Grimoire Thread

[rusty_shackleford]

Cleveland Mark Blakemore
what hardware were the midis designed on/for?

 

[Lim-Dûl]

A hotkey for repeating the last spell you cast at the same power level would be useful.

It would be much easier if you could recharge weapons from the player character plate, rather than click the equip button, unequip the weapon, put it in the inventory bar, open the spellbook, click recharge, click power level, click cast, click on the weapon, then equip the weapon. Worse if the weapon is cursed.

 

[Cleveland Mark Blakemore]

Cleveland Mark Blakemore
what hardware were the midis designed on/for?

I can't remember what Elllsworth Hall composed them on.

 

[Cleveland Mark Blakemore]

I think Cleveland Mark Blakemore mentioned that he wanted to upload the wiki on his website.

I have a new website and I am assembling it so I can put a page up for Grimoire again.

Wordpress now manages multiple sites from one admin desk, pretty cool feature and with only a couple enhancements from plugins it becomes a really good way to maintain multiple websites.

 

[Arthandas]

What happened to the "V4 Mega Excellence Git Gud version"?

 

[Cleveland Mark Blakemore]

What happened to the "V4 Mega Excellence Git Gud version"?

Other stuff happened. This stuff is different from working on that version stuff.

 

[Diggfinger]

This will be the second to last discount before V4 Mega Excellence Git Gud version comes out.

How come no one's asking what's new in V4?

That's because we all know what it will do....

Spoiler

 

[Diggfinger]

What do you consider "drama"?

I mean Cleve is pretty opinionated and has an often dissenting view (from the mainstream) but that should make a good and interesting interview. No?

Since I don't think that any codex egdelords would take part in the interview to bait him it should be a halfway civil affair. I don't expect any epic cleve rants (sadly).

It would be really sad if all potential interviewers refuse because of fear of the sjw mob.

I talked to Cleve and Matt about an interview way back in 2017.

Matt was all for it, but told me he never heard back from Cleve. I believe the two had a brief mail-exchange.

Asked Matt again in Feb 2019, but things fizzled out once more.

...

Perhaps one day...when Cleve deems us ready....

 

[Lim-Dûl]

Are there intentional parallels and symbolism within the game that relate to the story, the structure of the maps, and the seemingly erratic ways certain NPCs behave? Or did I merely break some NPCs?

 

[perfectslumbers]

I've never been able to get into any of the blobbers I've played so I didn't expect to like this game, but god damn, this is fucking amazing

 

[Morblot]

I've never been able to get into any of the blobbers I've played so I didn't expect to like this game, but god damn, this is fucking amazing

Still the only blobber I've ever completed.

 

[BATTLEMODE]

I've never been able to get into any of the blobbers I've played so I didn't expect to like this game, but god damn, this is fucking amazing

I like them but I rarely finish them, but this one also has me hooked and I think it'll be the first I'll finish in a long time.

 

[Viata]

This game is great. It's so fucking great it start great instead of most rpgs where it's slow and then gets good. You could even argue the intro part is the most well developed of all(probably because of the demo ), but damn, what a game.

 

[Lim-Dûl]

This game is great. It's so fucking great it start great instead of most rpgs where it's slow and then gets good. You could even argue the intro part is the most well developed of all(probably because of the demo ), but damn, what a game.

The game stays good throughout with the exception of the anime girls and other anime-looking things. In fact, the game would be even better if Cleve could replace all of the anime filth with stylistically consistent art for V4.

 

[perfectslumbers]

I like them but I rarely finish them, but this one also has me hooked and I think it'll be the first I'll finish in a long time.

Well if it's 600 hours I doubt I'll finish it, but I'll try my hardest

 

[Lady Error]

I like them but I rarely finish them, but this one also has me hooked and I think it'll be the first I'll finish in a long time.

Well if it's 600 hours I doubt I'll finish it, but I'll try my hardest

More like 100-150 hours if you're really thorough. A lot depends on how many random encounters you activate - if it is a lot, you could probably double that playtime to 200-300 hours.

