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Pierzak posted: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? quote:I don't think vanilla DOSBox has save states. DBGL is just a frontend and cannot have more functionality than DOSBox. Not sure I'd trust it, though.
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I think Dosbox-X supports save states and is updated regularly.
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Mar 6, 2021 21:15
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Gradually continuing my replay of M&M2 and being reminded of all kinds of great things that wouldn't fly in a game made after the 1980s. Lloyd's Beacon can be used almost anywhere and effectively lets you max out on permanent stat boost locations as soon as you find them; set a beacon, cast Surface, bounce back and forth between the outdoors and the dungeon as needed. You don't even need to find the spell, since there's a Sorcerer hireling gated behind a fairly easy fight in Vulcania who starts with it. Getting everyone to 50+ Speed in particular is a huge advantage, since monsters will quickly start to outspeed a party with normal stats, and getting the first turn to escape an unwinnable fight can be the difference between life and death. There are reasons people stopped making games like this, but it can still be a lot of fun to remember.
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Mar 7, 2021 03:13
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Lunchmeat Larry posted: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 Also it helped remind me that I did not include in my list my excellent MMORPG naming scheme with my Goonbro Torrent, Pungo Eshere and Pungoe Shere. Clearly we were over other people's joke names at that point.
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Mar 7, 2021 04:40
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Boldor posted:Pool of Radiance ludicrously-detailed guide updated to v1.40: Hahah, I've never been so glad to do a forums search as I am finding this. Thanks man!
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Hieronymous Alloy posted:Hahah, I've never been so glad to do a forums search as I am finding this. Thanks man! I'm a bit befuddled. Is this a fan patch, a mod, an official patch...?
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JustJeff88 posted:I'm a bit befuddled. Is this a fan patch, a mod, an official patch...? It's an extremely detailed guide updated as recently as November of last year, which for a game as old as Pool of Radiance is like finding a rosetta stone. I just started listening to Critical Role and I decided a good companion would be replaying all the old Gold Box games, which I haven't done since . . .poo poo, since they came out, so like 1988 for PoR. . I set up this whole work from home office in an upstairs bedroom with multiple monitors, and connecting a crappy laptop to it and putting the game on one monitor, CR on youtube on another, and the manuals and journals on the third screen works surprisingly well. I'm kinda amazed at how precisely I remember all the game's details. Guisarme-Voulge! Arax the Bold! Endlessly copying the Manual of Bodily Health until all my characters somehow gained regeneration! Hieronymous Alloy fucked around with this message at 21:45 on Mar 9, 2021 |
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Mar 9, 2021 21:41
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Hieronymous Alloy posted:It's an extremely detailed guide updated as recently as November of last year, which for a game as old as Pool of Radiance is like finding a rosetta stone. Won't you need to add a 4th monitor to get any of your actual work done? 
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Nemo2342 posted:Won't you need to add a 4th monitor to get any of your actual work done? We are back in the office now so it's just an overly technological guest room.
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Starting Pillars of Eternity 2 when it comes out on GamePass tomorrow, partially because I'm running a sailing/boat themed campaign in Dungeon World and I want to get some inspiration Question, is it worth using the stock companions or should I just make a set of 6 custom characters, assuming that's an option like it was in the first one? For reference I love character building and hate playing unpaid therapist to a group of bafflingly designed Bioware-esque losers
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Mar 24, 2021 12:09
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The companions in Deadfire are good, they have their own motives and IIRC at least one is likely to leave your party at a certain point because of a huge choice that pits various interests against one another. There's still the oddball "these dudes will follow you unquestioningly into battle" vibes that all CRPGs just kind of have to accept, but they're not Bioware quip machines waiting for your magic sex to heal their trauma. There are also a bunch of minor companions who get very little dialogue, but bring more flavor than player-made NPCs. Character building-wise, you have full control outside of their starting stats and class. You even get to choose the class from a selection of 2-3. If you have a real rad concept in mind you may need to go custom, but otherwise the companions are fine.
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Mar 24, 2021 12:22
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Exactly what I hoped to hear, particularly choosing their class, thank you - companions it is!
