Any more games with this vibe?I just love adventuring while there are stats on the screen and little decorations and shit like that. Looks comfy.Please no ancient 1980s shit
Legends of Amberland games are pretty awesome streamlined blobbers with contemporary design sensibilities.
>>738305038Skald
Cyclopean: The Great Abyss
grimoire maybe
>>738305038>Please no ancient 1980s shitUltima Underworld is from the 90s
>>738305038Is this your vibe coded aisloppa game, OP? Needs a lot of work.
>>738305038>Please no ancient 1980s shitThe game you posted is LITERALLY a fucking port of an 80s game you braindead dick sniffer
>>738305038Operencia: The Stolen Sun
Might and Magic 6-8 with the GrayFace patches
>>738305038SOLIDhttps://www.youtube.com/watch?v=j6tLKDySets
>>738305038>wants to play 1980s vidya>"please no 1980s"
>>738305038The Quest maybe? Althou it's a single character kind of thing
>>738306442Kino
>>738306865I can't find the video where he said "THIS GAME IS FUCKING ASS" and then points at this random little girl across the table and yells: "AND SO ARE YOU!!!" :(
>>738306442>rape and gay jokes in part 2This shit has not aged well nephew
>>738307206
>>738306394I really want to play mm6 (original not merge) but the portraits are so completely off putting to me they look so fuckin bad
https://youtu.be/dr980z1xrnII like Thysiastery. But you should be aware that it it has plenty of randomization that can be a runkiller early on until you know the enemy weaknesses and patterns.
>>738305038>please recommend games done in this extremely old style but no actual old games thanks, cause I'm a fucking poser
>>738308680What anon is obviously saying, is that there's no reason for this to be an "old" game genre, and that developers should have kept making games in this style (and with modern quality of life features such as key rebinding, smooth mouse controls, modern graphics etc.) but for some reason they didn't.Saw a couple of japanese or chinese game devs making games like these though, so maybe not all hope is lost.
>>738305038GRIMWAH
>>738306442>EVERYTHING IN THIS GAME IS SOLID EXCEPT THE FUCKING GAMEAlmost 15 years later, and these two videos still make me laugh.
>>738305038>Ask for something that peak in the 80s>"Please no ancient 1980s shit"Well, good luck.
>>738308806>picrelIs that some weird Japanese version of Shadowgate?
>>738305038>Please no ancient 1980s shitThat's where you're going to find most of these. Don't just dismiss them out of hand. Give them a chance.
>>738309008Anon Shadowgate is one of those games that got ported to everything.
>>738308806>but for some reason they didn't.They did.They just made them real-time and 3D, because the step-based time and sprites graphics were a technical constraints more than an actual design choice.See Arena > Daggerfall > Morrowind > Skyrim, for a clear & well-known genealogical branch.
>>738305038legends of grimrock
>>738309008Yeah they mentioned it's directly inspired by it.>>738309146>because the step-based time and sprites graphics were a technical constraints more than an actual design choice.For most, yeah. But for some it can still be a design choice. Like people are still releasing traditional roguelikes nowadays (see: Path of Achra), which are step-based and with sprite graphics.In this genre the only recent thing that comes to mind is Grimoire: HotWE from 9 years ago.
>>738309827>Grimoire is already 9 years oldWhat the fuck, I thought it was more recent than that.
>>738308806>>738309827I hate it when you COCK FUCKERS post an image of a game and then never say its fucking titleit's ゲイトトゥダイ/Gate to Die in case anyone else wants to avoid wasting 5 minutes on Googleand no it's not out yet
>>738305038Trannyslop
>wants ancient 80s vibe but doesn’t want ancient 80s shitAs always, OP is a faggot.
>>738310458retardslop
>>738310458Oh no, a retard found its way here
>>738310458You literally say this about every single game. Do you even play anything?
>>738305038Underkeep might tickle your fancy, it's got a good demo, hoping the full game will be just as good.https://store.steampowered.com/app/4346510/Underkeep_Demo/It's like a modern Eye of the Beholder.
