Do you play computer role playing games? What titles in that genre you like on your Amiga (broadly construed)?

My favorite games:
Abandoned Places (I like wandering overland map and exploring dungeons with slowly increasing difficulty)
Ambermoon (concepts, visuals, music)
EyAngband (open source Angband variant; well balanced unlike many other variants)
Ishar 2 (probably the best GFX for an Amiga game; well, the English translation is horrible)

And yours?

Last edited by pavlor on 19-Nov-2023 at 08:44 AM.

@pavlor

Aquabyss, hands down. Amazing game if you are into for an open world trade / rpg hybrid.

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@pavlor

On Amiga ? Definitely Ambermoon. Not only technically, but also Storywise and basically the whole game.

Second place would go to Amberstar actually

After that probably one of those D&D titles (both the ones with strategy combat and also Eye of the Beholder titles). But the ones with strategy combat were better.

And of course Legend of Faerghail even if it cannot really compare with the Ambers or the D&D titles... but I sort of liked the game.

@pavlor

I'm still a fan of 'The Faery Tale Adventure' and one fine day I will try and play it completely through together with one of the Ultima parts.


Well Angband seems to be more a 'Rogue Like' game, maybe this will not even fit in the class of RPGs.
'Rogue Likes' always frustrated me because there is no real story behind them, some more modern like Rogue Likes have nice Isometric GFX but as long as I'm just playing against an algorithm generated environment I would miss the meaning behind it.

You may know this:
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=5C3mvRm0aOY&t=75s

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@OneTimer1

I’ll 2nd Fairy Tale Adventure but keep in mind I haven’t played some of the other mentioned games yet.

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Dungeon Master and Black Crypt are right up there with Eye of the Beholder and Ishar series. Later Ultima and gold box D&D games (Kryn series especially) started using the Amiga gfx and sound better which made them more playable. Meynaf ported the Atari version of Gauntlet which is better than the Amiga disgrace and made new dungeons for Dungeon Master that are quite good as well as making Dungeon Master more system friendly. There are many gems out there depending on what RPG style is liked and how much tolerance there is for games that use fewer of the Amiga features.

@Cool_amigaN

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Aquabyss, hands down. Amazing game if you are into for an open world trade / rpg hybrid.

New Amiga game! That explains I never heard about it. Looks good!

@pavlor

Eye of the Beholder series.

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@pavlor
Bloodwych, because this game cans play two people. My bro making the plane and me killing demonds ans skeletons.

@pavlor

Aquabyss is looking awesome, that’s true. I’ll have to buy and play this one.

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dungeon crawlers, Bloodwych and bloodfest.
top down, I really loved Angband and Zangband.
Once upon a time, a guy by the nickname Bablos ported to the Amiga a huge set of Moria/Angband variants. I liked most of them, actually

@pavlor

Legacy of Sorasil, if you can call it an RPG

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@IridiumFX

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a guy by the nickname Bablos ported to the Amiga a huge set of Moria/Angband variants.

Yeah! Angband with pull down menus for most important commands, really user friendly interface for a new user like me (then).

@Yssing

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Legacy of Sorasil, if you can call it an RPG

If it fits into YOUR definition of a RPG, then it is a good enough RPG for me.

It is on my list of Amiga games I want to play, but it was too hard for me last time I tried (well, my skills are quite lame).

@Yssing

Hero Quest II: Legacy of Sorasil



It looks like a real RPG to me.

Back in those days, the definitions for Adventure, RPG or Action Adventure where not as clear as today.

In an Adventure, you are playing a character in a story, usually you have to follow a very narrow path to solve all the riddles and win. The number of scenes are limited and there will be a riddle, an item or an action in every scene.

In an RPG you can (often) chose an character (or a party with different characters) and play a role in a game, you can improve, your character collect useful items, but story telling isn't always as great as on an Adventure. You might move your character through wide 2D/3D worlds and even if it has a strong story like an adventure, you will have to travel around a lot and improve your character before you could solve the story. Fights are often done in rounds, that might sometimes a bit static.

An Action Adventure is a bit more like an RPG where you will have to fight with your joystick, hit with the right weapon in the right direction and avoid hits by fast movements.

Some text adventures from the early days are more like RPGs: run somewhere, become stronger, buy the right swords and be rated for the gold you have found.

Todays Adaventures and RPGs are great in srory telling, back in the Amiga times, they where not so good doing it. Ultima for example, has great stories, with poor GFX but some Dungeon games belonging to RPGs have not.

JRPGs have often great stories to tell, thanks to RPG-Maker there are a lot of RPGs out there with good stories and thank to RPG Player you can play them on AOS4, MOS ore AROS.

I have heard they have many good RPGs and not all look like those Nintendo JRPGs with little obese kids running through comic towns.

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@Thread

Apollo Team are working on a really cool new one.


http://www.apollo-core.com/knowledge.php?b=8¬e=40362

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@OneTimer1

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JRPGs have often great stories to tell, thanks to RPG-Maker there are a lot of RPGs out there with good stories and thank to RPG Player you can play them on AOS4, MOS ore AROS. I have heard they have many good RPGs and not all look like those Nintendo JRPGs with little obese kids running through comic towns.

Must check those (and being able to create my own adventure is a nice bonus). However, GFX style of most titles is too childish for my taste.


@All

Speaking about replacement engines, does anybody play RPGs via such engines or emulators? I played Baldurs Gate 2 in GemRB and got good into Act2 (original save games are supported, so I can play across my machines), DosBox also supports several good games (eg. Albion - like Ambermoon with more colours and some UI improvements).

ehmm maybe Ambermoon ?

by refreshing my memmory on the net I came across this "expansion" ?


Classic Amiga RPG 'Ambermoon' Gets Exciting New Fan Expansion
https://www.timeextension.com/news/2023/01/classic-amiga-rpg-ambermoon-gets-exciting-new-fan-expansion

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Someone made a compilation on YT:

AMBERMOON
BLACK CRYPT
ELVIRA 2
EYE OF THE BEHOLDER II
HIRED GUNS
ISHAR 2
MIGHT AND MAGIC III
PERIHELION THE PROFECY
THE BARD'S TALE III THIEF OF FATE
ULTIMA VI

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=86qp7i8mFkw

@pavlor

Trapped, Amiga's Ultima Underworld clone.

https://www.lemonamiga.com/games/details.php?id=2357