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It's the middle of 1999, what computer RPGs from the 90's have you been loving?
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Posted on Tuesday, September 19th 2023 by ExplodingPoptarts to r/retrogaming | MEME | 27 points
I imagine that most of these haven't aged well, but I wanna ask people, what was the experience like during the time, what were you loving?
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/The_Speris_Legacy[Here]
Some of the ones I'd like to hear about:
The Speris Legacy
Elder Scrolls II, The: Daggerfall
Nemesis: The Wizardry Adventure
Realms of Arkania: Shadows over Riva
Quest for Glory Anthology
Ultima VIII: Pagan - Gold Edition
Birthright: The Gorgon's Alliance
An Elder Scrolls Legend: Battlespire
Fallout
Lands of Lore: Guardians of Destiny
Exile II: Crystal Souls
Exile III: Ruined World
Fallout
Wizardry Gold
Blood Omen: Legacy of Kain
Deathkeep
Betrayal in Antara
BloodNet
Dragonstone
and that's more than enough.
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@ Tuesday, September 19th 2023 by ghostmetalblack | 17 points | Reply
I was playing Diablo at the time. My family got a computer the year before and an uncle of mine got me Quake and Diablo for my birthday. I LOVED Diablo; there was nothing else like it at the time. It was the first game I played online multiplayer on, and I remember begging my mom not to make phone calls during my session, otherwise the broadband internet would cut off. Good times!
@ Tuesday, September 19th 2023 by ExplodingPoptarts (OP) | 2 points | Reply
Yeah, Diablo was something special for its time!
What other computer rpgs in the 90's did you love back then?
@ Tuesday, September 19th 2023 by ghostmetalblack | 3 points | Reply
That was really only computer RPG I was playing at that time. I eventually got into the DnD isometric titles and Morrowind in the early 2000s, but most if my gaming in the 90s was consoles: Final Fantasy VII, Star Ocean 2, Castlevania SotN. All classics themselves.
@ Wednesday, September 20th 2023 by ExplodingPoptarts (OP) | 1 point | Reply
Aw man, I specifically made this topic to get a break from console games.
@ Tuesday, September 19th 2023 by Anomaly1134 | 2 points | Reply
Not who you asked but Anvil of dawn is one I spent years trying to find again, and it help up decently well. Heroes of Might and Magic 3 was a big one for our friends group as well, but the favorite was Baldurs gate 1 and 2.
I got it on GOG and spent around 10-20 hours on Anvil of Dawn before getting burned out with the repetitive puzzles, but it was a great game for its time.
@ Tuesday, September 19th 2023 by Muted-Doctor8925 | 3 points | Reply
What an amazing uncle. My mom sent me to a summer computer camp. The only program he taught us to execute was Diablo he had loaded up on at the PCs lol best week ever
@ Tuesday, September 19th 2023 by gldmj5 | 3 points | Reply
Unfortunately by '99 enough people were already hacking Diablo to ruin the online experience for me. Half the time I joined a server, somebody would kill me and steal my gear before I left town.
@ Tuesday, September 19th 2023 by JellyfishAlone9602 | 4 points | Reply
Menzoberranzan
@ Tuesday, September 19th 2023 by KansaiBoy | 8 points | Reply
I loved the Realm of Arkania trilogy and played those games over and over again. Star Trail and Shadows over Riva were an integral part of my childhood.
I also remember trying Fallout back then, but I never managed to beat it as a child as it was very difficult and dark. But I had fun trying.
@ Tuesday, September 19th 2023 by 33manat33 | 2 points | Reply
For me it was the other way around. Fallout was more intuitive to me, while I chiefly remember blindly running around unsure what to do and how combat worked in Star Trail. Didn't know that game had an English translation
@ Wednesday, September 20th 2023 by KansaiBoy | 2 points | Reply
Yeah. Generally speaking Fallout ist a more approachable RPG, but I used to play the pen & paper RPG that Star Trail was based on with my brothers. So I was already used to the ruleset, which helped a lot.