>>738307417>I really want to play mm6 (original not merge) but the portraits are so completely off putting to me they look so fuckin badKek yeah they're terrible, just had a look and it wouldn't be hard to make a portrait replacement mod, someone might have already done it.
The developers' earlier crawler, Undercroft, is free to download here: https://www.rakeingrass.com/games/undercroft/
>>738311072Meant to >>738310787
>>738311072>>738311116Sweet as i'll check it out as the Underkeep demo was great.
what's wrong with the hundreds of japanese blobbers that were made in the 2000s and 2010s?
>>738311506Scrubs can't read glorious nippon runes.
>>738311072>>738311116You wouldn't happen to know if there was a way to force nearest neigbor scaling so it doesn't look so blurry fullscreen?
>>738305038Anvil of DawnDeathkeepSlayer
>>738310787the game badly needs a better title picture. That beholder in the shadows thing looks way inferior to that menu UI. That instantly caught my attention.
>>738311584Sorry, it’s been a long time since I played it, but I remember it could be changed somehow.
>>738311939>Sorry, it’s been a long time since I played it, but I remember it could be changed somehow.Cheers anyway, i'll have a dig around in the ini files.
>>738306696This game IS awesome. One of the best modern takes on old school open world 'dungeon' crawlers. Played it countless of hours on some old PDA of my dad.
>>738310787>waited long for this game>finally a demo>weird field of fiew>weird step transitionThe first and only game where I got motion sickness.
>>738312369>weird field of fiew>weird step transitionYeah I found it a little odd at first, it feels almost like you're zooming in rather than moving at times, but got use to it pretty quick, if you're getting motion sickness from it though, well fuck there's no getting use to that.Could always check the forums and see if there's any discussion about it, might be something the dev can do I dunno.
>>738305038GrimoireWarning: if you do not possess over 20% neanderthal DNA your puny sape mind may not be able to handle playing this game
>>738305347This is the worst thing I have ever seen in my entire life. Did they have to pick only one colour? Couldn't they have picked a less offensive colour?
>>738313339There are plenty of color options.https://youtu.be/B4Qm3HEf9iU
but 90s are ok.
>another dumb zoomer wanting “muh vibes” without wanting to put effort into older gamesThe declining birthrate is the best thing that could happen to us as a species.
>>738307417>>738311023Faggots.
what about wizardry and might & magic?
>>738306696this game is cool
>>738316534unc franchises
blobber kurwa
>>738305038Are you looking for blobbers in general or blobbers with 4/5 of the screen covered by the UI
>>738311023Wtf are you talking about, they look great.
>>738316765>blobbers with 4/5 of the screen covered by the UIwhy is this so fucking soulful
>>738316731I swear you faggots are just being retarded on purpose as bait
>>738316928>why is trendy thing soulful? (but only to look at)only the algorithm knows
>>738313459ew
>>738305347Mein nigga. Dev is making a second game, I just wish he used more colors and maybe hire someone to make OST.
>>738305038The most recent Shiren the Wanderer game has a HUD mode where it displays all of your inventory and stats on the screen like this, it's nice.
>>738305038i played one for the original gameboy a long ass time ago when i was a kidnever beat it but always had a good time figuring out what to do next
>>738305534It's not a port you retarded fuck. It has tons of QOL features like automap, combined inventory etc. and muc better graphics. Learn what a port is.
>>738320225Automap is a downgrade so that zoomers can play the game
>>738311023>>738316923Peak soul.
>>738320379Map drawing is autistic and I never saw the appeal of it.>1 step north>draw a little square>1 step north>draw a little square>1 step west>draw a little squareHow the fuck are you supposed to enjoy the game like this? It's not the 80s anymore where people only had like 4 games in possession. After I'm done with it, the maps are just going to rot on my desk.
