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[Astral Rag]

It's time!

Carmageddon?

Yes, it's Carmageddon: Reincarnation.

 

[CryptRat]

Another episode of Dicking with Emulation.
Mazes of Fate (GBC)

Mazes of Fate (NDS)

NDS version looks better, have more characters but hidden switches are slighty harder to notice. On GBA they looks like those from Legends of Grimrock. On NdS they're ordinary brick but slighty brighter, so you end clicking everywhere.
I got sensible chuckle when I did first quest (yep, it's about rats in the basement), looted it and asked for reward. Old lady goes down and see that I stole everything, get mad. Did it again, told "Urm, I found few coins down there", she tell "It's yours". And you go outside with pack of poisoning leafs, magic rings and 5 coins.

I didn't know this game. Added to my (big) list of games to play. Probably the NDS version...on NDS.

 

[e-mailio estevez]

Great way to start a dungeon crawler, by immediately putting on cursed equipment.

Spoiler

Thriller Zombies keep hitting me with Level Drain. It can remove all of your memorized spells, very troublesome for a Fighter/Cleric/Mage.

Nice, even more level-draining monsters...

And now... a floor with high-defense and high-attack ghost knights. Pretty sure they're hasted, too.

Barnacles the Pirate eventually met his end on this floor. Tried to escape using an Amulet of Imminent Return, but instead of teleporting me to the beginning of the level, I warped back my most recently used teleporter which was surrounded by monsters. Too many level drains made him stay weak throughout.

Started a new character...

Gauntlets of Fire Giant Strength dropped on floor 2

A Staff of Smiting +3, a scroll of Improved Invisiblity and Robes of the Archmagi dropped by floor 4 This is a promising run.

 

[Multi-headed Cow]

You aren't using Cow Approved Cheese for a Dungeon Hack cleric. You gotta use two spiritual hammers because they return to your hands when thrown, then turn the game in to Serious Sam and start circle strafing!

 

[r3jonwah85]

And to cap this pointless post off, does anybody have some nice recommendations on forgotten gems? Started to collect FPS games the last year and feel the need to add something to the collection.

Not all forgotten gems but here are some FPS that are not your list:

Wolf3D and Spear of Destiny, don't forget to try out the free Macenstein
Blake Stone: Aliens of Gold and Blake Stone: Planet Strike, just play the sequel if you're only going to play one
Rise of the Triad (google WinRott)
Marathon, I never was a big fan of the series but they're definitely not bad games
STRIFE, make sure to disable all the popamole features if you end up getting the recent re-release.
Doom 64 TC
Dark Forces (google DarkXL) and Dark Forces 2
CyberMage
The Terminator: Future Shock and Skynet
Outlaws, see our unofficial patch thread for info on how to run it on a modern OS.
Blood, check out http://blood.nanoaugur.net/
DN3D then try Shadow Warrior if you want to play with Duke's brother from another mother. The re-releases are ok, just don't use the "smooth" filter
Duke Nukem Forever
Redneck Rampage, Witchaven 1 and 2 , TekWar, NAM and World War II GI are all pretty mediocre but you might find some enjoyment in them
Powerslave (aka Exhumed) is another decent build engine game, the PSX version uses another, more advanced engine and is also worth checking out
Realms of the Haunting, make sure you play the patched us version (google Transformation Patch)
Chasm: The Rift, this "Quake clone" uses an interesting engine, it's not a great game though
HλLF-LIFE
Unreal (use Kentie's renderer)
Unreal Tournament (same)
Quake 3, at least finish the SP campaign on Nightmare and become a better person
Return to Castle Wolfenstein
NOLF 1 and 2, good games despite IMO rather mediocre gunplay
Aliens VS Predator, tastefully re-released as AvP Classic 2000
FEAR + expansion packs, 2 is a bad FEAR game and 3 is irredeemable trash


Then there are tons of great custom maps for Doom and Quake.

Thanks! I have almost half of those already in physical copies, the ones I do not have unfortunately cost to much compared to the gameplay value you get (if not the shipping often kills the deal since I want the big box version if available). Might bite the bullet and buy some of them like Strife and Exhumed, also there is a nice big box version of Skynet for sale here in Sweden so might snag that one too. Other than that I think I have played all of them except Blake Stone, Realms of the Haunting (which seems recommended) and some of the shittier Build engine games. Might add some more games from my shelf to the list if anybody else is reading it:

Star Trek Elite Force 1 & 2
Painkiller (at least main game and first expansion)
XIII
Project IGI 1 & 2 (not really mow everything down kind of shooter but still somewhat from that time line)
Star Wars Republic Commando
Gunman Chronicles
Star Trek Klingon Honor Guard
SHOGO: MAD
Turok 1 & 2
Far Cry 1
Wheel of Time (forgot this one first)

And I have mentioned this in this very thread before, but Quake is such a masterpiece with mind blowing levels still coming out, so I play that every week pretty much. Doom gets some love as well but the level design is often so much more intricate in Quake which appeals to m (and the music is so perfectly fitting). Might start a new thread about this topic instead, so much stuff to talk about

 

[Unkillable Cat]

When SSI made Dungeon Hack, they copied the monsters (and their stats) verbatim, forgetting that this lovely chap has an Armour Class somewhere close to -10. But then again, EOB3 only accounted for one of these to be around, not multiples...

