Has anyone here ever played "Demise: Rise of the Ku'tan" (released in 1999, and its "add-on", Ascension, released in 2012 ) ? It's a dungeon-crawler game, (well, a "fancy" roguelike game), with virtually hundreds (not to say thousands) hours of gameplay time, when you really got into it. This is due to the HUGE amount of, erm, everything (maps are enormous, and it seems that you can go deeper and deeper without reaching an end. The difficulty is also significantly hard, there are a billion of items, the class system is lovely (and there's practically no level cap - you'd understand why if you ever play the game ).
Well i could talk about it for hours (there are a LOT of other awesome features : for example, if you die, you have to run trough the dungeon with another character to get your corpse back to town, or hire rescuers with gold ; a billboard which generates random quests-with random bounties too ; classes are in fact guilds; with NPC guildleaders giving you quests, from time to time, in order to progress - and when your guild level gets higher than the actual guildleader's, you become the actual guildleader, with a nice reward... and so on ...).
I find it to be one of the most underrated games i've ever played, and gave me, somehow, kind of a "DM feeling" (couldn't describe it, tho). I have to mention the fact that it includes an online multiplayer feature,too (you can run a 4 chars team in solo, with 4 slots for "familiars" : mobs charmed, or just asking to join, depending of your alignment,charisma...).
Well, i do not remember having read about this game on the dm.com forums, so I had to share with you However, i think the game is not suited for "casual" gamers, as many aspects of the game are unforgiving. Still, if you have a free year or two to waste, i strongly advise you to give it a try .
(That is one of my three "I need to play it at least once_a_year" games
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A few screenshots of Demise : Here .
Note : To any Baldur's Gate-fan-owner-of-an-Ipad : Prepare to bliss .