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Post by Jashiin on Jul 7, 2007 20:47:03 GMT 1
Introduce yourself here!
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Post by Jashiin on Jul 10, 2007 14:06:51 GMT 1
Well, I'll start. My name's Alan, I'm 19 and I live in Croatia. I've been playing Zeliard ever since I was a kid, which was a great arcade game on its own, and also a perfect intro to the RPG genre which I've become more fond of in the recent years. In my free time I enjoy games like StarCraft: BroodWar, AdventureQuest, DragonFable, Doom II and, of course, Zeliard .
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Post by The Extremist on Jul 10, 2007 15:29:25 GMT 1
Hi everyone ( again). I'll go by The Extremist for now. I'm 23, male and South African. Currently I'm in Stockholm (in Sweden, for those who were wondering), working on contract. I'm not an avid retro gamer, preferring games like Guild Wars and Company of Heroes. I am playing more StarCraft and Broodwar of late (due mostly to the inability of my laptop to run anything newer). I'm looking forward to The Witcher, Hellgate: London, Guild Wars: Eye of the North, and of course StarCraft 2. Zeliard was one of my favourite games and I started playing it on my old XT with only the old PC speaker providing sound. I've never finished it and I play it on and off nowadays whenever I feel the nostalgic craving. Hey man, glad to see another BW player around here, though I've given up on it in the mean time.
~Jashiin
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def
Fresh Meat
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Post by def on Jul 10, 2007 16:00:01 GMT 1
My name is Jeroen, 24 year old male from Holland. Zeliard was one of the first real games I played, back on my 286 with CGA graphics and pc-speaker blips. After all those years, I still havn't finished it. But I keep on playing it, like the poster above me, for nostalgic reasons. The graphics, the music. I bought the original game a few years ago from eBay for $5 just to have the original thing.
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Post by madkat on Jul 10, 2007 17:39:41 GMT 1
My name is Hugh and I am a Zeliardolic. I'm 26, and I live in England. I drive a 1991 Toyota Celica GT-Four RC. Just thought I'd mention that.
First machine was the Amstrad PC 1512: 8Mhz 8088 CPU, 512Kb RAM, PC Bleeper and two 360Kb 5.25" disk drives. I had to change disks when moving from a town to a cavern!!
I've been playing Zeliard on & off for many years, and the gameplay is still top notch!
I think conversion to a 3D game will require some very cunning level design - I'm envisaging caverns not dissimilar to the Tomb Raider series, though obviously with different ways of getting around. The blackness should close in and leave the player with a limited view, with most cielings far enough away to be unseen. If a 3D version were to be made to satisfy the thirst of modern gamers, the storyline would have to change a little - there would need to be more side plots, and they would have to intertwine with one another and the main story including giving the player the ability to attack villagers and that guy who won't let you pass without the Hero's Crest (I hate that guy!) though killing someone who's meant to help you would have to be countered by forcing the player to find another - much more complex/tedious - way to continue. This would also provide an alternative route for those who simply cannot locate (for example) the Hero's Crest. There should - in my opinion - also be changes in the style of the characters. In the original storyline pictures and shops, the characters look quite cartoony - this is *very* difficult to effectively reproduce in 3D and often doesn't "work" very well, compared to making realistic looking faces and then "tweaking" the features to create the correct charicature.
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pumi
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Post by pumi on Jul 10, 2007 21:17:18 GMT 1
Hi Everyone , My name is Pellumb , i am 16 years old male from Albania ( Kosova ) . I work for a Company called Molos Group . I am Web Designer ... I like playing old games , like Zeliard . Zeliard is first game i played , when i was 3 years old ... and i love it .
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Post by cta102 on Jul 31, 2007 2:23:37 GMT 1
I just finished Zeliard after quitting it about 12 years ago, I bought it on a whim back then and got almost to the end and got stuck in a cave that I couldn't get out of. Then my computer died and I lost everything and forgot about Zeliard. About 2 months ago I remembered how great Lode Runner was and found it and played it again, that got me interested and found Zeliard once again. I finished it a couple of days ago with the help of the walkthrough's. The only strange thing is that that I can't find the cave I got stuck in way back then? Does anyone think that maybe something is missing in the version available for download? Well, otherwise hello everyone and, It's just a fantastic game, too bad someone hasn't made something like it.
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Post by raxadian on Aug 20, 2008 23:09:18 GMT 1
Hi, I am (Almost) 26 years old, I live in South America. I tend to like old games, now I will try it Zeliard in Linux using Dosbox, I hope it works!. Anyway, other things I like are Swat kats, Samurai pizza cats, the first Monkey island, Maniac Mansion and Sam&Max. Plus I tend to toy around with Dos and clones, like Freedos...
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