Dr.Disaster Wrote:My thanks for the hint on "Legend of Grimrock"! A good .. no .. GREAT(!) old-school dungeon crawler in today's cloths regarding video and audio.
I looked at and almost instantly feel in love with itWithin minutes LoG managed to suck me back into a genre i thought to be extinct. The look and feel is very much like my all-time favorite Dungeon Master and like it LoG manages to up my adrenaline rush with ease! At least until i made it thru LoG once - and i'm pretty sure i'll replay it with a different party setup - D3 is shelfed.
I just picked up Grimrock in the Steam summer sale. It is tremendous fun, a really impressive job from a very small group of developers. Strongly recommended for anyone who misses this genre of gaming, as Dr. Disaster said it really brings back some memories while providing a modern implementation. And there is a map editor in development (maybe beta? not sure) to allow people to create their own levels of puzzles and traps and monsters, which should add greatly to the fun and replayability.
More on topic: there are some classics that never leave my hard drive, and which get installed onto each new machine. X-COM, the original Master of Orion, Heroes of Might and Magic 3, a few others. Civ IV has joined this list. And there are other not quite so classic games that get an occasional rerun. The ability to continue playing these games, however old and "obsolete" they may be, is important to me. So the trends that threaten the ability to continue playing a good game because the DRM or activation servers can no longer be satisfied disturbs me as a consumer.
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