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Posted August 22, 2013
Strike against the Darkfall!

Thunderscape, a classic 1990s dungeon crawler with real-time exploration of a vast and diverse underworld and challenging turn-based combat against many fearsome fiends of chaos, is available on GOG.com for only $5.99.

The world of Aden is in great peril. The demonic, corruptive power known as the Darkfall fills the world with monsters, abominations, and evil-inspiring artifacts. The realm is in dire need of defenders, and it's your job to lead them against the forces of chaos. You will explore a dark and dangerous underground to reach for the power you'll need to bring the light to where darkness reigns. A small party of stalwart adventurers seems to stand little chance against the hordes of evil. It's up to you to prove, that miracles do happen in fantasy worlds.

Thunderscape presents you with many time-proven RPG ideas that work together so well, that it's astounding that anyone would want to modify them. You get a party of six brave champions, a large gameworld to explore, lots of items to collect, stats to build, and enemies to slay. While roaming the world, the game progresses in real-time, switching to turn-based combat whenever you approach (or get ambushed by) an opponent. With everything that made dungeon crawlers so successful in the 1990 and some very distinctive steampunk-ish feel, this game is highly recommended to all cRPG fans looking for a challenge!

Set off to explore the world of Aden and save it from the corruptive forces of the Darkfall in Thunderscape, for only $5.99 on GOG.com.
Posted August 22, 2013
Actually, I gave the SSI library some thought, and remembered this weird one:

http://www.mobygames.com/game/dos/alien-logic

It's not TSR licensed, so might have a better chance then the AD&D games SSI made.
Posted August 22, 2013
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hunvagy: Actually, I gave the SSI library some thought, and remembered this weird one:

http://www.mobygames.com/game/dos/alien-logic

It's not TSR licensed, so might have a better chance then the AD&D games SSI made.
SSI published a lot of games, not many of them (outside the D&D ones) were any good tbh. You need to look for those that were internally developed to better assurance of quality.
Posted August 22, 2013
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hunvagy: Actually, I gave the SSI library some thought, and remembered this weird one:

http://www.mobygames.com/game/dos/alien-logic

It's not TSR licensed, so might have a better chance then the AD&D games SSI made.
I have this one too. Buggy and unwieldy, but definitely weird and unique as far as I remember. I should reinstall it someday.
Posted August 22, 2013
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TurnipSlayerr: We should be getting the strategy guide but it wasn't ready for the game's release.
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RS1978: I've bought it anyway, but it would be great to see the official strategy guide later on this place. Soundtracks and Official Strategy Guides/Hint books/Clue Books are my favourite extras here on GOG. :)
Same here. Thanks, GOG!
Posted August 22, 2013
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hunvagy: Actually, I gave the SSI library some thought, and remembered this weird one:

http://www.mobygames.com/game/dos/alien-logic

It's not TSR licensed, so might have a better chance then the AD&D games SSI made.
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Crosmando: SSI published a lot of games, not many of them (outside the D&D ones) were any good tbh. You need to look for those that were internally developed to better assurance of quality.
Dark Legions, The Summoning, Veil of Darkness, Chaos Gate and Rites of War - and I probably forget a couple - are more than good enough for me. Though I agree that their greatest asset RPG-wise always was the TSR license.
Countdown to Doomsday (developed internally but not D&D) was also good.
Post edited August 22, 2013 by Erich_Zann
Posted August 22, 2013
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Erich_Zann: Dark Legions, The Summoning, Veil of Darkness, Chaos Gate and Rites of War - and I probably forget a couple - are more than good enough for me. Though I agree that their greatest asset RPG-wise always was the TSR license.
Countdown to Doomsday (developed internally but not D&D) was also good.
Oh right I forgot the DreamForge ones were SSI published
Posted August 22, 2013
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Erich_Zann: Dark Legions,
I forgot Dark Legions was SSI, I always think of it as Silicon Knights. Archon meets Risk, I hope it comes here soon.
Posted August 22, 2013
AT LAST. I have been waiting for this release since the day I signed up. This is not the first old-school crawler I played (that was probably Might and Magic 3), but it's the first one I played to completion. It isn't as good as the genre masters like Wizardry 6, but it's a crunchy and enjoyable crawl with an awesome soundtrack. It didn't get much attention on release, and quickly faded into obscurity afterwards. It deserves a second chance here on GOG.

I'm buying this when I get home tonight.

On a side note, I'm happy to FINALLY see another SSI release. SSI debuted here years ago, and this is only #3. :(
Posted August 22, 2013
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Crosmando: Oh right I forgot the DreamForge ones were SSI published
Event Horizon/Dreamforge have an excellent track record on the whole. We're also missing Chronomaster here.
Post edited August 22, 2013 by Erich_Zann
Posted August 22, 2013
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Mentalepsy: On a side note, I'm happy to FINALLY see another SSI release. SSI debuted here years ago, and this is only #3. :(
Yes, I think it would be in GOG's best interests to chase the SSI D&D RPG's aggressively, when you look at the best selling games on GOG a great many of them are D&D computer games.
Posted August 22, 2013
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Crosmando: SSI published a lot of games, not many of them (outside the D&D ones) were any good tbh. You need to look for those that were internally developed to better assurance of quality.
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Erich_Zann: Dark Legions, The Summoning, Veil of Darkness, Chaos Gate and Rites of War - and I probably forget a couple - are more than good enough for me. Though I agree that their greatest asset RPG-wise always was the TSR license.
Countdown to Doomsday (developed internally but not D&D) was also good.
Dark Legions, The Summoning, Veil of Darkness. That would be enough for me :D Actually Countdown to Doomsday and Matrx Cubed are also TSR licensed products, as the Buck Rogers XXVC P&P system is TSRs ;) But yes, they are good ones.

Chaos Gate sadly does not run on modern OSes, and believe me, I tried. There's something weird with one of the enemy units, that makes the game crash on anything newer then Win98SE.
Posted August 22, 2013
Can't wait for the strategy guide. Maybe I'll finally find out the differences in acc/dmg between standard attack, mighty blow, berserk, attack vital organs, feint etc :p

Not to forget shield back and kick as well...
Post edited August 22, 2013 by jamsatle
Posted August 22, 2013
I always just used guesswork, if the weapon was big and blunt: Use mighty blow, if it was straight, sharp and pointy: Attack for Vitals.

Also the game had some strange utility skills like Xenology which I never took, but would like to see if they did much in the game, I'm a sucker of strange sounding skills that probably do jack in the game :)
Posted August 22, 2013
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hunvagy: Dark Legions, The Summoning, Veil of Darkness. That would be enough for me :D Actually Countdown to Doomsday and Matrx Cubed are also TSR licensed products, as the Buck Rogers XXVC P&P system is TSRs ;) But yes, they are good ones.
Ah didn't know that, thanks. Also explains why the games exist at all, it never was the most well-known pen&paper system on the block as far as I remember.

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hunvagy: Chaos Gate sadly does not run on modern OSes, and believe me, I tried. There's something weird with one of the enemy units, that makes the game crash on anything newer then Win98SE.
Since I'm comfortably "stuck" on 98SE & XP on my gaming machines, I couldn't care less what the cool kids install as OS these days, nor what games they miss because of that :-)
Post edited August 22, 2013 by Erich_Zann
Posted August 22, 2013
Not much time ago the tabletop RPG appeared in KS in a project for a new version and I remember people in GOG's crowdfunding topic discussing these 2 games (Thunderscape and Entmorph)
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