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Spincut posted:The big thing I've heard about Temple of Elemental Evil (the newer one) is the Circle of Eight modpack. GoG linky here. It's mostly bug fixes, but it does add some content like new quests as well. Heavily recommended for the "complete" ToEE experience. Completely agree. It makes the game better, without question. It isn't one of those kitchen sink kind of mods that throws in everything they can think of. ToEE is an amazing game with it.
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This is my favorite thread in the universe. All of these games just make me so gosh darned happy. I hope I get stranded on a desert island some day with all of these games.
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Dr. Quarex posted:I do feel like Neverwinter Nights is the textbook definition of a 3-star game; lots of interesting things going on and solid mechanics, but feeling utterly hollow at the same time. I really, really enjoyed TOEE. As far as I know, it has the best implementation of D&D combat ever. The story isn't anything special, although I do like how the beginning of the game is different depending on which alignment you choose. Chaotic Evil parties start the game straight up murdering innocent people, if I recall correctly. Icewind Dale and Baldur's Gate with TOEE combat would be really good.
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Chairchucker posted:I played the demo of ToEE and hated the combat. Well then, I guess that's that.
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The developers expected they would make more DLC. Sales of the game weren't great, so Ubisoft didn't have them make any more. That's why it is impossible to get the max level achievement in the game, there isn't enough experience to reach it. I really liked MMX despite the stupid new universe, the gameplay was great and I felt right at home. But the low sales of the game pretty much means that the revival was a one time thing, and we're not going to see any more sequels, sadly. I replayed MM6 for the four hundredth time a couple months ago, and clocked in at 78 hours played. When I look down at MMX's playtime, it was... 78 hours played.  What happened at the top of the lighthouse that was funny? I don't remember. Node fucked around with this message at 00:55 on Feb 28, 2017 |
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Synthbuttrange posted:There was a Might and Magic X? idk if this is a genuine post or a "haha, i think the game is so bad i dont acknowledge its existence im so clever" post, but yes, ubisoft tried to revive it with minimal budget development a few years back, and in my opinion it was pretty good. it was better than IX at least! which didn't exist!
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dhamster posted:I still remember how terrible IX was. I guess some fans patched it to make it a bit better though? It's on my list of things to play, but I don't have very much hope. My best friend and I would buy Might and Magic 6, 7, 8 the day they hit the shelves, and have all night marathons of playing them when we were teenagers. When we brought home 9 on the day it was released, my friend fell asleep after just a few hours. That pretty much sums how horrible IX was. 3D0 rushed the poo poo out of that game because they knew they were going bankrupt. Its a shame New World Computing died with them. JVC is wasting his talents on mobile games now or some poo poo. I think the fan patch fixes glaring issues, but ultimately doesn't make it a good game. You just have to play it because you're a diehard Might and Magic fan and can tell yourself "I have beaten every Might and Magic game.  "
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Synthbuttrange posted:I really didnt know it existed, I got so burned on IX and the fact that they blew the planet up I think I just accepted that it was a dead franchise. It pretty much is now. MM10 wasn't a financial success, so either they try and reinvent it later, which is unlikely, or it lies dead and we keep getting Heroes of Might and Magic games set in god awful universes. I still think it was way better than what we could have hoped for in this day and age. Node fucked around with this message at 04:55 on Feb 28, 2017 |
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Dr. Quarex posted:Sup my fanboy friend Holy poo poo, I remember that. When I read about it it sounded awesome. Then you get to the part where it asks for your credit card.
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Lunchmeat Larry posted:I'm gonna pee and poo on ultima vii I'm pretty sure I'm going to cut you Speaking of Ultimas, I know Ultima 8 was bad. But how bad is it? Is it tolerable if you want to play through more of Brittania, and like Lord British's style of game design, or do the jumping puzzles and all the other poo poo with the game just make it unplayable?
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Genpei Turtle posted:It's not set in Brittania at all if that makes a difference. Does it feel like an Ultima game? is the most important question I guess. Will I feel Richard Garriott's warm embrace when playing it?
