Fighting Fantasy: The Warlock Of Firetop Mountain Comes To PSN

this is amazing! so much nostalgic love for these books, day one purchase.

Thanks Ross.

I used to collect these books religiously back when the concept of what you’re releasing this week was considered to be something that should be confined to the books themselves.

I’ll be sure to have a look at this.

BTW, Deathtrap Dungeon next?

Deathtrap Dungeon and City of Evil were always my favourites. There was a, err, ‘foresty’ one too that was rather good.

The futuristic and samurai ones were all pretty poop… and ‘Return to Firetop Mountain’ seemed to be impossible, even when ‘cheating’ the dice rolls and ‘holding pages’ – lol.

How about getting one of these as a plus freebie to get more people involved? I loved the books but haven’t tried the games as I’m not sure how well they’d suit the format.

I’ve still got the ‘multiplayer’ versions on my shelf – Dungeoneer, Blacksand, the names of the others escape me but there were about 5 of them… none of which I ever got to play, due to lack of interest from my friends. Sigh.

… I feel I must share this poem, found on a toilet wall in one of the Fighting Fantasy books – I forget which, but the poem stuck with me;

I Woz ‘Ere
‘Ere I Woz
Woz I ‘Ere?
Yez, I Woz!

this sounds well interesting, but minis is a genre i just don’t have the time for, so if i get to check it via plus then great, otherwise i probably won’t get to see the described work in it’s complete and finished glory, which will probably be my loss, but i reckon the plus deal will allow me a peek sooner or later, Obviously this/other mini titles are much appreciated by those who are also portable gamers, which i just never did get into, but good luck anyway, as i said this idea loks the biz.

Is there any chance you will do other gamebooks? For example, Grailquest? If you managed to do Grailquest, my money is yours starting this instant. I loved Brennan’s gamebook series to death.

I have the book… but I still may pick this up for the sheer awesomeness of it.

Fighting Fantasy isn’t it a copy from like Final Fantasy lol

new Final Fantasy Xlll and Final Fantasy Xlll/2 its becoming lame to us Final Fantasy Fans not the graphics but game play new system Sorry Square Enix but original Final Fantasy system was better with Level system No level systems in FFXIII & FFXIII/2 = epic fail to us Final Fantasy Fans. One thing that will be very epic Final Fantasy Versus XIII because we all know theres a level system for each character lvl 1 to 99 in Final Fantasy Versus XIII

Lord Noctis show us a path that Real Final Fantasy is made of like Vincent Valentine was.

@ Immortal-Wolf

What are you talking about?

@Ross

The futuristic ones just lacked the charm of the medieval/magical earlier titles (in my opinion)

Scenes from Forest of Doom and City of Thieves (not to mention the cover art!) will stick with me to my dying day.

I actually dug out the books not long ago, most went to charity shops (such is the sacricice of getting older) but I picked out my favourites to keep; City of Thieves, Deathtrap Dungeon and Temple of Terror (hmm, dont actually remember this one). Guess I must have got the other good ones from the library (ever heard of that, kids?) lol. Return to Firetop must’ve got charitied… it was the first one I owned but it was so hard I never got far.

I kept the other series too, just found them; Dungeoneer, Blacksand, Allansia and the bestiary ‘Out of the Pit’. Do something with these! Make a multiplayer online game or something!

‘Deathtrap Dungeon’ was great, but ‘City of Thieves’ was by and far one of the best in the series, and considerably better than ‘DTD’.

I’m as excited about this as I am ‘Skyrim’. I can’t wait to be transported back to my early youth. Thanks guys.

The 4 book Sorcery series, The Shamutanti Hills, Khare Cityport of Traps, The 7 Serpents, and I think The Crown of Kings, were definately the best of the best. Adapt these please!

Dug out my copy of City of Thieves since my last post, am doing pretty well so far – have gathered several of the ingredients needed for taking on the big bad. Think it’s the first time I’ve not been insta-killed, lol.

Anyway, I got fed up of rolling dice after a while so I took a punt and bought Talisman while it’s still on sale. Will let you know how that works out for me

…also, anyone remember Maelstrom? Similiar sort of book, think it was by someone else though, but it was awesome…

Ross Brierley Wrote; Hope you enjoy it as much as you do Skyrim which incidently is looking quite cool.

Can’t believe you said that Ross Brierley as everyone knows Skyrim is just another cheap version of Oblivion.

Whenever one that I actually owned is release I will grab it for nostalgia’s sake

Starship Traveller will forever stick in my memory, never managed to “beat” that one, too many things that could go wrong and leave you stranded on the wrong side of the Universe. Would gladly buy it if made to have another crack at it.

Appointment with FEAR would be a good one to go with as well, everyone loves a good superhero story.

Sorcery Series were the best of the lot though. I imagine they must prove quite a challenge to you guys as you’d probably want to release them altogether to get the most out of them. I know I would end up waiting until all four were available so I could make a weekend of them like I used to when I was a kid, borrowing my brother’s library card as well as using my own in order to grab all four at once.

If you look to other book series after Fighting Fantasy then may I suggest Lone Wolf? With the ability to carry on your character throughout the entire series it makes perfect sense to adapt that series for episodic release.

I doubt Skyrim is going to be “another cheap version of Oblivion” – all signs point to improvement. I think they learned their lesson after the whole ‘Morrowind downgrade’ debacle.

I’ve just started playing Talisman of Death – I like what you guys at LJ have done with it – though I can see why you’ve mentioned the improvements for WoFTM, they would definately improve things.

One other thing I’d like to see in future releases (which I’m sure are forthcoming) are options to select the font size. It’s probably just me, but the ‘small text’ is too small to read comfortably, and the zoomed view is so big that when I scroll it makes me sort of dizzy. (I’m playing on PSP by the way)

It occurs to me that if you shifted the whole display to the left and filled in that ‘dead space’, there’d be room to widen the text area and enlarge the text in the zoomed-out view. The hotkey reminders at the bottom-left seem kind of redundant anyway.

Also, if you ever decide to adapt ‘City of Thieves’, keep an eye out for the ‘bug’ involving the ‘Dragon Salesman’. He doesn’t tell you the price of an item until you’re comitted to buying, potentially leaving you with negative gold pieces – lol.

All of the above said, I’m still really going to enjoy Talisman – I think I missed it in book form.

And thankyou for taking them on board – I have the utmost respect for developers that listen to their audience.

Talisman is great fun, I’ve learned some things about the franchise I previously misunderstood – in the front of the books it states that your stats can never exceed their initial value, but doesn’t state that magical swords/trinkets etc. increase the initial value (as opposed to the current one). Until playing your game I’ve been slogging away at a disadvantage! Having all the little things like that handled for you makes your re-imaginings of the books that much more fun… and ‘virtual dice’ rock when you’re kicking back on the sofa.

Will definately pick up Warlock when I’m done with this Kudos mate

That’s really cool – good to know that the rules are functioning as originally intended!

I had another brainwave regarding the ‘reader’ functionality –

When you turn to a page where originally there would have been some associated artwork (such as meeting the swamp-witch-thing early on in Talisman), it would be nice to have the artwork displayed on the left-hand page (where the inventory would normally be) instead of having to view it in the log book. This would really enhance the immersion of the story, and the image could ‘flip’ to the inventory view when you press ‘left’ to access it as normal.

I hope my comments don’t sound overly critical – it’s just rare to have the chance to share such ideas with a developer, and you seem very enthusiastic about fan feedback

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