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[Ninja Destroyer]

Dungeon Magic Openbor edition

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[Viata]

I love these kind of game as a kid. Game industry killed every cool genre.

 

[rolandz_Baton_PROD]

 

[Citizen]

Wtf is his army?

 

[rolandz_Baton_PROD]

Wtf is his army?

Shit tons of zombie aloha snackbar bombers. I probably got the easiest "The Stuff of Legends" achievement where you win a battle that has you outnumbered 10-to-one. In this case, i'm assuming i got the achievement due to the balance of power. All i had to do was send in the tomb scorpion alone and just watch.

 

[HansDampf]

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Is this a joke?

I had a really stupid idea, and thought it would be a fun challenge to play this game on hard, all levels, without saving. I gave up in the secret pyramid. You can't really get a game over, because there is an extra life at the start of that level. But I dare anyone to beat it on hard without saving. So much is dependent on random enemy movement. Also, this enemy right here.

This is the most dangerous enemy in the game. Not the big invincible ones; those are predictable. These pests aren't. And on hard they are everywhere! Sometimes it's impossible to dodge them.

NO!

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F

 

[Modron]

I see you're trying to get hyped for the new commander keen installment.

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[Ninja Destroyer]

Kathy Rain

While being rather easy as and adventure game, I overall liked it. Thanks to the setting, with the mid 90's references and without advanced internet / cell phones combined with good audiovisual quality it was a great ride. At first it seems to be a typical detective story, but later on it changes on. Kathy is really likeable as a character and I wish we could see her in a sequel. I really liked those Gabriel Knight elements that were included.

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[turkishronin]

Very stereotypical Welsh name

 

[DalekFlay]

No movie tie-in has ever honored the film more than Alien Isolation:

 

[Darth Roxor]

 

[Dux]

The innocent 90's.

 

[Abu Antar]

Tale of Wuxia: The Pre-Sequel

 

[Abu Antar]

Double post. Here are a few more screens. Spoilered three screens of my character in some random places. First three screens are just to show you examples of menus.

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[Sigourn]

Brings back memories of my childhood. If I can get this to run properly (for some reason it is a bit jerky and laggy), I would love to beat it legitimately for the the first ever.

 

[Jinn]

Tale of Wuxia: The Pre-Sequel

Was so dissapointed by the abysmal machine translation that couldn't get more than four hours in. Such a terrible shame. I want to play it very much.

 

[Kabas]

As a weary traveller from distant Coorhagen i would rate this village

I didn't even get the mug of ale!

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I like how the majority of dungeons start with showing you a picture of what you're going to get as a reward for beating it.

Bondage and stuff seems to be all the rage in Nosgoth because i keep seeing people being tied up to the walls.

That deflecting shield and mass madness are the absolute bonkers as far as spells go.
The game is Legacy of Kain Blood Omen by the way, i will be suprised if people here don't know it.

 

[Viata]

Legacy of Kain is probably the best vampire video game series. Only people with shit taste have never heard about it.

 

[Sigourn]

It's a great game for sure. The latter LoK games don't stand a chance when it comes to atmosphere. Plus it's best if you ignore their existence when it comes to the plot.

 

[DeepOcean]

Legacy of Kain is probably the best vampire video game series. Only people with shit taste have never heard about it.

Wish the rest of the games of the series kept the same gameplay and art as the first Dark Omen: Legacy of Kain, the first Legacy of Kain is a fucking classic with awesome gothic feel. Soul Reaver feels like a linear, endless box puzzle with shit early 3d graphics, Soul Reaver 2 is a bit better but still not that great, Defiance is a fucking disgrace. Dark Omen 2 is any good? I always preferred Kain, he was the based alpha while Raziel was a little too whiny for my patience.

 

[Viata]

First game is indeed the best one. But damn man, I really love the first Soul Reaver, but holy shit those box puzzle were annoying as fuck. It's one of the reason I hardly feel like replaying this series.

 

[yellowcake]

 

[Beastro]

That deflecting shield and mass madness are the absolute bonkers as far as spells go.

LoK is one of those rare games where it gives you OP stuff, then decides to keep giving you increasingly OP stuff for you to have fun with.