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Mr. Fortitude posted:Not really. Ultima 8, like 9 was unfinished and rushed with huge swathes of cut content, so the Avatar ends up doing stuff that kind of goes against the Virtues. You're playing more a desperate man trying to get back home more than you are a religious figure saving the world. It isn't totally awful though, it being a bad Ultima but a decent enough game in spite of its issues is fairly on the mark. It isn't Ultima 9 which was just an insult to Ultima fans. I'm going to say I actually thought U9 was okay. It was certainly no where near the quality of U4 or U7, but I enjoy it for some reason. It has excellent music too. An orchestra did the soundtrack for the game, and the orchestral version of Stones is really lovely to hear. U9 was also buggy as poo poo on release, but if you registered your game (remember when that was still a thing?) Origin later mailed everybody a CD with a patch on it, an apology, and a free month of Ultima Online. I wonder where mine is. I hope I didn't throw it away.
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Quote-Unquote posted:Ultima IX gets points for having by far the best score in the series. And that's probably the only thing I'm going to praise about it. "Haaaaaayyyy baaaaaybeee, want to paaarty?" "Suuuuure, let's go!". *shudder* Yeah, stones.mp3 is easily the best thing that came out of that game. Everyone who is an Ultima fan needs to listen to it once.
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U9 also gave us the hilarious story of it-he's adventure from mainland Britannia to Trinsic, without a boat. It involves stacking many sticks, books, and making a bridge out of them across the ocean. http://www.it-he.org/u9_otwab.php God drat it-he is an old site. An oldie but always a goodie.
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ProfessorCirno posted:The problem with replaying Ultimas is that you have to make playing them more entertaining then just reading Nakar's LPs, and that's just not possible. I remember when reading LPs was entertaining and funny. Now I can't do it, they just seem so boring compared to video LPs. And a lot more creativity and effort was put into the read LPs in general, too. Lunchmeat Larry posted:Also it means you have to play Ultima Please stop. This thread is a Safe Space, and you are triggering me.
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Babylon Astronaut posted:Everyone likes underworld though right? That had amazing dungeon design because it felt like it had its own economy and ecology for every floor. It's hard to argue that not being one of the top Ultima games. It was an enormous influence on immersive first person shooters/RPGs like System Shock.
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General Emergency posted:Arx Fatalis is the best Ultima game. I think I have mentioned this already, but its worth repeating. Arkane Studios released the source code for Arx a few years ago, and someone made it on a new fancy engine. It's called Arx Liberatis or Libertatis or something like that. Definitely worth playing through again.
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chairface posted:6 is fun but is very much tilted towards the Magic side of the Might & Magic duality. Arguments about optimal party composition differ in exactly how many sorcerers you should be bringing. All 4 characters being sorcerers is among the competitors for an ideal composition. 7 does a better job balancing Might and Magic, and adds more classes besides, as well as overhauling the skill mastery system. Some day I'm going to play a four druid party. No light or dark spells, but the Starfalls and Fireballs will be rapid firing. Out of mana? No problem, this is M&M6 and everyone can master a skill like archery if they can learn it. 6 has a special place in my heart, I bought it when I was young and I didn't know anything about the series.
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credburn posted:Bleeding edge graphics never hold up. I remember when Oblivion made me dizzy because it seemed so real. I remember when Mafia had cutscenes where their lips matched the sounds coming from them. I remember seeing mocap for the first time in GTA3 (or at least the first time I noticed people walking around like actual people might move.) All of this looks like poo poo now. What does hold up is cell shading (Even without HD remastering, Wind Waker still looks great!) and pixel art and the like. Far from an RPG, but I remember when Epic was showing off ragdoll physics in UT2003 at E3. Definitely a pantsshitting moment. Angrymog posted:I wanted to like Xulima, but you were forced to have a totally bland character in your party in addition to the ones you made yourself I played through the entire game. Almost 100 hours of it. It's an incredibly bland game. It's not bad, it's just... not good, at all.
