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My complete goldbox run was superlame 'biffo, pally, thiffo, wizzo, rangi' , and errr clermage?
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Ever since I played Exile 2 as a kid, I've named all my archers/rangers or cat people Bobbawitz Howard, because that is what I called my Nephil in that game. I have no idea what I was thinking or if that name references anything/is simply a demon conjured from my 10-year-old brain, but it's so bizarre and pervasive in my memories that it had to come from SOMEWHERE.
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# ? Mar 2, 2021 19:40 |
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Big Mad Drongo posted:Ever since I played Exile 2 as a kid, I've named all my archers/rangers or cat people Bobbawitz Howard, because that is what I called my Nephil in that game. Howitzer artillery guns maybe?
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# ? Mar 2, 2021 19:46 |
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It sounds funny when applied to a giant talking cat. What other reason does a ten year old kid need?
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# ? Mar 2, 2021 19:47 |
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"Into the arena walks the deadliest Nephil known to everyone in Avernum... MITTENS!!!!!!"
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# ? Mar 2, 2021 19:51 |
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When I need to name a party or group, guild or whatever, I tend to call it Kittens.
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# ? Mar 2, 2021 21:23 |
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OK why is there a £16 new version of Geneforge 1 which looks functionally identical to the original lol
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# ? Mar 2, 2021 22:11 |
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It's a full remake in a new engine with new graphics, some new content and creature types that were only introduced in later games.
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# ? Mar 2, 2021 22:17 |
Yeah Vogel's been doing remake/updates to his older games in between new game releases and personally I appreciate him for it. They're not mindblowingly different but the new QoL stuff and larger viewport is nice. I want him to do Nethergate sometime.
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# ? Mar 2, 2021 22:30 |
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Charles Get-Out posted:Yeah Vogel's been doing remake/updates to his older games in between new game releases and personally I appreciate him for it. They're not mindblowingly different but the new QoL stuff and larger viewport is nice. Apparently Vogel gave up on Nethergate because the setting was just too unpopular/esoteric/specialised to appeal to people, which is a shame because I like it. I can understand retiring a franchise due to lack of popularity, as unfortunate as that is, but I will never understand why he pretends that the original Nethergate doesn't exist when he has plenty of properties that he has remade - in some cases, twice.
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# ? Mar 3, 2021 02:01 |
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In the end, he's only one man and he has to prioritize what projects he should put his development efforts into - and if he wants to put food on the table, that tends to mean the ones that actually sell.
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JustJeff88 posted:Apparently Vogel gave up on Nethergate because the setting was just too unpopular/esoteric/specialised to appeal to people, which is a shame because I like it. I can understand retiring a franchise due to lack of popularity, as unfortunate as that is, but I will never understand why he pretends that the original Nethergate doesn't exist when he has plenty of properties that he has remade - in some cases, twice. You can download the original Nethergate from the Spiderweb Software web site for free.
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# ? Mar 3, 2021 03:36 |
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how was Queen's Wish anyway? For being fairly "high profile" as Vogel games go, with a successful kickstarter and everything, I neve really see anyone talk about it. I've probably asked this before. But yeah anything which means he's focusing on his good games as opposed to the weird Bioware-esque turn he went with in Avadon is welcome lol
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# ? Mar 3, 2021 10:52 |
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The Spiderweb thread seemed to like it, although nearly everyone can agree that for all the graphics are technically more high-res than most of his games, it is incredibly ugly.
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# ? Mar 3, 2021 11:00 |
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Queens Wish is a better Avadon but he did some weird gameplay directions that I'm not a fan of. I still think Avernum is his best games.
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# ? Mar 3, 2021 14:47 |
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Queen's Wish is in this strange position where mechanically, it's probably the most approachable Spiderweb title for a new player, but visually very likely to be offputting to people that aren't used to Vogel's budget aesthetic. I do like that Vogel keeps his different franchises mechanically distinct. Even if they're all recognizably his style of game, they're also different enough from each other that you feel like you're not just repeating the same game experience in different locations. This might be one of the reasons he's not in any rush to bring back Nethergate, incidentally; it doesn't have as much to distinguish itself from Avernum.
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# ? Mar 3, 2021 15:04 |
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Tendales posted:Queen's Wish is in this strange position where mechanically, it's probably the most approachable Spiderweb title for a new player, but visually very likely to be offputting to people that aren't used to Vogel's budget aesthetic.
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# ? Mar 3, 2021 15:35 |
His isometric tile set just looks way better than the 3/4ths one he used for QW. Also realized yesterday when rummaging for my old Spiderweb discs that Nethergate got a remake already! Totally forgot that Nethergate Resurrection was A Thing.
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# ? Mar 3, 2021 20:17 |
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atholbrose posted:You can download the original Nethergate from the Spiderweb Software web site for free. I just double-checked, and I don't see it. If you can find it please, by all means, link it for me, but all I see is 'We have a better version of Nethergate!', as always. As Thuryl can substantiate, I got in a tiny bit of trouble a few years ago for sharing Nethergate the First on the SW forums.
