blotunga: I have tried giving Wasteland a go, but it's just to dated for my taste. I got stuck in the first conversation I had, I just couldn't figure out what question to type...
OldFatGuy: Yep, I understand it's going to be too dated for many who are used to the improvements that technology has brought. I got started on games like this (actually, the first PC game I ever played had ZERO graphics, you typed everything and everything was text. IIRC it was just called "Adventure" or something like that).
I can understand a lot of folks being turned off by a lot of the old RPG's that required one to make their own map too, something I've used more than one piece of graph paper to do in my day (LOL).
Plus, I can understand when it's just the graphics that turns people off to the point of not playing. My favorite example of this one would be Betrayal at Krondor, which to this day is in my top 5 all time favorite games, but because graphics do play a role (you have to "see" things to click on them") and because they are so bad I totally understand people not wanting to go there.
It's a shame, because IMO folks are missing out on some really great games, but it's totally understood. Hell, I'm not sure I've got it in me to go back to graph paper and making maps again (aka The Bard series as an example... NOT "The Bard" here at gog). And some of the old D&D games requiring that wheel thing would turn lots of folks off too. (Yeah, I've got a bunch of those old wheels laying around here somewhere, IIRC some of the original Eye of the Beholder games used those).
You mean 'The Bard's Tale'? The re-boot DOES include the original 3 games from the old 8-bit days, the Apple II versions via emulation rather than the DOS ones for some reason but they're there!