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I love this thread. It's so warm and cozy. A bit threadbare, but the endearing kind of threadbare.
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If I ever made a movie I'd use nothing but Doom door sound effects
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Arivia posted:I feel bad for the "biggest fan ever" in that Grimoire trailer who kept asking "is it done yet?" every single day until he died in like 2012. Hope you can play it in Heaven and it's remotely what you were hoping for buddy.  Poor dude.
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How playable are the earlier Wizardry games today? I love party based dungeon crawlers. I've only played 8, and I really enjoyed it, and I have heard that 7 is the pinnacle of the series.
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I could play 5,000 more Grimrock games and be a happy man. Dungeon Master is my jam.
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Can someone explain to me what Grimoire is and what the joke is about it
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Since this is a big deal, I've uninstalled Steam, GOG, Origin, and all my games in preparation.
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Its on Steam. I just beat it. It was good.
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Synthbuttrange posted:jesus dont give money to insane racists Huh? I was talking about masturbating.
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So was someone joking earlier or is this guy really a fascist/nazi/rear end in a top hat and I shouldn't buy his game and support him. Because the game looks interesting. I'm not familiar with the dark comedy that was the 20 year development.
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Lunchmeat Larry posted:He's really racist but he's frankly too weird for the other two to apply. He genuinely believes that he's a Neanderthal and is one of the select few remaining who will inherit the planet when homo sapiens dies during the coming race war/nuclear war/ice age/magnetic reversal. Hence the bunker in Australia, which he fled to after knocking out a Mexican dwarf with a jar of bby food during the LA riots. Buy his game Well, then
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Has anyone beaten Cleve's neanderthal masterpiece yet
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I think you can only parry humans in Gothic. Its been a while, I may be wrong.
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Exult keeps crashing on my PC. I'm playing it on Windows 10. I don't have any mods installed. There's virtually nothing on Google about this. Anyone know what might cause Exult to ctd? I want my Ultima 7 fix.
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I played through the 3d trilogy of Might and Magic (6, 7, 8. 9 doesn't count) a year or so ago and the GOG version of 8 crashes at the very last dungeon in the game. When you're rescuing the elemental lords, every time I enter the prison of the lightning/air lord, the game CTDs every time. Pretty huge kick in the balls after all that work.
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Definitely get Light Master when you can. Day of the Gods + Hour of Power are game changing.
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szary posted:I definitely would have taken Light Master, but I locked myself out of getting it after tanking my reputation and not having enough quests left to get it back up to saintly. Ah, a fellow intellectual that likes to cast Armageddon in New Sorpigal. Well met, friend.
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I've played Daggerfall a number of times over the years, and my recent attempts at a playthrough have been stopped by some incredibly out of depth monsters. I'm playing Daggerfall Unity, using small dungeons, and I am running into vampires, werewolves, and other pretty high level creatures at level one in random dungeons, with the rest of the monsters being what you'd expect: rats, bats, low level humans. I thought the entire game was pretty much scaled to your level. Can Daggerfall really spawn those kinds of monsters at the beginning of the game, or is something hosed up going on with the Unity port?
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Kuros posted:Maybe one of the mods is affecting this? I did a run through and had no issues with high level monsters in random dungeons while low level. I don't know if small dungeons would affect this or not. I took a look through my small mod list and none of them affect gameplay as far as I can tell. I use Distant Terrain, Improved Interior Lighting, Real Grass, Enhanced Sky, and all the DREAM ones.
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Kuros posted:Yea I can only think it’s either the small dungeons setting, you’re on a quest made for high levels or “lol Daggerfall things”. I'm not using the latest version of DF Unity, maybe updating the game will help. It was annoying to fight in random level one dungeons and getting paralyzed by scorpions and instakilled in one hit by daedra.
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There is a "modern" port of U7 called Exult. It's "modern" because its actually been around quite a while. It doesn't fix everything about U7 but it does make it much more playable than the original.
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