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Post by Ex on Oct 30, 2022 12:24:09 GMT -5
November's Club Retro theme is all about playing licensed Dungeons & Dragons video/computer games. As long as the game is at least ten years old, and is based on the D&D franchise, it works. Here's lists of video/computer games based on D&D:en.wikipedia.org/wiki/List_of_Dungeons_%26_Dragons_video_gameswww.mobygames.com/game-group/dungeons-dragons-dd-add-licenseeswww.giantbomb.com/dungeons-dragons/3025-167/games/Edit: Here are few D&D games I have personally played through and recommend:Advanced Dungeons & Dragons: DragonStrike (1992) NES -Shoot 'em up where you fly a dragon. Baldur's Gate (1998) PC and many modern platforms -Nice WRPG with a lot of depth. Baldur's Gate: Dark Alliance (2001) PS2, Xbox, GameCube, and many modern platforms -Action-RPG with loads of dungeon crawling and looting. Dungeons & Dragons: Tower of Doom (1994) Arcade, Saturn Dungeons & Dragons: Shadow over Mystara (1996) Arcade, Saturn -The best thinking man's beat 'em ups ever made. Forgotten Realms: Demon Stone (2004) PS2, Xbox, GameCube -An action-RPG/slash 'em up. Icewind Dale (2000) PC -A hybrid of Diablo and Baldur's Gate in a great setting.
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Post by toei on Oct 30, 2022 12:38:06 GMT -5
I had completely forgotten we had picked this theme. Quick recommendation: one overlooked Western-style D&D RPG is Warriors of the Eternal Sun on the Genesis. It really feels like a PC RPG (in fact, it was made by Westwood), but it was a Genesis original. It's got two different battle systems: most of the time, it uses third-person graphics with that weird slanted Ultima view, and the battle feel like a small-scale SRPG, while in dungeons, it switches to first person, and I think real-time fighting. I made it far when I was a kid, but couldn't finish it because the save battery was dead.
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Post by Ex on Oct 30, 2022 23:03:00 GMT -5
Warriors of the Eternal Sun on the Genesis Looks good, I forgot about that one. Here's a TG16 exclusive that might interest you:
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Post by bonesnapdeez on Oct 31, 2022 11:50:04 GMT -5
There are some cool old D&D video games.
I have to first state that the AD&D Intellivision game (the first one, Advanced Dungeons & Dragons aka Cloudy Mountain) is awesome. A great proto-ARPG, and similar to Atari's Adventure as it feels like a predecessor to Hydlide, Zelda, etc. It's an easy game to pick up and play. There are no complex D&D rules involved; in fact I don't think there's even any text or numbers shown outside of the title screen. The generic nature of it all helped Mattel in the long run, as they were able to rerelease it with a new title after they lost the D&D license.
Big fan of the Capcom beat 'em ups. I also love the Infinity Engine games; I bought the collections on Switch to replay 'em. There are some other random titles that are solid as well. Al-Qadim: The Genie's Curse is an interesting top-down ARPG... but on computers. The Genesis game is great; I've never played the TG16 one. I will say, I always struggled to get into the classic "Gold Box" titles. Ancient WRPGs are better in theory than practice, to me at least. They're slow and hard as balls.
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Post by Ex on Oct 31, 2022 12:32:20 GMT -5
bonesnapdeezThe Intellivision games look intriguing, and ahead of their time given the platform. You said you enjoyed Advanced Dungeons & Dragons: Slayer on 3DO (looks fun to me), but did you ever play through the sequel Advanced Dungeons & Dragons: DeathKeep?
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Post by bonesnapdeez on Oct 31, 2022 16:15:10 GMT -5
Never got deep into either one of those, but what I played was pretty cool. Wish they were more accessible.
The second Intellivision D&D game isn't as good as the first. It's like an aimless/endless(?) first-person dungeon crawler. Kinda reminds me of Gateway to Apshai where you just kind of derp around killin' and collectin' till you get bored. Either that or I just suck at it and never made any headway. The first one, as I said, is absolute boss. Could be tricky to emulate though as it takes full advantage of the "keypad" controller.
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Post by toei on Oct 31, 2022 18:32:11 GMT -5
Ex I'd vaguely heard of Order of the Griffon before, but I didn't realize how similar it seems to be to Eternal Sun. Same developer, same basic setup (first-person dungeons, top down view outside, two different battle systems) apparently inherited from the Gold Box games, same year of release. Interesting. There's also something interesting about the fact it's an American Turbografx-16 exclusive, considering how little impact and presence the console had in America.
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Post by Ex on Nov 1, 2022 14:52:26 GMT -5
Wish they were more accessible. Well I downloaded the PDF manuals for the 3DO and Intellivision D&D games. I'll give them all a fair chance after reading the manuals. There's some other D&D games that look interesting to me too. This is a theme I'd prefer to be three months long rather than one. seems to be to Eternal Sun. Same developer, same basic setup (first-person dungeons, top down view outside, two different battle systems) apparently inherited from the Gold Box games Another D&D game that's kind of like that is Eye of the Beholder on GBA: The exploration is first person, but battles are overhead tactical style. That makes the GBA version completely different from other Eye of the Beholder games.
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Post by toei on Nov 1, 2022 17:34:40 GMT -5
Oh, interesting. Had no idea about that GBA exclusive. Console-exclusive Western RPGs is an odd niche I've never been too into, with some exceptions like the 16-bit Shadowruns. But it's a cool topic to read about.
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Post by Sarge on Nov 1, 2022 23:26:07 GMT -5
Well, that's an odd one. Played a bit of AD&D: Slayer for the 3DO. Think of it as a D&D rogue-like meets Doom (or perhaps something like an older Elder Scrolls game). I kinda like what I see here, but... that framerate is pretty tough to hack through. Very chunky and the game waffles between not responsive enough and too responsive. I doubt I put much more time into it, but it's neat to see, anyway.
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