Replaying it a couple years ago I quickly realized it's best to either go with spells or cards as your back up, as using both negates the others limitations

Soul Reaver feels like a linear, endless box puzzle with shit early 3d graphics

I didn't mind it, and actually enjoyed the late 90s graphics as I'm quite fond of them. What I appreciated in SR1 was a perfect design philosophy blended with the story that allowed for challenge in a game where you cannot die (The only incongruous crucial element was how the fast travel system fit into the world). Something that surprisingly doesn't have as much tedium as you'd expect. It's the first of the modern generation of games we've lived with since, but one wonderfully designed to play to those strengths and negate their problems.

The only big issue I had with the game was the platform jumping before fighting Rahab. I dunno if it was my controller or all controllers in general, but the Steam version was fucking up giving me a delay, that up until then and afterwards was simply annoying, but in that part that required tight jumping made me fall off and redo it a good dozen times or more.

As for the box puzzles, I didn't mind them because I didn't find them too much of a bother, though I can see why others would. Even then I find a connection with them and LoK's obsession with switch puzzles. Without the switch puzzles to give you immdiate objectives to work on all LoK is is wandering through areas to get to other areas given how crude the combat is.

OTOH,

Soul Reaver 2 is a bit better but still not that great

I disagree. Going from the first to the second hit me hard. It was clear in the meanwhile an era had passed and the second game was in a new one. The closest thing I could compare it to would be playing Everquest and then going into World of Warcraft. Suddenly the story and the gameplay were in disconnect (The checkpoints and their ad hoc explaination for them existing) and some of the spirit of the game was off.

In the end though, I found the backtracking and linearity to SR2 far worse than SR1's problems. SR1 had a lot of hidden optional stuff to seek out and explore while SR2 was a line you ran back and forth across slowly getting more and more added to walk along, all with the same respawning enemies along the way. SR1 gave you a projectile mid-game to just shoot enemies out of the way if you didn't want to bother with them, it was harder to avoid SR2s hordes. Going back and forth across that in between plot points I found a hell of a lot more tiresome than a doing a brief box puzzle here and there that took a couple minutes. I could replay SR1. SR2 would be the one I'd hesitate with and prolly would just watch Youtube for the cutscenes.

 

[DalekFlay]

Legacy of Kain is probably the best vampire video game series. Only people with shit taste have never heard about it.

They've always been too console-y for me, though I've only tried a few. Bloodlines would be more my favorite vampire thing, by a mile.

 

[DeepOcean]

First game is indeed the best one. But damn man, I really love the first Soul Reaver, but holy shit those box puzzle were annoying as fuck. It's one of the reason I hardly feel like replaying this series.

Greatest thing from Soul Reaver was that intro and THAT music, damn, that narration of Raziel while he goes down makes you really pumped for some revenge and kick some vampire ass then...

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Me: Kain! You fucking asshole, I will kick your ass... What, where is Kain?

Old God: You are my angel of death, dude, you gonna murder those vampires so hard then eat their souls. They gonna pay for what they done to you.

Me: Angel of death? Good, yeah, that is pretty metal, dude, I'm in!

Old God: Yeah... go over there and Kain will be over there...

Me: 2000 box puzzle rooms and instant dematerialization platforming with poor controls later...

Me: I gonna kill Melchiah, this motherfucker will pay up!

Melchiah: Hi Raziel! Brother, gonna kill you so bad.

Me: Ughhhh! Brother, you look like a steak I forgot out of the refrigerator last week. Did you notice that? I think that is pretty important stuff to talk about.

Melchiah: I'm a God of the rotten steaks, you punny creature.

Me: Dude, I was planning on killing you because you turned me from a chad dude with cool wings and stuff into an emo Skeletor without a jaw, you know, but you look like a rotten sausage with legs so on the great schemes of things you are more fucked than I am, how about we talk more about that? I don't want to kill you.

Melchiah: Die!!!!!

Just, a few, just... a few more box puzzles later... just a few, yeah, what the fuck am I doing with my life?!!! Is life an endless box puzzle and I didn't notice? Why people can't have normal doors for things here?

Me: Kain, finally I found you!

Kain: You fool, I will use my power of instant defeat by cutscene so you need to buy the next game! HA!HA!

Me: I feel empty.