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Schwartzcough
Aug 12, 2009

Don't tease the Octopus, kids!
Hooray, glad to see this back!

quote:

To my knowledge, no other temples in the game will let you pay for healing.

Wait, as in you can't get healed at any other temple (which seems harsh), or you don't have to pay for healing at other temples (which I find very hard to believe)?


At any rate, the correct answer in RPGs is to always take the scenic route. Then to go back and take the direct route.

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Schwartzcough
Aug 12, 2009

Don't tease the Octopus, kids!
It's pretty impressive how much of this game seems like optional side content. I'm used to modern games which tend to be 95% mandatory storyline and 5% optional fetch quests. OK, you still have your occasional Elder Scrolls game, but still.

Schwartzcough
Aug 12, 2009

Don't tease the Octopus, kids!
It's hard to imagine a more thrilling quest than fetching a sack of grain. C'mon, we're accomplished heroes, here! Make us fetch two bags of grain!

Schwartzcough
Aug 12, 2009

Don't tease the Octopus, kids!

inscrutable horse posted:

Well, that was an easy set of riddles this time

The second one stumped me. :( I maintain that the riddle was faulty and not my brain.

Schwartzcough
Aug 12, 2009

Don't tease the Octopus, kids!

Snugglecakes posted:

Update 28: Highcastle


"Squiffing"? Is the writing going all Lewis Carroll on us, or were they stumbling up there drunk?

Snugglecakes posted:



If I ever needed a banner to show off what is best in BaK, this would be it. :black101:

This reminds me of the VGA version of Quest for Glory 1 where you can take on about 8 goblins in a row, and after the battle their corpses are strew over every bush and rock. Good times. :allears:

Schwartzcough
Aug 12, 2009

Don't tease the Octopus, kids!
I guess get a Dragon Plate and one of the next tier down. Owyn has magical goddess-fortified skin now, so he obviously doesn't need any armor!

Schwartzcough
Aug 12, 2009

Don't tease the Octopus, kids!

PurpleXVI posted:

Also, if you're going with the narrative, I'd suggest a bit more OOC banter, I kind of liked the poking fun at some dialogue and stuff in the game earlier, and your narrative experiment had a good bit less of that, it felt.

I concur with this. This narrative style is perfectly acceptable, but I did enjoy the occasional snarky aside.

And the thing about the password glitch is baffling to me. It seems like they'd just cut & paste the code from the old version to the newer version, or maybe fix some bugs. To actually break things that used to work seems like they'd have to actively put work into messing something up.

Schwartzcough
Aug 12, 2009

Don't tease the Octopus, kids!
Door
Outside
Knife?
Not sure on that last one.

And we're all very proud of you for selecting the only the Barding skill. At least you remembered to do it for the most important of all skills. :v:

Schwartzcough
Aug 12, 2009

Don't tease the Octopus, kids!
He'd hunt you down, but he's already late for his shift guarding the Bridge of Death.

Schwartzcough
Aug 12, 2009

Don't tease the Octopus, kids!
Actually, I think this one is actually:

Psion posted:

fourth: table

Schwartzcough
Aug 12, 2009

Don't tease the Octopus, kids!

Psion posted:

Ah yeah, the rare obnoxious wordchest: where you can form two words, both of which are plausible. The most infuriating ones, when you get a word, it's a real word, it fits, and the game just stares at you. "haha nope, try again sucker!"

so uh Snugglecakes, which one is it? :v:


For what it's worth, Schwartzcough, I checked four FAQs. two agree with me, two agree with you. So even FAQ-writers don't know. However, the BAK Help Web is one of the two that agrees with you and I've never seen that source to be wrong, so I'm gonna say you're probably right.

Well, I thought of your answer first as well, but according to the update the box is lacking the last letter as an option. So I went back to the drawing board and found my answer.

Schwartzcough
Aug 12, 2009

Don't tease the Octopus, kids!
Me too! And the third time's the charm, right (This is the third time you've revived it, I think)? So I hope nothing catastrophic happens this time.

