Thursday, October 04, 2012

Talisman

I'm showing my age again, my main complaint about the PC version of Talisman is that it isn't the first edition board from 1983 I remember so fondly. But of course I greenlighted it on Steam anyway. Would I buy this game if it were available on Steam? Instantly!

Talisman was my first "roleplaying" game, in as far as it was the first game in which I played a "character" with "stats". Later I graduated from that to pen & paper roleplaying games, but Talisman had a huge influence on my life as a gamer. I'm very happy that this will now finally be turned into a computer game.
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10 comments:

  1. Redbeard4/10/12 19:37

    Good to see another Talisman fan out there!

    I started on 2nd Edition and gradually accumulated all the expansions (except Dragons and Timescape). My kids now play 4th Revised, because I wasn't letting them touch my 2E copy.

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  2. Yeebo4/10/12 20:16

    Talisman is such an awesome game!

    I actually own every edition of talisman, and all of the expansions for the 2nd and third editions. If I had anyone to play with where I currently live, I'd run out and buy everything for the current edition.

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  3. Anonymous4/10/12 22:31

    Age is good! I fondly remember playing Conan on an 8-bit Soviet clone of Apple II.

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  4. Ixyltrixl5/10/12 00:10

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  5. Ixyltrixl5/10/12 00:19

    Talisman was great back in the day. I showed my wife the video, and she reminded me that we had it in the closet. She went and got it and sat it in my lap.

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  6. flamidey5/10/12 01:03

    Talisman is the kind of game you remember fondly but really don't want coming out of that closet.
    2-4 hours full of purely random events without any rhyme of reason.
    Games are so much more fun and interesting today!

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  7. Cam5/10/12 01:27

    There’s some really great stuff coming out on the Greenlight. I’ve voted to support somewhere between 90-100 games now. Only one of them’s been greenlit, though: Black Mesa.

    Of course, the 90-100 I’ve voted for pales into insignificance compared to the 600-700 I’ve down-voted.
    The system seriously needs to add the following categories and give me an option to ignore/auto-downvote them:

    * 2D platformer with quirky mechanic
    * 2D platformer without quirky mechanic
    * Resurrected comp-sci assignment
    * Alawar studios ‘find-the-object’ game
    * Generic shmup
    * iOS shovelware port
    * Half-assed concept looking for gauranteed sales/audience before bothering to commit to actual development
    * Solo effort that would’ve looked very impressive… if completed 10yrs ago
    * Slenderman clone

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  8. Gamer Hudson5/10/12 07:14

    New version is better anyway I wouldnt sweat it.

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  9. Anonymous5/10/12 18:42

    Two words:
    Magic Realm

    Now we're showing OUR age...

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  10. Tobold5/10/12 18:59

    Did you ever get to the last rules level of Magic Realm? I gave up before that.

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