Darklands

Huge and initially complex, it's a nice game if you can stomach the graphics that floated in with the Ark. But BE WARNED...keep the player manual open when you play this because it has ancient manual-based copy protection where it will randomly ask you to give some symbol from the manual...if you pick the wrong answer you will be kicked from the game and lose everything you have done. NOTE TO DEVS AND PUBLISHERS:...

278 found this helpful, 2015-08-04

An RPG from Microprose that, to my knowledge, was the only RPG Micropose ever released. And you know what? It may not have aged well, as in at all, but oh, how it puts some games to shame! Basically, one of the earliest examples, if not *the* earliest example, of an open-ended Role-Playing Game, you have everything you could want just about in this one package! Character creation: Whoo, boy! This game has a very...

87 found this helpful, 2015-09-08

This is one of my favorite games of all time. I like it so much, I bought it the second I saw it on Steam, even though I still have a working original copy. This is not your usual fantasy RPG. It takes place in a painstakingly detailed medieval Germany (which, in terms of RPGs, actually comes off as far more exotic than the dozens of Tolkien/D&D inspired worlds we've seen over the years.) Younger players will...

71 found this helpful, 2014-12-04

This game was brilliant for its time. The graphics are dated, and the interface is clunky, but this is one of my favorite old RPGS. I'd love to see someone develop a modern version of this game. Some strengths: -character creation -great (for its time) combat system -open map -interesting plot -local and regional reputation based on actions -Saints providing different abilities -alchemic formula's Some...

74 found this helpful, 2014-10-19

This is the best RPG ever made. It is the game that my child hood fixated on. When my dad beat this game I thought he was the coolest man alive. It costs about five bucks. Please now go and buy this game. No one has made a finer simulation of rpg combat in an only slightly fantastical fourteenth century Holy Roman Empire. Never since have you been able to take a loan from the Medici to buy some plate armour in...

85 found this helpful, 2014-10-20