Ep 2. Party equipped! Death tally: 1 Lol 🖤 Deathlord;  1987's Forgotten RPG Gem Let's Play Series

[@billcox8870]

I am happy with the format and I like to hear the commentary.

[@Goldenageofgames]

@@billcox8870 Hey great! I feel I can ramble on a bit too much at times, but let me know if anything feels like it’s taking away from the videos. I’m glad you like my format and commentary.

[@billcox8870]

@@Goldenageofgames I'm just happy to be along for the ride

[@Goldenageofgames]

@@billcox8870 well it’s going to be a long one! The game takes probably 55+ hours to win, probably more.

[@tuirnb]

I remember getting this for my C64 at the time. It was a fantastic game. If I remember correctly, it was a hardcore game - if you die, it's over. At the time that was quite frustrating.

[@Goldenageofgames]

@@tuirnb oh man you might want to watch my video on the beautifully brutal gameplay of Deathlord. I played Deathlord on the Apple iigs. Are these graphics the same as the ones you remember? I love this game, my personal favorite CRPG of all time. Great to meet a fellow lover of this game. I know it gets plenty of negative reviews, but it’ll never get that from me. Just in case you want to watch a little more, here is a link to my video. A Look At The Beautifully Brutal Gameplay of Deathlord (1987): Pain and Reward (Why I ♥️ This Game) kzbin.info/www/bejne/m6mzYoiOrt15jLs

[@davidrobert1229]

I remember this one

[@Goldenageofgames]

@@davidrobert1229 Oh man I’m surprised you do. This one isn’t that well known. What do you remember?

[@billcox8870]

Time for part 2.😊

[@Goldenageofgames]

@@billcox8870 And I’ve already begun working on episode three muhahaha

[@billcox8870]

@Goldenageofgames sounds ominous

[@spooplegeist]

Ooh very cool stuff. I've been looking to start doing stuff like this myself (maybe not quite so retro as you, though). The concept of the Let's Play is quite unique and you have a pleasant cadence for commentary. I agree that I think you should have the only other sound be the in-game music/sounds, because that's more immersive than stock copyright free music or something. Just some notes on pronouncing the party member names (also for my own practice): Ryoshi = Ree-Oh-She Yakuza = Yaw-kuzzah (like "Huzzah! We've found the Holy Grail!"), but the way you pronounced it is fine too Shisai = She-sigh Mahotsukai = Ma-hoat (like coat or mote)-sky Genkai = Gen (hard "G" like in "get")-ky (like "sky"); this one was all good

[@Goldenageofgames]

@@spooplegeist oh man I will try to incorporate those pronunciations! How do you know Japanese? Well I’m so pleased you think I have a pleasant cadence for commentary. And pretty darn cool that you’re thinking of making your own retro let’s plays as well. What kind of games were you thinking? And I’m definitely going to be not including any music or extra sounds during gameplay. Maybe little flavor bits here and there. But not like underlying music to help fill up the space. I love the sparse nature of it.

[@spooplegeist]

@@Goldenageofgames I started learning it a couple weeks ago because a job there may be in my future 😅 so that’s what I meant when I said it’s for my own practice as well. For sure! I saw you say something like feeling you’re rambling too much. You’re too hard on yourself. I think especially in the early stages of a playthrough, you’ll feel like that a lot, because you’re trying to establish the game for people. As you keep doing the playthrough, I’m sure you’ll start to get the sense of what things you no longer need to explain or comment on. I used to do more streaming and such ages ago, but just recently got into it again, and I definitely had that same sense of “oh no, I’m talking too much.” From an outside perspective, though, I like your “rambling”. It’s showed me both how knowledgeable you are about Deathlord and how much you like it. I’m still sort of figuring out what kinds of things I want to do let’s plays/streams of. The other day I did a stream with some friends of a weird, somewhat obscure, PS1 game, and that was pretty fun. I have some older friends (I’m a deal younger than you) who have been telling me about old DOS games they loved when they were younger, but have no idea how to access anymore. So maybe more niche/strange retro games or ones that people don’t know how to access? I also like the idea of retrospectives on games that have since been remastered and remade a billion times and passed so far into pop culture that nobody even remembers the original. So things like Silent Hill and Resident Evil (since I’m a big horror fan). I’m also always looking for underrated or overlooked fantasy games (even if just for my own enjoyment, not for any kind of content creation), because I’m also a fantasy nerd, so finding your channel was super cool. My favorite fantasy gem I’ve found so far is Darkstone (an action RPG dungeon crawler) for the PlayStation 1. Just in case you’re ever interested in checking it out. :)

