Anybody else playing Geneforge 5?

[Baldr]

I've had the misfortune of having a Macbook at college the last couple years, but this holiday season I lucked out with the release of Geneforge 5, which is mac-only until the PC version comes out in a few months. I've played through Geneforge 2,3 and 4, so I think I trust Jeff Vogel enough to pay for the full game pretty soon.

What I've gathered from the demo so far:

-The graphics are better, though still piss-poor in absolute terms. Oblivion w/ Gunz!!11one it is not.

-It retains the "Rebellion" classes from Geneforge 4, but since I always play a Shaper I just went with Lifecrafter. You can be a servile if that's your thing.

-Beginning of the plot is fairly typical. On the plus side, you're in the Shaper mainland rather than Bumfuck, Nowhere.

-Five factions instead of the lackluster 2-3 in the last 2 games in the series.

 

[OSK]

Nope. I still have to get around to playing the second. I loved the first one though.

 

[Micmu]

Why do I have to wait 'til March for this to come out for a computer?

 

[Carlos' Bitch1]

I finished Avernum 5 not long ago, but have never bothered with the Geneforges. A5 wasn't bad.

 

[Micmu]

Then you should "bother" with them.
Geneforge > Avernum. Go play with Shaper for party-play.

 

[Antagonist]

I never thought the day would come but I can't play a Jeff Vogel game due to technical reasons. I've read somewhere that he uses now OpenGL (at least partly) for rendering and that causes a black screen of death on my MacBook, probably due to shitty Apple drivers. Since the updated version doesn't work as well I either have to hope that it will work on my new MacBook Pro (once it arrives, damn slow university courier service) or I'll have to patiently wait until the Windows version arrives.

Anyway, I'm looking forward to it. Despite some misgivings about the direction the series took with 3 and 4 I still feel more entertained by Geneforge than by 95 percent of the current tripe A game market.

 

[Elwro]

I finished Avernum 3 this year. I play 1 Vogel game a year and I liked them so far. I want to finish the Avernum series first, and then I'll plunge into Geneforge (loved the first part, but I really want to explore more of the Avernum setting).

 

[Baldr]

Geneforge is much better than Avernum.