Well there was nothing else to reveal, except the whole image! In hindsight I should have picked an image with a few more things on it, apologies.
So it’s ‘The Forest’ by Graham Relf (1983), the original walking simulator.
As in, it was an actual orienteering sim. The screen shows the contour of the land and you had to navigate around the forest using the contour and the landmarks, comparing them to the physical map it shipped with.
For some reason it really tickled my young imagination, as dreary as it would seem to most! :)
Someone else want to go now?
Wow, absolutely never heard of it. Those graphics sure look BASIC made! While the concept sounds intriguing, the information on display seems really barebone.
Also, I think Gordon established the tradition that for posting something nobody guessed, your punishment is to put up more pictures. No escaping!
Has there been a remake of Defender of the Crown? If that’s the case, I say Defender of the Crown: the remake.
CraigM
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Hence why I have no guess ;)
CraigM
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As for this one? How about Quest for Glory…3?
As a major ZX Spectrum fanatic, I can safely say I’ve never heard of The Forest! I haven’t played the recent PC remake either.
Kyosho
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The Bard’s Tale? The Xbox/PC comedic one by InXile?
Heh I’m pretty sure it wasn’t a remake … just shared the same name… ;)
No correct guess yet, though a few are hitting the genre ballpark.
Dammit, very droll… :)
edit: and no, not a Gothic game.
You got it! Arx Fatalis (PC, 2002)
I loved this great (and underappreciated) first person RPG, created by Arkane before they went on to do Dark Messiah of M&M and Dishonored. In the spirit of Ultima Underworld, it was open and highly atmospheric with lots of environmental interactions.
It jumped to my memory as soon as I saw a bit of cavern: I remember vividly stumbling upon this town in the underworld… And I remember giving up shortly afterward, overwhelmed by the magic system or something. For some reason, first person games of this kind give me the creeps too.
