Darklands. You see Darklands was the first rpg i ever played, and it is like first sex, you never forget it. But first sex, although it's first, isn't necessarily the best one. So this game is first but not best, i just wanted to put that aside so you don't think it's automatically my best rpg that i ever played - it isn't.
But it is awesome! Obviously, as you can read in the title already, the game is set in Germany. And one thing i didn't like in the game is.. there was no Hitler! I mean c'mon, you can't make a game that is set in Germany and not make Hitler appear in it. I mean how awesome would it be to encounter him in one of the caves and loose against him. It doesn't matter if the game is set in the 15th century, Hitler can time-travel.. Helloo, Red alert anyone!?? But i'm wrong. You see, this game came out in 1992, and Red Alert came out in 1995, so the guys who made Darklands couldn't see Red alert and learn that Hitler can time-travel. Did i go off-topic? Yes. Well, i'm sorry. Darklands! The game was epic, and that is due to the fact that you could go anywhere you wanted, sandbox style. In the beginning you didn't get any quest to start with nor any hint what to do, so you could wander of in any direction whatsoever and do whatever you like. Sounds familiar? Ofcourse. It was ahead of it's time since there was nothing similar on the market, in other games of that type you had some path you had to follow, but not in Darklands. There were many quests you could take, just like in say Oblivion, there was no specific sequence. The main quest that you had to find, the quest that makes you finish the game, could be postponed, so if you liked to research every inch of the map, you never turned the main quest in. That simple. The music, oh the music, leaving it on and laying on my bed just listening to the gorgeous midi track of time. Hypnosis is the word, that could describe the immersion that hit me, you look around, it's weird, something is weird, why is there light in my room, yeah its 6am in the morning, but it felt like 1 hour passed eh. I remember one day i invited a friend to my house so i could show him the game. And as I was explaining to him how it all works, he started to cry. You see, he didn't even own a PC, his family was quite poor, and there i was showing him this awesome game just teasing him. But since i showed him !!~Darklands~!! he came to my house like every day just to watch me play it. I let him play also at times, i wasn't a di**. Oh, and the save-game feature i remember i used it every 2 minutes, it was that easy to die in fights. Once i finished it, i never finished it again. I payed it again a couple of times trying to find Hitler, but i never did. ~~
