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  1. New and improved list of decent to must play cRPGs

    You actually control up to 4 parties of 7, though not simultanously. So: An absolutely amazing game, by the way. :P

  2. Why is turn-based combat considered better than real-time?

    I never explained "why a real time system doesn't have these possibilities" because this is not what I meant to say. I know very little RT games and particularly I am only familiar with IE's RTwP. So while I agree with you in that (RTwP's) simultanous action might be capable of adding tactical...

  3. Why is turn-based combat considered better than real-time?

    A typical party in an RPG might be like this: A party of 6, 3 melees, two magic users, one priest. In TB combat in turn 1 each partymember will be assigned a specific task: The melees engage up front, the mages cast spells to damage the foe, the priest casts a spell to help the party. Then it's...

  4. Why is turn-based combat considered better than real-time?

    I think the whole discussion would benefit much from leaving out shortcomings of existing games. Also this discussion has become quite redundant, in that there is a whole lot of bloated text which basically doesn't amount to anything except nitpicking on irrelevant points. A shame how...

  5. Why is turn-based combat considered better than real-time?

    Not necessarily. Just imagine a party of 6 playing 5 rounds in a TB combat. This allows for 30 possible options within a couple of minutes. I see no way in hell that a person with two hands and one brain can make 30 clicks/decisions/whatever in the same amount of time without making RT...

  6. Why is turn-based combat considered better than real-time?

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  7. Why is turn-based combat considered better than real-time?

    I think the main reason for turn-based combat being "put on a pedestal" is that it is extinct. If it wasn't for this it would just be a matter of "like" or "dislike". Some people like playing chess, others like playing soccer. It's hard to find arguments for one game being inherently superior to...

  8. Scientists discover blackhole located inside Laidlaw's head.

    What "Military-SF" thread? You mean the one called "Recommend me space opera"? Now, please, I feel convinced that talking about a constant adrenaline-high might have left the wrong impression. But is that all what this is about? Biochemistry? I know this forum is a bit different from...

  9. Scientists discover blackhole located inside Laidlaw's head.

    Ok, we have the Fallout series, we have 1 Wasteland and 2 KoToRs, we have 2 Buck Rogers and 1 Albion and maybe one or two dozen more RPGs with a Sci-Fi setting and some obscure ones with neither a Sci-Fi or a Fantasy setting. Compared to what? 5000 RPGs set in a fantasy world? I hope you see my...

  10. Scientists discover blackhole located inside Laidlaw's head.

    And why is that? Apart from nitpicking about some generalizations of mine where do you locate that foot shooting happening exactly?

  11. Scientists discover blackhole located inside Laidlaw's head.

    Laidlaw seems to think along the lines of: "Modern shooters have RPG elements so shooter-fans are latent RPG players. All we have to do is not scaring them away with numbers and complexity right from the start and we win.". In doing so he forgets that: - In shooters you have guns with bullets...

  12. Review Avadon: The Black Fortress Review Bonanza

    You'll occasionally find minor loot to sell where there is some debris or scattered bones or something like that. It's not that hard to figure out. Of course there's always the chance to miss out on that Dust Speck of Invincibility +7, lying there in the middle of nowhere with no sprite to draw...

  13. Puzzles in RPG's

    I don't like puzzles but I like riddles like this one: I live upon a star. My initials are PQRS. I have many neighbors. I am on something elecric. What am I? Hint: Hint: Hint: Answer: With puzzles I often get very impatient, not knowing whether it's trial-and-error or if there are...

  14. Thoughts on Bethesda

    Actually I don't think it's him. From what I've seen of his posts it just does not seem to be his kind of humour. I just found it funny seeing this whole thing as a kind of whodunnit, and if it were I think there is no doubt that it was him who did the deed, being the last one you'd suspect...

  15. Thoughts on Bethesda

    It is most obviously Jaeson. First he hints at something surrounding this mysterious Melissan, and by doing so pre-empting the natural assumption that she must be someone's alt, which was to come up anyway. The true purpose of this "hint", however, was to make him the least suspicious of being...

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