[@Goldenageofgames]

@ if you are wanting to play DOS games, you want to download something called ExoDos. It has like 8000 DOS games available to it. You can either download the big version of it, that has all of those games with it, or you can download the light version of it, and download individual games as you go. There is a KZbin channel called The Retro Vault, I mentioned his channel in my video called “A Look At The Beautifully Brutal Gameplay of Deathlord (1987): Pain and Reward (Why I ♥️ This Game)” he plays games off of ExoDOS it might be a good resource for you as well. I think it’s great that you might make your own videos of it. What weird obscure PlayStation game did you play with your friends?

[@spooplegeist]

@@Goldenageofgames Ahh sweet! Thanks for the tip! I watched that vid right after this, but it was laaaaate where I am and I may have fallen asleep. I did look into emulators, and it sounds like DOSbox may be good too, but I haven’t tried it out yet. I’ll check out both and report back. 🫡 The game is called Incredible Crisis. I was away from modern technologies and reeling from a failed Christmas challenge stream and reflecting on what it was I wanted out of content creation, so I was looking up what the weirdest games were that my old laptop could handle. This one consistently came up as the weirdest game for the PlayStation 1, so I called in some friends to experience it blind with me. It’s a mini-game based game about getting a family home in time for grandma’s birthday, despite a suite of wacky mishaps befalling them. It was a good go, but we had some technical mishaps, and we’re all a bit rusty in live commentary, so it may deserve a second go at some point.

[@Goldenageofgames]

@ Well it sounds like you were pretty groggy watching that other video of mine and you should probably watch it again ;) And I’ve tried to get DOSbox to work but my attempts so far have been in vain. I’ve never heard of incredible crisis. A failed Christmas challenge stream? And that’s too funny you were looking up weird games. The game you’re talking about reminds me of a dream cast game called Shenmui where are you are basically a person. Living in an apartment, having to get a job, to keep up with your family. Live commentary can be pretty fun! I enjoy it very much. Although I speak too fast at times and my words get jumbled. That might be something I’ll work on the rest of my life. Although I do have one let’s play on my channel about a game Neverwinter Nights 2002 and since I am an in person Dungeonmaster, I use that game to practice voice acting and using different accents.

[@TheNPColiseum]

those pen and paper days :)

[@Goldenageofgames]

@@TheNPColiseum Pen and paper! Together forever! I’m not sure how I will video me drawing those maps, but I’m looking forward to figuring it out.

[@RobertColburn-o9p]

What do you think the purpose of the "Untouchable Peasant" class is? It seems strange to include something like that unless there was an in-game reason...🤔

[@Goldenageofgames]

@@RobertColburn-o9p geez I don’t know! Maybe it’s related to a Japanese caste system of some sort? Or it could be that in order to save coding space on the desks they used all the character classes as npc’s. Or perhaps the developers wanted to play with a class that had no skills and no benefits lol for the challenge of it.

[@RobertColburn-o9p]

@@Goldenageofgames you just wait. You'll get to the very end and there will be some need to have one in your party...

[@Goldenageofgames]

@ That would definitely be the Deathlord way lol. Kind of like the Adventure Construction Set needing you to make a 2nd character halfway through the game just to get you past one part.