Of ships and shoes and Sandalwood boxes

I just re-completed ToEE last nite (twice, actually) using the v5.0.0 patch.

MAY I SAY, A JOB WELL DONE, CO8!!!

As a veteran PC gamer, it's rare for a game's or mod's content to really get me going and have actual "laugh out loud" moments. Your (continuing) work on this game has made it a fully satisfying and thoroughly enjoyable experience.

I must comment that I love the sandalwood box you get after DH. This item, along with the preceeding battle to get said item, and Iolo's Crossbow encounter are all from the Ultima games, correct?

I (unfortunately) never played the Ultima games, but am familiar with them. Was the battle for the sandalwood box one of the "end" battles for the Ultima series? If so, which one?

Just curious, as this Ultima content really brought a smile to my face, not just for it's originality in placing it in the D&D universe but for the oversall sense of nostalgia for the old classics.

 

I used to play the Ultima's on my C-64 back in ancient times. I think there's some web sites where you can download and play them on your PC (IBM clone). I rccommend Ultima 4.

Set them up and play them when you're taking a break from other stuff. They are not what you are used to. Baldur's Gate changed everything.

 

If I remeber correctly, from my research, not actual playing, the Ultima games were the first ones where your actions (good and bad) influenced the entire game.

I have a vauge memory of being attacked after looting a home in a brief playing stint of one of the Ultima games.

 

Never played Ultima neither.
Though i find that old games like that are amazing.

I was playing Eye of the Beholder when my machine burned out, and lost everything.
Even when i sincerely hate FPOV games (and this game doesn't even have a map!), EotB got me for hours in front of the pc.
It was also amazing that you could export your favourite charcters to the EotB II & III!!

Right now, i've got my hand in a invaluable treasure: a game that i mentioned before...is a D&D game for SEGA! The name of the game? well, AD&D , that simple.

You can make a party of up to 4 adventurers, and start in a Keep. The keep has lots of places to visit, like merchants, other to get info, and others just for the fun of it (i love the cemetery, which has four open graves. If you click on them, says "your name here").
The graphics are quite simple, ovbiously, but nothing bad. You can recognize easily each charcter, and i'm not sure but i think that equipment like armor makes them change acordingly (i don't have a buck yet)
Dialog have various options, and they change depending which charcter has initied the dialog. You can even have discounts, or recognize when somebody is trying to sell you something at a higher price!

It has isometric view, and you just simply move the cursor, click and move.
If you enter a cave, catacomb or dungeon, then it changes to a FPOV (and there's when you wish to have a rogue, which are the only ones than can detect traps and hidden doors)
When you engage combat, you have isometric view, and a grid on the floor is displayed, and you move exactly as the pnp rules, and turn based.
I'm truly having a blast with this game...
i wonder why there aren't many more games with this system, which seems to be the perfect mix. As soon as i can, i'll post a few screenshots

 

Don't you worry your pretty, little, modding, head over that Ted. Once I get to KotB and see some of these references, I'll be sure to give comment! And it's mostly positive comments to boot!

 

Let me tell you another old turn based dos RPG game that rocked, Dragonlance done by SSI. Champion of Krynn and Deathknights of Krynn. Just like ToEE with worse graphics eace:

Oh and might and magic

 

Thanks for the wonderful memories!!

The Dragonlance games for DOS were the first ones I played, (at a computer at work, no less!!) I actually still have all the original 3.5 discs and the strategy guides. Now if I can only find a way to play them on a system that no longer has a DOS application.

Might and Magic.... ahhhh. So much time spent on that game, so much progress, and I still haven't beaten it! That's alright, I can still get them all of of GameTap!

 

www.abandonia.com/en/games/619/Champions+of+Krynn.html has those old Dragonlance games for download, and the manuels you need to answer the security questions in the extras section. Theres also a link to Death knights of Krynn on the bottom. That one leads to Dark Queen of Krynn. You can still play these on your system today with applications like moslo

:tombstone my old 286 with the turbo button with which I conquered so many games back in the good days

 

Oh I majorly agree with this one.

Pool of Radiance - Curse of the Azure Bonds - Secret of the Silver Blades - Pools of Darkness
Champions of Krynn - Death Knights of Krynn - The Dark Queen of Krynn
Buck Rogers: Countdown to Doomsday - Buck Rogers: Matrix Cubed

All worth your time. Most are probably abandonware now.

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