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The 13 best electronic versions of Dungeons & Dragons

Started by James J Skach, March 18, 2008, 05:27:17 PM

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J Arcane

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March 21, 2008, 07:51:27 PM
Quote from: Pierce InverarityFunny, I was a console gamer (Odyssey) before I was a role-player, but the first D&D computer game I played was Baldur's Gate.

Quite frankly, it rocked the house. BG II, not so much. NWN, only in multiplayer, but man did it deliver in that regard. Still does, AFAIAC.

That list doesn't make me feel I missed out on anything.
Why the hell they didn't use NWN as the model for DDO, I will never understand.  That game was excellent in multiplayer, and an MMO that was basically just a really big NWN PW would've been sweet as fuck.
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March 21, 2008, 08:21:53 PM
Quote from: Pierce InverarityFunny, I was a console gamer (Odyssey) before I was a role-player, but the first D&D computer game I played was Baldur's Gate.

Hehe.. I actually started with both the Atari 2600 and Commodore 64 before becoming a Sega Genesis enthusiast for the better part of my teenage years.
It was not until 10th or 11th grade that I discovered the beauty of tabletop gaming and never looked back.

My first computer games were those on the C64 like "The Eidolon," "F-15 Strike Eagle", and "Star-Rank Boxing", but my first computer RPG was probably "Lands of Lore" followed by "Dungeon Hack" and the "Eye of the Beholder" series.

I was a diehard console fan until the magnificient "Planescape: Torment" changed my allegiance to computer RPGs forever..

QuoteQuite frankly, it rocked the house. BG II, not so much.

That list doesn't make me feel I missed out on anything.

Yep. Despite people's cries to the contrary, I always thought BGI was better than II.

Pierce Inverarity

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March 21, 2008, 08:42:14 PM
We played the living crap out of the C64. All 1990s FPSs pale before the addictiveness of some of those early games. I recall one in which you played, well, a bear on a pogo stick. "Pure awesome" is language's feeble attempt at conjuring up the fun we had.

BTW, we did play some NWN III over the Xmas break. The only major suckage was the registration/update process. The game itself ran very smoothly, the combat visuals were spectacular, and in "hardcore" mode (normal D&D mode, really) it was just the right kind of challenge.
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estar

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March 24, 2008, 12:43:32 PM
Pool of Radiance was the first cooperative computer role-playing I played. Cooperative? Well Pool of Radiance was turned based. I got it and was playing  on my IBM PC (with VGA) in my apartment when my gaming group came over. I explained how it worked and they went NEAT!. So with me at the keyboard we made up characters for each of us and then played the game. During the game we alternated at the keyboard but when it came for our character's turn we told the guy at the keyboard what we wanted done.

A fun time was had by all. Especially it was the first time our group got to play D&D together simultaneously at one time.

Rob Conley

Kaz

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March 24, 2008, 01:11:26 PM
Quote from: J ArcaneWhy the hell they didn't use NWN as the model for DDO, I will never understand.  That game was excellent in multiplayer, and an MMO that was basically just a really big NWN PW would've been sweet as fuck.

Agreed. I logged a lot more time (and had a lot more fun) on NWN online than any 'MMO' I've tried. And it wasn't the Guild Wars/WoW grind and dungeon-running crap either. We had some great characters and some wonderful, laugh-out-loud moments to go with our killing sprees.

An official PW (maybe a version of all the popular ones, Forgotten Realms, Greyhawk, Al-Qadim, etc.) would have been beyond cool. I'd pay 10-12 bucks a month to play that. Easy.
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March 29, 2008, 10:06:23 AM
Got the boardgame for Christmas one year.  Think it broke within a week and was trashed.  Kept the figures from it for a while until I got into minis and they were deemed too crude to keep.  Doh.  Still have the handheld game I bought when it came out.  Think it still works, but haven't had batteries in it for like 25 years.
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