My experience with 'Titan Quest'

[HanoverF]

What was that one clone? Vox-Nox-Cox(No thats what Volourn likes). That game was a good clone, better than Diablo in some ways. and later clones still haven't used anything from it.

 

[Naked_Lunch]

Nox. Never played it, but apparently yeah, it was 'sposed to be pretty good.

 

[Frau Bishop]

Divine Divinity - Sacred - Beyond Divinity - Dungeon Siege 2 - Titan Quest - Windows Screensaver - Dungeon Siege
Is it blasphemous not to like Diablo 1 & 2?

I played every single one of these boring time eaters, and also Nox. Argh. :/
Now I'm feeling ludicrous, thanks for reminding me about all the trash!
But I will take it as a warning - TQ will not enter my bad memories, it has to stop sometime so it stops now.

It's ok not to like Diablo. You are not alone.

 

[Higher Game]

Diablo was basically a real-time roguelike, or at least an attempt at one. Many action-"RPG" games try to imitate Diablo, but they don't have its depth. They keep the dungeon crawl aspect and real time combat, but de-emphasize rigid character builds and random loot. They're intended for dumb people.

Diablo II, and especially the expansion and patches, just moved the series away from its roguelike roots. Personally, I liked the encouragement of teamwork that D2 facilitated, the fewer cheats, and the high difficulty of nightmare and hell, but it definitely lost much of the solo charm that D1 had. The dungeons weren't as good, either. The atmosphere was less dark and more cartoony. Both games suffered from scumming/grinding, but I guess it's just being true to roguelike roots.

I liked Sacred, but never bothered with the expansions or anything else, just the original. I LOVED the huge-ass world and quests were convincing enough. Divine Divinity was also decent, if not as balanced as Sacred. I enjoyed exploring these games, which is something the random Diablo dungeons lack. Of course, when I had seen it all, I was finished, but it was worth my $20.

 

[bozia2012]

NOX!!! Man, I forgot about that one!!! That was a nice game! And had some really good stuff in it... I remember that there were 3 endings for each class: warrior, druid, mage... and each one revealing more of the plot... you had to beat the game as a mage to learn about the true ending And I remember vampires... There weren't many of them in the game but when you met one... he destroyed your armour with one hit... There were cities where you could break into houses and steal shit (using telekinesis). It was possible because of "physics" engine used in a game. You had to burn undead to the ashes... and propably many stuff that got cut off nowadays (eer.. streamlined?)...

@ Shagnak, yes master bad analogy... The point was that you wanted something and you didn't get it... i just took what was given to me.... just be more skeptic about PRshit (skeptic - ancient greece, you get it, buuuhhuhuuhu OK TITAN QUEST IS TEH GEY!!! But still I will play it since you can't play Arcanum with metal soundtrack (i prefer the original score) and there are no good contemporary RPGs.. OR am I wrong??

Anywayz, the game will arrive to me in august 3rd (Polish release date :/ ) so maybe I should beat Hammer&Sickle with a melee character? Yeah Scout with a Pickaxe ("LOCKPICK" - that was a good joke!! ohohohho )

 

[vazquez595654]

I wish there was a good way to protest shitty games. Everytime a new shitty game is about to come out (for example Prey) and all that damn advertising starts showing up on gamespot, and all the demo download sites like fileplanet, I wish I could somehow respond and say,

"I don't care about your shitty game, so save your money on advertising."

 

[Rivo]

@Rivo: it's too bad that you know only one band. Bad for you.

Convince me.

 

[Shagnak]

NOX!!! Man, I forgot about that one!!! That was a nice game!

Oh well, we can agree about that then.

That game had a lot of character. It is definitely very "lite". But very underrated by Codexers in general IMHO (<--- Twinfalls hates that IMHO shit but i just chukcit in to show that i am no way presuiming somehting soimehting shitng) Fuck too much concentration reqd.

Veery replayable.

 

[Jasede]

You are drunk, but I agree, Nox, while lightweight, was certainly fun and had some interesting ideas. However, I still prefer Rogue-likes to any Diablo-clone.

 

[bozia2012]

@Rivo: it's too bad that you know only one band. Bad for you.

Convince me.

DIY...

*hint* type www.metal-archives.com in your browser

And about diablo-clones... They're all shit. You like shit? Me too. Glad we all agree.

EDIT: saying "lite" you mean lite-rpg? hack'n'slash games have IMHO little common with rpgs. They're like side-scrollin' shooters (Raptor, ProjectX, Defender) but the diffrence is you don't collect LAZERS, plasma guns and sidekicks... I can play Max Payne and it would be the same experience as playing TQ... Anyone claimin' Diablo, Nox, Sacred or Oblivion is a/an action-rpg-whatever is claimin'g shit is gold...

 

[Barghest]

I'm a little surprised by the lack of love for Divine Divinity. It was an proper diablo-clone RPG. Wif talking and fings.

I guess the ending was a bit of a disappointment for the codex?

Any further news on DD2 by the way?

 

[Drakron]

I'm a little surprised by the lack of love for Divine Divinity.

Really ... are you surpised that RPGCodex does not have much love for Diablo or its clones?

Action RPGs destroyed cRPGs, we recognize action RPGs and their existence as well the negative impact they had on cRPG developement since everyone was and is too busy trying to replicate Diablo instead of developing a proper RPG.

