What's an recommended playing order through DM and custom dungeons?
Posted: Wed Jun 23, 2021 2:33 pm
Hello everyone!
I'm kinda new player to Dungeon Crawlers, having been introduced to the genre by Legend of Grimrock games and then played Dark Heart of the Uukrul.
A friend of mine told me that Dungeon Master is a must-play game of the crawlers, so I decided to play it. While searching reviews and stuff about the game, I came across this forum, which I find absolutely amazing, spent like 4 or 5 hours reading different threads.
Now, I'd really like some help figuring out the play order of the games. FOr what I understand, there is DM, CSB and DM2. Also, there is RTC that contains all of the three games, is that right? So, in that case, the easier route would be downloading only RTC and playing through it to get the vanilla experience?
Also, on the custom dungeons, that is something that interests me a lot. Talking about Grimrock, after I finished the main campaign, the custom dungeons were something that still kept me hooked to the game for a long time. Speaking of the DM ones, while I GREATLY APPRECIATE the hard work that it's been done through the years (and for what I see, there are dungeons still coming up today, which is fantastic), I'm completely lost about where to start, which ones pick up first and so on.
To complicate things a little bit for a newcomer, I saw that there are sections of Custom Dungeons for different categories (like DSB, RTC and so on), so I'm really lost here. Is there some comprehensive lost which shows the most-played/finished ones and/or recommended ones? It would be of great help and I'd appreciate a lot.
And anyway, even if that's not possible, I can only thank everyone that's keeping this community alive. It really brings some comfort to my heart to see the love for DM here, a game that is almost 40 years old that new generations would probably dismiss without even trying.
I'm kinda new player to Dungeon Crawlers, having been introduced to the genre by Legend of Grimrock games and then played Dark Heart of the Uukrul.
A friend of mine told me that Dungeon Master is a must-play game of the crawlers, so I decided to play it. While searching reviews and stuff about the game, I came across this forum, which I find absolutely amazing, spent like 4 or 5 hours reading different threads.
Now, I'd really like some help figuring out the play order of the games. FOr what I understand, there is DM, CSB and DM2. Also, there is RTC that contains all of the three games, is that right? So, in that case, the easier route would be downloading only RTC and playing through it to get the vanilla experience?
Also, on the custom dungeons, that is something that interests me a lot. Talking about Grimrock, after I finished the main campaign, the custom dungeons were something that still kept me hooked to the game for a long time. Speaking of the DM ones, while I GREATLY APPRECIATE the hard work that it's been done through the years (and for what I see, there are dungeons still coming up today, which is fantastic), I'm completely lost about where to start, which ones pick up first and so on.
To complicate things a little bit for a newcomer, I saw that there are sections of Custom Dungeons for different categories (like DSB, RTC and so on), so I'm really lost here. Is there some comprehensive lost which shows the most-played/finished ones and/or recommended ones? It would be of great help and I'd appreciate a lot.
And anyway, even if that's not possible, I can only thank everyone that's keeping this community alive. It really brings some comfort to my heart to see the love for DM here, a game that is almost 40 years old that new generations would probably dismiss without even trying.
. As Saumun says, RTC was built from scratch so it's not a "true" experience of the original gams - some of the mechanics are different and things such as certain types of spell damage are kind of off, meaning certain parts are way harder than they should be. I recommend CSBWin for the more "pure" original experience, as it's a port of the original Atari version. There should be a download link somewhere in its section of the forum, I believe, but let us know if you have any difficulties. CSBWin, despite the implication in the name, contains both DM and CSB, so you only need to download the one thing in order to be able to access both of them