@ Wednesday, September 20th 2023 by 33manat33 | 2 points | Reply
Oh yeah, I'm sure that helped! I only played DSA many years after I was exposed to the DOS games
@ Tuesday, September 19th 2023 by verifyandtrustnoone | 3 points | Reply
The Daggerfall was incredible, open world with about 15k cities to visit... I have been playing games sinceI bought a C64 in 84 or so.... games back then seemed to be so much more than now games now are a dime a dozen. I also loved the Wizardry series, gold was interesting, huge game but they made some changes to it for the gold version but it was another great buy.
@ Tuesday, September 19th 2023 by The_Great_Warmani | 1 point | Reply
I spent a lot of time with Wizardry 7 but never finished it. Leveling up had something magical.
@ Tuesday, September 19th 2023 by mougrim | 1 point | Reply
Wizardry 8 is the last and the greatest.
@ Tuesday, September 19th 2023 by MtnEagleZ | 13 points | Reply
Fallout and Baldurs Gate. Although bg was still kind of new in 99.
@ Wednesday, September 20th 2023 by ExplodingPoptarts (OP) | 1 point | Reply
I still have mad mad love for Fallout 1 and 2! And Baldur's Gate was the first game I played when I finally got a PC!
@ Wednesday, September 20th 2023 by MtnEagleZ | 1 point | Reply
I know it's a silly thing, but I still remember being at my friends house watching him play fallout.
He wasted some raiders then took their armor, gun, bullets, and booze from them then kept on raider hunting. I was blown away, "you can take anyone's stuff after you kill them?"
It felt like those games were thinking about details that I couldn't even wrap my head around.
@ Tuesday, September 19th 2023 by Typo_of_the_Dad | 3 points | Reply
I was kinda late to the WRPG/CRPG party but I did play U8 around 1995 I think, then Baldur's Gate and Fallout 2 (F1 a bit later). BG1 w/ the expansion and F2 are among my faves still!
The unity version of Daggerfall is pretty solid too
Blood Omen is also good, more of a zelda-like action adventure though. I think it had better performance on PC
Diablo was also great at the time of course, played it a lot online and even in "asymmetric co-op" with a buddy handling potion management. Loved the VA and how new gear would show on your avatar.
@ Tuesday, September 19th 2023 by esdeae | 2 points | Reply
I think my neighbor was playing Final Fantasy 8 on PC in 1999.. it didn't capture my attention like FF7 though, so I moved on.
@ Tuesday, September 19th 2023 by rstbckt | 1 point | Reply
I didn’t get a PlayStation until 1999, so I think I was playing FF7 and Parasite Eve back then.
@ Tuesday, September 19th 2023 by Sarothias | 2 points | Reply
Everquest. That was enough lol. Years playing it from vanilla. The grouping, exp grinding, grinding AA levels, trade skills, raiding, rep grinding. My god so much to do lol.
@ Tuesday, September 19th 2023 by MoebiusX7 | 7 points | Reply
Wait, you have Ultima VIII on here but not Ultima VII or the Ultima Underworld games?
???
Also, Darklands. Darklands is awesome.
@ Tuesday, September 19th 2023 by The_Great_Warmani | 2 points | Reply
I would love to see a Darklands remake.
@ Tuesday, September 19th 2023 by MoebiusX7 | 3 points | Reply
Me too. Darklands was such a unique game. It had a great revolutionary character system. No classes. No levels. A cool life-based creation process. And having the setting be the real world but how the people at he time believed it to be (i.e. dragons are real and alchemy actually works) was awesome. Wish they had done sequels/expansions where you could go into Italy or France or Britain or Poland or....
@ Tuesday, September 19th 2023 by doctor_roo | 1 point | Reply
Daggerfall above all, even Fallout.
Didn't like getting lost in the random dungeons but other than that it was amazing.
@ Tuesday, September 19th 2023 by Pale-Butterscotch351 | 7 points | Reply
Eye of the Beholder Trilogy
Dungeon Hack
Icewind Dale
Planescape Torment
@ Tuesday, September 19th 2023 by yappari_slytherin | 3 points | Reply
Planescape Torment was so great
@ Tuesday, September 19th 2023 by Jidarious | 0 points | Reply
Baldur's Gate was the only Infinity engine game out at that time, so no Planescape or Icewind Dale yet.
@ Tuesday, September 19th 2023 by ExoUrsa | 1 point | Reply
Torment came out in '99. But just barely, they really snuck it in before the holidays.
