Adventurer's Guild Games Suggestions & Upcoming

[rusty_shackleford]

• Try to limit game suggestions to one per poster, and only people who will actually participate.
• Suggested games should be obscure, old, or old and obscure. Try to avoid any popular title or title a large portion of people here have likely already played.
• Feedback from people who actually participate will be taken much more seriously than shitposters when making any decisions.
• When suggestions are made you also provide details for installation/which version to play/estimated playtime.
• One week before the start of a new month, a game will be selected randomly from the list of games using a fair, hardware-seeded RNG roll.

Current game list:

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Legends of Amberland: The Forgotten Crown
Dragon Wars
Realms of Antiquity
Exile III
The Aethra Chronicles, Volume One: Celystra's Bane
Daemonsgate
Prophecy of the Shadow
Crystals of Arborea
Challenge of the Five Realms
Amberstar
Anvil of Dawn
Demon's Winter
Dungeon Master
Fallout 1.5: Resurrection
Stonekeep
Wasteland 1
Wizardry 1
Dark Sun: Shattered Lands
Dungeon Master II: The Legend of Skullkeep
Druid: Daemons of the Mind
Elvira: Mistress of the Dark
Ravenloft: Strahd's Possession
The Legacy: Realm of Terror
Sentinel Worlds I: Future Magic
Abandoned Places: A Time for Heroes
Black Crypt
Shadowlands
AutoDuel

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Any ideas of what to play next month? I was going to suggest Tunnels & Trolls: Crusaders of Khazan(1990).

Legends of Amberland has been suggested
https://www.gog.com/en/game/legends_of_ ... tten_crown

and i am suggesting Dragon Wars as a potential candidate.
https://www.gog.com/en/game/dragon_wars

Question is how do we determine what would be suitable? Doubt we'll be a large enough group of people to vote so random number generator or through mutual agreement?
Potentially, we could do a schedule looking something like this:
1 month 'off' which will be used for discussing which games to play for the following months (say 3-4) and which release versions so there's time to get everything set up. Have a thread dedicated for discussing future games and a new thread for each month to keep the discussion of the played games confined to their individual threads. Avoids cluttering it up more than necessary. Maybe even a dedicated subforum.

So, it seems we currently have three suggestions.
Tunnels & Trolls: Crusaders of Khazan
Legends of Amberland: The Forgotten Crown
Dragon Wars


Anyone have any ideas on how we should pick games?
More suggestions welcome, obviously.

[Tweed]

How bout Starfire, how bout?
https://www.dungeoncrawlers.org/game/starfire/

[Dead]

How about new games with an old-school approach like Realms of Antiquity or Jettatura?

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[rusty_shackleford]

The problem with doing new games is there are tons of older games we have to pick from.
Realms of Antiquity looks nice, however.

[maidenhaver]

Gothic 4.

[maidenhaver]

On a serious note: Phantasy Star Collection GBA, so I can play on my phone while I'm at work.

[rusty_shackleford]

damn can you guys put the suggestions in the right thread

[Dead]

The title of the thread is not clear enough. Upcoming games... on Steam?

[Watser]

"Upcoming Adventure Guild Adventures"

[Humbaba]

Anyone have any ideas on how we should pick games?

This one's easy, just play what I tell you. I am the arbiter of good taste after all.



-Humbaba

[rusty_shackleford]

The title of the thread is not clear enough. Upcoming games... on Steam?

Changed the title, it's for picking games for us to play.

[Tweed]

Is this going to turn into some fruity podcast where we all scream and laugh at everything while we play?

[Dorateen]

What's this all about? Tunnels & Trolls is a highly prestigious game developed by New World Computing, with a detailed manual written by Neal Hallford.

Legends of Amberland is a fun retro/clone in the style of Might & Magic III. And of course Dragon Wars was the real Bard's Tale IV, as it should have been an installment in that series.

Of those choices, LoA is the most accessible. Tunnels & Trolls has incredible depth and complexity, so it requires an investment of time.

[Tweed]

Starfire was translated in part by our very own AncientDoorhinge, that has to be a glowing endorsement in and of itself.
https://www.romhacking.net/translations/6138/

[Emphyrio]

only pick games that can be beaten in five hours or less

[Tweed]

Shock 2, Ultima 1, uhhhhh

[GhostCow]

I'd like to participate, but my backlog is too big. Maybe next year.

[Humbaba]

only pick games that can be beaten in five hours or less

Lords of Midnight can be beaten in a single sitting.



-Humbaba

[rusty_shackleford]

What's this all about?

I should probably make a sticky to explain what this is about.
We're picking games to play each month, the current month is Shard of Spring: viewtopic.php?t=720-october-shard-of-spring
Everyone participating plays the game simultaneously and provides feedback/assistance.

As an incentive, you get a badge for completion — Check Watser's post earlier in this thread, he has the Shard of Spring badge.

This thread is just for picking games, and deciding how we should pick games. Preferably ones that are more obscure/less played.

[rusty_shackleford]

Thoughts on adding Starwind, the custom module for OpenMW?
https://www.nexusmods.com/morrowind/mods/48909

[rusty_shackleford]

Discarding Starfire because it requires some weirdo asian emulator to play.

One week before the start of a new month, a game will be selected randomly from the list of games using a fair, hardware-seeded RNG roll.
Try to limit game suggestions to one per poster, and only people who will actually participate.
Suggested games should be obscure, old, or old and obscure. Try to avoid any popular title or title a large portion of people here have likely already played.
Feedback from people who actually participate will be taken much more seriously than shitposters.

Current game list:

Code: Select all

Tunnels & Trolls: Crusaders of Khazan
Legends of Amberland: The Forgotten Crown
Dragon Wars
Realms of Antiquity

Also I'll add Starwind if @Watser thinks it's a good fit.

[rusty_shackleford]

Updated the op, provided some rules for game suggestions.

[Watser]

Starwind looks fun.
Maybe Realms of Antiquity is better suited for a special extended edition as the game is around 100 hours long according to the dev.

[rusty_shackleford]

Starwind looks fun.
Maybe Realms of Antiquity is better suited for a special extended edition as the game is around 100 hours long according to the dev.

There's 168 hours in a week isn't there?

[Tweed]

Speaking of Shock 2 at some point we should try to play together. It's a pain in the ass to set up, but it's a hilarious experience.

[Emphyrio]

Starwind is the one I most want to play.

[Boontaker]

I wonder how free roam starwind is? Could speedrun it if your not planet locked

Oh it's a totally different storyline, watched a video and now I want to play KoTOR again though

[Tweed]

How bout Gayblade?

[Tweed]

Should be called the Only If It Requires A Minimal Amount Of Effort Guild.

[rusty_shackleford]

Maybe Realms of Antiquity is better suited for a special extended edition as the game is around 100 hours long according to the dev.

Think I'm going to include long games by having games run concurrently with no deadline for badges.