tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-6162314467762792782.post4659664791359811472..comments2024-03-28T15:25:30.216-04:00Comments on The CRPG Addict: Game 122: Legend of Faerghail (1990)CRPG Addicthttp://www.blogger.com/profile/01238237377918550322noreply@blogger.comBlogger90125tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-6162314467762792782.post-5658127237818725072021-05-05T03:59:08.970-04:002021-05-05T03:59:08.970-04:00As a German this is pretty interesting to me, alth...As a German this is pretty interesting to me, although the translation is rather unfortunate.Dragnipurakehttps://www.blogger.com/profile/17491314816320427932noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-6162314467762792782.post-3556690262944395382014-02-21T09:23:49.441-05:002014-02-21T09:23:49.441-05:00I think 1992-1993 is the era you want to see, Addi...I think 1992-1993 is the era you want to see, Addict. VGA and Sound Blaster were the standard, dialog and plot presentation were given more attention, and it saw Ultima Underworld, Lands of Lore and Betrayal at Krondor spearhead their respective RPG subgenres. It was also just before the CD-ROM – which gradually became the industry standard in 1994 and 1995 – started making developers think of only one thing: how do we fill that disc to the brim with badly digitized multimedia.Mikanoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-6162314467762792782.post-89706486866381661212014-02-14T22:44:25.889-05:002014-02-14T22:44:25.889-05:00I don't know. Are secret doors that you "...I don't know. Are secret doors that you "just walk through" supposed to be ILLUSORY doors? Or is just walking through a shorthand for the process and finding and opening them? If the latter, taking damage doesn't make any sense; if the former, it only makes sense if you assume the characters aren't smart enough to wave a sword at the wall or push it before walking headlong into it.CRPG Addicthttps://www.blogger.com/profile/01238237377918550322noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-6162314467762792782.post-61093132035091500042014-02-11T19:26:25.338-05:002014-02-11T19:26:25.338-05:00If secret door are of the "Just walk right th...If secret door are of the "Just walk right through" variety, then it makes sense that your characters would try to walk through the wall if you tell them to.tlhonmeyhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/03256644187305759072noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-6162314467762792782.post-81920625800088752822013-12-08T01:55:48.918-05:002013-12-08T01:55:48.918-05:00Yeah, but Unearthed Arcana was still first edition...Yeah, but <em>Unearthed Arcana</em> was still first edition. I just said they were in first-edition AD&D; I didn't say they were part of the first-edition core rules.Jalen Wandererhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/00973042209003357278noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-6162314467762792782.post-21112823960434400722013-12-02T05:06:48.038-05:002013-12-02T05:06:48.038-05:00I envy those with 20-year-old wives. Oooh...kay......I envy those with 20-year-old wives. Oooh...kay... better not let my wife see this...Kenny McCormickhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/01553499727945099493noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-6162314467762792782.post-33207629743575212132013-12-02T03:11:39.313-05:002013-12-02T03:11:39.313-05:00There's a famous interview with George Lucas d...There's a famous interview with George Lucas during a tour in Germany, where he was asked to repeat "that famous sentence from Star Wars". Unfortunately the simultaneous translator did not appear to ever have seen Star Wars, so he translated "May the Force be with you!" into a German sentence that said: "May, 4th, we'll be with you."<br /><br />That being said, I don't think translation is the problem of this horrible paragraph with hyphens, parenthese and the wrong use of quotes. It simply strikes me as a paragraph where the author wanted to sound either funny or witty or vey "modern". If I translate that back into German, it sounds just as horrible.Aryadornoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-6162314467762792782.post-59435614806730478572013-11-21T08:43:06.781-05:002013-11-21T08:43:06.781-05:00If it wasn't for that bad translation the inte...If it wasn't for that bad translation the internet would be a poorer place.<br /><br />move zig<br />move zig<br />move zig<br />all your base<br />all your base<br />are belong to us<br /><br /><br />Also, it makes me feel old when 20 somethings like my wife don't have any idea about "all your base" or "yatta irrational exuberance"! You young whippersnappers with your you tubes and redddits back my day you had to wait whole halves of hours for a video to load, and you were happy if there wasn't a surprise gross-out sick image at the end.UbAhhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/13447678457902055799noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-6162314467762792782.post-22470492852025450512013-11-21T04:15:09.819-05:002013-11-21T04:15:09.819-05:00Kenny: Machine translations are cheating.