 

[Lim-Dûl]

Way less than 150 hours.

 

[Dorateen]

 

[Cleveland Mark Blakemore]

Did you complete the game from all different starts? Did you get 100% of all maps? Just curious about that many hours logged.

Most importantly, did you discover new areas altogether on your playthroughs that you never knew existed until after you completed the game? I really liked that in Wizardry 7 when I replayed it. If there was any consistent feature in RPGs I would like there to be totally optional areas you can only discover when replaying it. The thing that ruins blobbers for me is when they feel like you are on rails. In the replay you feel like you are going down the exact same rails again and I rarely replay it through to the end if the game feels this way. Bards Tale (early DOS) feels like this, so it had little replay value for me. Also Questron and similar ilk - you finish them once and instead of being keen to play it through again (Bane/Crusaders) you feel like there is nothing left you have not seen in it.

The coolest replay I had of Wiz 7 was going straight to the ocean and swimming across it. Changed everything in the game it seemed and I swam back completely levelled up. I do the same thing in FALLOUT NEW VEGAS by going straight to Big MT at start and leaving that maxed out.

 

[Dorateen]

Did you complete the game from all different starts? Did you get 100% of all maps? Just curious about that many hours logged.

This is just one playthrough, starting from Briarpatch Woods and includes the V2 content. So a couple of areas, I was locked out of but the maps I did explore were 100%. Combat was set to frequent, and I multi-classed all characters except one. I never played the beta and held off on the superdemo, this was a completely new and fresh experience for me. The non-linearity of the game, especially after finishing Samhain, is one of the high points. It's immediately apparent that the player has an enormous degree of agency to go wherever they want. Absolutely liberating.

 

[Lim-Dûl]

Spoiler

Green Mandarin's

words make much more sense around the time the game is finished. It's great that a character who is supposed to be wise really turns out to know much more than the player knows and effortlessly reveals his knowledge to you, meanwhile you understand just enough of the context to make general sense of what he is saying.

 

[Crispy]

Finally completed the first section of the game (again) and made it down into Crescent Valley. Just about done with the Bestiary and looking forward to seeing content I've never seen before in the game.

But my God, what a slog it is to finish up everything from Samhain, etc. It took me days.

Question for Lady Error or Dorateen or whomoever: I'm a little dismayed to still be running into creatures who can one-shot me or to cause something drastic to happen, such as with those damned wasps and with the oremonsters and the like. I love a challenge, but there's nothing more frustrating than thinking you've got control of the situation and there's no way they're going to get off another acid spit or a one-shot kill and... oh, shit. Character is killed! Armor destroyed! Crap, reload.

Does this kind of thing ease up even a little at some point? I mean does the frequency of Indestructible! weapons and armor being found start to increase, thus providing relief? Of course, higher character levels will provide better saving throws against poisons and the like, but I'm starting to get sick of all the savescumming.

And yes, I do realize I'm whining.

 

[Dorateen]

Speed is the key. Once you have characters with the lethal blow skill (and weapons) who can act before those monsters such as the dragonflies, it will be you one-shotting them.

And nothing will feel more satisfying.

 

[Darth Roxor]

Dragonflies - in places where you know they spawn, you should always keep up 6 casts of Armourplate (yes, this spell stacks). This turns the dragonflies into a non-issue.

Oreworms - I'm pretty sure they never appear again after Crowl and thereabouts. But even so, disables are your friend here because iirc they are slow and have terrible saving throws, so it's easy to make them useless. From what I remember insanity and freeze were particularly effective. You can also have stuff like reflection mirror up to bounce their stupid special ability back at them, though the reflection spells may be higher level than what you have access to at the moment.

Learn to use the options you have available, dammit!

 

[Viata]

Is Lethal Blow still broken? I raped every later game boss on the first turn because of that. Shit was great.