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by tiresius
September 3rd, 2008, 2:27 pm
Forum: GameTalk
Topic: Dwarf Fortress
Replies: 15
Views: 12242

Re: Dwarf Fortress

A week ago I played what was known as the "2D fortress" because my copy was from Oct 2007. Well after a few rounds with that (I'm not very good) I updated to the latest and I must say there are quite a few changes! Now there is Z-depth supported so you can dig down or up in a mountain. Out...
by tiresius
August 27th, 2008, 1:46 pm
Forum: GameTalk
Topic: Dwarf Fortress
Replies: 15
Views: 12242

Re: Dwarf Fortress

Looks like they have a Mac version available now?

I'm just getting back into this... it is definitely more fun if you don't take failure too seriously.
by tiresius
August 25th, 2008, 2:25 pm
Forum: Eschalon: Book II
Topic: Female vs male character attributes and skills
Replies: 48
Views: 43443

Re: Female vs male character attributes and skills

Why bother with built-in perceived differences (even as small as +1 to a stat) ? It just opens it up for debate on the whole stereotype/PC stuff that always comes up. No difference gives complete freedom to the player when building their character. By spending their own stat points they can have a g...
by tiresius
August 22nd, 2008, 12:07 pm
Forum: Eschalon: Book II
Topic: A pretty nifty idea for Book II.
Replies: 3
Views: 2723

Re: A pretty nifty idea for Book II.

They've already talked about this, I think. The editors used for Book1 are not user friendly and very specific to their needs. Book2 would refine the engine and possibly the editor, and Book3 would contain a full blown editor with lots of possibilities to Mod the game. At least that's what I believe...
by tiresius
June 30th, 2008, 3:00 pm
Forum: GameTalk
Topic: Ultima Underworld
Replies: 11
Views: 6270

Re: Ultima Underworld

Great game, it has awesome atmosphere, great world interaction, interesting NPCs and for a dungeon crawler it feels pretty non-linear. Agreed. Only a few games (Dragon Wars being another) have done the "start with nothing" scenario so well. UU2 is pretty good, too. You go to different dun...
by tiresius
June 30th, 2008, 12:30 pm
Forum: GameTalk
Topic: Diablo 3 confirmed
Replies: 24
Views: 12224

Re: Diablo 3 confirmed

This has been debated on the nets for a long time. But there are different types of CRPGs. There are "action" at one spectrum, and there are "hardcore" story-driven ones at another. Diablo 1 had horrible RPG elements in it, the quest system was pure silly. The back story and tone...
by tiresius
June 30th, 2008, 9:20 am
Forum: GameTalk
Topic: Dark Disciples
Replies: 2
Views: 2627

Re: Dark Disciples

Already mentioned here:
viewtopic.php?f=5&t=851

Dark Disciples2 looks more customizable with a map editor and such. I haven't played the second one though...
by tiresius
June 12th, 2008, 9:45 am
Forum: GameTalk
Topic: old school Sci-Fi RPG?
Replies: 30
Views: 24879

Re: old school Sci-Fi RPG?

Ooh I would buy that. Hopefully it is party-based with ability to gain helpers/robots or some other such NPC help. I worked for years in high school (early 90s) on an Ultima/M&M hybrid sci-fi CRPG called "Lazer Swordz" in QuickBasic, and was about 90% done with the engine+game maker. B...
by tiresius
May 29th, 2008, 9:48 am
Forum: GameTalk
Topic: Diablo
Replies: 21
Views: 16230

Re: Diablo

Diablo1 was a lot harder right from the beginning than Diablo2 was, imo. In Diablo1 you really needed to watch out all the time or even a group of simple enemies could kill you. And in the beginning it could take 2-3 whacks to kill the little turds, unless you got a good weapon early as warrior. Als...
by tiresius
April 26th, 2008, 10:40 pm
Forum: General Chat
Topic: Can you deal with no auto map?
Replies: 17
Views: 11175

In BT1 I used scry site to figure the location of a special encounter (something like 255 baddies or something) and then used teleport spell to go there over and over, having my mages pelt them from a distance and getting the max experience allowed for a fight (probably 32k). I did that about 60 tim...
by tiresius
April 20th, 2008, 12:11 am
Forum: Eschalon: Book I
Topic: magic bar thing kaput going insane please help!
Replies: 1
Views: 1402

I saw this while playing the demo I think, but it was a while ago when it happened. Right click wouldn't cast the spell, no matter where I clicked or how often I would set up the quick spell. I think to fix it I used the number 1 key. Just hitting that toggled the quick spell or something. Sorry I d...
by tiresius
April 8th, 2008, 10:59 pm
Forum: GameTalk
Topic: Dragon Wars
Replies: 4
Views: 3896

I played this as a kid (bought it for the box art *giggles* ) and the similarity to the BT series. Restarted playing it a couple years ago but only got maybe 2/3 the way through. The atmosphere in the beginning of the game is awesome, you really felt like a poor beggar, no magic or items to help you...
by tiresius
March 29th, 2008, 10:16 pm
Forum: GameTalk
Topic: Devil Whiskey
Replies: 16
Views: 10586

I'm not really a lightweight since I've beaten all 3 BT games back in the day. Well the 3rd was with the hint book, but whatever! :) I found Devil Whiskey to be too hard and didn't get far. The starting town just seems way unbalanced and painful to go through. But other people are ok with it so mayb...
by tiresius
February 24th, 2008, 2:01 am
Forum: GameTalk
Topic: Caverns of Underkeep - Graphical Roguelike
Replies: 15
Views: 9704

I played and got down to level 7, not sure how much further it goes... but what I saw was quite fun. Things are balanced nicely. It reminds me a little of Sword of Fargoal, which was a great game. Good job!
by tiresius
February 22nd, 2008, 1:05 am
Forum: GameTalk
Topic: Caverns of Underkeep - Graphical Roguelike
Replies: 15
Views: 9704

I don't know if this is a joke but all I see is a parked domain. No game.