>>738320612Learn to count you retarded fuck, you shouldn't need to stop EVERY FUCKING SQUARE
>>738320757What if a dungeon looks like a complete labyrinth? Then yes, you do have to count every fucking step.
>>738305165Thanks, this is exactly what I was looking for.I like when the UI covers like 1/3 of the screen or 1/2 at most, not more. This is the sweetspot.
>>738320969>walk in a straight line>mentally count the steps>when you reach a turn or a wall, stop and draw out a line for that many stepsIt's not that difficult you actual tard
>>738320612You dont stop every single square idiot
Play Wizardry, preferably 6 or 7Then play all the Japanese wizardry clones, a lot of them are great
>>738320612>How the fuck are you supposed to enjoy the game like this?works on my machine
>>738321024I love this. It's so whimsical and filled with soul.I'm sorry if it's a dumb question, but is it on Steam?
>>738321091>>738321092I'm not doing this autistic shit. Eat shit. Automap does it for you. It's not even cheating. You literally visited the area. You could have done it yourself. It just saves time.
>>738321290>NOOOO WHY SHOULD I LEARN MAPMAKING AS A SKILL I WANT THE GAME TO DO IT FOR MEOkay, faggot.
>>738321346>make 1 mistake in a complicated map with teleports and other shit>the entire map is ruined and you wasted 1 hour of your lifeGenius idea
>>738305038>Please no ancient 1980s shitHow do you feel about crossword puzzles, OP?
More people should copy Ultima Underworld
>>738321290Have you ever actually tried it?
>>738313459The root problem is that their palettes always have their brightest value at half intensity. The contrast is shit because everything is dark.https://youtu.be/EzjWBmhO_1E?t=4
>>738321443>being so shit that you can't correct a single mistake without wasting an hour of time
>>738321443>>make 1 mistake in a complicated map with teleports and other shit>>the entire map is ruined and you wasted 1 hour of your lifekino
>>738321273Yes, all three are on Steam. While they all use the same engine and basic conventions, I would recommend playing them in order because the dungeon design and little additions still get better as the series progresses.
>>738313634Rip Arcana. Loved the card aesthetic even if it really wasnt that complicated of a game.
>>738320612Map drawing is only fun if the game is designed for it. I tried doing manual map drawing in Elminage Gothic to save on map consumables, and it was a massive waste of my time. But mapping in Wizardry is fun, because the level design puts in challenges that specifically fuck with your ability to navigate and map it out.>>738321273I believe all LoA games are on steam. I know at least 2 is.
>>738321443>make mistake>durrrrdurrrrrrrehurrrrdurrrrrRetards just can’t help but out themselves every time.
>>738305038>Please no ancient 1980s shitThe Bard's Tale is from 1985.Anyway, there are lots of DRPGs / blobbers / dungeon crawlers still being made today. They're a lot less common, and from smaller developers, but they get made. There's even more variety, if you just want the good UI design as opposed to just DRPG games.Grahf Metal is somebody who made a few games based off the old Shadowgate game, and ended up working on the recent Beyond Shadowgate, a game made by the original Shadowgate programmer.>https://grahfmetal.itch.io/infested>https://grahfmetal.itch.io/spectacle>https://www.gog.com/en/game/beyond_shadowgatePeople have already mentioned Legends of Amberland and The Quest, so I'll bring up Aeon of Sands (free game). You can also give the Ishar games a try, something from the 90s but they seem to fit your design interest.>https://store.steampowered.com/app/907820/Aeon_of_Sands__The_Trail/>https://www.gog.com/en/game/ishar_compilationAs for upcoming games, Hibernaculum and Underkeep might be something you are interested in.>https://store.steampowered.com/app/2789020/Hibernaculum/>https://store.steampowered.com/app/2411200/Underkeep/
I hate party based games
Honestly kinda surprised that after Grimrock was a hit there wasn't a bunch of copycats. That's usually how it goes.