You're right about IWD, though.
@ Wednesday, September 20th 2023 by Jidarious | 1 point | Reply
Yeah although I'm just being needlessly pedantic.
The truth is I love all of those games and they're great picks.
@ Tuesday, September 19th 2023 by mobkon22 | 4 points | Reply
Sitting in my friends bedroom and playing Baldurs Gate summer ‘99. Staying up til 7am, sleeping til the afternoon. Summer before senior year. What a time.
@ Tuesday, September 19th 2023 by GaryNOVA | 1 point | Reply
Diablo
@ Tuesday, September 19th 2023 by gullyfoyle777 | 2 points | Reply
Oh my god you mentioned Betrayal in Antara!! No one I know has heard of that game. I never beat it as a kid but I have fond memories of it. Maybe I should grab it on gog if they have it.
Also Legacy of Kain: Blood Omen is one of the best games from the 90's that I played. The voice acting is just top notch and art is a gothic dream.
Another game I was playing back then was Baldur's Gate. I had never played D&D so I was a bit lost for awhile on the rules of the game. :-) Obviously I understand better now and love the game to pieces. One of my favorite quotes is from a dude named Keldath (later changed to Kelddath in the enhanced version). He says "Don't touch me... I'm super important." The arrogance in which he says it just makes me giggle.
@ Tuesday, September 19th 2023 by Dr_Mijory_Marjorie | 2 points | Reply
Silver, a sort of action RPG set in a fantasy realm ruled by an evil sorcerer (Silver) and his offspring, Fuge (big, brutish) and Glass (wicked sorceress). You play as David, a generic hero with some cringe dialogue, whose wife has been abducted by Silver's troops. You join a band of rebels who want to stop Silver's reign of terror.
The controls are odd. You click where you want to go, attacking by left-clicking, and you swipe left, right or thrust depending on sharp movement of the mouse. You can change weapons/shields, use magic, throw things etc. and you can choose a companion from your little band who will follow you around. It's action on pre-rendered backgrounds, and looked gorgeous in its day.
The story is brilliant. If I were to pick it up today having never played it, I think it'd only be the controls that'd put me off. Quite an original experience, though.
@ Tuesday, September 19th 2023 by 33manat33 | 2 points | Reply
I thought the combat system was so cool! In fact I still think so. Too bad I'm really terrible at it.
@ Tuesday, September 19th 2023 by Dr_Mijory_Marjorie | 2 points | Reply
Oh it's great once you get used to it. Loved swiping away at little imps. Control over the companion was always tricky though, nowadays it'd be AI
@ Tuesday, September 19th 2023 by 33manat33 | 2 points | Reply
I think I'd like to try again. I probably haven't played these for 20 years... I always loved the artstyle of the games
@ Tuesday, September 19th 2023 by CommunicationTime265 | 3 points | Reply
Baldur's Gate and Darkstone
@ Tuesday, September 19th 2023 by Other_Waffer | 1 point | Reply
Does Baldur’s Gate counts?
@ Tuesday, September 19th 2023 by N7DeltaMike | 2 points | Reply
Baldur's Gate.
@ Tuesday, September 19th 2023 by MrEpicMustache | 2 points | Reply
I played so much quest for glory at that time. Recently downloaded them to play on DOSBOX on my Mac. So much nostalgia hit me hard.
@ Tuesday, September 19th 2023 by BJCR34p3r | 1 point | Reply
Diablo, anything by ID and Age of Empires 2
@ Tuesday, September 19th 2023 by unbrokenplatypus | 3 points | Reply
Planescape Torment, both the OG Fallouts for countless hours, Legend of Kyrandia, Ultima VII on the rare days I could get it working, Betrayal at Krondor, Diablo on the rare days Battle.net would work. Man, thinking back I really miss those times.
@ Tuesday, September 19th 2023 by Dry_Ass_P-word | 1 point | Reply
Mid 1999 I think I was playing StarCraft and riding that amazing Squaresoft wave on playstation.
I did play Buck Rogers Matrix Cubed a bunch but that was more like 96-97.
