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[Elena]

AFAIK prices for weapon are equal everywhere. Only Fletcher in City of Yvel pays you a higher price for crossbows. You have to “sell” items in Swamp usually. The magic stone head always gives you 60 crowns, even for a stone.

Shopkeepers in Swamp will pay half-price until you return a ritual mask to Gorkha Chieftain.

[Capo]

Originally Posted by Elena

I’m not disappointed with linearity, I like linear games too. But I don’t like a role system, it’s too strict and scanty. You can’t choose your party characters (except your hero), they are imposed. All of them have the same abilities. I think it’s not very interesting, when all members of your party are identical. And to my taste magic is too primitive, even no one defensive spell. And I DON’T LIKE the Light spell is missing. Most of my journey in Draracle’s Cave and Urbish Mines was in the dark! This game is not among my favorite games for the reasons given above, I like it very much though. A story, quests, secrets, monsters, NPCs are wonderful. And it’s beautiful

I agree with the very old/yung Elena.

[Andicandi]

I downloaded this game and am running it through MSDOS on my Windows xp. After I chose my character, the screen goes black and stays there until I quit the game using "Ctrl+Alt+Del"... does anyone know what the issue is here, or how to fix it????

[Icewolf]

Originally Posted by Andicandi

I downloaded this game and am running it through MSDOS on my Windows xp. After I chose my character, the screen goes black and stays there until I quit the game using "Ctrl+Alt+Del"... does anyone know what the issue is here, or how to fix it????

You should use DosBox.
There are various references to it on the site regarding what it's good for, how to set it up and all that stuff.

One engine feature that might be of use to someone...

My usual obsessive skill training involves killing monsters and waiting for them to respawn, over and over again. The cavemen in the draracle caves, the bees in opinwood, the orcs in the yvel forest, the imps in the mines, the ghosts in the tower...

It looks like the game monitors the amount of monsters you killed, and will decrease the spawn amount at certain points. If you continue further, the monsters will stop respawning entirely. This also goes for monsters that always spawn when you do a certain action (push button, step on plate, step on spinner square in draracle caves to spawn cavemen, ...).

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If Electronic Arts had any brains, they'd port Lands of Lore to Nintendo DS - it's the perfect game to be ported: it's bright, colourful, yet is fun and still feels fresh. Orcs & Elves was pretty weak so why not make a PROPER EOTB type game?

[Capo]

Originally Posted by theultramage

One engine feature that might be of use to someone...

My usual obsessive skill training involves killing monsters and waiting for them to respawn, over and over again. The cavemen in the draracle caves, the bees in opinwood, the orcs in the yvel forest, the imps in the mines, the ghosts in the tower...

Dont sound funny

This game is like fallout, elder scrolls, heroes, c and c series - it is CLASSIC. Yeah ! I recommend to find out CD version, i have a link, but ....uhmmm...it's no good to place it here....

[_r.u.s.s.]

the full verison with speech is available in ISO cellar- a place accessed by registered members of abandonia that were are at least a bit active on website, making a post or two

[red_avatar]

The CD version is really worth it too! Westwood games had a very rare quality of voice actors at the time. While most other games had really terrible actors, Westwood already managed to drag on some top names like Patrick Steward. It made a great game even better!

Man, I remember a friend buying the Temptation collection which had Lands of Lore and me trying to rip it to my 270MB hard drive.