>>738310787>It's like a modern Eye of the Beholder.I'm playing Eye of the Beholder for the first time right now and it's filtering me hard. It does some absolutely funky teleport/secret wall/levels fucking re-arranging themselves bullshit that is disorientating as fuck.It's cool, but the first time it happened I thought i'd lost my mind.
>>738322091>I'm playing Eye of the Beholder for the first time right now and it's filtering me hard. It does some absolutely funky teleport/secret wall/levels fucking re-arranging themselves bullshit that is disorientating as fuck.Are you still in the sewers?
>>738322227>Are you still in the sewers?Yeah i'm honestly not very far in at all, the realtime combat caught me off guard as well.
>738308806Is it just shadowgate, or is it a spiritual sequel?I love NES shadowgate.
>>738322091I've never played EotB before, but now I want to try it out. I get sad every time I play a new dungeon crawler and it has none of that gay toroidal level design I liked from wizzery.
>>738321290Whoever made that map did it in a really fucking stupid way.Play however you want i guess. I got into blobber map making with etrian odyssey and its more fun on paper imo
>>738316534>what about wizardry and might & magic?They're fun.Wizardry 1-3 & 5 are pretty straightforward. If you've played a japanese DRPG, they're basically copying Wizardry 5 so it's very similar. Start in a base town that's basically a menu, make characters of various classes, dive into a dungeon and clear them floor-by-floor, difficult enemy fights, stuff like spinners and damage floor traps, frontline has normal combat while backline is protected and can only use spells/spears/bows, etc.Wizardry 6-8 is more "open world" in that you make camp and rest to recover, there is no main "town" you return to, and you need to go out and explore.Wizardry 4 is the oddball, definitely still a dungeon to get out of, but has a lot that it does differently.Might & Magic is sort of similar to Wizardry 6-8, where there's a big world and you run around in it. But the games are more plot-driven, with you having quests that lead up to a big fight at the end. There's also more focus on spells that let you fuck around and "break" the game, like flight and water walking, while Wizardry spells are mostly just combat and navigation.>>738321273Legends of Amberland is both on GOG and Steam, all three games.>https://www.gog.com/en/game/legends_of_amberland_the_forgotten_crown>https://www.gog.com/en/game/legends_of_amberland_ii_the_song_of_trees>https://www.gog.com/en/game/legends_of_amberland_iii_the_crimson_tower>https://store.steampowered.com/app/873890/Legends_of_Amberland_The_Forgotten_Crown/>https://store.steampowered.com/app/2110840/Legends_of_Amberland_II_The_Song_of_Trees/>https://store.steampowered.com/app/3823520/Legends_of_Amberland_III_The_Crimson_Tower/
>>738322315>Yeah i'm honestly not very far in at allThen prepare your anus, the real disorientating fuckery hasn't even begun kek
>>738322227>>738322315>>738322519Bear in mind, you were expected to take notes playing these games. The older games of this genre had notes sections in the backs of the manuals for you to put notes down in.
>>738322442Does EO mapping get more interesting later on? I only played the first couple floors, but I didn't like all that much how you are permanently told your location and heading, since a lot of what I find interesting about not having an auto-map is that it opens the game up to making you lose track of those things, e.g. with a silent spinner or teleport.
>>738305038https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=5rNbcEPdJEg
>>738322030>Honestly kinda surprised that after Grimrock was a hit there wasn't a bunch of copycats.VaporumRuzarHeroes of Monkey TavernThe Fall of the Dungeon GuardiansYou might consider the 7th Circle games and Dragon Ruins to be similar, as well.
>>738305038Never managed to finish a blobber, despite being an old-ass millennial who play mostly RPGs.I always start one enthusiastically and lose interest after finishing the first dungeon / reaching the second city / etc.I want to break the curse, which blobber is the absolute best one? Don't really care if it's some ancient Commodore 64 thing, although something not too eye-bleeding and obtuse would be preferred.
