Comment on PC gamers spend 92% of their time on older games, oh and there are apparently 908 million of us now

• tal@lemmy.today ⁨1⁩ ⁨week⁩ ago

  It looks like there were also a bunch of scenarios released for Realmz. I’m trying to remember…I definitely remember playing City of Bywater. I don’t know if I’ve played the other scenarios, though.

  If you haven’t played them and can round them up, might be that you’ve only played about 7% of the content out for Realmz, if what you’re after is Realmz-like stuff. :-)

  en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Realmz

  While new scenarios were released throughout the game’s history, also typically packed along with the game in the next Realmz release, the game ultimately ended up with 13 official scenarios:

  • City Of Bywater (developed alongside Realmz by Tim Phillips)

  I’ve definitely played this.

  • Prelude To Pestilence (1995, Sean Sayrs)
  • Assault On Giant Mountain (1995, Tim Phillips)
  • Castle in The Clouds (1995, Jim Foley)

  I seem to recall the above names, though I don’t remember the scenario content, if I did play them. Nothing after this rings a bell at all.

  • Destroy The Necronomicon (1995, Tim Phillips)
  • White Dragon (1996, Jim Foley)
  • Grilochs Revenge (1997, Sean Sayrs)
  • Twin Sands of Time (1999, Sean Sayrs)
  • Trouble in the Sword Lands (1999, Pierre H. Vachon)
  • Mithril Vault (1999, Tim Phillips)
  • Half Truth (2000, Nicholas T. Tyacke)
  • War in the Sword Lands (2000, Pierre H. Vachon)
  • Wrath of the Mind Lords (2002, Pierre H. Vachon)

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  • TropicalDingdong@lemmy.world ⁨1⁩ ⁨week⁩ ago

    I’ve definitely played City of Bywater.

        Prelude To Pestilence (1995, Sean Sayrs)
        Assault On Giant Mountain (1995, Tim Phillips)
        Castle in The Clouds (1995, Jim Foley)
    

    Same. I also definitely played City of Bywater, and I know I had both Assault on Giant Mountain and Castle in The Clouds (this one was giants right?)

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    • tal@lemmy.today ⁨1⁩ ⁨week⁩ ago

      I’m stretching my memory too far. I remember the City of Bywater world map, but I can’t even remember the world maps for the other scenarios, if I indeed played them.

      This abandonware site appears to have a Windows release:

      www.myabandonware.com/game/realmz-bce

      I have no idea what scenarios might be included, and I’m always a little leery about running binaries from random sites outside of a VM, so I don’t know if I should recommend using it, but it’s there. There are serial numbers to activate what looks like all the listed scenarios in a comment there, so maybe it comes with all of them.

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      • TropicalDingdong@lemmy.world ⁨1⁩ ⁨week⁩ ago

        This abandonware site appears to have a Windows release:

        Yeah I downloaded it while we were chatting. I’m going to try and get it running after work.

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• tal@lemmy.today ⁨1⁩ ⁨week⁩ ago

  Me and my friends, we would play together by each getting a character and then taking turns during combat moving each of our characters.

  Hah! That’s some hardcore effort to make that game multiplayer!

  I never tried those but if its vaguely like Realmz, I want to try it,

  I mean, there were a bunch of RPGs in roughly that genre out in those years; IMHO, Realmz and the Exile series were the best out on the Mac.

  goes poking around

  en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Fantasoft

  Hah! I didn’t know this. Back when Jeff Vogel — the Spiderweb Software guy — was just starting out, Fantasoft, the company that did Realmz, published the first three Exile games too.

  goes through the rest of the list

  I don’t think that anything else they published were RPGs, though I’ve played some of them.

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