That s...Kenny: Machine translations are cheating. <br /><br />That said:<br />In A.D. 2101<br />War was beginning.<br />Captain: What happen?<br />Mechanic: Somebody set up us the bomb.<br />Operator: We get signal.<br />Captain: What !<br />Operator: Main screen turn on.<br />Captain: It's you !!<br />CATS: How are you gentlemen !!<br />CATS: All your base are belong to us.<br />CATS: You are on the way to destruction.<br />Captain: What you say !!<br />CATS: You have no chance to survive make your time.<br />CATS: Ha ha ha ha ...<br />Operator: Captain !!<br />Captain: Take off every 'ZIG'!!<br />Captain: You know what you doing.<br />Captain: Move 'ZIG'.<br />Captain: (...)For great justice<br /><br />Wikipedia also has a more accurate translation:<br />In A.D. 2101<br />War was beginning.<br />Captain: What the heck was that?<br />Engineer: It seems that someone set off some kind of explosive on our ship.<br />Communications operator: Captain! Incoming transmission!<br />Captain: What?<br />Communications operator: Route video to the main screen.<br />Captain: Y-you!!<br />CATS: You seem busy, gentlemen.<br />CATS: Thanks to the cooperation of the Federation Government forces, CATS has been able to take all of your bases.<br />CATS: I guess it will soon be the end for your ship, too.<br />Captain: It-it can't be...!<br />CATS: I would like to thank you for your cooperation. Treasure what remains of your lives....<br />CATS: Ha ha ha ha ha...<br />Communications operator: Captain....? What should we do....?<br />Captain: Issue an immediate take off order for all ZIG units!!<br />Captain: Leaving the mission to them is all we can do now...<br />Captain: I beg of you, ZIG!!<br />Captain: To try to restore hope to our future...Canageekhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/03770924810559440307noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-6162314467762792782.post-10477599448080860182013-11-21T04:03:30.153-05:002013-11-21T04:03:30.153-05:00Jalen Wanderer: Sort of, Barbarians weren't ad...Jalen Wanderer: Sort of, Barbarians weren't added until Dragon #63 (July 1982) or Unearthed Arcana in 1985. The rest I'm not sure about, and it is late. Canageekhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/03770924810559440307noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-6162314467762792782.post-88361597560932401342013-11-21T04:00:55.703-05:002013-11-21T04:00:55.703-05:00An RPG called Blackguards based on Das Schwarze Au...An RPG called Blackguards based on Das Schwarze Auge just came out in prerelease. Pretty fun, though you can get stuck into one nearly impossible fight if you do it too early (such is the trails of alpha access). That fight made the rest kind of repetitive afterwards. Of course, I did the whole first section in a giant 11 hour run, which might have not helped. Canageekhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/03770924810559440307noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-6162314467762792782.post-71839371672734271182013-11-21T03:29:58.067-05:002013-11-21T03:29:58.067-05:00Jalen Wanderer: Technically RaHoWa isn't playa...Jalen Wanderer: Technically RaHoWa isn't playable, as you can't complete an attack role. I can't verify this, as while I have a electronic copy, the one time I tried to read it I felt physically ill. <br /><br />Chet: Hybrid is a set of psudomathamatical rules with lots of racist comments, that is claimed to be an RPG. As said above, it is one of the unholy trinity of RPGs, the three RPGs considered to be the worst ever written; the other two are FATAL (The second edition was titled From Another Time, Another Land, which was a great improvement on the original title of Fantasy Adventure To Adult Lechery. It is 400+ pages of rules for rape, racism, and pages and pages of horrible tables and math and blehhhh. <br />It has <em>nany pvephzsrerapr</em> tables. <br /><br />Racial Holy War is the worst of the lot in my opinion, as well, it was written by a skinhead group and freely distributed, so you can guess the contents. Or what they tried to write anyway. There moral rules meant that any character you could create would automatically run from 5 unarmed grandmothers, no matter what weapon they had. <br /><br />Does that clear things up at all?Canageekhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/03770924810559440307noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-6162314467762792782.post-84361879257168121302013-11-15T05:18:18.856-05:002013-11-15T05:18:18.856-05:00"One one side, I want to know about them.&quo..."One one side, I want to know about them."