20 years ago, I fell in love with first-person dungeon-crawling RPGs. I can’t remember if it was “Dungeon Master,” of which I played the SNES port, or one of the ‘Eye of the Beholder’ trilogy for DOS that captured my interest, but I played the Hell out of every one that I could get to work. I loved this particular flavor of Action-RPG, regardless of platform. Looking back, I think what I enjoyed so much about them was their Adventure aspects, not their Action aspects, which allowed these games fill a unique niche that I have recently come to call “Adventure-RPG.” In the years since I played those old games, the first-person perspective has come to dominate gaming, while Adventure aspects have been completely consumed by button-mashing Action. Modern first-person games that are marketed as... |
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