Your thoughts on some old RPGs

Gilliatt · Post by **Gilliatt** » Wed Feb 04, 2009 9:12 pm

I have decided about a year ago to add some older RPGs to my game collection. I found many recommendations on different websites, but I am still not sure about some of the recommended games. I would appreciate if any of you who have played them could give me some comments. Here is the list:

Legend of Faerghail
Megatraveller I and II
The Dark Heart of Uukrul
Worlds of Legend: The Four Crystals of Trazere + Son of the Empire.

Thanks in advance.

@ moderators: I realize this is a double post (since I asked the same question in the Magic Candle thread), but I don't think it was visible enough there. That's why I made a new thread.

fable · Post by **fable** » Wed Feb 04, 2009 10:54 pm

Gilliatt wrote:I have decided about a year ago to add some older RPGs to my game collection. I found many recommendations on different websites, but I am still not sure about some of the recommended games. I would appreciate if any of you who have played them could give me some comments. Here is the list:

Legend of Faerghail
Megatraveller I and II
The Dark Heart of Uukrul
Worlds of Legend: The Four Crystals of Trazere + Son of the Empire.

Thanks in advance.

@ moderators: I realize this is a double post (since I asked the same question in the Magic Candle thread), but I don't think it was visible enough there. That's why I made a new thread.

Megatraveller I and II: Two of the dullest games I ever played. Hardly anything to do except move from place to placec, picking up abilities you never use.

Worlds of Legend: The Four Crystals of Trazere + Son of the Empire: I only know The Four Crystals. Excellent title, filled with clever puzzles and good action, but with an waay-over-the-top final boss that just seemed impossible to beat.

The Dark Heart of Uukrul: Never played it, but heard great things about it.

PS: Your post under The Magic Candle really had nothing to do with it, so it's been fed to Cthullu.

Gilliatt · Post by **Gilliatt** » Wed Feb 04, 2009 11:47 pm

fable wrote:Megatraveller I and II: Two of the dullest games I ever played. Hardly anything to do except move from place to placec, picking up abilities you never use.

Worlds of Legend: The Four Crystals of Trazere + Son of the Empire: I only know The Four Crystals. Excellent title, filled with clever puzzles and good action, but with an waay-over-the-top final boss that just seemed impossible to beat.

The Dark Heart of Uukrul: Never played it, but heard great things about it.

Thanks for the comments, Fable. You are an inexhaustible source of RPG knowledge.

PS: Your post under The Magic Candle really had nothing to do with it, so it's been fed to Cthullu.

So that's where the deleted posts go!

:speech: Please don't tell me that Cthulhu is in Buck's basement or your basement!

:speech:
Do the other mods have their own Ancient too?

fable · Post by **fable** » Thu Feb 05, 2009 4:13 am

Gilliatt wrote:Thanks for the comments, Fable. You are an inexhaustible source of RPG knowledge.

It comes with advancing old age.

So that's where the deleted posts go! :speech: Please don't tell me that Cthulhu is in Buck's basement or your basement! :speech:
Do the other mods have their own Ancient too?

Only when we collect 150,000 de-merit badges. And no, Cthullhu isn't in Buck's basement. He's the household maid.

You do not want to see him in a frilly print apron. Trust me.

GawainBS · Post by **GawainBS** » Thu Feb 05, 2009 5:55 am

Uukrul was enjoyable, but hard. Virtually no save options. Equipment breaks very frequently. Still it had that "one more corridor and then I quit"-feel.

fable · Post by **fable** » Thu Feb 05, 2009 6:15 am

GawainBS wrote:Uukrul was enjoyable, but hard. Virtually no save options. Equipment breaks very frequently. Still it had that "one more corridor and then I quit"-feel.

I don't get much enjoyment from those "we're going to make it as tough as possible for you to proceed" games that come down the pike once in a while. It's as though the game has morphed from being an RPG into being about figuring out how to game the game.

Mind, skate-through games are just as annoying, which is why I don't do cheats or cheese. But there is a nice, happy medium out there.

At the moment, I'm finding it again in Morrowind.

galraen · Post by **galraen** » Thu Feb 05, 2009 1:02 pm

Pretty much agree with Fable about Megatraveller 1 & 2, although 2 wasn't bad as I recall, I did enjoy playing it through once. Same isn't true of 2, that was a real struggle to complete it was so boring.

Legend of Faerghail I thought was an enjoyable game, fairly good for it's period.

All of the above I played on an Amiga, don't know what the PC versions are like. I wouldn't mind having another look at MT1 for nostalgia purposes, you couldn't pay me to try MT2 again. I'd like another shot at Legend of Faerghail again, and not just for nostalgia.

MT1&2 were based on the P&P game Traveller by the way which I played for a while in the 80's as a break from AD&D, not a bad system, but slightly too simplistic.

Gilliatt · Post by **Gilliatt** » Sat Feb 07, 2009 2:59 pm

@ GawainBS and galrean, thanks for your comments.

I removed the Megatravellers from my list and will try to get more feedback on Uukrul.

@ Fable, you are right: I do not want to see Cthulhu in a frilly print apron.

I have seen from some of your posts that you don't have a high regard for those who fantasize on the buxom heroins of some RPGs, but I now seriously wonder if your fantasies are more sane. :speech:

fable · Post by **fable** » Sat Feb 07, 2009 3:25 pm

Gilliatt wrote:@ Fable, you are right: I do not want to see Cthulhu in a frilly print apron.
I have seen from some of your posts that you don't have a high regard for those who fantasize on the buxom heroins of some RPGs, but I now seriously wonder if your fantasies are more sane. :speech:

Fantasies? What fantasies, man?

This is reality.

Gilliatt · Post by **Gilliatt** » Sat Feb 07, 2009 3:36 pm

:laugh: :laugh: :laugh:

I did not mean to doubt the reality of what you were saying, I was referring to the things that seem to make you aroused.

:speech:

gamelinx · Post by **gamelinx** » Tue Mar 31, 2009 9:06 pm

Stonekeep

Stonekeep is an old RPG that was really fun. It seemed ahead of its time. What do you think of this as an old school rpg?

Gilliatt · Post by **Gilliatt** » Wed Apr 01, 2009 8:20 pm

Although I have not played it yet, I already have Stonekeep, sitting on a shelf. That's why I did not ask about it. Thanks anyway for the suggestion.

fable · Post by **fable** » Wed Apr 01, 2009 8:48 pm

Same here. It's just sitting around, because I only occasionally play, nowadays. But I'll get to it--sooner or later.

Gilliatt · Post by **Gilliatt** » Sat Apr 04, 2009 11:52 am

Same for me, Fable, I don't have time to play as much as I used to. But the saddest thing is that I don't read as much as I used to either. If it was not for my vacations, where I only read, sleep and eat for two weeks, I would have read less than 10 books last year!