I first played Bane when it came out about in 1990. My experience with computer games up until that time was Atari-type games and a few games on Commodore 64. In fact, I had bought the software to use on my roommates Mac just to screw around.Luckily or mainly rather by accident I was able to get through most of the castle and the mines though I kind of remember never figuring out the big rat battle or the all of the pyramid and I certainly never got as far as the river styx.
Eventually, my roommate moved on and he took his computer with him so that effectively ended my Bane playing back then.
Then a few years back, I saw the Wizardry Achives in a software store and snatched it. By that time I had my own Windows PC so I figured I'd give Bane another try. Unfortunately, I just could get the game to run on my computer and until I discovered dos.box wasn't able to get anywhere.
Dos.box made everything better, and using the hints I read on this BBS and a walkthrough I found here as well, I was able to complete 2 of the endings. Actually, 3 endings if I included the boffo ending I fell into when I didn't take the pen.
Which brings me to my question. Why have 4 seperate endings? Is the some reason for it or was it just the game creators' just having some fun? I mean the game is hard enought o figure out as it is. I know people have completed the game without any help, but it must have taken ages to complete. Just fishing in the river of styx must have taken forever. So, you get all the way to the end, find then pen and then are told that this is only one of the possible endings. It seems like it's pretty unnecessary, and that the pen could have come at the end after dracula, after bela thus having only one ending.
Without the walkthrough, how could you possibly know that what you did at the silver cross way back when determines which ending you'll get? Was there a clue or something that I missed?
How do you know to walk through walls when if you search nothing happens(ie:before the bane king battle and before bela)?
Now, I am sure that's want makes the game so enjoyable and why everyone is still into after all these years. For #7 I want to try and do it on my own from the very beginning to see how far I can get.
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). Depending on which ending you chose in Wiz6 you start at various points on Guardia, already being aligned with one faction or the other. Check the Wiz7 - board to find out more about this.