@ Tuesday, September 19th 2023 by AitrusAK | 3 points | Reply
I had just left home and bought my first computer as a self-sustaining adult. It was a Compaq Deskpro, a keyboard, mouse, and CRT monitor. Since the store was trying to clear out old models (mine was a 1997 design), they were discounting prices and offering a free game with each purchase: Myst. And along with the computer I bought Baldur's Gate.
I was a young man, married for about a year or so, and in the military. That computer and those games were my escape from all the troubles of the world. Well, that and going to the military base's library to check out their VHS and DVD offerings, and browsing their Sci-Fi and Fantasy section.
This was back when our weekly date night was going out to eat at Taco Bell for $2 a person followed by a $1 per person movie at the Base Theater. It was all the luxury my wife and I could afford at the time.
@ Tuesday, September 19th 2023 by GentlemanOctopus | 1 point | Reply
I think my closest to a PC RPG at the time was Syndicate Wars. Walking around a cyberpunk city forcing random civilians to follow you with a Persuadatron so you could send them-- briefcases in hand-- to fight your battles for you. And blowing up the terrain. So much fun.
Also, The Faery Tale Adventure on the Commodore Amiga 500. A forgotten classic, even amongst Amiga nerds, it was an action RPG sort of in the style of Zelda, but with a huge sprawling open world with optional dungeons and quests. You'd play as the oldest of three brothers, and you'd only play the second if the first died, and the third if the second died, and each had their own stats (second brother was the best!). Just really epic for its time.
@ Tuesday, September 19th 2023 by SilverSkinRam | 1 point | Reply
I didn't have a good computer that early in my life. All my gaming then was done on Gameboy. The only RPG games I had on Gameboy were Ninja Taro and Pokemon Blue.
@ Tuesday, September 19th 2023 by daxdox | 2 points | Reply
Fallout and Baldurs Gate.
@ Tuesday, September 19th 2023 by freebirdamerica69 | 1 point | Reply
Rpgs at the 1999 time was evil islands, dues ex, Pokémon red, infantry. I'm forgetting some
@ Tuesday, September 19th 2023 by samspot | 1 point | Reply
For this i gotta plug https://crpgbook.wordpress.com/.
@ Tuesday, September 19th 2023 by DekUuan | 2 points | Reply
Might and Magic 6
Wizardry Gold
The Realm (Online)
Betrayal in Antara/Krondor
@ Tuesday, September 19th 2023 by valhallaswyrdo | 1 point | Reply
Ultima, wizardry, and Baldurs gate were my favorite PC rpgs.
@ Tuesday, September 19th 2023 by Finite_Universe | 1 point | Reply
Baldur’s Gate and Fallout. Loved both, though I remember Fallout being a bit harder for me at the time compared to BG, despite the simpler ruleset. I still replay these games ever few years or so.
Didn’t play it until years and years later, but Lands of Lore: Guardians of Destiny was a wonderful game, though very different from the original. It has a very charming atmosphere that is impossible to find nowadays.
@ Tuesday, September 19th 2023 by Farscape666 | 1 point | Reply
I was playing Fallout at age 9-10 on pc and didn’t really get far. I remember asking NPCs if they were gay lol
@ Tuesday, September 19th 2023 by rancid_ | 1 point | Reply
Diablo, all day and night.
@ Tuesday, September 19th 2023 by tibbycat | 1 point | Reply
Final Fantasy VIII. I was hooked. It was so addictive I told myself I’d never play any other future Final Fantasy games.
On a related note, Final Fantasy XIV 6.5 comes out next month. Hmm.
@ Tuesday, September 19th 2023 by Polyxeno | 1 point | Reply
Myth: The Fallen Lords
Myth II: Soulblighter
Tigers on the Prowl
Panthers in the Shadows
Combat Mission
Space Empires IV Gold
Dominions II
Independence War
Flying Corps Gold
@ Tuesday, September 19th 2023 by Whatevs85 | 1 point | Reply
OG Fallout was amazing. I'd never played anything with such freedom and depth of creativity--there was just so much to explore and discover. Plus, meme culture wasn't what it is now, so having tons of sci-fi references thrown into the game felt like a shout-out to my small group of geeky friends. I put hundreds of hours into those first two games, including the larger part of more than one summer.
@ Tuesday, September 19th 2023 by yojumbo | 1 point | Reply
Quest for Glory Anthology was great and is great, but the games themselves mostly all came out over the previous 15 years. QfG5 came out around that time though.
