First I'd just like to bump Ultima 4 and 7 (at least, part 2) up from Elric's honorable mention status.
I've played both for hours beyond count, just enjoying the complexity of the games. However, In Ultima 7 part 2, my game always crashed in the magic dungeon... If someone could reccommend an OS that the game was stable on, that'd be a great help. A good friend of mine and I are slapping together a system with a few different OS's for the sole reason of playing old PC games :-D.
My all time favorite game for easter eggs, however, has to be Final Fantasy. Erdrick's (From Dragon Warrior) gravestone brings a tear to my eye every time.
Dragon Warrior was also a great game, good difficulty, plotline, etc... Just well done to the core.
Honorable mention goes to the second of the series, though I didn't play it. Also, wasn't there a third?
Finally, a game I was suprised not to see on the list already:
Castle of the Winds. I'm considering the entire plotline, from the Village to the demon, as one game.
It was the first game I actually mailed out for (I was like, 11), and I couldn't wait for that disc to arrive. And when it did, oh, that fun started alright.
It wasn't complex, it wasn't all that pretty either, but it was fun. Just a dungeon-crawling item hunt (hmm... not like d2 at ALL). Random dungeon floors each game, with a select few constants. A story you uncovered a bit a time, which at the very least I enjoyed. Like I said, not complex, but it got the job done, and it was entertaining.
I actually stumbled across those discs a few years ago, and took them into my high school. A few files hidden on the network and boom, whenever I wanted a little mindless fun instead of class it was just a password away.
So... to recap :
Ultimas 4 and 7
Final Fantasy
Dragon Warrior series
Castle of the Winds (entire game)
Edit: Corrected Elric to Erdrick... don't know what I was thinking >yawn< stupid night job.
I've played both for hours beyond count, just enjoying the complexity of the games. However, In Ultima 7 part 2, my game always crashed in the magic dungeon... If someone could reccommend an OS that the game was stable on, that'd be a great help. A good friend of mine and I are slapping together a system with a few different OS's for the sole reason of playing old PC games :-D.
My all time favorite game for easter eggs, however, has to be Final Fantasy. Erdrick's (From Dragon Warrior) gravestone brings a tear to my eye every time.
Dragon Warrior was also a great game, good difficulty, plotline, etc... Just well done to the core.
Honorable mention goes to the second of the series, though I didn't play it. Also, wasn't there a third?
Finally, a game I was suprised not to see on the list already:
Castle of the Winds. I'm considering the entire plotline, from the Village to the demon, as one game.
It was the first game I actually mailed out for (I was like, 11), and I couldn't wait for that disc to arrive. And when it did, oh, that fun started alright.
It wasn't complex, it wasn't all that pretty either, but it was fun. Just a dungeon-crawling item hunt (hmm... not like d2 at ALL). Random dungeon floors each game, with a select few constants. A story you uncovered a bit a time, which at the very least I enjoyed. Like I said, not complex, but it got the job done, and it was entertaining.
I actually stumbled across those discs a few years ago, and took them into my high school. A few files hidden on the network and boom, whenever I wanted a little mindless fun instead of class it was just a password away.
So... to recap :
Ultimas 4 and 7
Final Fantasy
Dragon Warrior series
Castle of the Winds (entire game)
Edit: Corrected Elric to Erdrick... don't know what I was thinking >yawn< stupid night job.
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