>>738322398>I've never played EotB before, but now I want to try it out.It's the first blobber i've ever played so I have absolutely no point of reference whatsoever, but i'm thoroughly enjoying it.>>738322519>Then prepare your anus, the real disorientating fuckery hasn't even begun kekGod damn it, although now that I know the game is going to throw crazy shit at me i'll be a little less confused the next time, but the first time it does it with zero warning, you just think you're plodding through a regular sewer then you find yourself going in circles but that makes *no* sense and is physically impossible in the space you're supposedly in, then you try to backtrack and it gets even weirder. It's a rather brilliant use of otherwise very basic level layouts.
>>738322759It will always show you as an arrow
>>738323147>plodding through a regular sewer then you find yourself going in circles but that makes *no* sense and is physically impossible in the space you're supposedly in, then you try to backtrack and it gets even weirder.*sip* Level 2, good times. When you're done with the level go and look up a guide and just see how much pressure plate/teleporter/illusionary wall fuckery there was.
>>738323138The Bard's Tale is pretty good. You probably won't complete the entire trilogy, but once you've finished exploring the first area you're ready for the second, and the game requires some thinking so it isn't as basic as just clearing one floor and moving onto the next. The biggest problem, perhaps, is that some things can end up unclear so it might not be easy to know if you're supposed to be somewhere or not. It turned out that, when I'd played Bard's Tale 1, I'd accidentally skipped an entire dungeon. Thankfully, it was pretty easy to clear when I went back.It's also kind of ugly. Even with the remaster, the art doesn't look that great. It's certainly workable, just not like what you'd expect if you look at Grimrock or the recent Wizardry 1 remake.There is a big jump in the puzzles when moving from Bard's Tale 1 to Bard's Tale 2. BT1 might have around five puzzles in total, depending on how you define them, while every dungeon in BT2 has a puzzle and you'll want to write down clues in BT2 to help figure things out. The puzzles in BT1, by comparison, are pretty straightforward - the biggest question is if you've run across the clue you need yet, or not.
>>738311072This looks a lot like The Quest just with an entire party.
>>738305038Ludus Mortis although the UI is kinda ugly
>>738319347>maybe hire someone to make OST.There are endless hours of Dungeon Synth available on YT
>>738325909What are you on about? The Bard's Tale Trilogy looks far better than the Proving Grounds remake.
>>738325909It's looks good. You are just autistic.
>>738321946>someone else remembers IsharWarm tear!
i know i'm asking for much but are there any games like in this thread but also heavy on the roleplay? like being able to solve quests in different ways, talking past guards, bartering, talking down bosses or even converting them to your side with charisma stuff like that?
>>738306696great game for mobile, but it doesn't seem to work on modern devices anymore
>>738322790currently playing grimrock 2. loved the first game and im enjoying this one, but its a lot fucking harder.keep running out of food and getting filtered by crab tanks
>>738305038do yourself a favor and play ultima underworld.Its ludo kino
>>738321173I just finished Wizardry Gaiden 2 last night, and I gotta say while it was good, I think I preferred the first one more overall. Out of all the Wiz games I've finished (1, 2, 3, 5, Gaiden 1 and 2), I think 5 was the best. Still, Gaiden 3 and 4 give me good vibes but I think I'm gunna do Wiz 6 next and maybe just do the other two Dark Savant games before going back to spinoffs.
>>738325909I would not recommend that Wizardry 1 remake. On paper it's really cool with all the toggleable options but it's so fucking slow in battle, and Wizardry being that slow is just a crime. Animations take too long and they all play one after another. Instead I'd recommend either the PS1 Llylgamyn Saga and New of Age of Llylgamyn Saga options as they're pretty close to Apple ][ balance wise and do have optional QoL like the automap, or maybe the GBC releases as they look quite nice, SFC does too.
>>738333578>doesn't seem to work on modern devices anymoreWeird, I have Quest Classic on my phone now and just opened it with no issues. Maybe I’m underestimating how old iphone 12’s are or they royally fucked something with regular Quest.
>>738334081I tried. It has horrible controls that aged poorly.
