Dark Designs I: Grelminar's Staff
Although they are by no means revolutionary, Dark Designs games exhibit the same care and polish that become the hallmark of later John Carmack games. They are fun to play, and even sport some nice features not commonly seen in early RPGs. For example, during character creation, you can assign each number you got to any stats, and secret areas abound. The games will also automatically save your game in progress once in a while-- a welcome feature that should be used more often in today's games.
In short, fans of classic commercial RPGs such as Ultima will probably find the games too simplistic and somewhat repetitive. As shareware titles, though, they are definitely some of the best ever made in that period, and one of the best Big Blue Disk games. And as some of the earliest games by John Carmack, they are definitely priceless to his fans and id Software historians :)
Average Rating: | 7.26 [15 votes] |
Genre: | RPG |
Designer: | John Carmack |
Developer: | SoftDisk Publishing |
Publisher: | SoftDisk Publishing |
Year: | 1990 |
Software Copyright: | SoftDisk Publishing |
Theme: | Fantasy |
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More Info: | Mobygames | The Web |
System Requirements: | DOS |
If you like this game, try: | Dark Designs II: Closing The Gate, Dungeon Hack, Demon's Winter |
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