You want a nostalgia burst from the original Wasteland.

$1.50 USD on GOG.com rn.

Damn near free so I had to post. I yoinked it.

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Related:
$3 https://www.gog.com/en/game/the_bards_tale_trilogy

I don't think I could handle Wasteland 1 (either version), reviews seem
brutal for it: too hard, too old, too minimal, etc. Reviews for TBTT seem much more positive.

You want a nostalgia burst from the original Wasteland.
$1.50 USD on GOG.com rn.

rms

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On Wed, 28 Feb 2024 09:47:55 -0700, in comp.sys.ibm.pc.games.action, rms
wrote:

Related:
$3 https://www.gog.com/en/game/the_bards_tale_trilogy

I don't think I could handle Wasteland 1 (either version), reviews seem >brutal for it: too hard, too old, too minimal, etc. Reviews for TBTT seem >much more positive.

You want a nostalgia burst from the original Wasteland.
$1.50 USD on GOG.com rn.

True. Wasteland was more interesting to me, but it is *brutally* hard.
Always was and you can't remaster it to be easier. Especially when you
start running into mechanicals.

But Bard's Tale is just a dungeon crawl. No story. No real lore. You
can't do much other than move and fight. BT3 has a few little puzzles, I
guess. I'm sure it's more playable - even stock BT3 is playable after its
QoL improvements - but it's near entirety is just combat after combat and teleporter/spinner annoyances. That's the entire game.

For BT3, I got as far as Kinestia last replay (4 or 5 years ago) and
said, "Well now, this is just a grinding annoyance at this point."

So I'll take at least the ability to give a slot machine a whirl. Or
failing a swim check to get across a river in the dungeon and being
forced out into the world map from there to take a ride down the entire
river as a result, leveling up your swim skill in the process. I'll take
the radiation zones you can only see at night because that's when you can
see the glow. Thought. Things to do. RP even, for what it was worth bitd.

Wasteland is probably too dated to be playable for anyone not overwhelmed
by nostaligia, or looking for a brutal challenge, but it is a much better
RPG.

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On Wed, 28 Feb 2024 13:09:35 -0600, Zaghadka <zaghadka@hotmail.com>
wrote:

But Bard's Tale is just a dungeon crawl. No story. No real lore. You
can't do much other than move and fight. BT3 has a few little puzzles, I >guess. I'm sure it's more playable - even stock BT3 is playable after its
QoL improvements - but it's near entirety is just combat after combat and >teleporter/spinner annoyances. That's the entire game.

For BT3, I got as far as Kinestia last replay (4 or 5 years ago) and
said, "Well now, this is just a grinding annoyance at this point."

I got as far as somewhere in BT2. The game had darkness squares, no
magic zones and spinners (I think) all at the same time which really
was messing with my hand drawn maps so I gave up.

I own the Bard's Tale Trilogy remaster though so I will try again at
some point.

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On 2/28/2024 11:09 AM, Zaghadka wrote:

On Wed, 28 Feb 2024 09:47:55 -0700, in comp.sys.ibm.pc.games.action, rms wrote:

Related:
$3 https://www.gog.com/en/game/the_bards_tale_trilogy

I don't think I could handle Wasteland 1 (either version), reviews seem
brutal for it: too hard, too old, too minimal, etc. Reviews for TBTT seem >> much more positive.

You want a nostalgia burst from the original Wasteland.
$1.50 USD on GOG.com rn.

True. Wasteland was more interesting to me, but it is *brutally* hard.
Always was and you can't remaster it to be easier. Especially when you
start running into mechanicals.

I still vividly remember burning thru clips on auto-fire at an insane
rate. :)

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dirty old man.

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On Wed, 28 Feb 2024 10:02:46 -0600, Zaghadka <zaghadka@hotmail.com>
wrote:

You want a nostalgia burst from the original Wasteland.

$1.50 USD on GOG.com rn.

Damn near free so I had to post. I yoinked it.

I never played Wasteland back in the day but I did buy the remaster at
some point. No idea if I will enjoy it. But I do like old school RPGs remastered so there is that.

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On 2/28/2024 8:02 AM, Zaghadka wrote:

You want a nostalgia burst from the original Wasteland.

$1.50 USD on GOG.com rn.

Damn near free so I had to post. I yoinked it.

Didn't that come with Wasteland 2? I'm pretty sure it came bundled.

I hadn't played it back in it's heyday, but I had tried to play it a
couple times much much later, but it was far too difficult to get into.

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Zaghadka wrote:

You want a nostalgia burst from the original Wasteland.

$1.50 USD on GOG.com rn.

Damn near free so I had to post. I yoinked it.

No I prefer to play games like M.U.L.E. or at least something with
objects that are Pac-Man sized not four pixels in a sniper scope.
Something that does screen management well is 1941.

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"rms" <rsquiresMOO@MOOflashMOO.net> writes:

Related:
$3 https://www.gog.com/en/game/the_bards_tale_trilogy

I don't think I could handle Wasteland 1 (either version), reviews
seem brutal for it: too hard, too old, too minimal, etc. Reviews for
TBTT seem much more positive.

I remember trying the original Wasteland, I think it was a freebie with Wasteland2? But, after wandering around for a bit I had to admit I
didn't know how to play the game so I quit and didn't look back. Didn't
really get into Wasteland 2 either.

I remember reading a novel or novella made out of the original Wasteland
game's plot. It was quite interesting, I could barely put it
down. Something about a mad AI. Extremely worn out topic for sure but I
prefer that over a crazy religious cult which I believe was the plot in Wasteland 2.

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rms <rsquiresMOO@MOOflashMOO.net> wrote:

Related:
$3 https://www.gog.com/en/game/the_bards_tale_trilogy

I don't think I could handle Wasteland 1 (either version), reviews seem >brutal for it: too hard, too old, too minimal, etc. Reviews for TBTT seem >much more positive.

I don't know about the remasters, but the original Wasteland game is a
fair bit easier than the original Bard's Tale game. Expect a few total
party wipes playing the first Bard's Tale at the start as you try to
build up a party that can survive the dungeons. In the second be prepared
for the awful combined anti-magic spinner darknesss squares that Mike S mentioned constantly disorienting you. Oh, and the timed puzzle rooms
at the end of each dungeon, full of anti-magic spinner darkness squares,
and if you fail to complete them in time, total party wipe.

I remember some difficulty at the start playing Wasteland, but it was more
a figuring out the game and figuring out where it was safe to go problem.

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