If you haven’t played them, I’d recommend them all. QfG 1-4 are more adventure games with RPG elements, while QfG 5 is a bit more stat-focused/RPG with adventure game elements.
All available on Steam and GOG easily these days.
@ Tuesday, September 19th 2023 by Glaw_Inc | 1 point | Reply
Amusingly that era was one I did not play many CRPGs. Gold Box games limped into the '90s and The Bard's Tale trilogy will remain one of my favorites of all time, but the '90s I got more into JRPGs and missed out on a fair number of those.
I have gone back to experience them, but not when they were current.
@ Tuesday, September 19th 2023 by Mankiz | 1 point | Reply
Fallout 2. Best CRPG ever. Still loving it!
@ Tuesday, September 19th 2023 by NES_Geek | 1 point | Reply
I didn't get a computer until the late 90s but a game I loved was an RPG named Silver. It came out on Dreamcast too eventually.
@ Tuesday, September 19th 2023 by Moxie_Stardust | 1 point | Reply
In 1999 I was playing the Exile series, Darkstone, Dink Smallwood, Drakan: Order of the Flame, and Rage of Mages 2 (I guess some of this probably bled over into 2000)
@ Tuesday, September 19th 2023 by javaeclipse30 | 2 points | Reply
Divine divinity and arcanum
@ Tuesday, September 19th 2023 by Czar_Petrovich | 2 points | Reply
Divine Divinity was leagues ahead of Diablo and Diablo 2 as far as storyline, world building, complexity, and difficulty. It was like Diablo but if you mixed it with the sort of RPG Larian would make later like Divinity Original Sin.
Absolutely underrated and slept on.
@ Tuesday, September 19th 2023 by Larnievc | 1 point | Reply
Blood Omen. Great game. Did not age well, though.
@ Tuesday, September 19th 2023 by Adamocity6464 | 1 point | Reply
‘99? Baldur’s Gate/Icewind Dale? Planescape Torment?
@ Tuesday, September 19th 2023 by Deimos_Aeternum | 1 point | Reply
VAE VICTIS
@ Tuesday, September 19th 2023 by NihilsitcTruth | 1 point | Reply
I was getting into online play, Ultima online and everquest took alot of my late 90s and into the 2000s changed to WoW... I got away from other games.
@ Tuesday, September 19th 2023 by me_grimmlock | 1 point | Reply
StarCraft Warcraft 2 and the Diablo games
@ Tuesday, September 19th 2023 by Speedupslowdown | 1 point | Reply
Rollercoaster Tycoon
@ Tuesday, September 19th 2023 by ExoUrsa | 1 point | Reply
Baldur's Gate 1 and Diablo. Played the everyloving crap out of both.
My Inn's as clean as an Elven arse!
You must gather your party before venturing forth.
You have been waylaid by enemies and must defend yourself.
Stay a while and listen.
The voice actors have permanent homes in my brain, I can practically hear them in my mind exactly as recorded.
@ Wednesday, September 20th 2023 by ExplosPlankton | 1 point | Reply
I was playing diablo back then but today I'd rather play Planescape Torment.
@ Wednesday, September 20th 2023 by bosco9 | 1 point | Reply
I got into emulation and played Final Fantasy 5 for the first time (technically playing an RPG on PC)
@ Wednesday, September 20th 2023 by UncleLeeroy0 | 1 point | Reply
Ultima Online. Pure adrenaline and genuine excitement. The thrill of running and hiding from being PK'd (Player Killed) by some random stranger and them taking ALL. OF. YOUR. SHIT. Such a great Summer of 99 and going into High School.
@ Wednesday, September 20th 2023 by ExplodingPoptarts (OP) | 1 point | Reply
Ah the "joy" having to deal with absolute garbage human beings that the game is aimed at.
@ Wednesday, September 20th 2023 by Broxxoli | 1 point | Reply
Dark Sun: Shattered Lands.
It had it's fair share of bugs and is a bit janky, but the setting and story is really cool and the turn-based combat with 2nd edition D&D rules is great.
@ Wednesday, September 20th 2023 by daddyd | 1 point | Reply
Eye of the Beholder, it's the one that got it all started for me.
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