90's Dungeon Crawler - Can't remember the name

[JustRiedy]

I played it for hours on end, I think I may have got it from 1000 for windows but after finding what I believe to be an ISO of the same CD I had I can't find it on there.

It was a First person dungeon crawler, sort of similar to Dungeon Master (But not "famous")

I cant remember much except the art was very decent for the time.
Usual generic monsters aka large spiders.

Decent traps and puzzles, one of my favorites involved picking up a rock and throwing it onto pressure pads to open a portcullis but not set off a trap.

I think at the end of the game it switched to a top down view, still had to move around and kill some more things. Sadly I never got further than this part.

[MrFlibble]

I think at the end of the game it switched to a top down view, still had to move around and kill some more things. Sadly I never got further than this part.

Hmm, the Realms of Arkania games use isometric perspective for combat, while exploration is in the typical first-person view:


What platform again did you play this on? DOS, Win3.x, Win9x?

[JustRiedy]

Win9.x

Not that one sadly, when i say top down i mean directly top down.
It was a jarring change for sure xD

[Quadko]

Hm, not "famous" means the ones coming to mind aren't it. But that switching perspectives was part of Ultima and Wizardry (I think), so it might mean a game "in the old-school dos fashion like Ultima!" On the other hand, Might and Magic, Bard's Tale and similar didn't have that switching of perspective (again, as I recall!), so you might be able to focus in on "type" of RPG.

Do you remember, did you move freely like Ultima Underworld or a modern FPS, or did you move on "squares" - forward one square, turn left, etc.?

Lastly, does anyone remember, was there a first person-ish roguelike with random levels? That could be generic, but nothing's coming to my mind. Do you remember if it had a story, or was indeed random levels "get to bottom of dungeon"?

[Guest]

It was one square at a time movement, all combat and everything while underground was First Person.

I think time froze when not moving, not certain though.

There was some "story", essentially escape.

[Quadko]

There was a Dungeon Master 2, and gamespot has a list of games "similar" - you might look through those:
http://www.gamespot.com/dungeon-master- ... atform/pc/

Random guess from the list: Anvil of Dawn

Tangential to the topic, have you seen the recent Legend of Grimrock ( http://www.grimrock.net/ )? I'm somewhere in the middle and having lots of fun. Same type of game. It's available from several places, I bought mine from my much loved GOG.com.

[dosraider]

.....have you seen the recent Legend of Grimrock ( http://www.grimrock.net/ )?......

*groans*........ must restrain myself and me ..... must ...... restrain ..... must .... AAAAAAaaaaaaaaaaaaaarghhhhhhh .... already busy with too much stuffs .......

You really had to post this, did ya?

*groans*

[Quadko]

Always happy to do my part.

[Sebret]

Dragon Wars? Your party starts by being stripped off all possessions and thrown in the walled city of Purgatory.