<br /><br />It should be "On"Kenny McCormickhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/01553499727945099493noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-6162314467762792782.post-80221017720282897692013-11-15T03:52:14.951-05:002013-11-15T03:52:14.951-05:00Dante would be so proud.Dante would be so proud.Kenny McCormickhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/01553499727945099493noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-6162314467762792782.post-19151976778807606882013-11-14T03:47:36.900-05:002013-11-14T03:47:36.900-05:00Well Finnish version of HQ boardgame had either a ...Well Finnish version of HQ boardgame had either a bad translation or some of the rules missing because the original English version seems to be twice as long. <br /><br />Also Kellar in Finnish declines as kellarin in the title and we end up with "The fortress of the basement" since kellari means basement or a medieval style cold storage in Finnish.Anonymousnoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-6162314467762792782.post-39531374536699630872013-11-13T14:31:33.424-05:002013-11-13T14:31:33.424-05:00It's definitely overdone here. Three or four h...It's definitely overdone here. Three or four hits and one character is dead, and given the sensitivity of the controls, this is certainly possible.CRPG Addicthttps://www.blogger.com/profile/01238237377918550322noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-6162314467762792782.post-28815695961603339872013-11-13T14:30:26.811-05:002013-11-13T14:30:26.811-05:00I look forward (in a masochistic way) to learning ...I look forward (in a masochistic way) to learning exactly what you mean.CRPG Addicthttps://www.blogger.com/profile/01238237377918550322noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-6162314467762792782.post-91056590934588024622013-11-13T10:32:17.666-05:002013-11-13T10:32:17.666-05:00"you're several years away from the CD re..."you're several years away from the CD revolution (which IMO ruined games for years the same way the early 3D boom did - devs were so drunk on new exciting technology that they took every possible excuse to use it even when their games suffered from it)"<br /><br />Amen to that.Anonymousnoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-6162314467762792782.post-914938805483567792013-11-13T10:08:36.250-05:002013-11-13T10:08:36.250-05:00Never liked those Dark Eye Games.
I don´t do trai...Never liked those Dark Eye Games. <br />I don´t do train simulations (another german thing), and I LOATHE too much micromanagement in Crpgs.<br />Greetings from Germany <br />:-)Anonymousnoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-6162314467762792782.post-50609380984759515022013-11-13T09:57:44.324-05:002013-11-13T09:57:44.324-05:00Looks like it has a kickstarter to translate it an...Looks like it has a kickstarter to translate it and publish in English.<br /><br />The kickstarter page has more information about the game.UbAhhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/13447678457902055799noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-6162314467762792782.post-48622974722988339982013-11-13T09:13:21.972-05:002013-11-13T09:13:21.972-05:00My take is that it is not ironic, due to my minor ...My take is that it is not ironic, due to my minor knowledge of the culture.<br /><br />The art is straight up feel good style anime.<br /><br />There is a huge trend for what we would call "wholesomeness" that is like the cult of cute we all know about. I liken it to our one time love affair with Norman Rockwell.<br /><br />All accounts I have heard allude to very serious play and strictness in interpreting the rules.<br /><br />When I was in japan no one really got sarcasm, so I don't think it has as big a role in the culture as it does in Roman derived cultures.<br />UbAhhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/13447678457902055799noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-6162314467762792782.post-89563588510478869082013-11-13T07:53:01.822-05:002013-11-13T07:53:01.822-05:00It's possible they are all simply the same, fa...It's possible they are all simply the same, faulty rip. That's not uncommon. The manual scan I have doesn't list credits for DOS music, only for Amiga and Atari ST though. I might investigate this later. <br />There's also a fair bit of talk about bugs, and a developer giving a little insight over at the German Legacy entry:<br />http://www.thelegacy.de/Museum/4714/<br /><br />He says the rules of the game were based on the 1st German AD&D edition. <br />Trypticonnoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-6162314467762792782.post-70037295335169404292013-11-12T21:07:26.205-05:002013-11-12T21:07:26.205-05:00Nope, that game sounds fascinating in that it exis...Nope, that game sounds fascinating in that it exists. Don't know if I'd like to play it. I have to look into this 'heartwarming' trend, super interested in whether it's ironic or straight-up or wherever in between. Hard to tell with a different culture in any case, perhaps we'll see examples of this new subgenre in the west soon enough and get a clearer picture then.Helmhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/00584102280299430293noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-6162314467762792782.post-20150466151363919492013-11-12T18:12:09.378-05:002013-11-12T18:12:09.378-05:00Huh. Those files weren't part of the version I...Huh. Those files weren't part of the version I downloaded. I tried two other sources, and they don't seem to have them, either.CRPG Addicthttps://www.blogger.com/profile/01238237377918550322noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-6162314467762792782.post-25720164917115761692013-11-12T18:06:43.505-05:002013-11-12T18:06:43.505-05:00There's a posting over at the German cgboard w...There's a posting over at the German cgboard which says that the DOS version has intro sound if LOF.MUS + LOF.TIM + VOR.EXE are in the LOF directory. <br />Trypticonnoreply@blogger.com