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RPG's the old style of gaming

Post by BBloke » Thu Oct 23, 2008 1:50 pm

It's horses for courses of course.. of course but where would computer games be now if there weren't inspired from the beloved games of ye olde worlde? I'm talking about the games that didn't really "exist" - Role Playing Games. Yes, you know the ones. We all played them. We all enjoyed them. Oh, you can't remember? Maybe this will help:

"Oh, I wanna be a soldier!
"I'm a nurse"
"I'm playing vets with the dog, mommy!"

Well we all grow up and so did the games. Role Playing Games took on a new style still imagination but based around a set of rules and regulations but most importantly IMAGINATION.

Dungeons and Dragons was my first adventure. I was about 14 at the time and would play during lunch time at secondary school. There were a handful of devout RPGer's who would hack and slash there way through numerous caves and zombies to get to the goal. We didn't care what it was, we just cared that we were hard and swinging a big sword that could do loads of damage.

It wasn't long before we were venturing down other paths of insanity. Teenage Mutant Ninja Turtles got a good run for its money. There was nothing giner than being a Bi-ped Porcupine with a speech impediment with the ability to remove your own quills and launch them at attackers!!

The Jewel in the crown was Paranoia. A sci-fi RPG based around lunacy and dark humour. Pulling in traits and environments from movies such as Logan's Run, Brazil and a Brave New World. With story lines such as "Do androids dream of electric sheeps", "Vapours dont shoot back" and "The Yellow Clearance Black Box Blues" you just knew you'd be onto something good.

I've had a fair few sleepless nights as games have lasted well over a day to times when weekends are nothing but a blur.

It all quieten down after I left school but as soon as I hooked up a PC to the internet it was all back on. Compuserve was one of the biggest service providers along with AOL but they had a wealth of content. One being an RPG forum. The games were the same although the style was different. Games took longer to play as characters interacted post by post. Imagination was even more key as the medium of communication changed.

Then came the first RPG con.. it was held near Cambridge. 28 people in one house set up in 3 rooms over a long bank holiday weekend. Manic. Tiring but a loads of fun.

As with TF2 it's all about the craic!! :)
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Re: RPG's the old style of gaming

Post by Del » Thu Oct 23, 2008 2:02 pm

Anyone watch Reno 911 ?
I love the RPGers in that :D
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Post by FullMetal_old » Thu Oct 23, 2008 3:04 pm

Imma big fan of JRPG's and have played pretty much all the FF games going (i even bought a PS1 ages ago for £20 just to play some of em) love loads of em like Dragon Quest, mostly i am looking forward to Chrono Trigger for DS, aparently its won votes for the best RPG ever, but ill have to wait and see
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Re: RPG's the old style of gaming

Post by MountieXXL » Thu Oct 23, 2008 4:21 pm

started with a little RPG called Baldur's Gate, man was that fun! played a bit of pen and paper and some magic before that but 97 was the year I started seriously using computers...

RPG I'm playing atm is Drakensang.
I mean, it's all windy stairs. I'm not being funny.

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Post by Johnimus Prime » Thu Oct 23, 2008 4:27 pm

Never done the pen and paper thing.

It all started for me with Dungeon Master on my Uncle's Atari ST.
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Post by BBloke » Thu Oct 23, 2008 4:34 pm

Hehehe.. was that the one where you could have 4 players at once Johnimus? ..remember now.. I think it was called Gauntlet.

I remember playing Eye of the Beholder on my Amiga 500. Had the graph paper out so I could keep track of where I was in the dungeons :)

I have Nox which was funny at the time and worth a once through. I'm not sure if it'll run on XP anymore but it would be nice to have another go. I could never get on with Balders Gate or Diablo.
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Re: RPG's the old style of gaming

Post by Jonfon » Thu Oct 23, 2008 4:35 pm

MountieXXL wrote:started with a little RPG called Baldur's Gate, man was that fun! played a bit of pen and paper and some magic before that but 97 was the year I started seriously using computers...

RPG I'm playing atm is Drakensang.
Little? Baldurs Gate? The finest RPG ever to appear on a PC (well BG2 was anyway.

I've played RPGs since I was about 10 or something in various guises from D&D to the emo-tastic Vampire : World of Darkness, some Warhammer tabletop & 40k (can't wait for Dawn of War 2). My fav has got to be Call of Cthulhu though, I love the books (well some of them, a lot of the stories from other authors like Lin Carter are derivitive rubbish) and Cthulhu has a way of conjuring an atmosphere like no other.

Last computer RPG I played was The Witcher & Neverwinter Nights 2. The Witcher is fairly good, great world to play in but a bit slow. NWN2 had a good story and a terrible, terrible engine (same one the Witcher uses, although apparently its been fixed with the new version).

Play a few MMOs too, hated WoW with a passion and was disappointed with WAR. I still play a fair bit of City of Heroes, but I don't roleplay in any of em, its seems a bit odd to me or something.
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Re: RPG's the old style of gaming

Post by Jonfon » Thu Oct 23, 2008 4:37 pm

BBloke wrote:Hehehe.. was that the one where you could have 4 players at once Johnimus? ..remember now.. I think it was called Gauntlet.

I remember playing Eye of the Beholder on my Amiga 500. Had the graph paper out so I could keep track of where I was in the dungeons :)

I have Nox which was funny at the time and worth a once through. I'm not sure if it'll run on XP anymore but it would be nice to have another go. I could never get on with Balders Gate or Diablo.
Ah Eye of the Beholder. That and The Bards Tale (on the C64) stole vast swathes of my life.

I'm looking forward to Diablo 3 but I wouldn't call it an RPG really. Its a suped up version of Gauntlet (which rocked too, remember getting it one Xmas for either the speccy or c64)
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Re: RPG's the old style of gaming

Post by MountieXXL » Thu Oct 23, 2008 4:46 pm

Jonfon wrote:
Little? Baldurs Gate? The finest RPG ever to appear on a PC (well BG2 was anyway.
Dunno, found BG2 had a lot less annoyances and was opener than Icewind Dale, but not quite as open as BG1... in that game you could just go everywhere and do anything without having to follow the main quests, that kind of got lost in part 2.. lot less areas and stuff.
I mean, it's all windy stairs. I'm not being funny.

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Re: RPG's the old style of gaming

Post by xexes » Thu Oct 23, 2008 5:50 pm

I love RPGs. I remember staying up all hours of the night with some of those big arsed floppies playing some sort of Arthur RPG as a wee little kiddie. Tried NeverWinter Nights and ddint like it thou. I have never played WoW.

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