 

[bozia2012]

I'm a little surprised by the lack of love for Divine Divinity.

Really ... are you surpised that RPGCodex does not have much love for Diablo or its clones?

Action RPGs destroyed cRPGs, we recognize action RPGs and their existence as well the negative impact they had on cRPG developement since everyone was and is too busy trying to replicate Diablo instead of developing a proper RPG.

Word.

It's all about ignorance.. it's not only in the computer games world. It's everywhere - people listening to Slipknot claimin' it's teh heaviest shit, people watching Saw claimin' that's "teh most intelignant movie evar", people reading Necronomicon (while listening to Tokio Hotel) 'coz it's bad-d to t-the bone and people wankin' over Oblivion's "RPGness"...

 

[Twinfalls]

That game had a lot of character. It is definitely very "lite". But very underrated by Codexers in general IMHO (<--- Twinfalls hates that IMHO shit but i just chukcit in to show that i am no way presuiming somehting soimehting shitng)

Shaggers you drunken lamb-molestor, that really doesn't shake my loathing stick that much - though I have complained about its usage by people who just want to redundantly caveat what they say.

No, my real rage-massager is "it's not realistic, it's teh FUN' to excuse shit that's actually no fun because it's so dumb and simple....

 

[Naked_Lunch]

I'm a little surprised by the lack of love for Divine Divinity. It was an proper diablo-clone RPG. Wif talking and fings.

I guess the ending was a bit of a disappointment for the codex?

Any further news on DD2 by the way?

Hey man, I loved Divine Divinity. Easily one of my favorite games and more of an Ultima game than 8 or 9. Great skill system, lovely word with interesting characters and a big baddie that didn't take himself too seriously ("Do this, do that! I'll show that lizard bitch what for!").

It would've been in top 5 if not for the extreme overdose of the somewhat lackluster combat that dominated the second half of the game. A shame, really.

As for DD2, things have been a little on the down low but Larian has released some screens on their site. Looks lame in my opinion, with the overuse of bloom, the 3rd person OTS perspective, generic looking world et cetera.

 

[bozia2012]

"These are screenshots from our next generation RPG engine that will be used in our upcoming games".... BEHOLD it's the birth of the new genre: "NEXT-GEN RPG"

Features:
- bloom
- pointy-eared elves
- bearded, stocky dwarves
- and the new "REAL RPG" mechanic - you have to imagine all the features that we didn't put in our game! Unlimited possibilities for you to roleplay!

Oooh can't wait for the shitstorm over Falloutblibion...

 

[Hazelnut]

intelignant

I'm sure that's just a typo, but that actually looks like a great new word! I'm just not 100% sure what it means though... suggestions?

 

[SlyDrak]

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[Hazelnut]

intelignant

I'm sure that's just a typo, but that actually looks like a great new word! I'm just not 100% sure what it means though... suggestions?

If you were intelligent you'd know

read again.

 

[SlyDrak]

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[bozia2012]

intelignant

I'm sure that's just a typo, but that actually looks like a great new word! I'm just not 100% sure what it means though... suggestions?

If you were intelligent you'd know

read again.

I don't know how to read.. I though it was obvious. Wait it was, but you pointed it out, wtf?

Edit: konfucion :

I didn't expect a kind of Spanish Inquisition. It was meant to be an obvious typo like in "teh computar gaem". Maybe I had something else in my mind? Any suggestions, Hazelnut?

 

[Hazelnut]

Jeez, I know I was a little bit ambiguous, but this is what I meant regarding 'intelignant' (I can't believe I'm having to explain, but...)

1) I realised it was a typo of 'intelligent', and not interesting enough to point out because of that alone, since I'm not that pedantic and it was VERY obvious.
2) I liked the typo and thought it looked like a cool new word.
3) Looks to me like a mix of either intelligent/indignant or intelligent/repugnant to me.
4) I wished to see if anyone could come up with some suggestions for meaning and/or usage, maybe even funny ones, as a tangent to liven up a yawningly dull thread.
5) I failed miserably apparently because you all though I was asking what bozia2012 had meant to type... only making the thread even more boring.

So, in summary:

I'm not that stupid.

Carry on.

 

[bozia2012]

So, in summary:

I'm not that stupid.

No shit!

Admit that you just like to read your own words and you drool watching SAW.

 

[D]

My experienced with Titan Crap:

Unfortunately, it's not possible to take a screenshot of windows bluescreening. But for the record, ironforge games has noted that even in the latest patch, the following reasons are why the game crashes on my PC:

Having a Razer Diamondback mouse
Having an Nforce Audio (even though I use an audigy rather than onboard)
Having a nVidia graphics card
Having an IDE hard drive
Having mounted the game on Alcohol w/ securom hider because I hate my DVD drive spinning all the time

So basically, "Playing the game" causes the game to crash. I get the feeling that Jack Thompson must of overseen coding this game or something.

 

[Norfleet]

This is quite possibly the worst-made game of all time, seeing as my experience with it is that it crashes before you can start playing it. You have to wonder if anyone tested it, because SOMEBODY would have noticed the game hangs and dies, often taking the entire operating system with it, if you try to, well, do anything. Word on the street is that it's caused by multithreaded memory stompage.

I mean, there are games that are unfinishable, games that are plagued by horrible crippling bugs halfway into the game, but this is the first game that's so buggy you cannot even begin playing it, because the mere act of pushing "New Game" crashes the game.