I think I played the first one, or maybe I confuse it with Black Crypt.

The noob designation was tongue-in-cheek (more or less). But when it comes to 3d dungeon crawl mapping, 'old school' means you get NO mapping help whatsoever. That's how it was in the archaic 80's and early 90's of the last century. You newcomers really should give it a try and take pen and paper. I...

Most cumbersome game I remember was Wizardry VI - 'Bane of the Cosmic Forge' on the Amiga 500. 11 floppy disks. Problem was, that combat had to be fought to the end and could not just interrupted if a party member died. At later stages of the game with many enemies most fast way to reload a save was...

Dungeon Master / Eye of Beholder (...and LoG) style combat makes more fun, when one actually has to draw the level maps by hand ('old school') because party position change and one can get lost. Fights have to be planned beforehand, and when you take your view away from the screen to draw the map, t...

Nothing against an ingame map drawing tool for noobs, but please DON'T call it 'old school.

This is how old school map drawing has to look like: