You was a retard then, you are a retard now. I love that something in the world is a constant.
It's really unfortunate you chose to share this opinion. Some things are better left unsaid. Everything you've ever done or anything that you can possibly do in the future is now immediately suspect.
Taken at face value, none of your points detract from the experience and the adventure in any way
This is a game for inquisitive and imaginative people and is more than the sum of its parts
Well, it does show a lot about you when you started with finding Gothic controls too "complicated" and now you're basically repeating the same train of thought with Arcanum.
Sometimes it's not the game's fault.
That's funny, because that's where I called it quits. I just couldn't take the grind any more.Like the thread says, this is not a criticism of Arcanum as an RPG. I've been exploring the Black Clan Mines and having my ass handed by tons of traps and blazing golems. And as much as I hate the huge amount of traps, even if I use the detect traps scroll, this is nowhere my biggest issue with this game.
They had no way of knowing a thirdworldian brat who is used to streamlining and handholding would want to play them 15 years later, so cut them some slack, you're not the target audience.
They had no way of knowing a thirdworldian brat who is used to streamlining and handholding would want to play them 15 years later, so cut them some slack, you're not the target audience.
I think it's more along the lines of "Troika couldn't make a good game to save their lives".
Considering they went the way of the dodo, I don't think I'm too far off from it.
Take it back.
It's the truth. Arcanum had the possibility of becoming the greatest ever RPG, that much I can tell from what I've played. But it has some serious drawbacks. Let's forget about all my "nitpicks" and just focus on the so-so content, the awful combat, and how apparently beginning-BMC is supposed to be the "best" part of Arcanum... that doesn't speak well for the game.
Forget all about your nitpicks and the game apparently still sucks, even though you say it could have been the 'greatest RPG ever' (Or 'greatest ever RPG')
So why aren't you pestering and/or blackmailing Drog Black Tooth into making the Combat Rebalance mod?Forget all about your nitpicks and the game apparently still sucks, even though you say it could have been the 'greatest RPG ever' (Or 'greatest ever RPG')
It still sucks because having shit combat and so-so content are not "minor complaints", they are the bulk of the game itself. Arcanum is interesting because it has a very unique setting, a large selection of races with multitudes of backgrounds, skills, IMO a good leveling system (I like having to think through my choices in skills), crafting with lots of schematics to buy and learn (and beautifully illustrated, this game has A LOT of charm), some small but noticeable presentation improvements over Fallout (like lots of actions taking place in real time, including dialogue which also doesn't take place on a screen but right next to NPCs), the magick-technology dichotomy that makes for very interesting playstyles.
Not all of these are flawless, but they are all VERY interesting ideas and features that, with proper implementation, would have made Arcanum the GOAT.
Replaying this at the moment.
What a piece of shit to be honest. Out of my complaints in the OP, I still stand by:
- The inventory system is awful and would have worked much better by having a simple "volume" value and a "weight" value. Having to tetris your shit whenever you want to pick up something isn't my idea of fun.
- Items are not arranged by similiarity, but randomly.
- No filter for knowing what a merchant is willing to buy.
- The journal is crap, and Morrowind's was much better.
- You are out of luck if you want to know what a lot of items do in this game, because there's no description as to what they do or what purpose do they serve.
- Manual is crap and poorly organized, no index, wastes too much time on ye olde speech.
- Combat is crap. Game is terribly unbalanced. A regression from Fallout in every single way I can think of.
- UI is shit.
I think that's about it. Underneath all the awful there's a GOAT cRPG, but there's a lot of awful. It's been almost 20 months since I've last played it, experienced many RPGs in the process, but this is without a doubt the worst videogame of them all.
Yeah ? And how people feel about Daggerfall here ? Seems like majority would rather happily ride Morrowind's dick , because "it's not a broken game with extreme ambitions and is at least playable" . You know I didn't think about it much , but in game development it's always ambitions vs implementation and now I understand what type of people choose Morrowind and why I'm in strong disagreement with them .It’s like you’re trying to understand what makes a codexer a codexer... you either get it or you don’t. I’m sure you can find plenty of people to relate to about your love of new vegas or dark souls or even vagrant story, but you’re not going to change the opinion of the majority of this site because you can list all of the things wrong with this game. That charm that you talk about, that unfulfilled potential to be the “goat,” that is something that doesn’t come about often. Some really appreciate it, but you don’t seem to. So you go right ahead and shit on troika, but I doubt you’ll change anyone’s opinion
Yeah ? And how people feel about Daggerfall here ? Seems like majority would rather happily ride Morrowind's dick , because "it's not a broken game with extreme ambitions and is at least playable" . You know I didn't think about it much , but in game development it's always ambitions vs implementation and now I understand what type of people choose Morrowind and why I'm in strong disagreement with them .It’s like you’re trying to understand what makes a codexer a codexer... you either get it or you don’t. I’m sure you can find plenty of people to relate to about your love of new vegas or dark souls or even vagrant story, but you’re not going to change the opinion of the majority of this site because you can list all of the things wrong with this game. That charm that you talk about, that unfulfilled potential to be the “goat,” that is something that doesn’t come about often. Some really appreciate it, but you don’t seem to. So you go right ahead and shit on troika, but I doubt you’ll change anyone’s opinion
I'm not sure what you said or if you said anything at all .You know, if you stopped being all pretentious and theoretical about games and just stuck to games where you play a party of characters with whom you have full control over then all these ridiculous and pointless arguments could be taken elsewhere, like, I dunno, to General Gaming or something...