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[Kaldor Silverwand]

Sieben Elfriend wrote...
This is by far the best fantasy role-playing game ever made. I know, I started with Akalabeth on the Apple II.

I loved the Akalabeth graphics. They used the same dungeon style graphics a little later in Ultima as I recall. I also enjoyed the Wizard and the Princess, which was more like Adventure with pictures, and Hellfire Warrior , which was a very early top-down dungeon hack-n-slash.  Those were the days.

Now where did I put that acoustic coupler modem?

Regards

[Axe_Edge]

Hmmm. Now I know why I keep coming back. This is home among like minded veteran rpg/crpg players. Axe_Edge reporting, Sirs!!

In '76, while at a wake, I noticed my older cousins playing a game with dice. I joined in and played a game of Chainmail. Played one more and final game of Chainmail the next day. After two years of darkness, a long stream of rpgs and crpgs began: "Adventure" (what was that dude's name that was the easter egg, something Robinson?), "Venture" (the knockoff), the D&D basic set, AD&D (sharing the cost with my brother and best friend, the books were expensive), "Zork" (on the TRS-80, upon which I attempted to write my own rpg in basic), "Quest for the Rings" (on the Odyssey my parents won, what a crappy game), the first 3 Ultimas (III on a PC jr, 5 colors rocked! took the 5-1/4" floppy out as soon as it started to spin up, because that meant you were dead), and more.  There have been periods of hiatus.

I list these games not trying to gloat, but because nobody currently near me would care.

Further, "Axe Edge" was the name of my first D&D character, a grey elf thief. Yes, he was a THIEF, not rogue.

I enjoy reading about the games of your past. They are mine.



Axe Edge
(Thief questing Stormbringer for more than 30 years)

Modifié par Axe_Edge, 13 septembre 2010 - 04:12 .

[Ranger Solo]

Still have my Pool of Radiance, Hillsfar, Cusre of the Azure Bonds, The Secrete of the Silver Blades, and Pools of Darkness for the Commodore 64 and Mac. Don't have my C64 any more and since my old HD died that had OS 9 on it. No more GoldBox AD&Ding.

[Shallina]

DAO is really a fine game, it just don't have as much as NWN2 once you have finished it.

[Kaldor Silverwand]

Sieben Elfriend wrote...

I never managed to figure out Wizard and the Princess; I guess what we used to call adventure games just weren't my strong suite. Acoustic modem coupler? I know what you mean, but I played with a cassette tape interface.

We started out with the cassette tape interface also, but quickly switched to the Apple ][ Disk 5.25" - designed by Woz to last forever.  We also switched from the acoustic coupler modem which I used to play Hunt the Wumpus and Star Trek on a Vax to a Hayes micromodem 300 baud modem. It was a cool little black box that you plugged the phone jack into instead of the handset.

Hey, if you are new to the game, check out Sir Kaldor's submissions on NWVault. It's what I've been talking about. These are the good old days.

Thanks for the plug.  I'm still finishing my Queen's Harvest add-on to King's Festival. One of these days...

Regards

[Kaldor Silverwand]

Ranger Solo wrote...

Still have my Pool of Radiance, Hillsfar, Cusre of the Azure Bonds, The Secrete of the Silver Blades, and Pools of Darkness for the Commodore 64 and Mac. Don't have my C64 any more and since my old HD died that had OS 9 on it. No more GoldBox AD&Ding.

You might try using Sheepshaver to run OS 9 on your OS X Mac. I've had some success with it, though I don't have the Goldbox games to try.

Regards

[Dorateen]

Sieben Elfriend wrote...

I was sitting here in front of my monitor last night, thinking about what game I wanted to play, thought about my Dragon Age save and realized...

I couldn't care less if the Darkspawn take over the world. I couldn't care less if my PC develops a romance with M. or L. or A. I couldn't care less how this stupid story turns out.

Lots of eye candy, great cinematic cutscenes and voiceovers, nice combat animations; simple-minded magic system, endless, mindless hack-and slash combat (on and on and on...), a story you'll remember as borrowed from someone else, camera control that won't let you get close enough to the action to identify your team members since all the armor looks alike (you thought NWN2 was bad) and graphics that are actually inferior to NWN2 (though requiring considerably less computer to run smoothly)..

