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Post by ForRealTho on Dec 16, 2019 10:59:54 GMT -5
I got my first PC in 1996 and picked up Daggerfall soon after. Was on an 800 meg HD and the full install of Daggerfall was 450 megs. The box art looked awesome: I had no idea what I was doing. I played an archer/melee guy. Archery is shit in Daggerfall. The game was so buggy I ended up with -255 arrows. They released a utility called FixSave which fixed your inevitably corrupt savegame. My game glitched out so bad that even with FixSave it eventually crashed when loaded. Due to this I ended up giving up on the game never finished it. People have taken it on themselves to remake the entire game in the Unity engine. I managed to finally finish the main campaign. It already supports a ton of mods and stuff ala Skyrim. Skyrim is technically a much better game but Daggerfall will always be my favorite elder scrolls. www.dfworkshop.net/
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Post by Emig5m on Dec 19, 2019 8:13:44 GMT -5
Hmmm... 1996... I didn't even have any type of computer at this time. My last computer would of been an Amiga 500 so it was many years since having any type of computer. I was hardcore into racing and riding dirtbikes, it was the time that I had the largest circle of friends, and it was up until around 3/4 of the way through 1999 when I got severely hurt in a race and couldn't ride and seen the trailer for MCM2 during the credits of a moto video when I decided to get a PC to fuck around with that game until I was healed enough to get back to real riding. I was actually totally against computers!
One reason was one of my childhoods best friend worked with me at the time and everyday when we got home from work I would be on my bike riding but he instead would rather fart around on his girlfriend's PC rather than be outside doing something. He had got so bad with being on the PC all the time that even his girlfriend who he lived with next door was even starting to get annoyed with him playing around with the PC too much! That made me despise computers!
In 1998 this girl whom I was hanging out with nearly everyday asked me to hook up her Win98 computer because she had moved it to another room and even with all the connectors color coded I remember having a hard time and being confused...lol.
Oh off topic...hehe... The reason that I don't play many RPGs these days is because I loathe the loss of immersion with all the status bars and crap above each and every enemy. When you look at someone in real life do you see stamina and health bars and crap floating above their heads? That crap makes me lose immersion...
The very first RPG that I really enjoyed was Legacy of the Ancients all the way back on the Apple IIc and then I suppose the Space Quest series could be considered a RPG? Didn't really get into too many RPGs. In modern times I think the only one that I enjoyed enough to play from start to finish was Gothic 4 in which I downloaded the demo on a whim on the xbox 360, liked it enough to buy the full game on sale for like $9.99 on Steam, and enjoyed it from start to finish.
I liked that it wasn't overly hardcore with crafting and fighting mechanics and the graphics where very good. Ironically this game got very poor reviews...makes sense...if I like it that means the rest of the world despises it...lol. Also ironically as much praise that Skyrim got I thought that I would try it but bleh... poor ps2 like graphics then I learned it took tons of modding to make look good and I didn't feel like fucking around with tons of mods because the story and gameplay didn't capture me at all. As much hatred that Gothic 4 got, it seemed liked it was 20x more polished but that's me, I never did fit in with the crowd...lol.
I would like to get into a new RPG but something that doesn't have 20 status bars above every enemies head, great polished graphics and gameplay that isn't overly hardcore in depth where you have craft 75 trillion different things in which you have to collect 75 trillion things to craft the other 65 trillion things...lol. I think Horizon Zero Dawn had that perfect balance of more recent games...most RPGs just get way too involving and nerdy and it becomes more like work instead of fun to play it and normally have clunky unpolished feeling gameplay. Gothic 4 was like the perfect RPG for me but alas... the world hated it. Story of my life...if I like it, the rest of the world hates it...lol.
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