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Since we're doing let's plays based on site members, I was about to start a Let's Play of Wolfenstein from the point of view of Ryder, but then I realized I was too lazy to figure out how to shoot nazis and take screenshots at the same time. Well, that and we don't have enough admins or even active members to really pretend that all the Nazis are different site members that pissed him off.

For those of you who were wondering what could've been, don't worry. I didn't get very far beyond him resolving to only eat pet food and then get killed while trying to fuck the dogs.

I nearly thought about doing a Let's Play of Icewind Dale using various people from here as the player characters a while back (Evil party obviously, probably would have used Mizal or Bucky as the "leader" of the party at the time) especially since all the characters you roll up in that in is a "blank slate" so it would be easy just to insert regular CYS banter while adventuring/killing/looting, etc.

But I'm a bit too lazy to bother with all the image posting.

Speaking of old RPGs we could do this with... Do you know what that one game was called, where you had a party of dudes generated, it was a first person RPG, and you had to visit a dungeon only accessible through a tavern where people would bet on your survival? (That part was mostly flavor text, but that's what really stood out about the setting.) I think it was called something along the lines of "Fantasybabblename: Into the Underdark", but that's a bit confusing, because one of the guys in the bar is a Mindflayer that you buy tips from, which is copyrighted by Wizards, and Underdark is a term usually associated with neverwinter.

Bits a pieces of your description sound like they're all elements from different games.

The tavern bit that's coming to mind is one of the Neverwinter Nights expansions, Hordes of the Underdark, but that was one character and in third person.

There was Ultima Underworld, and that was first person, but again just one character and you were saving someone's daughter, no tavern bets or anything.

Dungeon Master or one of the old Might and Magic games were party based and first person, but their dungeons weren't based around a tavern.

Nah, this this is much, much older than Neverwinter. Like, "The textures look like something out of the NES and the water looks like the carpet at the beginning of DOOM... And there's quite a fair bit of water, because the city's dungeon is it sewers, so you're lowered into them via a cage in the middle of the tavern. And you're a bunch of local heroes being sent down to investigate the "Lingering Darkness" or whatever. I may be misremembering, and they just want you to stop the big monsters from coming out. The first real sort of "Quest" encounter is a family of kobolds, and it turns out the first area is like a kobold village. That's about as much as I remember. It may very well have been Dungeon Master, but I'd have to check.

Dungeon Master’s set up was basically you walked into the dungeon and wandered around the “Hall of Heroes” on the top floor and picked your party by clicking on the various hero portraits in the corridors after which point you could descend into the dungeon proper.

Again, probably not what you’re looking for, but fitting the tavern thing:

Telegard was a really old RPG that had multiple taverns connected to the top part of the dungeon where you could save your game and exchange your loot for experience points. Nobody betting on your survival though and not first person.

The city sewers thing almost reminds me of the Alternate Reality series (The City and The Dungeon) that I mentioned in that other thread. The top level of the dungeon had the city sewer system acting as its perimeter. It was first person and there were a few taverns, but not fitting the other criteria.

You said it was older than Doom, so probably not the first Diablo which wouldn’t fit either.

The Bard’s Tale maybe? There were some dungeons connected to taverns I think in that one and there was a sewer since it all took place in a city. It was also first person and party based.

I don't think it was the Bard's Tale. From the games I've seen, it either looks way, way older than what I'm thinking or a little too new. It probably wasn't at all any older than doom, since it does seem to do the whole "Fake 3D" procedural texture drawing/chunk loading thing that Doom did,and it had multiple floors and ladders and shit that you sure as hell couldn't do with the pre-doom Raycaster 3D.

The textures were about the same resolution too, but low-budget and a bit shit. The place where you talk to the King/leader of the city featured a live-action dude in front of some gifs of a bare bones, 3D-animated castle interior. (I could be wrong about the background being some sort of 3d model, but that's how it looked to me.)

I'm still pretty sold on it being one of the M&Ms, or at least something tied to Dungeons and Dragons, because there seemed to be more than a few other TSR/Wizards-related properties besides just the friendly mindflayer. The dark elves you could choose to make were explicitly referred to as Drow, (Not sure if they own the name, but that is a D&D trope.) you could choose your characters' starting class levels (up to 30, I think?) and a few other options that seemed really geared toward porting existing tabletop characters into the game, with the game itself sort of acting as a module. 

There was even a segment right out of the old D&D books if you chose to roll up a new character (With actual randomly generated stats) where it says something along the lines of "Don't worry if you think your character is too shitty for this adventure, because you can always reroll unless you feel like that's cheating!" The way they used to do before Tabletop RPGs decided to give you a set amount of points to spend on your attributes.

Wait a minute.

Eye of the Beholder? (Or one of those games from that series)

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Eye_of_the_Beholder_(video_game)

Could have been one of the other D&D games from the "Gold Box series" too.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Gold_Box

HOLY SHIT YES IT IS EYE OF THE BEHOLDER! I clicked the links and immediately recognized the name 'Waterdeep'. That's exactly the one I was talking about. I was about to edit in that there wasn't really an overworld, like M&M has, just a map of this recurring D&D city.

So, are we going to see a Let's Play of this?

As soon as I find an old game site I'm comfortable sending my bank information t- Oh, wait, it's abandonware now.

Well, as soon as I can find a mod that makes it turn-based so I can take mid-fight screensh- Okay, there's not that much to see in the first place. You'll only have to see the before and after.

As soon as I have two screens so I can play and screencap one thing but keep writing in the oth- Wait, I've got a chromebook and a PC, right?

... As soon as I'm actually good at this fucking game, then may- YES. YES I'M GOING TO DO A LET'S PLAY, AND IT WILL BE GLORIOUS AND EVERYONE WILL DIE!

That's the spirit! YES YOU CAN!

JUST. DO IT!

Actually I was thinking of doing a classic Zelda Let's Play. What are your thoughts, Tim?

So Let's Plays are the newest fad on CYS now.

I guess so, Pops.

You'd better believe it, we've got Sims on here now ffs

... Like, Zelda for the NES?

How are you going to name the characters?

Also, what's the deal with the Let's Plays and naming npc's site members?

Edit: Yeah, what End said.

Lol, there won't be much naming of characters. I thought it would be a fun thing to do.

Yeah, Zelda on Gameboy color.

Well, honestly, I can't stop you from doing that. So go ahead, I don't give a fuck.

Best of luck.

Thanks. :D