Recommend good, older, CRPGs.

[jdrakeh]

DosBox is a memory hog. I can finally run it without issue. What good, older, RPGs or adventure games are out there and worth tracking down (note that I have already played and finished most of Sierra's catalog back in the day)?

 

[Jeysie]

Some of these aren't DOS-based, admittedly, but...

RPGs:

Planescape: Torment
Fallout 1 & 2
Jagged Alliance 2 (sort of a strategy game with lots of RPG-ish elements)

Adventure games:

LucasArts' whole adventure game catalog. Particularly:

Grim Fandango
Indiana Jones & the Fate of Atlantis
Monkey Island 1-3
The Dig

Also:

Beneath a Steel Sky (it's even freeware!)
Sanitarium
Heard lots of good things about the Tex Murphy games, though I haven't gotten to play any myself yet.

Finally, there's Star Control 2 (also freeware now), which is like a RPG, adventure game, strategy game, and space shooter rolled into one yummy package.

Peace & Luv, Liz

 

[trancejeremy]

Wasteland! Looks ugly by today's standards. But still probably one of the better CRPGs around. I think I finished it close to 50 times.

I really liked the cd version of the first Gabriel Knight. One of the first adventure games to have full voice acting and SVGA graphics (geeze, haven't typed that acronym in probably 10 years)


Edit: D'oh! It's from Sierra, so you probably played it. But on the off chance you missed it, try it.

 

[jdrakeh]

I really liked the cd version of the first Gabriel Knight. One of the first adventure games to have full voice acting and SVGA graphics (geeze, haven't typed that acronym in probably 10 years)

Yeah, I always thought that Gabriel Knight should have been optioned for a tabletop RPG back in the day. It had a full mythology behind the game, which was something that many games didn't -- and don't -- have. I was very impressed by that.

 

[Lazybones]

The second Gabriel Knight game, the one with all the FMV on 6 disks, was pretty much responsible for me failing a 10-week summer language course when I was in grad school. I got really sucked into that one.

 

[Jeysie]

Yeah, I always thought that Gabriel Knight should have been optioned for a tabletop RPG back in the day. It had a full mythology behind the game, which was something that many games didn't -- and don't -- have. I was very impressed by that.

From what I've read of it, the Shadow Hunter PrC in d20 Modern and Urban Arcana in general seems like it could be adapted to this pretty well. Never tried, though, since only one other player in my group has played the games. (We did create a d20 ruleset based on Space Quest, however.)

I agree the GK games are brilliant; the first and second games are easily in my top ten adventures. (I thought the third game was by far the weakest of the trilogy, though still quite good by genre standards.)

Peace & Luv, Liz

 

[Teflon Billy]

I loved that first Dark Sun game.

 

[Thanee]

Angband
Baldur's Gate I & II
Champions of Krynn (and the two follow-ups)
Dungeon Master I & II
Eye of the Beholder I - III
Fallout I & II
Icewind Dale I & II
Phantasie III - The Wrath of Nikademus
Vampire II - Bloodlines (not that old)

Bye
Thanee

 

[jdrakeh]

Angband

Remarkably, I play a fair bit of MAngband (Multi-player Angband)

 

[ThirdWizard]

Lemmings! *twitch*