I started playing PC games in the very early 90s after a youth filled with NES and SNES games. I mostly played point and click adventure games and shooters for a long while though, and the first RPG I played that I can remember is Fallout, unless you count Diablo.
My issue now is that as new releases I like dry up and DRM is taking me away from gaming, I plan to go back and play all the old RPG classics I missed out on. A lot of these are from before I got into the genre and I want to play them, but when I try them out I find them really hard to get into. For instance I have purchased the Might and Magic pack on GOG and just tried out Betrayal in Antara today... they both are interesting, but I worry I won't be able to play them.
It's not a pacing issue, I love plenty of slow-paced games. Neither is it a turn-based issue obviously, as I got into RPGs when they were turn-based. I simply find it hard to play games that with mechanics and presentation from before I got into the genre... I replay old games all the time from the eras I already enjoyed, I am re-playing Arcanum right now waiting for New Vegas, but games from before 1996 or so... not so much.
Any tips? Anyone know what I mean?
My issue now is that as new releases I like dry up and DRM is taking me away from gaming, I plan to go back and play all the old RPG classics I missed out on. A lot of these are from before I got into the genre and I want to play them, but when I try them out I find them really hard to get into. For instance I have purchased the Might and Magic pack on GOG and just tried out Betrayal in Antara today... they both are interesting, but I worry I won't be able to play them.
It's not a pacing issue, I love plenty of slow-paced games. Neither is it a turn-based issue obviously, as I got into RPGs when they were turn-based. I simply find it hard to play games that with mechanics and presentation from before I got into the genre... I replay old games all the time from the eras I already enjoyed, I am re-playing Arcanum right now waiting for New Vegas, but games from before 1996 or so... not so much.
Any tips? Anyone know what I mean?