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  • Free Eye of the Beholder trilogy games!

    From Zaghadka@21:1/5 to All on Thu Jun 18 20:41:00 2020
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    On Wed, 17 Jun 2020 15:41:19 -0500, in comp.sys.ibm.pc.games.action, Ant
    wrote:

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

    I couldn't find a RPG newsgroup to crosspost?! :/

    comp.sys.ibm.pc.games.rpg?

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  • From Mike S.@21:1/5 to Ant on Fri Jun 19 20:46:51 2020
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    On Thu, 18 Jun 2020 14:20:01 -0500, ant@zimage.comANT (Ant) wrote:

    I couldn't get into back then. Maybe because I didn't like slow turn
    based games. Now, I love them since I'm slow! Maybe I will like them this >time? I still need to resume Oblivion. Argh. :(

    I would describe the combat in Eye of the Beholder as slow but it
    definitely is not turn based. The game and its combat runs in real
    time. You might be confusing Eye of the Beholder with the gold box
    games.

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  • From Mike S.@21:1/5 to Ant on Sat Jun 20 07:18:45 2020
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    On Fri, 19 Jun 2020 20:38:14 -0500, ant@zimage.comANT (Ant) wrote:

    Ah, OK.

    If you are at all familiar with Dungeon Master, or its modern
    equivalent, The Legend of Grimrock, then you would have a good idea of
    what to expect from Eye of the Beholder. It is that kind of game. It
    is a Dungeon Crawler. It heavily emphasizes combat, mapping out
    dungeons, and solving pressure plate \ lever type puzzles.

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  • From Mike S.@21:1/5 to Werner P. on Sat Jun 20 07:25:52 2020
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    On Sat, 20 Jun 2020 12:46:18 +0200, "Werner P." <werpu@gmx.at> wrote:

    Never could really get into those games. Thing was I tried the first
    game in the 90s when it came out. And afair it was maze combat maze
    combat... a style i never really liked.
    The gold box games were ok for me however because they were more
    tactical given their isometric fight view.
    I always was more fascinated by the Ultima style games where you lived a >story in a world.
    Probably one of the reasons why I only occasionally play a JRPG (the
    last one I played I think was Persona 5, but I stopped roughtly 10 hours
    into the game). The fighting grind of JRPGs usually after a while
    becomes unbearable. I had the same issue with the EOB games.
    But nevertheless free is free.

    I like Eye of the Beholder, the Gold Box games, Ultima, and if Final
    Fantasy VII is anything to go by, I would like JRPGs as well. I guess
    I like most CRPG types.

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