Schwartzcough
Aug 12, 2009

Don't tease the Octopus, kids!
Ohhh, a grave-digging cliffhanger!

Schwartzcough
Aug 12, 2009

Don't tease the Octopus, kids!
So a guild was seiging the town... why? And keeping travelers out will help... how? Except having a seal from one of the warring guilds makes it OK to come in... why? Bloody contrived obstacles!

Schwartzcough
Aug 12, 2009

Don't tease the Octopus, kids!
Congrats on the new job!

Schwartzcough
Aug 12, 2009

Don't tease the Octopus, kids!
EGGS
HAIR
HOLES?


You know, throwing diseased crap may be a decent long-term war strategy, but it's a really bad plan for the poor guys who have to do it. The disease isn't going to kill your victims before they beat the crap out of you for throwing poo poo at them.

Schwartzcough
Aug 12, 2009

Don't tease the Octopus, kids!
Wasn't the whole point of getting the sidequest from the temple to get cured? Why bother doing it now if you're already better?

Schwartzcough
Aug 12, 2009

Don't tease the Octopus, kids!
I'm sure Owen is secretly pleased, even if he'll probably end up getting poisoned or exploded or covered in diseased poop.

Schwartzcough
Aug 12, 2009

Don't tease the Octopus, kids!

Snugglecakes posted:

"The emerald is yours, James said, tipping over his king. "You win."

One night in Malac's Cross makes a hard man humble.

Snugglecakes posted:

Wayland M. Wasserman
"Hated everything."

Actually I believe George Strait sang that. So hard to keep those country singers straight, though.

Schwartzcough
Aug 12, 2009

Don't tease the Octopus, kids!

Snugglecakes posted:

And we'll leave it there on a cliffhanger. Next time! Do we finally meet James long lost brother? Is this going to spin off into some elaborate character development side quest, where eventually we'll forget what we were supposed to do in the first pace? (escort Gorath to Romney)

Escorting who to where, now? Do I even know you? I feel like I saw an LP by someone named Snugglecakes, long ago...

Seriously, though, I hope your LPix discovery makes updating easier!

Schwartzcough
Aug 12, 2009

Don't tease the Octopus, kids!
That was a very strange meeting with James' maybe-twin brother. The pretense of the meeting was immediately dropped and instead he decided to tell you allll about his super-secret spy mission and all its findings.

Also, everyone knows that in RPGs and fantasy, any ancient legend, fairy tale, or children's story is 100% true and will be proven so almost immediately upon hearing about it.

Schwartzcough
Aug 12, 2009

Don't tease the Octopus, kids!
Owyn, what did you do?!

Also, 50 gold to get your fortune told? "I foresee you will feel a deep sense of regret in the near future..."

Schwartzcough
Aug 12, 2009

Don't tease the Octopus, kids!
Sure, Sethanon sounds good. Who doesn't love corpses?

Schwartzcough
Aug 12, 2009

Don't tease the Octopus, kids!
Can you stash items somewhere safely? As in, can you dump most of the loot you get during the first chapters in storage and live like a pauper until this chapter, then sell it all and live like a king?

Schwartzcough
Aug 12, 2009

Don't tease the Octopus, kids!
I demand you go back and DEMAND that ABUK, MASTER OF LOCKS give you training in lockpicking. Also, I demand that you have as many skills tagged as possible when you get the training.

I know this probably isn't an option, but they can't go around calling a guy the Master of Locks and not have him be some sort of trainer.

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Schwartzcough
Aug 12, 2009

Don't tease the Octopus, kids!
"While digging up graves, we came across some evidence that you've been digging up graves! What kind of monster are you?!" :rolleyes:


Snugglecakes posted:

"Can you now? You run through ghosts as easy as that. Poleax poltergeists in your space time?"

While I like the idea of time-traveling ghostbusters, this should probably be "spare time".

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