Comment on Great games you would recommend from before 1990?
taiyang@lemmy.world 5 months ago
Dragon Quest 3 (and the two previous games) are great on NES. DQ2 is one of the hardest RPGs, though, as the developers admitted they never play tested the final dungeon. First turn AOE insta deaths, mini bosses that respawn, etc. there’s a reason they’re remaking them, though.
Those were inspired by Ultima and Wizardry, though, if you want even older RPGs. Actually, most SSI AD&D games were fantastic, too, and you can access them legally via steam now if you don’t want to futz with DOS, although my favorite Eye of the Beholder games are slightly newer at 1991.
QuoVadisHomines@sh.itjust.works 5 months ago
Those were under 1st edition Advanced D&D rulesets as I recall. If you started playing after 1990 you are in for a bunch of surprises.
zod000@lemmy.dbzer0.com 5 months ago
I am pretty sure they were actually second edition rules which came out a year or so before the game.
QuoVadisHomines@sh.itjust.works 5 months ago
Pool of Radiance comes out in 1988. 2nd Edition releases in 1989. They might have shifted to 2nd ed at some point but they started with AD&D 1st edition.
zod000@lemmy.dbzer0.com 5 months ago
My mistake then, I could have sworn that 2nd edition came out in 87. The rules in that series stayed consistent as far as I can tell (I replayed them many many times and tinkered with the engine), so they must have just stuck with OG AD&D rules.
taiyang@lemmy.world 5 months ago
I vaguely remember elf and dwarf were, uh, classes in some games. But the AD&D one I remember had them as races, but you had interesting classes like… Magic-User. I vaguely remember having 8 hp on one? Oof.
QuoVadisHomines@sh.itjust.works 5 months ago
Yes early AD&D was a lot less forgiving in some ways.