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HoloDust on 16 July 2019
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Bofferbrauer2 said:
HoloDust said:

My younger son (11) annoyed me to no end a week ago to install Skyrim for him, so I eventually did, but after just few days of playing he decided it was lacking - go figure. Altough, tbh, I do talk with him a lot about old school RPGs, what makes them good and how they compare to P&P counterparts (which he had a chance to experience), so he knows a bit or two on the subject.

So now I'm about to install Morrowind for him (by his request), after that Might&Magic 6/7 (we played Legacy together when it came out, not very good game, but he's familiar with it) or Wizardry 8 - though, as he never played any game with party alone, I'm not sure how he'll handle it. He bugged me to play Fallout 1/2, but I'm not quite comfortable to let him delve into that just quite yet due to his age.

As for me, I'd love to revisit some of those old games and especially play some that I've missed the first time, but my backlog is just killing me.

Yeah, I can understand that. Those RPG are a huge time investment. Especially Wizardy 8 tends to get ludicrous in how ling the battles can go on. Especially early on with Piercer Modai, where I always risk running out of stamina since they take forever to kill.

Speaking of RPGs, I do read a lot about them, too. Maybe you and your son might be interested in reading the cRPG Addict as he's playing through all the computer RPGs (still) existing and rating them. Pretty great read imo. Although, if you want to read it all, I guess it will take as long as playing some of those games again...

http://crpgaddict.blogspot.com/

Also, I wouldn't have guessed there were so many RPGs back in the days. He's currently at his 335th game and only reached 1992 - and that's with dozens of games not working, not existing anymore or that he missed and put on his backlog. And he has a huge amount to play: https://docs.google.com/spreadsheets/d/1u4xRHlx2P7PXxMoY9hmtOvbRRY8Fx9HwmsBqY1XwQyQ/edit#gid=0

Wow, thanks for that link - I guess I'd need few clones of myself just to read through that all, let alone play all those games, but it seems like a great resource for finding out how good some of those old games are once I do find time to try out some of them.