Showing posts with label FTL Games. Show all posts
Showing posts with label FTL Games. Show all posts

Thursday, January 17, 2013

Let's Play Chaos Strikes Back

Platform: Amiga
Released: 1989
Genre: RPG
Setting: Fantasy/Dungeon Crawler
Developer: FTL Games
Publisher: FTL Games
Version: 3.1


Playlist:



First Video in the Series:



It's the sequel to Dungeon Master! So you thought Dungeon Master was hard? Tag along as I tackle one of the most complicated, convoluted dungeons ever designed. Our quest is to find the four corbums (eh?) that sucked the mana from the Grey Lord, causing Lord Chaos to split off from him again. Lost yet? We'll just battle our way through four paths: Ku (warrior), Neta (priest), Ros (ninja), and Dain (wizard), finding a corbum at the end of each one. Once all the corbums are collected, we just throw them into the Fulya Pit (huh?), and we'll save the day. Simple, huh? Ha! Ha ha ha ha! HAHAHAHAHAHAHA!

P.S. -  The first ten videos were recorded in March/April of 2012, and only the first five were uploaded at that time. I was unable to get past an event in episode 11 due to the fact that I only had a rudimentary graphics card. Now that I can use Fraps, I can play the game in fullscreen, and get past the event (grabbing the first Corbum from the niche at the end of end of the "Ku" level). So... Episode 11 begins all new recordings in January of 2013, starting from where I left off.


[Total Game Time - 10:11:16]

Selected Comments From YouTube:


• seems hard for early in the game!

• Poor Wulf... She gets dragon killed, then brought back to life, but forced to walk on a brocken ankle and leg for an eternity (to her) until he finaly get some potions. Then the first real fight she gets in again she gets eaten by a spider... Man life isn't easy in your DMing sessions Amethyst... If we ever play D&D togetter, remind me to make a 22 CON dwarf warrior ;-)

• thank you i love you so much :p

• That is horrifying. If I ever played this when I was a little girl I'd still have nightmares! Geez or even if I was little today with all the crazy graphics! I remember getting starttled over the tiniest things...


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Friday, January 6, 2012

Let's Play Dungeon Master

Platform: Amiga
Released: 1987
Genre: RPG
Setting: Fantasy/Dungeon Crawler
Developer: FTL Games
Publisher: FTL Games
Version: 3.6

 Playlist:


First Video in the Series:

This is the grandaddy of them all! Dungeon Master is the first real-time 3D RPG. It became the highest-selling game for the Atari ST, and was rapidly ported to many other systems soon after. I'm playing the Amiga version, which I greatly prefer. This game scared the hell out of me when I was little. After being battle-hardened (horror-hardened?) by games like Silent Hill and Undying, I was able to handle the shrieking mummies a bit better. I later finished the game, ergo this is not a blind run like many of my other Let's Plays. I'll try to be informative and such, but there's no way I can fly around the dungeons like Elanarae can. ;)

[Total Game Time - 13:20:03]

Selected Comments From YouTube:

Yay! Finally an interesting LP of this game! :D
Keep up the good work!

karate trousers!! this game was so weird in some ways for a fantasy game. but the wizardry and M&M games were very strange at times too i reckon. o.0

it's amazing after all these years DM still has great gameplay mechanics - better than most of its rivals in a lot of ways. its only true gameplay weakness is the lack of a map IMO. =)

don't you know it's against dungeon regulations to go around dropping doors on peoples' heads willy-nilly. management will have to be informed! 

I'm so glad I found Your channel. I was watching Your playthrough of Dungeon Master for 2 days straight now... Thank You for bringing tears of nostalgia to my eyes. I remember I used to play this game when I was like 10. Only I had Amiga 1200 so my friends used to come to my home and try to figure out the riddles and puzzles with me. So much fun... And it scared the shit out of us too! 

I saw your name. I checked your channel. I picked a possibly interesting LP. And I was not disappointed. You have gained a new subscriber this day!

DM Is still good game. Played it fully with that Java remake, and i'm on my way in Chaos Strikes back.. now that's a challenge, And i like the idea of no map, you can teach your memory a lot that way :) On Curse of the Azure Bonds, Secret of the Silver Blades and Pools of Darkness on the other hand, now that needs some mapping at some places. I really like the old RPG games. 

You have a good taste in games...this is my favourite game of all time...I'll be watching this...


Links of Interest:

Dungeon Master Encyclopaedia (A Massive Website With Info on All Dungeon Master Games!)

Download the Amiga Version From Dungeon Master Encyclopaedia

Download the PC Version From Dungeon Master Encyclopaedia

Video Retrospective by Matt Barton on Matt Chat (This is an MP4. Right-Click to Save)

Review by Matt Barton on Armchair Arcade  

Dungeon Master on The CRPG Addict's Blog:  Part 1   Part 2   Part 3   Part 4   Part 5   Part 6   Part 7   Part 8   Part 9   Part 10

Review in Dragon Magazine # 136 (August 1988) (Pages 76 - 79) Large File!

Review in Computer Gaming World, By Scorpia # 100 (Nov 1992) (Pages 94 - 96)

Dungeon Master & Chaos Strikes Back Review in Amiga Action # 38 (Nov 1992)

Super Nintendo Dungeon Master Intro (none of the other versions had an intro)

Hilarious Video Review by In Retro  

Dungeon Master on Wikipedia

Dungeon Master on MobyGames