MicShazam

I remember completing Kingsfield on PS1 with no guides back in the day. Single digit frame rate and few colors for the endless corridors other than gray. I must have been super humanly patient back then.

Oriphiel

Got a Switch.

Everyone's telling me to get Smash or Zelda, but I got Travis Strikes Again instead. Because of course I did. Everything else can come later.

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The Batlord

So my real laptop turns out to have a CPU problem that's gonna take several hundred dollars to fix and as it's only a $400 dollar computer I will wait till I get my tax return and get a gaming laptop. For some reason the first game I want to play when I get one is this. Looks like the core gameplay that makes the Elder Scrolls games awesome without all the extra stuff that's fun but make the games inconsistent and wonky. And there's something so immersive about sprite graphics that polygons can never replicate.

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MicShazam

I've played Ultima Underworld before. Been meaning to get back to it. I actually reinstalled it through GOG a week ago. Old 90's PC rpg's are my thing.

The Batlord

It looks legit af. And you don't need to use DOS Box? Unless you pirate it probably? I actually am pretty sure I have it on an external HD.

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MicShazam

If you buy it off GOG it's already embedded in DosBox so you don't need to launch it manually, but I don't know if a windows conversion exist. I wouldn't think so, but never say never, since there is one for Daggerfall. DosBox is easy enough though.

I got it from gog.com. Real cheap and you get both 1 & 2.

https://www.gog.com/game/ultima_underworld_1_2

The Batlord

What are some other good dungeon crawlers? I don't care how old school they are. It's a great wilderness for me and calls my soul.

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The Batlord

lol

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MicShazam

Legend of Grimrock is really fun, but if we're keeping it old school, then Dungeon Master II is my personal favorite. Unreal levels of atmosphere in that game. The soundtrack is burned into my brain. It also has some really unusual ways of handling stats and such. Expect very few numbers, lots of bars to indicate relative strength instead, and cryptic symbols hinting what potions and spells do. It's not nearly as obtuse as this makes it sound like. Although reading the manual entry on how the spell system works is recommended. It's actually a very pretty and very action oriented game.

The first Lands of Lore is also a good DOS dungeon crawler with nice graphics, music and some interesting areas to explore.

Anvil of Dawn is another DOS game of the same sort that isn't mentioned a lot. I think it's a lot of fun and it has some clever ideas.

Heroes of a Broken Land is a really interesting dungeon crawler on Steam that mixes Heroes of Might & Magic style town building with old school dungeon crawling. You manage a bunch of teams of heroes, build bases and stuff. It's really original and I like it quite a bit.

Note: Some old dungeon crawlers play best if you have a full NUMPAD on your keyboard.

The Batlord

Yeah the ones with parties call to me the most. Managing a team and feeling like I'm rolling into hell six deep with my homies sounds amazing.

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