First person RPGs?

[runequester]

Pretty big fan of these games in the style of Eye of the Beholder / Dungeon Master.

Looking for some recommendations. I've played the EOB games, dungeon master (never got into this one so much), the Black Dawn games and Hired Guns.


Ones I am wondering about are:
Crystal Dragon
Perihelion
The Ishar series.

Any suggestions and comments on the above games or others I have missed?

[Xanxi]

Perihelion is an awesome game, obviously under-rated, with brilliant fantasy-scifi background, great music and sound, nice graphics and good SSI-like battle system. I had a great time playing this game in 1994.

Ishar serie is a good classic (i prefer the 3rd installement). Play Crystal of Arborea first to start with Ishar 0.

Then, if you like Dungeon Master like games, there is of course Black Crypt and Captive.

[runequester]

I tried Perihelion once but had a really hard time getting into it. May need to hunt down manuals for it.

It looks awesome though, for sure.

How is Captive?

[spirantho]

Captive - one of my favourite games of all time. Knightmare (same author) was pretty good too, but Captive was fantastic, and still is. Watch out for the bug though that makes one of the planets impossible, you can find the way round it online luckily.

Still very very much worth the play. In fact, I'd probably play it now but someone mentioned Dungeonmaster.....

[tzervo]

Black Crypt is a very nice, entertaining, and quite easy/relaxing (compared to EOB's) RPG. Perihelion is quite challenging (both in riddles and in combat scenes) but also a very good recommendation. Hired guns is also very nice.

[Retro_71]

Black Crypt for sure, then Dungeon Master

[ChaosLord]

Might & Magic II
Might & Magic III

[fishy_fiz]

Not sure if they qualify, but I enjoyed The Bards Tale series.
 The Ishtar games I tried to like, but while they looked quite nice and were fairly polished, etc. they lacked anything to make them stand out. While decent games I'd personally leave them until you've run out of other good choices. Dungeon Master2 is apparently very good if you give it a little time to get into properly as well, but Ive not given it more than a quick glance.

[countzero]

abandoned places ?

[bubblebobble]

There was once a tech demo of a first-person RPG in Aminet. You could move freely 360° at acceptable frame rate (2x2 when moving, 1x1 when standing still) and the artwork was really magical and athmospheric. (like strange Smurf-like Houses etc.)
However, I have never found it again in Aminet, because I forgot the name. Was that abandoned places?

Correction: Is was not "Abandoned Places". I am still curious what this fantastic games was.

[commodorejohn]

It's not an Amiga game, but the Etrian Odyssey series for Nintendo DS are basically the designer's love-letter to Dungeon Master et. al., and they're a hell of a lot of fun and a hell of a challenge.

[rvo_nl]

There was once a tech demo of a first-person RPG in Aminet. You could move freely 360° at acceptable frame rate (2x2 when moving, 1x1 when standing still) and the artwork was really magical and athmospheric. (like strange Smurf-like Houses etc.)
However, I have never found it again in Aminet, because I forgot the name. Was that abandoned places?
 
Correction: Is was not "Abandoned Places". I am still curious what this fantastic games was.

was it Trapped perhaps? Or Trapped II?

[Hattig]

was it Trapped perhaps? Or Trapped II?

I believe Legends of Valour and Ambermoon both had the "doom"-esque city scapes.

[RMK305]

There's Bloodwych

http://hol.abime.net/157

I haven't played it in years though but it was pretty good from what I remember.

[rvo_nl]

I believe Legends of Valour and Ambermoon both had the "doom"-esque city scapes.

yes, but no demo on aminet afaik!