What would you think if Larian makes Arcanum 2 next?

[Arbiter]

Do you really want Larian to butcher the legacy of another classic game?

 

[Mauman]

Spoiler

They're actually puppets of Kerghan (a human) and the real Arronax regrets all the things he did.

On a completely unrelated note, Z'an Al'urin gets the best dialogue in the game as far as companions go IMO

 

[luj1]

right now there are no studios that can produce any kind of memorable feeling or vibe in a game

Have you played Skald? It's a very atmospheric game and definitely memorable.

I agree but it was made by like one guy

 

[Nifft Batuff]

They will change the sheep with a bear.

 

[Gandalf]

What would you think if Larian makes Arcanum 2 next?

I would think that Larian is more suitable to make an RPG about Jar Jar Binks life.

 

[Wulfric Pinewood]

Yeah Sven go and make Ultima so we could all die peacefully.

 

[Jaesun]

Electronic Arts owns the Ultima™ IP. Pretty sure Sven is smart enough to just say fuck no to another licensed game. Activision still owns the Arcanum™ trademark as well.

 

[huskarls]

Electronic Arts owns the Ultima™ IP. Pretty sure Sven is smart enough to just say fuck no to another licensed game. Activision still owns the Arcanum™ trademark as well.

enlighten me if svenware's IPs are all trash and he hates dealing with IP holders, and lets pretend he isn't making divinity 7

 

[notpl]

Sort of seems like a stupid question to entertain even as a thought experiment. What if Larian made a sequel to Crash Bandicoot next? Arcanum has nothing whatsoever to do with them, has no popularity outside of this forum and two or three other eastern european people to cash in on, and Larian doesn't have some established reputation of resuming defunct IPs.

 

[the mole]

larian did a good job with baldurs gate 3

the bigger problem is larian coming up with their own ideas

being chained to dnd is the best thing that happened to them, arcanum is the case of a somewhat brilliant system not executed well, larian has proved that they can execute with other people's system, it would honestly be great probably

 

[rojay]

larian did a good job with baldurs gate 3

the bigger problem is larian coming up with their own ideas

being chained to dnd is the best thing that happened to them,

You had me right up to there, but no further.

 

[*-*/\--/\~]

I wouldn't touch it, it's enough they turned one franchise into a woke Divinity mod.

 

[the mole]

larian did a good job with baldurs gate 3

the bigger problem is larian coming up with their own ideas

being chained to dnd is the best thing that happened to them,

You had me right up to there, but no further.

srs nigga, you gonna defend the encounter design of the second half of arcanum, meh, melee character rapes every other build, it could be balanced better for sure

 

[RaggleFraggle]

larian did a good job with baldurs gate 3

the bigger problem is larian coming up with their own ideas

being chained to dnd is the best thing that happened to them,

You had me right up to there, but no further.

srs nigga, you gonna defend the encounter design of the second half of arcanum, meh, melee character rapes every other build, it could be balanced better for sure

I’m sick of companies constantly repackaging decades old franchises and driving it into the ground. We need more devs with the balls to make new franchises.

 

[the mole]

larian did a good job with baldurs gate 3

the bigger problem is larian coming up with their own ideas

being chained to dnd is the best thing that happened to them,

You had me right up to there, but no further.

srs nigga, you gonna defend the encounter design of the second half of arcanum, meh, melee character rapes every other build, it could be balanced better for sure

I’m sick of companies constantly repackaging decades old franchises and driving it into the ground. We need more devs with the balls to make new franchises.

larian is too stupid to make their own shit though

 

[Peachcurl]

I’m sick of companies constantly repackaging decades old franchises and driving it into the ground. We need more devs with the balls to make new franchises.

larian is too stupid to make their own shit though

They made the Divinity games, didn't they?

Don't have to like those, but it's 'their own shit'.

 

[the mole]

I’m sick of companies constantly repackaging decades old franchises and driving it into the ground. We need more devs with the balls to make new franchises.

larian is too stupid to make their own shit though

They made the Divinity games, didn't they?

Don't have to like those, but it's 'their own shit'.

shit is shit indeed, I only played dos2

 

[Skinwalker]

Is there a single WRPG studio that could be trusted with a sequel to Arcanum?

Certainly not Latrine, or Owlcrap, or Obshitian, or Bethpizda, or Biowhore, or CD Project WOKE.

 

[MjKorz]

Is there a single WRPG studio that could be trusted with a sequel to Arcanum?

Certainly not Latrine, or Owlcrap, or Obshitian, or Bethpizda, or Biowhore, or CD Project WOKE.

Spiderweb Software.

 

[rojay]

larian did a good job with baldurs gate 3

the bigger problem is larian coming up with their own ideas

being chained to dnd is the best thing that happened to them,

You had me right up to there, but no further.

srs nigga, you gonna defend the encounter design of the second half of arcanum, meh, melee character rapes every other build, it could be balanced better for sure

No, I just don't think Larian would make a good Arcanum sequel.

 

[RaggleFraggle]

There are a ton of ways to execute a steampunk setting. So I’m surprised there’s so few video games in the genre. There’s Arcanum and… I can’t think of anything else. And even Arcanum complicates it by adding magic and D&D races.

Also, now I recall, the whole premise of magic interfering with specifically non-electronic technology is just plain weird in retrospect. Why doesn’t it negatively affect biology in the same way? If it can cause steam trains to spontaneously derail due to tiny shifts in velocity, then why doesn’t it cause spontaneous aneurysms using the same logic?

 

[anvi]

Larian are enemies of the public.

 

[the mole]

There are a ton of ways to execute a steampunk setting. So I’m surprised there’s so few video games in the genre. There’s Arcanum and… I can’t think of anything else. And even Arcanum complicates it by adding magic and D&D races.

Also, now I recall, the whole premise of magic interfering with specifically non-electronic technology is just plain weird in retrospect. Why doesn’t it negatively affect biology in the same way? If it can cause steam trains to spontaneously derail due to tiny shifts in velocity, then why doesn’t it cause spontaneous aneurysms using the same logic?

yea, basically it's a logic vs belief dichotomy

not related to anything physical, logic represents machines, belief is magic

basically int vs wis

 

[Skinwalker]

Also, now I recall, the whole premise of magic interfering with specifically non-electronic technology is just plain weird in retrospect. Why doesn’t it negatively affect biology in the same way? If it can cause steam trains to spontaneously derail due to tiny shifts in velocity, then why doesn’t it cause spontaneous aneurysms using the same logic?

Magic vs science is almost always retarded.

The one series that did this correctly was Mage: the Ascension. In this world, magic has to be practiced covertly (and the magical effect has to be disguised as a lucky cohendicence), not because muh magic interferes with muh science for no reason, but because science (or rather, the modernist worldview) itself is revealed to be a belief system that was implemented by a group of mages (Technocracy) who convinced most of the people in the world to regard it as the only possible reality, and the collective conviction of the world's masses collides with obviously supernatural effects and causes a paradox.

It's belief vs belief.

 

[Mauman]

There are a ton of ways to execute a steampunk setting. So I’m surprised there’s so few video games in the genre. There’s Arcanum and… I can’t think of anything else. And even Arcanum complicates it by adding magic and D&D races.

Also, now I recall, the whole premise of magic interfering with specifically non-electronic technology is just plain weird in retrospect. Why doesn’t it negatively affect biology in the same way? If it can cause steam trains to spontaneously derail due to tiny shifts in velocity, then why doesn’t it cause spontaneous aneurysms using the same logic?

It....did?

Try casting heal on tech guy, or use a pharmaceutical on a magic guy. It'll either do very little or absolutely nothing.