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Mar 24, 2021 13:23
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I bought the original Neverwinter Nights when it came out, but never finished it. Pretty sure I spent more time looking at the cloth map and spiral-bound manual than playing the game. The only things I remember are some sort of plague and a weird radial menu which might also be a plague. I'm going to jump into the OC today. My approach to character creation in D&D games is always a little weird because: 1. I hate leaving locks/traps unopened 2. I hate hiding, laying traps, and sneak attacks (backstabs only felt good in the original Dragon Age when I could openly wander behind an occupied enemy and melt their lifebar) 3. I hate buffing 4. I hate frequent resting Obviously that doesn't leave much to actually do, so I'll probably wind up with some sort of frontline rogue/fighter with a shield or rogue/ranger.
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Mar 24, 2021 14:59
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Don't play the NWN1 original campaign in 2021, are you insane.
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Mar 24, 2021 16:08
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Lunchmeat Larry posted:Don't play the NWN1 original campaign in 2021, are you insane. I would rather play through the NWN1 campaign in 2021 than a number of other old games brought up in this thread, there's certainly better NWN1 content around but that's a tad overly dramatic.
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Mar 24, 2021 16:29
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no it's really bad, terribly paced and insanely boring with almost no interesting or memorable characters
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Mar 24, 2021 16:31
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It absolutely isn't overly dramatic, it genuinely is just pretty terrible. The NWN1 campaign is designed like a tech demo, it's pretty much just there to show off the capabilities of the engine and otherwise worse than even the pure excuse-for-dungeon-crawling storylines of the older Icewind Dale series. The expansions were okay, but nobody liked the base campaign of NWN1 even when it was new.
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Mar 24, 2021 16:35
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I'm definitely not expecting much, and have played plenty of terrible games for review. I'm just interested in experiencing the few BioWare RPGs I missed (this and... Sonic Chronicles lol) to see how clunky they are for myself.
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Mar 24, 2021 16:44
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It's barely an RPG and more just a series of hallways with an incredibly poor plot and poo poo characters. The best thing the base campaign does is provide context for some cool moments in the expansions, but it is not at all worth playing through those 50+ hours just to fluff up a couple moments later on. The best advice anyone could ever follow for NWN and NWN2 is to skip straight to the expansion packs. Nancy fucked around with this message at 16:54 on Mar 24, 2021 |
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Mar 24, 2021 16:52
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Corin Tucker's Stalker posted:I'm definitely not expecting much, and have played plenty of terrible games for review. I'm just interested in experiencing the few BioWare RPGs I missed (this and... Sonic Chronicles lol) to see how clunky they are for myself.
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Cardiovorax posted:It's not really bad in an entertaining way, just really, really boring. This would be my opinion as well, without stating my opinion as if it were fact or being ludicrously hyperbolic. NWN's creation abilities and potential for sustained worlds and multi-player is really, really impressive given the era in which it came, but it was a disappointment to me personally because I'm not into MP and I prefer party-based games where I have full control, or at least the option of full control. I personally think that NWN2s base campaign is quite solid, but ultimately it's a matter of taste and I can only give my opinion.
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chapter one is incredibly boring but everything else in the original campaign is fine. not like, good, at all, but fine.
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Corin Tucker's Stalker posted:I bought the original Neverwinter Nights when it came out, but never finished it. Pretty sure I spent more time looking at the cloth map and spiral-bound manual than playing the game. The only things I remember are some sort of plague and a weird radial menu which might also be a plague. so the way this works in nwn1 is that you very very specifically have to take your very first level as rogue, then switch to fighter or ranger (if you go high dex, going dual-weapon fighting with weapon finesse will probably be best.) only rogues can open all locks and traps, and the skill point system has this goofy quirk that means if you're taking non-standard skills for your class you want to take them at level 1 or you'll be hopelessly behind forever nwn1 should use 3e sneak attack, so you get the bonus damage just for attacking an enemy while flanking them, instead of needing to backstab them or be in stealth
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JustJeff88 posted:I personally think that NWN2s base campaign is quite solid, but ultimately it's a matter of taste and I can only give my opinion.
