DM started it 'big time'.
EoB was 'just' the SSI AD&D reduced DM-clone with nice graphics.
LoG is more DM and has nicer graphics then EoB.

... LoG endgame gameplay feels more like an action game than a dungeon crawler. So what do you think? I think we had this discussion before and came to the conclusion that LoG is all and foremost a perfect modern clone of the revolutionary grandfather of the '3D Real-time Dungeon Crawlers' - 'Dunge...

I was thinking in the same direction in the last days. A 3d-dungeon crawler 'Grimrock-style' with roguelike-depth gameplay. But I don't think AH could pull this stunt alone by themself. The realy deep roguelikes like DCSS have been worked on over years (decades!). So, AH had to take already existing...

Some more nice find: (Doug Bell is one of the original Dungeon Master game devs): Here's a bit of trivia from someone who was there. Dungeon Master doesn't have anything to do with Tolkien, at least not directly. There are some loose associations with D&D that came from Andy Jaros, the graphic a...

Some more trivia from the 'archaic times of dungeon crawling' taken from Snafaru's Oubliette Fan Page : I became very interested in Oubliette when I learned from researching the internet that it was one of the games Wizardry was based on. So, there I went finding the game files and fired it up and.....

... 2. I agree games should be classified by major features (read: gameplay elements?) and we should have different terms for the subgenres. I wish we had proper categories. It seems it was always convoluted. Just look in this Issue of Computer Gaming World (Issue Number: 2.3 Date: May-Jun 1982): h...

...What I am interested to know is how long the term Dungeon Crawler has been in use. Is that really what they called them in the past or is it a relatively modern coin of phrase? Gamespot Review of Demise from the year 2000: Artifact Entertainment's Demise: Rise of the Ku'Tan has the straightforwa...

I'm basically with BadRaZoR here, but have to add some things to 'spread the light': First Wizardry game (' Proving Grounds of the Mad Overlord ') was NOT the first . It was the first commercial successful adaption to home computers. http://blogensursis.free.fr/img/saga_oubliette.png Oubliette (was ...

http://www.youtube.com/watch?feature=pl ... wiQCTKqZwc#!

glyn_ie wrote:...almost as if they were designed by a child.

They are not designed by a child, but are designed for 'children' by intention.
You can not 'grow', when playing this boring stuff.
It's all industrial designed 'cock-sucking' for the crowd ... to make money.
These games have no soul.