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>>738305038Would A&A count?Genetically it's Doom with a medieval fantasy RPG slapped over it, but the result is kind in the same vibe than some blobbers.
Most of the remasters/ games that came after the 90s look like AI slop.
>>738321946>HibernaculumThis one looks really fucking cool.
>>738307417I'll take the MM6 cosplaying devs pictures over the souless renders from 7 and 8 any day
I genuinely find it so difficult to play any dungeon crawler other than EO... Etrian Odyssey has so many quality of life features to make dungeon crawling actually fun and engaging that when I swap over to even something like Rance or Dungeon Travellers or even the other Atlus crawlers like Refrain it feels like a huge step back.
>>738321443>you wasted 1 hour of your lifeWithout fail, this argument comes down to whether or not you're interested in having an experience, or just playing a game. Nobody remembers glancing at a minimap, but you would absolutely remember that first time you played whatever dungeon crawler and got lost, and then realized where it all went wrong and fixed it.Neither desire is objectively wrong, by the way, so don't bother taking what I just said personally.
>>738337471If I hadn't played the game before I'd have told you that title was a total joke...
>>738337962what do the sine curves represent?
Bumping this thread because dungeon crawlers are my current autistic obsession
>>738340454One of the best genre, the other one is turn based strategy and tactics games.
>>738307417Biggest tell of a hylic nature I've ever seen
>>738316687>>738312312>>738306696This is literal shovelware made for phones.
>>738306394Based choice
>>738307417They're part of the soul of the game though
>>738338183I love 7's portraits but think that 8's are unfinished with many looking really out of place
>>738341483Still better than most big budget AAA games that are 100 GB in size
>>738306394I really wish MM7 had more time in development. I love some of the locations you visit in it but so many dungeons don't feel longer than 30 seconds which is kind of bullshit
>>738341786FUCK OFF WITH YOUR FUCKING FALSE EQUIVALENCE YOU FUCKING NIGGER FILTH I SWEAR TO FUCKING CHRIST THIS ENTIRE FUCKING BOARD IS THE SAME SHIT BAIT AND SAME RETARDED NONSENSICAL RESPONSES THAT ARENT EVEN REMOTELY AN ATTEMPT AT A GENUINE DISCUSSION OR CONVERSATION ABOUT ABSOLUTELY FUCKING ANYTHING BUT JUST DESIGNED TO PISS OTHERS OFFRANGEBAN THE THIRD WORLDPERMABAN ANYONE WHO ADMITS TO BUYING A CONSOLE AFTER 7th GEN OR ADMITS TO USING STEAMPERMABAN ANYONE ENGAGING IN ANY GAY ASS CULTURE WAR GARBAGEPERMABAN ANYONE WHO TYPES LIKE THEY ARE A TEENAGERPERMABAN ANYONE ADMITTING THEY USE SOCIAL MEDIA EVER OR REPOSTING SHIT FROM FUCKING TWITTER OR FUCKING ECELEB BULLSHITFUCKING NIGGER GO FUCK YOURSELF, YES IM GODDAMN MAD, THIS PLACE IS UNFATHOMABLY FUCKING SHIT ANYMORE, FUCKING TAKE YOUR FUCKING PHONE YOU ARE USING TO SHIT OUT THESE GARBAGE POSTS AND SHOVE IT UP YOUR ASS YOU FUCKING CUNT
>>738342101But anon, they post as an automated reactionary action because the alternative is living an examined life, and if they actually THOUGHT about things going on around them they would probably be horrified by how poorly their life is going.its far easier to just post some regurgitated opinion from a streamer on their second screen, or a talking point from their favourite tv program instead of just floating through life half awake like a good flesh automaton.i miss when these 'people' would be forced to get a minimum wage job in a factory canning fish, get married to a friend of a friend, have kids and at least pretend to be human.unfortunately all those kids grew into braindead shambling corpses because their parents were lead poisoned halfwits from all the machinery in the canning factory, but it was pretty nice for like 30 years there.
