Any fans of old school PC RPGs?

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#1  Edited By Egge

So, are there any old school PC RPG fans here at Giant Bomb? People who have fond memories of game series like Might & Magic (not Heroes), Wizardry, Ultima etc. or are perhaps just beginning to discover those or similar games? Don't worry; I'm not a reactionary elitist or anything (I like several of BioWare's games, for example) - or even unusually knowledgeable about these games myself - but since I've had a lot of fun recently with games like Wizardry 8, Temple of Elemental Evil and Might & Magic 6 I'd be interested to know if there are other people here who appreciate this particular type of older, less action-oriented PC RPG gaming...

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#2  Edited By Aarny91

Norp.

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If you consider Fallout old.

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#4  Edited By efrucht

I enjoyed Morrowind, it was pretty good for the time.

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#5  Edited By Quint

The original Baldur's Gate is about as far back as i go, i'm assuming that doesn't count?

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#6  Edited By Egge

"Norp"? Sorry, haven't played that one. Is it similar to Nox? ;)

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#7  Edited By Joker

Can never get enough Fallout.

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#8  Edited By NotaStalker

I enjoyed fallout. The rest... not so much

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#9  Edited By Aarny91
Egge said:
""Norp"? Sorry, haven't played that one. Is it similar to Nox? ;)"
No.
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#10  Edited By iamsickofspam

If you'd call Fallout 2 and Diablo old, I did have a Dungeon Master addiction back in the day though.


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#11  Edited By Egge

It's of course impossible to define once and for all what "old school RPG" really means, but my own personal feeling regarding the games that were recently mentioned is that;


  • Dungeon Master is very old school (first person perspective without seamless movement is very old school!),
  • The Fallout series are reasonably old school (because it's turn based, isometric and heavily stats based)
  • The Baldur's Gate games are almost but not quite old school (controlling more than one character is a classic CRPG feature), and 
  • Morrowind and the Diablo games are not old school (because they combine focus on a single character with action-oriented real-time combat)

My rough definition of old school would probably be "every RPG that doesn't play remotely like Diablo or a real action game" (which means that WoW, The Witcher, Hellgate: London, KotoR, Neverwinter Nights etc. are not old school). But, just for the record, I like Diablo as well, but find more tactical and slower-paced RPGs a more rewarding experience in the long run.
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#12  Edited By mike
efrucht said:
"I enjoyed Morrowind, it was pretty good for the time.
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Morrowind isn't really an old school RPG.  When I think old school, games like the first few in the Dragon Quest series on NES come to mind.  Then again, most of the people on this site probably weren't even alive when those games came out.  That was in the prime of my game playing days, just when I was old enough to really start appreciating RPG's. 

I never really played PC RPG's too much.  I did play a bit of the Wizardry series and there were some top-down AD&D games that I played on PC.  One that comes to mind I think was called Shattered Hand or Shattered Sun, or something like that. 
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#13  Edited By zeus_gb

Yes I like old RPGs.

Dungeon Master, Bloodwych, Larn, Rogue, all good stuff.

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#14  Edited By Termite

The only old school RPG I've really played was Baldur's Gate, and I didn't finish that one

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#15  Edited By Egge

MB: I think you're referring to Dark Sun: Shattered Lands or Wake of the Ravager. Definitely old school. Haven't played those ones yet, though, but I have them on my computer.


Zeus_gb: You shouldn't have mentioned Rogue! Rogue is definitely old school, but since it's more or less the spiritual predecessor to Diablo, my definition of classic RPG gaming simply doesn't work anymore. Well, at least it worked for about four minutes... ;)
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#16  Edited By RVonE

I was into NetHack in the late 80s and early 90s. Those were good days.

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#17  Edited By Nightkiller93

Fallot isn't that old but i was addicted.

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#18  Edited By Jandurin

I liked the old Dungeons and Dragons games.

Like Forgotten Realms style.

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#19  Edited By DreamsVisions

only if Return to Zork counts.

I also got into 7th Guest and Myst a lot.  Not exactly RPGs...but they are kinda.

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I was thinking about going back to Diablo 2 for a while.

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#21  Edited By viraj

SOMEWHAT JUST TO PASS TIME SOMETIMES I MAY DO      THAT

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#22  Edited By Alex_V

If Giant Bomb is to succeed long-term, it needs people who are into old-school RPGs (and every other game type) to find a home here. I wouldn't say I play a huge amount of them now, but I like the older RPGs. Yesterday for example I played the old-school Neverwinter Nights just to check whether it had experience points as claimed on here.

As you hint though, the RPG genre has become so melded into other game-types that it ceases to be useful after a certain point. It might be useful to give the early generation of RPGs a better name than 'old-school' and clearly define the time period they inhabited.

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#23  Edited By RVonE

Do you mean the original AOL neverwinter nights? I mean, that one is not longer up and running, right? Or are you talking about BioWare's Neverwinter Nights. I wouldn't consider that old-school.

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#24  Edited By beelzebubble

my faves,

bard's tale 2, wasteland, pools of radiance and ultima 5.