Comments | eskemp: Endless Stone Halls

eskemp

Endless Stone Halls

Oct 07, 2009 15:08

There is a certain image that has always inspired me with a modest level of intellectual dread. Effectively, it is the labyrinth. Not just any old maze, mind; hedge mazes seem almost homey, and the corn mazes that are popular down here are pretty harmless as well unless you go in deliberately churning images of brutal harvest gods and Children of ( Read more... )

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eurika October 8 2009, 02:45:14 UTC

Wish you had gone with me on a tour of the steam tunnels at ECU.

eskemp October 8 2009, 16:37:30 UTC

I am not myself an adventurer, apparently.

mouseferatu October 8 2009, 02:55:32 UTC

Another part, oddly enough, can be traced to Bard's Tale 3. ... (I never made it past Gelidia, sad to say. How I'd love a re-release of those games...)

Oh, man, I wish. I loved those games.

Or at least, I loved the first two. I never played the third. :-}

See, I was one of the seven people in the world to buy an Apple IIGS. And while they redid the first two, updating graphics and music to the IIGS, they never got around doing the third. And I just couldn't bring myself to play it with the old school graphics and lack of sound. :-(

mouseferatu October 8 2009, 02:56:24 UTC

Oh, and the first person to mention the recently released travesty that stole the Bard's Tale name for an unrelated game gets e-mailed a smack upside the head. :-P

;-)

eskemp October 8 2009, 16:39:30 UTC

Some of my getting-to-know-you conversations with my wife have entailed comparing Wizardry with Bard's Tale, as she was raised by one and I was raised by the other.

I'm awfully jealous of Wizardry, actually, as it managed to take off in Japan and I think they still make console games for it there. I know we have a copy of the PS2 Wizardry something something Forsaken Land.

xsands October 8 2009, 17:09:22 UTC

The Bard Tale's game got put in a fantasy RPG collection set at one point back in the CD-ROM days along with several other good games (I think a later Wizardy game was in the package). Sadly I don't remember the name of the collection at this point...

Never mind applied more internet foo, here you go:
http://www.amazon.com/Ultimate-RPG-Archives-Pc/dp/B00001QEPC

hot_pants November 3 2009, 02:22:23 UTC

I was reading Borges the other day and this post came to mind, there's a mention of a labyrinth that actually managed to give me a good, eerie scare. Borges' fascination with labyrinths goes beyond physical ones, and into labyrinths of fate and causality as well. He's pretty amazing.