The first two are ok. fun things if youare ok with old timey rpg romping. If you like old wizardry then go for it. 3 is when things get pretty and a lot more fun feeling, though aging effects mean you can reach points where the characters you’ve been leveling up start becoming decrepit. Xeen in like 3 but more. Amiga versions are the go to if you can, but the dos version on GOG is still good.
6 follows up the Heroes games, It’s 3d but with sprites. It’s Mortal Kombat-ish photos in cheap costumes as sprites do not stand up the test of time as much but it’s fun until the racism hits you. It didn’t bug me as a child but a couple years ago it flat out stopped my playthrough.
7 is the link betweeen 3 and the world presented in the Heroes series. It’s a better game than 6, but kinda buggy. It’s got good and evil paths, so there’s two playthroughs worth of stuff. 8 is the last use of the engine from 6 and 7 and it doesn’t look much better here. It does some neat stuff with having one character you make and a rotating party of hirelings instead of the crew you start with going all the way like in 6 or 7.
9 wsas the first real 3d entry and the one I never played. After that t UBIsoft bought out the franchise and it became irrelevant.
I’d start with the 6-8 franchise if you want the Heroes tie in (maybe skip six because it gets stupid racist a little over halfway through).
3 is a good starting point for a pretty adventure, and 1&2 are good for AppleII era games and have an NES and Megadrive port respectively.
i know Jeremy, the creator. nice guy - didn’t realize you were talking about something so recent (Fuzz Dungeon is i think from 2021). i’ve mentioned that game on here i think at least once before. also i just posted his new game over in another thread a few weeks back:
I am thinking about picking up my PS2slim while I am in America and there are a couple of different ways to play Free Games on it and I know folks have talked about that but I can’t find them.
freemcboot is the easiest way, just files put on a memory card. you can either buy them ready to go, or if you know someone with one you can copy it all over.
not sure what the best way to actually run games is on a slim one, i’ve always used it with the hdd in the big boy. you can run isos off a usb but it’s really not a very good way of doing it due to the slow speeds.
Haven’t tried these myself but have heard about playing games over a network share and a memory card modded to fit an SD card reader. I think these still don’t compete with hdd loading but are better than usb
this reminded me, about a year ago someone broke into my flat during the day. i guess they expected it to be empty but i work from home, so heard a noise and saw someone unplugging everything around my tv, so i chase him out and down the street. when i get back everything is all over the floor, but the only thing that’s missing is the network adapter for my ps2 lmao.
Someone else did a more complete gamefaqs archiving job than me and uploaded it all to archive.org:
My gopher archive is still useful because the games are alphabetized rather than having arbitrary gamefaqs numbers in the path names, so it is a little easier to browse. Someday I hope to parse the larger archive so that I can incorporate everything into my gopher site.
the gopher archive is the best because the archive.org version didn’t parse the html correctly or whatever and some plaintext faqs have stray html tags splintered throughout
i diff’d some old text files i’d downloaded before gamefaqs turned shitty against jjsimpso’s versions and they’re identical
i also uploaded a hardlink-deduped version of the archive.org backup that’s less than half the size when extracted, check the axe
