Re: What Have You Been Playing... IN MARCH 2025?

On 09/04/2025 18:58, Mike S. wrote:

On Wed, 9 Apr 2025 09:50:55 +0100, JAB <noway@nochance.com> wrote:

Legend of Grim Rock
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I've had this for ages but never got around to seriously playing it.
I've now put at least a few hours in and considering it's basically
Dungeon Master with better graphics it's surprising fun.
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Hunting around finding loss rocks or switches and then listening for the
opening of a gate. What's not to like. One thing I didn't do was put it
into classic mode as however much I have fond memories of mapping out
the dungeon, even when you realise you've missed out a square somewhere,
I kinda preferred to have the convenience of auto-map.

 Haha. I like the convenience of an automapper as well but I don't mind
doing it myself either. Since this game has a steam achievement for
'doing it old school', I may end up just playing it in classic mode if
or when I  get around to playing it. Like you, I've had this game for
a long time but haven't yet got around to playing it. I was a big fan
of Eye of the Beholder back in the day.

I never played Eye of the Beholder but my limited understanding is it's someone looked at Dungeon Master and went we can do a version of that.
The auto-mapper, I did erm ard ah a bit before switching it on. The one thing I decided not to do was looking up all the spell combinations and that felt a bit like cheating instead of having to discover them on scrolls or just by trial and error.