Help finding an old PC RPG

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Paul Rodgers

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Nov 8, 2012
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Hey,
A long time ago me and my best friend used to play this RPG and we cannot for the life of us remember the name of it.
My memory of the details is a bit hazy but here we go. You made a group of heroes at the beginning of the game I think it was up to 6. They could be a few different races and several different classes. The graphics were terrible, and you moved around what was basically an open world with a birdseye view, doing quests and gathering equipment and the like. There was a single town as I recall where you would go and sell and buy and heal and stuff.
This is all pretty generic stuff, but I think the thing that made it different was the battle interface. When your group got into a battle, they were arranged an a grid with the enemy units arranged on the opposite side of the field and you had to use keys to move, cast spells and that sort of thing.
This is a poor description but it's the best I can do hoping this triggers some memory with someone.
 

Paul Rodgers

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Yeah I know, been trying to think of ways to specify further.
There was no animation in the figures on the battle interface.
There were different colour damage indicators when you attacked someone or were attacked to let you know what type of damage. Like orange for fire, green for poison, red for normal weapon damage, etc.
I wish I could remember more but it was around 1998 that we played it. At the same time that the first warcraft was the bomb.
 

Eleuthera

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Paul Rodgers said:
this looks similar was there a pre-cursor to this game?
The old AD&D Forgotten Realms games have a similar layout, but they're all from the early 90s (88-94 I think)
 

BloatedGuppy

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http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/List_of_role-playing_video_games:_1998_to_1999

Check under WIN for PC titles. The game you're looking for might be in there.