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# ? Mar 3, 2021 23:40 |
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the original nethergate is gone since it was a 16-bit windows app and doesn't work on modern systems. they'll send you a copy if you have an original license but otherwise it's resurrection or bust
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Weedle posted:the original nethergate is gone since it was a 16-bit windows app and doesn't work on modern systems. they'll send you a copy if you have an original license but otherwise it's resurrection or bust Incorrect. All of the Exile games, including Blades, were 16-bit, but Nethergate was the first game that was 32-bit and will run on a 64-bit OS. I have tested this on Win7x64 and Win10x64, and I have a confirmation e-mail from Spiderweb when they sent me the game.
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# ? Mar 4, 2021 01:07 |
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Libluini posted:You are all heartless monsters. Inspired by a guy running a tabletop game where he asked us to choose a character we had played from a previous game, and me concurrently digging up a sheet of potential character names I wrote up in 7th grade study hall, I started compiling a text file of every character name I could remember using in an RPG (mostly CRPG but also tabletop-exclusive names). I still use it ~20 years later, both when I come up with a name I find worth remembering and when I want to go back and use a name I do not actually remember using anymore. I did not count, but paging down through the file suggests I have used about 400 unique character names, and it really makes me wonder where I went wrong, considering it seems like literally no-one else actually wastes their time this way Which reminds me I should update it with my ill-fated Wasteland Let's Play party, though "Ace Creamcone, P.I." was the only truly precious name to come from that project
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# ? Mar 4, 2021 02:33 |
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I have an extensive list of character names mostly stored in my head which I generally come up with on the spot and/or when drunk. Not a character exactly but I still don't remember why my Slay the Spire profile/character is called "clumps!"
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Dr. Quarex posted:Which reminds me I should update it with my ill-fated Wasteland Let's Play party, though "Ace Creamcone, P.I." was the only truly precious name to come from that project
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Dr. Quarex posted:I was thinking I had already been mocked for this here, but then I realized I posted about this in the MS-DOS Gaming group on Facebook once upon a time, not here That's not something I could do, my bad memory and my habit of reusing names I really like (I've made so many women characters named "Sarin" or "Pyre Thrine" it's getting weird), I'd probably hard pressed to ever get even 1/4th that many names.
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# ? Mar 4, 2021 15:42 |
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Libluini posted:(I've made so many women characters named "Sarin" or "Pyre Thrine" it's getting weird)
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# ? Mar 4, 2021 15:44 |
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Cardiovorax posted:Naming all your female characters after toxic compounds miiiiiight speak of some light issues, yes. Heh. My male characters tend to be boring and with mostly zero personality. Sometimes I can't even bring myself to revive them. And I stopped making male characters for action RPGs because I tended to get so bored with them, after a few hours in I would just let the monsters have them and stop playing
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# ? Mar 4, 2021 15:53 |
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I name all my guys Flavius Brosephus provided the name field allows enough characters
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# ? Mar 4, 2021 16:53 |
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Interesting how naming after toxic/disease stuff is a thing. My go-to name for any character that's an evil mage archetype is Pox Goregargle. But overall I'm really bad at thinking up creative names and go to one of the myriad name generators online until I get something that doesn't sound completely stupid.
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# ? Mar 4, 2021 21:41 |
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Are you the guy who does the naming for World of Warcraft NPCs? Because man, that could've been one.
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# ? Mar 4, 2021 21:43 |
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Genpei Turtle posted:Pox Goregargle. I killed that guy in Diablo so many times.
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# ? Mar 4, 2021 22:48 |
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I've always gone with characters from bad fantasy novels. It's doesn't take any time and I can remember their class easily. Though I had someone ask why a wizard is named Pug (wtf was with Feist on that name?). The real struggle is online games where you can't do that and I want to come up with something clever. I am amused when I log back into WoW that I have characters with W era joke names.
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# ? Mar 5, 2021 03:29 |
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My Elder Scrolls Online character was called Aftertug Sobbins and I got a lot of questions, though less so than with my brief second character, the Argonian Chugs-in-Tesco
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# ? Mar 5, 2021 13:50 |
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Lunchmeat Larry posted:My Elder Scrolls Online character was called Aftertug Sobbins OK, this made me laugh out loud. I've really got to step up my game in naming after seeing this. I find it easier to make creative names when the characters are more specialized and you can make the names fit. TOME4 has been a good game for this for me; I mentioned Pox Goregargle, which originally came from a disease/blood-based Corruptor, but also Secretus Flemm (Oozemancer), Halle Tosissa (Wyrmic) and Urnott Reelgh (Solipsist). It's harder to come up with dumb puns for ordinary fighter/mage/cleric/thief archetypes.
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# ? Mar 5, 2021 15:59 |
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Big Mad Drongo posted:a demon conjured from my 10-year-old brain
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# ? Mar 5, 2021 16:36 |
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Genpei Turtle posted:thief archetypes.
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# ? Mar 5, 2021 17:34 |
I got a new game in the mail. Definitely one of the dumbest things I've bought, especially because I haven't finished Wiz I yet.
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# ? Mar 6, 2021 10:40 |
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That's one pretty box, though.
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# ? Mar 6, 2021 14:49 |
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that cardboard texture... i want to touch it ;_;
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# ? Mar 29, 2024 12:24 |
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I think I remember GOG using some weird DOSBox version in a few releases that allowed save states. Anyone know what that was and where to get it?
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