Goldbox Games

[Stratos]

Heh, it brings back fond memories, not "brongs".

[PurpleXVI]

There IS an edit button, you know. Just clickity click and you can fix up your typos.

[CerebroDragon]

Buck Rogers has the overland exploration of Venus and Mars aswell, which breaks up the space combat exploration very nicely. One of my most memorable parts however is one of the very first missions, where your crew stumbles across a large derelict ship floating in space amid junk and wrecks. Progressing and exploring that ship just has a fantastically chilling atmosphere, emphasised by the fact that your party is still very inexperienced at that time, anything could potentially kill you.
But yeah, get into Countdown to Doomsday if sci/fi cRPGs are your forte - its great stuff!

If anyone has played Unlimited Adventures, I think it'd also be great to identify some fan made missions that they've enjoyed and can reccomend to others. I've never really persevered with getting into any, but might have to one of these days!

Whilst I was able to play and finish Pool of Radiance once on the C64 and again on PC a couple of years later, I could never get more than half way through Ubisoft's blasphemic abomination - which was a pitiful excuse for a modern revisitation'. Talk about Ruined Memories of MythDrannor. Thankfully Azure Bonds also takes place there towards the conclusion to cleanse such blasphemy!

So unless it has since been heavily modded to make it more interactive, meaningful and somewhat more balanced, (I found too many magic weapons ridiculously early) I doubt I could ever bring myself to go near it again.
It doesn't really have a place in a 'goldbox' thread, if you ask me. [img]tongue.gif[/img]

Geez am feeling a touch grumpy now, might have to go vent some modern frustration for a bit on some hapless creatures from Devil Whiskey!

[ 01-15-2007, 01:05 AM: Message edited by: CerebroDragon ]

[Ziroc]

My GOD The end of 'Dave's Challenge' in Pools of Darkness was hard!!!

Anyone remember that? A special developer area. Like an easter egg.

I loved the Dragonlance Goldboxes, and Pools of Darkness, Secret of the Silverblades.

I loved them all actually--except Hillsfar. BLAH.

[Stratos]

Originally posted by PurpleXVI: There IS an edit button, you know. Just clickity click and you can fix up your typos.

Well, I wrote my correction post hours after I posted the original.

[Variol (Farseer) Elmwood]

Originally posted by PurpleXVI: Wasn't the non-original Pool of Radiance the one that had a chance of annihilating your entire operating system when you installed it?

No, not when you installed it. It was when use the invisiblity spell and crash to desktop when you load the save game after. It do to the point where you would want to re-install. That's when the trouble happened.

I like the combat style in that game and Temple of Elemental Evil the best though.

[CerebroDragon]

Originally posted by Ziroc: My GOD The end of 'Dave's Challenge' in Pools of Darkness was hard!!! Anyone remember that? A special developer area. Like an easter egg.

Um, yeah - I do (as I first mentioned above.) I also believe there's a Dave's Challenge in Deathknights of Krynn, if as Yoshimo would say "memory serves", but I'm a little sketchier on that one. I know I passed it on the c64 but never did quite beat the one on Pools of Darkness, which was much more insanely difficult. Its a reward for exploration more than anything, named after one of the head developers, David Shelley, a big name in the history of the series. [img]smile.gif[/img]

I was disappointed with Hillsfar also - remember getting it after Pool of Radiance and trying to transfer characters and deciding that it just wasn't worth it. The gladiatorial fights were fun for awhile, but for the most part it never really felt like part of the series. Mind you, you could argue that its picklocking in-game has had a rather unique influence upon other more modern cRPGs.

[Zaleukos]

Daves Challenge in Deathknights is pretty easy and rather small, you barely need any buffs for that one. Its an old temple with spectral dragons (level drainers).

I never got to the challenge in Pools of Darkness, as I couldnt win the final battle of the main campaign I also didnt manage to handle the stupid maze at the end of the first Savage Frontier game (you walk from area to area on the stupid combat map, making it impossible to navigate, and run into increasingly tougher monsters with no pause for healing or rest).

The Savage frontier games were superior in one sense though, they had more unique items and weapons than the others. Krynn in particular in practice only has four or five weapon types, longsword, flail, mace, quarterstaff, and dragonlance. It offends me to have a dwarf use longsword...