Review ToTheGame adores HOTU

[Sammael]

The genre will never get better if no one innovates or even tries.

This I can agree with. A lack of ideas isn't Troika's problem; it's the execution. Arcanum could have been the most revolutionary CRPG ever.

 

[Saint_Proverbius]

This I can agree with. A lack of ideas isn't Troika's problem; it's the execution. Arcanum could have been the most revolutionary CRPG ever.

Yet no one else takes those ideas and runs with them. I'd say that's because many of those ideas are difficult to run with and test well, though. That's also a problem with the execution.

 

[triCritical]

The genre will never get better if no one innovates or even tries.

This I can agree with. A lack of ideas isn't Troika's problem; it's the execution. Arcanum could have been the most revolutionary CRPG ever.

I think it was. Except for the combat of course. But still no other CRPG that I have played has had such an AWESOME NPC system before( not just joinable NPC's). LIterallly in a class by itself. Furthermore, having the ability to proceed through main story wildly different ways was kind of spectacular too. No doubt it fell short in other areas, but it really raised the boards in others.

 

[Voss]

Now if they'd only take the best aspects of both and run with them in an exciting, interesting setting...
But we have to wait through the mystery that is Vampire.

Mystery in the sense that I really don't know what to expect. A boring, dumb downed FPS, a radical new approach to RPGs that blows the mind, or something in between that might fall flat, or possibly be fairly good. Or just meh.