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NWN2's biggest issue is that it frontloads most of the weakest parts, once past the world-famous orc caves it more or less steadily improves in quality (aside from some dips like the final dungeon) which ultimately peaks in MotB.
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NWN1 is perfectly serviceable, if utterly lacking in excitement. NWN2 is the sloggiest slog that ever slogged through slogs. The first chapter is dull as all get-out, while the second chapter has you fighting endless waves of stealthed rogues who unleash wave after wave of sneak attacks. Dumb as NWN1 is, 2 is one of the worst experiences in my RPG history.
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NWN1 OC is fine as a hack and slash campaign with some puzzles and dialogues on the side that KOTOR is going to repeat improved years later. The first chapter sucks regardless though.
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Weedle posted:no it's really bad, terribly paced and insanely boring with almost no interesting or memorable characters Linu Laneral is good
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I opened all the NWN locks by being a sorcerer and having a familiar do it.
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I remember liking the NWN1 campaign, but even so it was just 'fine.' The expansions, as said, were far superior, and the first one even opens with them basically redoing the first chapter of the original campaign but more interesting. God drat did I love Neverwinter Nights growing up, though. Put so much time into playing around with the editor and never making anything decent. Never got to 2, though I bought it on GOG ages ago.
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inscrutable horse posted:2 is one of the worst experiences in my RPG history. This is what I meant about stating an opinion as fact and being ludicrously hyperbolic.
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it's fine. everybody understands that saying a piece of media is good or bad is an opinion
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I do have to admit that I find it hard to imagine not hating NWN1 with a passion if you already think NWN2 was an unbearable slog.
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JustJeff88 posted:This is what I meant about stating an opinion as fact and being ludicrously hyperbolic. Good thing I didn't state it as fact, then, isn't it? Check out the three last words of the text you quoted. Now, unless my experiences speak definitively for everyone else, I'd say that was clearly my opinion.
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For nwn 1 the only campaign I played through was darkness over daggerford which I thought was really endearing, so now I’m trying to figure out if I wanna play through tyrants of the undersea or go straight to 2 with mysteries of westgate.
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neosloth posted:For nwn 1 the only campaign I played through was darkness over daggerford which I thought was really endearing, so now I’m trying to figure out if I wanna play through tyrants of the undersea or go straight to 2 with mysteries of westgate. From memory Mysteries of Westgate isn't great, Mask of the Betrayer is the great expansion and Storms of Zehir is a lot of fun but quite polarising - I liked it a lot and it has a very old-school adventuring feel, but a lot of people didn't gel with it for understandable reasons. I'm assuming they're all included in whatever version of the game you can get now anyway, so worth trying them all I guess Lunchmeat Larry fucked around with this message at 23:59 on Mar 24, 2021 |
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Weedle posted:no it's really bad, terribly paced and insanely boring with almost no interesting or memorable characters It's not *bad*, just extremely generic and cliched with a dash of sexism. Play it enough to get the hang of the game, then jump into the fan-made modules.
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Lunchmeat Larry posted:honestly there are loads of good modules of Daggerford-quality, NWN1 is probably one of my most played games of all time for that reason (albeit I'm more discerning now than when I was in my early teens) Storms of Zehir is NWN2.
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I am one of many here who counts the original Neverwinter Nights campaign as one of his worst CRPG experiences, possibly the worst of games I actually finished (besides Lionheart, though Lionheart was significantly worse). That said, I watched Noah Caldwell-Gervais' entire 3-hour video about the series and immediately bought the Enhanced Edition on Steam because it does sound like literally everything ELSE ever officially released for the game is good-to-great, as Cardiovorax and Catlord and I think someone else has already said too. But you can also let this guy hype you up for the whole thing (though he seemed to like the original campaign a bit more than the rest of us; seriously, for me, the fact that half of your inventory disappeared between acts because they were single-use puzzle items you no longer needed felt like I was playing a fan game, and yes that still bothers me 15+ years later apparently) https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=QUHeWaDjuZ0
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The Might and Magic community just got a bump from this vid from Sseth: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=yG9g2byXR2c I'm a part of a M&M Discord and there's been at least 40-50 new members in the past couple days. Gotta love when a popular youtuber bumps up a classic series.
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