Grimoire Thread

[GandGolf]

I have a Grimoire GOG key for the first motherfucker that quotes this.

Now I have a Grimoire GOG key for the first motherhecker that quotes this.

Now I have a Grimoire Gog key for the first fella that quotes this. Keep your moms outta this unless they're playing too.

Quoted

 

[luj1]

Sold another 1100 copies of the game in a second .99 cent sale.

More minions for my ever growing army of the undead. (BLOOD? or a movie line? Can't remember)

Blood

 

[Catacombs]

I'll wait as long as necessary...

Arthandas 5 years from now:

 

[Morblot]

Well, I suppose waiting is an elemental part of the Grimoire experience...

 

[Lim-Dûl]

Just play it. V4 is not happening.

 

[Dorateen]

Ten years on the Codex today, and I am still alive!

Like Grimoire, I'm perpetual I'll never die.

 

[Lady Error]

I joined a month after you and also because of Grimoire.

 

[Covenant]

Picked this up recently and I'm enjoying it, but the UI is pretty clumsy to navigate. Is there any way to move things in/out of my character's hands without specifically going into the equip screen? It's kinda cumbersome if I want to sharpen/enchant/assay my weapon, and I figured there might be a quicker way of doing it that I hadn't found.

 

[Lady Error]

Cleveland Mark Blakemore might enjoy this:

https://rpgcodex.net/forums/threads/celebrating-20-years-of-rpg-news-nsfw.145000/page-5#post-8195139

 

[Lady Error]

Shame on you, Konjad

 

[Sykar]

Why? He does what the codex does best, hate a game!

 

[Darth Roxor]

what can you do it's just significantly inferior to old dungeon crawlers like skyrim

 

[roll-a-die]

Ten years on the Codex today, and I am still alive!

Like Grimoire, I'm perpetual I'll never die.

Fuck I feel old.

 

[Desiderius]

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Shame on you, Konjad

This was my initial impression too, tbf. That was before I replayed Wiz7 with a deep dive into the mechanics. If I came back to Grimoire now I'd probably really enjoy it.

 

[LostHisMarbles]

Konjad shame on you man.
Really, you should be ashamed.

You don't have to bury incline; if you didn't like it.. just move on man.
Shame.

 

[notpl]

Agreed that the game goes heavy on quantity to the detriment of quality. Up until you go over the falls it's the best blobber ever made, then you have 100 more hours of game of varying but consistently lower quality.

 

[Butter]

Nah Grimoire is pretty great throughout. It takes most of the great things about Wizardry 7 and manages to expand on them. More than probably any other blobber it has a sense of not knowing where the boundaries are. It always feels like there are more mysteries and secrets to uncover as you play it.

 

[Dadd]

The only tedious part for me was the miner 49ers. Don't remember other cases of quantity over quality.

 

[notpl]

The only tedious part for me was the miner 49ers. Don't remember other cases of quantity over quality.

The entire snake temple/dungeon comes to mind.

 

[Dorateen]

The entire snake temple/dungeon comes to mind.

The Baphomet Megalith was one of the high points for me. Because of how the game opens up at that point, it depends when you explore the content. It was indeed a slog, but that is how our party endured and grew stronger. It is interesting, as some people claim the game gets easier as you go on, but this dungeon was a true challenge, a fight for survival. Gaining every inch of ground was an accomplishment, and I enjoyed the puzzles as well as the new tiles sets used for this location. The boss encounter was also memorable.

 

[Lady Error]

Agreed that the game goes heavy on quantity to the detriment of quality. Up until you go over the falls it's the best blobber ever made, then you have 100 more hours of game of varying but consistently lower quality.

Still better quality than any other blobber in the last 10-20 years.

While I agree that the first 20% or so of the game are the most polished, I also enjoyed the "open world" part after that a lot.

 

[Morblot]

While I agree that the first 20% or so of the game are the most polished, I also enjoyed the "open world" part after that a lot.

Agree. In my opinion it is even a bit disjointed in how it basically changes from a quite linear but polished game to a more rough but sandboxy one. But I suppose that also played a part in my being so motivated to play it through: the experience doesn't get stale as the game sort of reinvents itself at that point.

 

[luj1]

quantity over quality

slog

As any Wiz game

they are still fantastic games

 

[Shaki]

The entire snake temple/dungeon comes to mind.

The Baphomet Megalith was one of the high points for me. Because of how the game opens up at that point, it depends when you explore the content. It was indeed a slog, but that is how our party endured and grew stronger. It is interesting, as some people claim the game gets easier as you go on, but this dungeon was a true challenge, a fight for survival. Gaining every inch of ground was an accomplishment, and I enjoyed the puzzles as well as the new tiles sets used for this location. The boss encounter was also memorable.

Wut, it was the easiest dungeon in the game, because IIRC has 0 instakills/gear destroying etc. enemies (or at least I didn't notice any), which were the only mechanics that required you to ever actually pay attention to combat after first couple of hours.

I remember it being the lowest point for me since it offered absolutely no challenge, was long af, and puzzles were were pretty meh compared to the rest of the game. After few floors I literally pulled up a movie on my second monitor, to watch while fast-forwarding through the endless fights. It's not like Grimoire combat in general was challenging (once you level up speed and lethal blow = gg), but at least instakill enemies forced me to pay attention, and even sometimes cast some spells and shit when I got unlucky and half of my squad got instagibbed first round. Megalith was a slog because you can go through every fight without looking at the screen, but it still took 5 hours to fast forward through all the encounters.

Grimoire mostly shines with it's atmosphere, puzzles and general feel of the game, and I feel Megalith failed at all of these, while also having most boring combat (A LOT OF IT), being long af and floors mostly feeling the same, with nothing new and exciting. Comparing it to areas like Lochs section, which was absolutely amazing and probably the best gaming experience I had in recent years, Megalith felt like a different game.

 

[Dorateen]

The entire snake temple/dungeon comes to mind.

The Baphomet Megalith was one of the high points for me. Because of how the game opens up at that point, it depends when you explore the content. It was indeed a slog, but that is how our party endured and grew stronger. It is interesting, as some people claim the game gets easier as you go on, but this dungeon was a true challenge, a fight for survival. Gaining every inch of ground was an accomplishment, and I enjoyed the puzzles as well as the new tiles sets used for this location. The boss encounter was also memorable.

Wut, it was the easiest dungeon in the game, because IIRC has 0 instakills/gear destroying etc. enemies (or at least I didn't notice any)

Naga fighters absolutely have insta-kill capability, which makes them a threat.

Gorgon was the second tablet I went after, meaning it was relatively early in the game for our party. It definitely was a challenge.