I got as far as the mage tower, or whatever it's called, and just gave up. NWN2 is a cRPG designed for adults, DA is designed for teeny-boppers (that term should date me).

I realized what I really wanted to do was to play some of the amazing new content that  recently has been released for NWN2. DA modules? Thin on the ground, and why should a developer bother when the game is no longer supported? DA2? Even DA fans complain it will be a watered-down version of DA:O. How can you make water thinner than water?

So, I just freed up 13.8 G on my hard drive. I know we are in this forum at the pleasure of Bioware and fully expect this tread to be locked, so I'll just say, NWN2 fans, don't bother with DA unless you'rs 13 years old.

I'm Dorateen, and I approve this message.

Harumph!

[Taurus Daggerknight]

Quite agree with the topic poster. I was replaying DA recently, got up to the dwarven hall.... and just got bored to tears... DA is fun no doubt, but NWN 2 simply has more replay value, more customization, and simply more "fun" . Tis a shame its not received as much support as it should have.



(and I know its been said several times over by others, but it must be said again just in case Atari or whoever it is that gives the green light to these is reading this; I still want me an expansion 3!)

[Kaldor Silverwand]

Sieben Elfriend wrote...
So, I just freed up 13.8 G on my hard drive.

Coincidentally you can reuse that same 13 GB for full installs of:
Baldur's Gate + Tales of the Sword Coast
Baldur's Gate II + Shadows of Amn
Icewind Dale + Heart of Winter + Trials
Icewind Dale II
NWN + HOTU + SoU

It comes out to almost exactly 13 GB.

Regards

[Vaalyah]

About Kaldor suggestion, here above...

In my opinion, I would skip the Icewind Dale series and use some of that space to re-install NWN2 and the expansions. Hoping the 13GB limit would be respected :-P

[Quixal]

These forums are usually very good at making me feel old. This topic makes me feel young. While I generally agree with the sentiment of this thread and have been an avid gamer since about '83, I do have to play Devil's advocate for a moment.

To be entirely fair to DA:O, it has a few things going for it. The companions are much better developed than any of the official NWN or NWN2 games. The writers really did a fine job in this area. Also, I think the story gets bashed for being derivative a little more than it deserves.

Unfortunately, the engine, combat system, optimization, variety of combat and many other things are less than stellar and make it easy to shelve. I myself have not finished the game, though I do plan to pick it up again at some point.

Modifié par Quixal, 16 septembre 2010 - 05:22 .

[Thorsson64]

Actually no, 64 relates to the number of squares on a chessboard, 2^8. I'm actually a month away from 59. But I've always been an 'early adopter'.

[Banshe]

Thorsson64 wrote...

Actually no, 64 relates to the number of squares on a chessboard, 2^8. I'm actually a month away from 59. But I've always been an 'early adopter'.

I had to go back to page one to figure this one out.

I thought I was an old-timer at almost 39 (couple of weeks)...

[The Fred]

Quixal wrote...
These forums are usually very good at making me feel old. This topic makes me feel young.

This makes me feel very young... I still think of the "good old days" of playing BG1 on an "old" laptop...

[dunniteowl]

I remember seeing my first "laptop" computer. I was in the Air Force in '83 and one of our Civilian Techs, a Mr. Sinnamond, brought in his KayPro 'portable.' I quote that, because taking something the size of a small Samsonite Suitcase, placing a removeable front cover on it with latch clips, that weighed in at 23 lbs is not necessarily a laptop. It's like calling a 19" TV a portable because you molded a hand grip into the top of the chassis.

I was dreaming of having my own computer at that time. I tried getting an Apple Macintosh, but, as I was not yet a Sergeant at the time, I couldn't get the financing necessary to get a loan of $2400.00 for it.

Oh yeah, the KayPro had two 5.25 floppy drives and 64K RAM. Yes, 64K not M, not G, K. It also had this tiny little 4" monitor in mono-chrome amber. I was still quite envious at the time.
Hope that makes some of you kids out there feel that much younger.

dunniteowl

Modifié par dunniteowl, 16 septembre 2010 - 07:38 .