While I've beaten this game several times (with the difficulty scalers maxed out) I've never been able to beat the game with a non-Cleric character. Everyone else just starves to death. Even worse is that the manual talks about some very powerful set items, I've only ever found ONE item of one set - and of course, it was unusable by my character class!

 

[taxalot]

What

The best dentist

 

[CryptRat]

When SSI made Dungeon Hack, they copied the monsters (and their stats) verbatim, forgetting that this lovely chap has an Armour Class somewhere close to -10. But then again, EOB3 only accounted for one of these to be around, not multiples...

While I've beaten this game several times (with the difficulty scalers maxed out) I've never been able to beat the game with a non-Cleric character. Everyone else just starves to death. Even worse is that the manual talks about some very powerful set items, I've only ever found ONE item of one set - and of course, it was unusable by my character class!

I have never beaten the game, but i remember going far several times with a mage when i found Vampiric Touch ; basically my HPs never went below the max. But i eventually died being petrified or so...

 

[e-mailio estevez]

I have never beaten the game, but i remember going far several times with a mage when i found Vampiric Touch ; basically my HPs never went below the max. But i eventually died being petrified or so...

Yep, getting Vampiric Touch can almost guarantee you a win in Dungeon Hack. It does a lot of damage, and puts your HP over the cap. Bonus HP which doesn't expire when you rest. Abusing it means you'll have more hitpoints than you'd ever need. You can still die, though. There's plenty of instant death to go around.

You aren't using Cow Approved Cheese for a Dungeon Hack cleric. You gotta use two spiritual hammers because they return to your hands when thrown, then turn the game in to Serious Sam and start circle strafing!

That's a pretty good idea. Hammers are probably more useful than Flame Blade, at any rate.

 

[Unkillable Cat]

You aren't using Cow Approved Cheese for a Dungeon Hack cleric. You gotta use two spiritual hammers because they return to your hands when thrown, then turn the game in to Serious Sam and start circle strafing!

That's a pretty good idea. Hammers are probably more useful than Flame Blade, at any rate.

Yup. Flame Blade is melee-range only, while Spiritual Hammers are ranged attacks.

And there are LOTS of monsters you don't want in your melee range. The level-draining undead, cockatrices, THAT GODDAMN LIVING MUCK, etc.

 

[Clockwork Knight]

Sega we will never forgeve you

Proto-Aeris

 

[Damned Registrations]

Sega we will never forgeve you

Proto-Aeris

Pretty sure you can actually revive Nei, provided you have the right item during that fight. So, not really.

 

[Clockwork Knight]

Revive 4ever, you mean? Only in the Ps2 remake.

Unless you meant using a revive item or something so she helps during the fight, but that's game mechanics fuckery.

 

[FromWisdomToHate]

exhumed

Spoiler

 

[Pipeweed]

 

[spekkio]

Jagged Alliance - Deadly Games

 

[Astral Rag]

Spoiler

GOTY 2015

 

[Alienman]

exhumed looks awesome.
I don't how I managed to miss that game in my youth though

 

[Baron Dupek]

Serious Sam: Next Encounter.
Better than Serious Sam 2 but the fact that's FPS for console.... no, I have no words. Playing FPS on console is impossible, playing on console emulators is pure trauma. There is not enough autoaims that could help you.

Yeah no thx.

Gorasu - Legacy of the Dragon. One of the many forgotten cRPGs.

Yes, you can create your own version of Licarior from BG2, that can talk, argue, betray (both based on EGO), gain experience and be brave enough to deal massive critical damage.

 

[DramaticPopcorn]

Gorasu - Legacy of the Dragon. One of the many forgotten cRPGs.

Yes, you can create your own version of Licarior from BG2, that can talk, argue, betray (both based on EGO), gain experience and be brave enough to deal massive critical damage.

Wow, looks pretty neat, first time I hear about it. How is the combat and character development?

 

[Baron Dupek]

DramaticPopcorn
Combat can be set to auto attack or normal. Space to pause + autopause options. Servicable, nothing to complain.
No level scaling, you will meet tough encounters even on lowest difficulty setting (and you can set difficulty for puzzles too). Depend of the size of your party (and XP sharing) Roshondas may be on different level at the end.
No quest compass too but locations are small (compared to enormous one in BG1) and looking for hidden items was cool back then.
Quests are cool, there is variety compared to Fedex quests, still manageable without guide - logic.

 

[Astral Rag]

Spoiler

 

[balmorar]

Risen 3 - Titan Lords

 

[FromWisdomToHate]

exhumed

chex quest 1 & 2

Spoiler

 

[Scroo]

Hand of Fate