Re: What are you playing now?
Posted: Fri Jan 05, 2018 8:14 pm
And just how big has that list gotten?
Well for this year, not that long. I am trying to do less (in terms of the many hobbies and ideas I have) - and focus on a few to knock them out. (The ones I can easily finish).Collector wrote:And just how big has that list gotten?
Oh, wow... I remember Morrowind. Whoops... I thought you were talking about The Elder Scrolls 3: Morrowind. Now THAT is going a fair way back.MusicallyInspired wrote:I also bought:
-The Elder Scrolls Online: Morrowind, Dark Brotherhood, Thieves' Guild, Orsinium, Imperial Province
I remember Lands of Lore! The last time I played it, I was probably about 14 or 15. That was many, many, many moons ago. (But how many, I'm not going to say).Semi-Happy Partygoer wrote:I'm currently replaying Lands of Lore: The Throne of Chaos. I'm not much for RPGs overall, but this one I quite like. I'm finally getting better at it, too; this is the first time I've made a lot of progress without resorting to a trainer or hex editor to max out all my stats.
It's funny that you call it a Kyrandia knock off - when the first Kyrandia was called a King's Quest knock off (so much so that they ended up putting disclaimer stickers on the boxes)! I am now, officially curious to play said Heaven's Dawn sometime...Semi-Happy Partygoer wrote:I've recently been dabbling with Heaven's Dawn, a seemingly rare point-and-click from 1995. Developed by a Taiwanese company, then released in English in Australia. It features most standard P&C conventions, though not done nearly as well as Sierra's work. Visually, the game is an obvious Kyrandia knockoff- same style interface and icons, similar color palette and music, even the main character's sprite is drawn as the exact same angle as Brandon. The programming is also clunky - the opening cinematic is 3D rendered, and even on the slowest DOSBox settings it absolutely flies by like a tape on fast forward, but then the game runs slower than dirt. It needs at least 30,000 cycles to prevent lag during animation-heavy screens. Still, for all the flaws, it has a certain charm about it, and it's fun to experience a "new" P&C from that era that I haven't seen before.
It's very much a Kyrandia knockoff visually. The developers were clearly basing the overall look on it. You can view some screenshots and read more about it here: http://www.mobygames.com/game/heavens-dawn-Tawmis wrote:It's funny that you call it a Kyrandia knock off - when the first Kyrandia was called a King's Quest knock off (so much so that they ended up putting disclaimer stickers on the boxes)! I am now, officially curious to play said Heaven's Dawn sometime...
Fair point. I haven't played the early games as much but you're right, they are much more lighthearted than later entries. Whereas the first Kyrandia didn't take itself overly seriously, the underlying story was quite melancholy.MusicallyInspired wrote:I'd even put forth than King's Quest was the opposite. It kind of started out a bit silly and got increasingly more serious.