User blog comment:Jonggonzales1/Dragon's dogma: Prettiest female character creation ever ?/@comment-25604735-20141210135729/@comment-25604735-20141211024958

@Kara;

The nickname Trash80 brings back some nostalgic mmemories. I'd figured out that anyone who had read the Tale of the Five Books had not just graduated from high school.

Great minds (or possibly frivolous gamers) think alike. A little over a week ago, I used Bard's Tale to illustrate the difference between western and eastern RPG story telling in a thread about JRPGs on the PlayStation.

The Bard's Tale was superb. It went a long way to make up for Wizardry IV being delayed. At the time of Bard's Tale's release, the delay was supposed to have been about a year but it ended up being three or four. I think Bard's Tale was Interplay's first game--they later went on to do Baldur's Gate and countless other great titles. I remember mapping the dungeons with a large graph paper pad the size of a desk calendar--22" X 17".

Moreover, the reason I kept an Apple II around was because I had got one of the first IBM PCs. It had a low persistence monochrome monitor that was great for text but could not do graphics even if the game did not require color. Later, I did upgrade to a Pentium just in time for Wizardry IV.

I never did mess around with the code in a finished game but collaborated with a lot of open source code stuff. I did mess around with save files--the Wizardry series is a case in point. It was so easy--it wasn't even hacking just simple editing. You could boost your party by dozens of levels with a couple of keystrokes. You could look at the code of a one-of-a-kind weapon, dupe it, and equip it on every member in the party. You could remove the curse on a cursed weapon and the list goes on.

Don't try to fool people into thinking Draken's just a pretty face. I have yet to see a pawn with such a well developed AI. I envy him. I have spent hundreds of hours on training Nei's AI. Although I have had some success, she cannot approach Draken's level of sophistication.