Quest Masterfully With a Bigger, Badder Legend of Grimrock

[Andy Chalk]

Quest Masterfully With a Bigger, Badder Legend of Grimrock

The Legend of Grimrock Master Quest is a complete overhaul of the original game, with new puzzles, tougher monsters and plenty of changes and updates.

So you finished Legend of Grimrock, opened all the treasure rooms, discovered the big secret and brought the house down with your sweaty dungeon spelunking prowess. Still want more? Then allow me to introduce you to the Legend of Grimrock Master Quest, a fan-made "complete reworking" of the game that maintains the overall dungeon layout but adds numerous changes to individual rooms and works in some completely new content as well.

The Master Quest moves most major objects, "upgrades" puzzles - not sure what that means - and uses more and tougher monsters to make the game even tougher. It also now scales up significantly with higher-level players, so you can import your original party and continue to earn levels. Items have been given a "loot" value and your party will intermittently be assigned a ranking based on the total value of its inventory, while a final loot ranking near the end of the game gives players something more to shoot for than merely "survived or died." Other changes include a new, hidden boss fight, more impactful earthquakes, a new sidequest, a longer ending and nearly 50 new secrets.

Grimrock Nexus [http://www.grimrock.net/].

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[Doom972]

Looks awesome. Downloading now.

I have to say that I though that this game would have more user-made dungeons by now. I hope that this will encourage more to try their hand at big projects like this one.

 

[major_chaos]

tougher monsters

Wat. I had my complaints with LoG "not hard enough" was never one of them. I though that hardest difficulty+hardcore mode brought the game up to almost roguelike standards, so I'm not sure how you can make it much harder than that without resorting to just being cheap.

 

[WhiteTigerShiro]

tougher monsters

Wat. I had my complaints with LoG "not hard enough" was never one of them. I though that hardest difficulty+hardcore mode brought the game up to almost roguelike standards, so I'm not sure how you can make it much harder than that without resorting to just being cheap.

The AI was very easy to trick. Only two fights were any challenge once you learned how to out-play the AI, and both required that you be completely out-numbered so that the usual tricks don't work as well.

 

[Komag]

Nice to see this article, thanks!

@major_chaos, I tried very much to avoid "cheap" hard, I'm a gamer and don't like that either. So the trick was finding new ways to offer an increased challenge level without too much frustration. For the actual monsters themselves, mostly their attack power and HP get scaled up (depending on your party starting level).

@Doom972, you can find a good list of completed dungeons here:
http://www.grimrock.net/forum/viewtopic.php?f=14&t=4361

BTW, an example of a puzzle "upgrade" is on level 3 - there is a spot where teleporters twirl around in a circle and you have to get through a gate on the other side - I've revamped it a bit, added a lever in the mix, changed the teleport destination for objects, and made it be one really fast teleporter instead of two slow ones, so the puzzle is a little more challenging and complex than before.