 pm

What is ADOM and where can I find it?

Rollor · Post by **Rollor** » August 30th, 2006, 11:39 am

http://www.adom.de/

Sanctus · Post by **Sanctus** » August 30th, 2006, 2:17 pm

ADOM stand for Ancient domains of mistery. Its a old-school rpg without real graphics... It uses ASCII simbols to draw stuff
I'm doing one of those games to on c++ but it advances very slow(maybe I'l put some screenies)

Gallifrey · Post by **Gallifrey** » August 30th, 2006, 2:31 pm

It's not really an "old school" game, but rather what is commonly called a "rogue-like", which are games using ASCII images for graphics. They generally have a fully-functioning rule set engine, but no graphic support, so ASCII-type stuff is used instead. For example, the player character is often represented as a @ symbol.

Sanctus · Post by **Sanctus** » August 31st, 2006, 3:19 am

Damn... ADOM was really complicated(to many keys for me)
yay my 100th post

Rollor · Post by **Rollor** » September 4th, 2006, 12:43 pm

Just remembered another one... Kotor 1

Very nice game, although it didn't matter much which feats and powers you choosed as long as you could heal yourself and do power attacks:/

YouTube · September 4th, 2006, 12:51 pm

I really, really tried to get into the KotoR games but for some reason I never could. I think I found them to be too linear...I really couldn't just take off and explore the Star Wars universe on my own.

Gallifrey · Post by **Gallifrey** » September 4th, 2006, 12:54 pm

I thought The Sith Lords was a far, far better game than the first. The first one was pretty good, but terribly predictable. When I got the game, I wasn't very far in before the "suprise" was glaringly obvious and I stopped playing, uninstalled it and pretty much forgot about it.
I was given TSL for Christmas last year and I took a while to get around to playing it, but when I did I was pleasantly surprised. Far different and better than the first installment. It's only a shame that LucasArts stepped up the release date and forced a hastened ending. Hopefully the restoration project actually manifests with a playable mod some day.

Sanctus · Post by **Sanctus** » September 5th, 2006, 4:00 am

Isn't Kotor some kinda of Star Wars??? I hate Star Wars (no meideval fantasy)