Review ToEE beaten down by GameOver

[Saint_Proverbius]

Careful, Saint, explaining your point of view could be seen as rabid fanboism

btw, look at some of the posts by vault dweller and saint proverbius. i'd hardly say all of the diehards aren't still exhibiting rabid fanboism...

http://forums.interplay.com/viewtopic.p ... ht=#581462

Well, until he can show me there's some major difference between resting for 2 days and resting for 6 days in ToEE that's making anything remotely a hassle, then he's displaying rabid pedantry. Like I said, you click the button, the screen fades and comes back, and that's it. The length of the fade is the same no matter how many days you're resting, so resting time is completely invisible to the player and there's nothing in story line that really cares how long you take to do it, so.. What's the point of even criticising this other than just having something to criticise?

 

[Vault Dweller]

What's the point of even criticising this other than just having something to criticise?

I don' get that. People are bitching about everything like they don't have anything better to do. Why complain about healing when you can rest, cast a spell, use a scroll, or drink a potion? There are plenty of potions, no need to save them. Is everyone so fucking lazy that a mere thought of actually doing something could ruin a game for them?

 

[EEVIAC]

There are plenty of potions, no need to save them.

What about the feeling of satisfaction that you get from having twenty potions (stimpaks) left over at the end of the game? What if I drink a potion and the sky falls on my head, ever thought about that? Or maybe you're one of these people who drink potions indiscriminately, and that makes me question just what sort of a monster you are.

 

[Vault Dweller]

Or maybe you're one of these people who drink potions indiscriminately, and that makes me question just what sort of a monster you are.

No, I'm not, I swear I'm not. I would rather sleep for 3 days then waste a holy potion or a sacred stimpack, I save them all for the last fight and end up with 50-100 them healing things, use 2-3 during the last fight, and then marvel at my collection for one last time. I never give healing items to party members because the jerks think that potions grow on trees and drink them like there is no tomorrow. They prefer to waste a potion then die an honorary death in combat :shock:

 

[Otaku_Hanzo]

I like using super stimpacks on the president to kill him. Hehe. Doesn't piss anyone off either.

 

[EEVIAC]

No, I'm not, I swear I'm not. I would rather sleep for 3 days then waste a holy potion or a sacred stimpack, I save them all for the last fight and end up with 50-100 them healing things, use 2-3 during the last fight, and then marvel at my collection for one last time. I never give healing items to party members because the jerks think that potions grow on trees and drink them like there is no tomorrow. They prefer to waste a potion then die an honorary death in combat :shock:

Heh. In truth I'm a "potion seller," resting is free and with the Co8 patch, identifying potions are free. On the other hand, magic items are bloody expensive. I think you get 45 gold pieces for a potion of Bull's Strength and every Bugbear in the temple seems to have one.

You don't need to identify potions to drink them either, thus my "sky falling" statement. They're bound to do something good, just drink them for fuck's sake.

 

[Seven]

I like using super stimpacks on the president to kill him. Hehe. Doesn't piss anyone off either.

I always felt like that was cheating, but then why'd they give him so few HPs?

 

[Otaku_Hanzo]

I like using super stimpacks on the president to kill him. Hehe. Doesn't piss anyone off either.

I always felt like that was cheating, but then why'd they give him so few HPs?

When you've played the game as many times as I have, it's not cheating. It's variety.

 

[Major_Blackhart]

I almost always drink the potions I pick up w/out Identifying them. I've only been poisoned a few times. Only thing is IDing potions and such saves a lot of room in my party's inventory.

 

[Walks with the Snails]

I've always been a compulsive potion/scroll seller in just about any game. I just have this aversion to expendable items and love of permanent ones that defies all reason. ToEE really lets you get the most out of that though with item creation.