Posted September 29, 2015
So way back in the ancient past (the 90s) I played an indie RPG game set in a kind of tongue-in-cheek fantasy world. It was all based on some kind of customisable platform, so I remember playing the first game, and then a major extension using the same platform by a different game designer.
Things I remember are:
- Possessed chickens
- King Midas, who'd turned everything to gold
- A level where some crazy fundamentalist religious types had taken over from the Knights in White Satin. A couple of gay druids enlisted you to stop them. There was some magic shard which you needed to retrieve to complete the level, but it turned out to be inside a innocent child, who you had to kill to retrieve the shard, or else find some alternate, complex way to complete the level, which I never found.
- A group of orc miners who complained about the way orcs are portrayed, and sang a song about it.
- A level which could only be completed by having sex with ten giantesses without any rest, and there were monstrous walking boobs and other such creatures trying to kill you.
You could talk to and fight most things, so it had that kind of open-ended feel. The viewpoint was kind of isometric, like Baldur's Gate. I think it was all free / amateur - I just downloaded from a website.
I always thought the story and writing was amazing - very funny but also atmospheric - much better than most paid-for games, and the actual gameplay wasn't bad either. Anyway I've felt guilty ever since for not ever bothering to write some fan mail to the creators, since that was all I think they did it for. I'm also just curious as to what happened to the geniuses who created those games.
Does anyone have any idea what I'm talking about?!
Things I remember are:
- Possessed chickens
- King Midas, who'd turned everything to gold
- A level where some crazy fundamentalist religious types had taken over from the Knights in White Satin. A couple of gay druids enlisted you to stop them. There was some magic shard which you needed to retrieve to complete the level, but it turned out to be inside a innocent child, who you had to kill to retrieve the shard, or else find some alternate, complex way to complete the level, which I never found.
- A group of orc miners who complained about the way orcs are portrayed, and sang a song about it.
- A level which could only be completed by having sex with ten giantesses without any rest, and there were monstrous walking boobs and other such creatures trying to kill you.
You could talk to and fight most things, so it had that kind of open-ended feel. The viewpoint was kind of isometric, like Baldur's Gate. I think it was all free / amateur - I just downloaded from a website.
I always thought the story and writing was amazing - very funny but also atmospheric - much better than most paid-for games, and the actual gameplay wasn't bad either. Anyway I've felt guilty ever since for not ever bothering to write some fan mail to the creators, since that was all I think they did it for. I'm also just curious as to what happened to the geniuses who created those games.
Does anyone have any idea what I'm talking about?!