Planet Bob - Playing Times of Lore (C64)

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Hi there!

 

I always wanted to try this one, the game Chris Roberts did before Wing Commander:

 

http://home.arcor.de/cybergoth/xype/timesoflore.gif

 

I've often seen this one filed under RPG, but it's none in my book. Well okay, you're running around on a giant Ultima style map, there's towns with inns to save and people to talk to and it's from Origin, so on a casual glance it can easily be confused with an RPG.

 

After sinking a good three hours into it tonight I know better though. No experiennce points and no character development - no RPG, simple as that. If anything, I'd consider it a Gauntlet clone with a story

 

Ah well, the first to quests I did where also very simple. Basically they were "Fight from the middle of the map to the north end and get object A" and "Fight from the middle of the map to the south end and get object B"

 

That's been two very slow missions, since you're attacked every three meters, by one or two randomly picked enemies out of ~5 different types. That's just as tiresome as it sounds, I really hope it gets more interesting tomorrow

 

Graphics and music/fx get the job reasonably done, but there's nothing outstanding about them. The good thing is that the game resides completely in the memory, so at least there's no loading times.

 

Greetings,

Manuel

 

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