Octopus Overlords

Here is my list in alphabetical order because I will have a nervous breakdown trying to actually rank them. I am sure I will want to swap games in and out if I keep thinking about this, so I will just put what I have out there.

1 Asteroids
2 Bioshock
3 Bioshock Infinite
4 Breakout
5 Dishonored
6 Dishonored 2
7 Donkey Kong
8 Dragon Stomper
9 Gyruss
10 Jump Man
11 Legend of Zelda
12 Legend of Zelda - A Link to the Past
13 Legend of Zelda - Ocarina of Time
14 Legend of Zelda - Twilight Princess
15 Legend of Zelda - Wind Waker
16 Metroid Dread
17 Metroid Fusion
18 Metroid Prime
19 Metroid Prime 3: Corruption
20 Metroid Prime: Echoes
21 Metroid Samus Returns
22 Metroid Zero Mission
23 Pac Man
24 Phaser Patrol
25 Pitfall 2
26 Pitstop 2
27 Portal
28 Portal 2
29 Sinistar
30 Space Invaders
31 Star Wars (Arcade)
32 Star Wars - Knights of the Old Republic
33 Star Wars - KOTOR 2
34 Star Wars - The Old Republic
35 Super Mario Bros.
36 Super Metroid
37 System Shock 2
38 Tempest
39 The Talos Principle
40 Thief: Deadly Shadows
41 Thief: The Dark Project
42 Thief: The Metal Age
43 Ultima I
44 Ultima II
45 Ultima III
46 Ultima IV
47 Ultima V
48 Ultima VI
49 Ultima VII - Serpent Isle
50 Ultima VII - The Black Gate

Are you sure you really liked Ultima?

The Meal wrote: Tue Oct 22, 2024 7:21 am I preferred Angband.

I've diddled with Angband, Nethack, Dungeon Crawl Stone Soup, and Alphaman. But Moria is the only one I played long enough to beat*, probably because of its simplicity.

*I didn't legitimately beat it, I save-scummed.

LordMortis wrote: Tue Oct 22, 2024 10:38 am I was trying to think of Star Control II but the truth is I sucked at it so bad while others were so good that it my memories of it are being a great game for other people. Maybe if I owned it and put time in to it when I was young.

It's a hard game. I benefitted from having watched a friend play it, then I applied the same tactics when I played it later.

JCC wrote: Tue Oct 22, 2024 5:55 pm 9 Gyruss

A lover of Bach, I see.

Hipolito wrote: Tue Oct 22, 2024 8:45 pm

The Meal wrote: Tue Oct 22, 2024 7:21 am I preferred Angband.

I've diddled with Angband, Nethack, Dungeon Crawl Stone Soup, and Alphaman. But Moria is the only one I played long enough to beat*, probably because of its simplicity.

*I didn't legitimately beat it, I save-scummed

The only thing I can find under Moria is a Lord of the Rings game. Is that what you're talking about?

Jaymann wrote: Tue Oct 22, 2024 8:53 pm

Hipolito wrote: Tue Oct 22, 2024 8:45 pm

The Meal wrote: Tue Oct 22, 2024 7:21 am I preferred Angband.

I've diddled with Angband, Nethack, Dungeon Crawl Stone Soup, and Alphaman. But Moria is the only one I played long enough to beat*, probably because of its simplicity.

*I didn't legitimately beat it, I save-scummed

The only thing I can find under Moria is a Lord of the Rings game. Is that what you're talking about?

It's only loosely inspired by LOTR. Don't expect to see any ASCII art of Liv Tyler if you decide to play it.
CRPG Addict article on Moria: https://crpgaddict.blogspot.com/2015/02 ... -1983.html

Yeah I found that. It's a little too crude even for me.

Hipolito wrote: Tue Oct 22, 2024 8:45 pm *I didn't legitimately beat it, I save-scummed.

Save scumming wasn't something I would have known how to do back then

Jaymann wrote: Tue Oct 22, 2024 10:58 pm Yeah I found that. It's a little too crude even for me.

And yet when Dwarf Fortress came to my attention, i was like RTS squad based Moria!!!! Yay!!!! Boy was I wrong on that one.

Fardaza wrote: Tue Oct 22, 2024 8:24 pm Are you sure you really liked Ultima?

Absolutely! I had dabbled in RPGs a bit (the original Wizardry) but Ultima 3 was a huge deal to me when I tried it. Ultima IV is one of the all time greats! I have played all of them. Ultima VIII and IX were horrid by comparison, and yet I still played and won them (begrudgingly).

I'm pretty sure that Ultima IV is the only one I really put an effort into. I loved it also.

I think it was IV on my Atari that you had to do an entire dungeon in single run and I still remember to this day COR AMO VER and doing the dungeon over hours at a time and getting booted out because I didn't put them in the right order.

Yes it was VERAMOCOR. And on the C64 I you couldn't save in dungeons either!