What are your thoughts on dungeons in RPGs with poison as (one of their) their main mechanics?

Starter boop.
I don't play too many dungeon games with poison in them, but status problems have generally been an annoying occurrence.

It's okay as long as it's not overly done, and you can heal easily.

If well made there will be an interesting mechanic about, but if not then it will just be a drag.

BTW: Very early in that dungeon, pretty much the first few rooms, you'll find some boots that protect you from poison.

I don't particularly mind them, as long as I don't encounter them in the beginning of the game when my party or my character are still weak and can barely afford potions. I remember the first few dungeons in Might & Magic 6 were particularly frustrating, since my party kept getting poisoned or diseased.

Hmm, I can't remember playing a game that had any kind of "dungeon" like that, but I can definitely see how that mechanic could become more of an annoyance than a real threat. On a side note, I have an arachnophobic friend who pointed out that spiders are everywhere in video games, and reflecting on that, I was a little surprised at just how often they seem to pop up.

Bump. I don't think I've played many games like that, so I'd don't really have a strong opinion.

cries in Blighttown

What about in overrateddark souls where you have to go through poison and if you don't have stuff to cure it, you're DED. Not to mention the poison boss in overrateddark souls 2.

It's fine as long as it's well foreshadowed and there are ways to deal with it (including the ability to still buy antidotes / ribbons / etc.).

I generally run into these as levels/areas in ARPGs, like Grim Dawn. And there it's just a matter of swapping gear out and stocking up on the right potions. So, not substantially different from other areas.

I don't really like the green clouds everywhere, though. Just aesthetically.

One of my favorite battle sequence in Shadowrun: Dragonfall is in the sewers, plus it leads to a great plot development with interesting player choices. Unfortunately, I can't say more than that, because it'd be a huge spoiler.

As an Ultima series player, the one I loved the most was Ultima 7. The last game that Origin made without EA's intervention.
Also Ultima Underworld, the story wasn't epic but the game is good. The story is based on Stygian Abyss, on the Isle of the Avatar. ;]

I explored Hythloth on Ultima Online. I think one of the moongates led to that dungeon.

Edit: I remember that Kingdom of Amalur had one poison dungeon too. Very frustrating.

While I didn't play a game yet with a poison dungeon it's the base principle: You are put on a deathlock(when you don't have heals) by design. I hate that. When the sole purpose of it is to run through the maze within a given time. When I would want that, then I would play actually content that have THAT as design and not hidden behind the drain your lp over time shit.

Playing Ultima 9 was your first mistake.

But usually when there's a gimmick dungeon like that, you can find some kind of ability or equipment beforehand that negates that.

For whatever reason I'm reminded of the fight against Queklain in Final Fantasy Tactics. He can spam a spell that causes Sleep and Death Sentence. Right before the battle, there's a shop where you can buy Defense Rings, which makes you immune to Sleep and Death Sentence.

Annoying, but even worse, also boring. It's artificial difficulty using monotonous rubber stamp mobs in place of supplying a more varied and creative experience. I guess I just think that dungeons are the perfect environment to employ the element of surprise - so if that's not there, it's disappointing.

I hate poison dungeons because they are annoying.

If you can heal every few seconds or wear a immunity to poison rings they are only annoying but sometimes these types of dungeons are at the start of game when you don't have enough heals and no immunity to poison items.

I remember playing Wizardry 8 when at start after you kill a few enemies you get to level 2 or 3 and now you meet rats that can poison you and that breaks the game as you have no way to heal so you have to run away from the starting location and don't fight any monsters to get to town to get some healing spells first. It breaks the game for many people as starting location is trying to kill you with poison from the start of game.

I only hate them if they have the instant death kind of poison traps.

I tend to like DoT mechanics like poison less in general. Not sure why. Thanks for the giveaways :).

Temple of Elemental Evil did poison right.

They are annoying, but they are there to remind you not to be reckless and they bring diversity to the game (same mobs in the same dungeons will make you drop the game)
I encounter a few in Gothic 2

Annoying

They are indeed annoying. But also tend to raise a bit of dramatic tension. Do I have to heal now or should I try to survive the next battle, knowing I'll be poisoned after it too? I hate them, but I see why they are here.

I'ts just another mechanic of the game, sometimes it can be annoying but it always adds up intensity to the game if it's well implemented.

generally i like poisons, not the regular DoT, but rather debuffers.

p.s noticed i'm on your notty list xd.

regardless have a bump!