Game:

Eye of the Beholder (1991)

Duration: 58:49

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The very first RPG Longplay on this channel! Awesome!!

Following in the footsteps of the legendary Dungeon Master (the video game, not the person behind the screen in a tabletop RPG session,) Eye of the Beholder takes the award-winning gameplay from Dungeon Master and implements it with the 2nd Edition Dungeons & Dragons Ruleset to make what makes this great game...well, great!

Eye of the Beholder is a grid-based First-Person Dungeon Crawler RPG that has some elements of Point-and-Click Adventure games, similar to, say, The Legend of Kyrandia (https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=_U5iqtBm8fU) or I Have No Mouth And I Must Scream (https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=zqyd1KOzfag) and it works surprisingly well, although I think Lands of Lore: The Throne of Chaos, also by Westwood Studios (formerly Westwood Associates) did it better.

On the graphics side of things, they all look pretty darned good, if I do say so myself! I think that the graphic assets in this game were made in Windows Deluxe Paint, and there were 150 different graphics created for this game, at least! Pretty impressive for an early 90s DOS RPG, eh!?

Music! Uh, where is the music? Well, apart from the intro, character creation, and ending, there is no music. There was apparently SUPPOSED to be music, as there is an option in-game to turn music on and off, but apart from the songs listed previously, it's a pretty pointless option, and one that Lands of Lore: The Throne of Chaos OBJECTIVELY did better than the first two Eye of the Beholder games.

Eye of the Beholder is just one of those kinds of games for me, one that I can't put down, one that I just never seem to get burned out on. I guess that everyone has at least one game, or one THING in general, that they just never get burned out on. For me, I guess that THING is Eye of the Beholder. Interesting when you consider the fact that it isn't my favorite game, and honor that goes to The Elder Scrolls IV: Oblivion, believe it or not. I used to think it was Mount & Blade: Warband or Kenshi, but nope! TES IV: Oblivion all the way, baby!

Anyways, it's so great to FINALLY have this game go up on the channel! I had to rerecord this several times, and even though I'm not totally happy with how this video turned out exactly, and even with the mistakes and the one bit of backtracking that I had to do to get the Haste Spell I forgot (still can't believe I did that, considering how important Haste can get later in Eye of the Beholder 1 AND 2!!) I finally managed to beat Eye of the Beholder 1 in less than an hour. So, I feel like I have bragging rights now, kinda. Not that beating a game in less than an hour is anything to brag about, mind you.

Anyways, I hope you enjoy this longplay, it took a month of Sundays to finally get it right, even to this miserable state, and it wore me out to record.

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