Help me remember an old DOS RPG game. (Ultima-like?)

[Captain Obvious]

Actually, I think the combat was the only rogue-like part about it. I remember you could buy weapons in towns. Again, I'm not 100% sure on this one. But I remember using a cheating program to get me a lot of gold and buying something...

Your soul was shattered when Ultima IX was released, and from the scattered fragments of your gamer spirit, you have assembled a fantasy reality, a game that does not exist. Let go, Stalin. Let go.

 

[superstalin]

Never!

This is like searching for your long lost elementary school crush when you're in your 40's.

 

[mondblut]

It's directly top down 2D. Not a dungeon crawler!

I think the avatar (You) had animations... Very simple one at that. Just walking animations.

Couldn't you tell some basics first? Was it TB or RT? What kind of ruleset it had (levels, skills, classes or not, etc). What was the story about? "Looks like old Ultima" is quite a stretched description, and "character was tall" doesn't really help at all.

 

[Captain Obvious]

Couldn't you tell some basics first? Was it TB or RT? What kind of ruleset it had (levels, skills, classes or not, etc). What was the story about? "Looks like old Ultima" is quite a stretched description, and "character was tall" doesn't really help at all.

Either that, or post pictures of boobies. I have the feeling that either will increase the productivity of this thread tremondously.

 

[Psycroptic]

There's Deathlord. But that's not single character based. It certainly looks like Ultima though.

 

[superstalin]

It's directly top down 2D. Not a dungeon crawler!

I think the avatar (You) had animations... Very simple one at that. Just walking animations.

Couldn't you tell some basics first? Was it TB or RT? What kind of ruleset it had (levels, skills, classes or not, etc). What was the story about? "Looks like old Ultima" is quite a stretched description, and "character was tall" doesn't really help at all.

Hmmm. I think it was based on movement, like rouge-style. If you stand still, nothing happens, you need to move for them to move. But once you move onto an enemy, the screen doesn't change during combat, it just stays there until one of you die. No combat screen.

The story, I have no idea..

 

[Darth Slaughter]

...I'm not 100% sure here! I would move with the arrow keys, and just "move" into the direction of enemies until they were killed. It had a gold system that I could buy things with(?). The game had NO party system, and NO 3D-Dungeon mode. The starting map is very green, with a castle and trees near you.

This combat system, of just touching the enemies, is very much like the one in the JRPG series Ys:

more here: http://hg101.classicgaming.gamespy.com/ys/ys.htm

 

[superstalin]

I don't think it was a JRPG, I'm sure. I do remember the grass in the game being more deeper green and lot more solid.

 

[Andhaira]

Hmm, I think I can recall what game you mean. Can you tell us the color of hte sky in that game? The exact shade? (down to the right pixel?) it would be a great help.

 

[Sir_Brennus]

Hmm, I think I can recall what game you mean. Can you tell us the color of hte sky in that game? The exact shade? (down to the right pixel?) it would be a great help.

You.Are.Not.Helping.

 

[Section8]

Excelsior? It's a fairly straight forward Ultima clone, and if you jack up your charisma, you can sell things for more than you bought them for and cheat your way into a lot of gold.

 

[MisterStone]

Legacy of the Ancients maybe? It had lotsa colors... The avatar doesn't look right, though. It was the single PC RPG that had a "galactic museum" where you would unlock new areas with special tokens/coins.

Also maybe questron 2? It used a similar engine, I never played it so I don't know if it fits your description well or not.

Fuck... the description of that avatar rings a bell, but I just can't figure it out.

Oh yeah, maybe it's this one I am thinking of... Wrath of Denethenor (written by a HS senior no less!) but it was released for Apple II and C64 only, also not so many colors.

 

[Wyrmlord]

In the process of asking this question, superstalin has allowed us to unveil every Ultima clone ever made.

A truly difficult question, considering that is a little troublesome to distinguish one from another.

Wasn't there some Ultima clone based on LotR as well?

 

[Wyrmlord]

In the process of asking this question, superstalin has allowed us to unveil every Ultima clone ever made.

A truly difficult question, considering that is a little troublesome to distinguish one from another.

Wasn't there some Ultima clone based on LotR as well?

 

[Sir_Brennus]

Legacy of the Ancients maybe? It had lotsa colors... The avatar doesn't look right, though. It was the single PC RPG that had a "galactic museum" where you would unlock new areas with special tokens/coins.

Wasn't he like saying "no 3D dungeons"?

Legacy of the Ancients

 

[Andhaira]

Eschalon!

 

[Wyrmlord]

Eschalon!

You really should not be mentioning Eschalon when Sir Brennus is nearby.

 

[Andhaira]

Eschalon II!

(OP is posting from the future)

 

[superstalin]

We will find out what game it is. Soon!

 

[Darth Slaughter]

i remember a friend who was trying to remember a cartoon from the 80's. No one could know based on the information given by him. only two years later someone found a website and found a match to his description.

So I have faith superstalin will eventually find out... but it'll probably take long.

 

[MisterStone]

Lol, SuperStalin posted this on another site as well:

This means we've got to figure this shit out... can't let those "yougamer" wankers show us up, can we? For Codexia!

 

[superstalin]

Actually, I posted it in about 4 other forums. This one has been the most helpful yet.

 

[St. Toxic]

Oh? Well, then our job is done. Thread over.

 

[superstalin]

Oh? Well, then our job is done. Thread over.

What.

 

[serch]

You should have said hateful instead of helpful