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  1. Preview New Bard's Tale revealed

    I was trying to think of what made the original Bard's Tales so compelling for me when I was a kid... I remembered getting slaughtered constantly in BT1 (children don't generally have the best tactical sense in the world) and how frightening it was even to walk down the street. I remember shock...

  2. ToEE Party?

    I haven't taken spell focus:evocation. My first party I gave the wizard all archery feats so she could do something with that crossbow of hers. This time I'm comfortable with the fact that a low-level wizard is going to spend 90% of her time twiddling her thumbs, so I'm going for combat...

  3. What are your first impressions of TOEE?

    Allow me to divert from the hardware discussion to say that the spell Entangle and Grease kick holy ass. (That's a good thing.) And the cantrip Daze is incredibly annoying (therefore, useful) when chain cast upon my beefy fighter. I've started over four times already and I keep seeing new stuff...

  4. Temple Of Elemental Game Design Decisions

    Actually, they do. *minor spoiler* Go fight Lareth's minions. After you knock some of them down, the "witches" will run over and heal them. Frustrating as hell. I always make a point of focusing on kiling the mage (before he gets to cast fireball), the witches (because they're squishy targets...

  5. What are your first impressions of TOEE?

    I'm running the game at 800x600, so the fog isn't even really visible. This game is very evidentally designed to be played at 800x600, so unless your monitor doesn't display that resolution very well, I would just turn it down. The only reason fog of war bothers me is because it activates my...

  6. What are your first impressions of TOEE?

    Actually, I was reminded a lot of IWD2 myself while playing ToEE at first, I think because IWD2 was the first D&D game that I know of to actually pay attention to the characters' alignment, race, and persuasion skills, and because they both start in a pretty large town. I really liked IWD2's...

  7. Review Bloodmoon loved by All Out Games

    Wow, great post. Those sound like some interesting mods -- I'll have to start paying more attention to the mod scene and downloading some of these guys.

  8. Review Bloodmoon loved by All Out Games

    The tombs in Morrowind are all family tombs, and as an outsider you definitely aren't part of the family. If the typical dark elf already hates your guts, then how much more would his ancestors hate you? I don't think there's a lot of gameplay opportunities for these places. And balance has...

  9. Review Bloodmoon gushed over at Games Domain

    I agree with this. Morrowind makes it very easy for you to just blow by the story. To give one example that hopefully isn't too spoilerish, I just ran into the orc that hides outside of Caldera again. He gives you a little quest that can be solves through two brief fed-ex trips, and I'd...

  10. What is it about BioWare...

    I got Morrowind, Wiz8, and Might and Magic 9 all around the same time, and to be honest, I thought that Morrowind crushed everything else. The detail alone is awe-inspiring and I appreciate the fact that the very environment told a story (an overturned bottle, a dismembered and gnawed on arm...

  11. What is it about BioWare...

    You and Monte Carlo are being really loose with the term FPS, which stands for "first person shooter", by the way, and is used for games where you point at a creature in order to shoot it. Wizardry 8 uses a first person perspective, but the combat is entirely based on number crunching. The fact...

  12. What is it about BioWare...

    Yeah, I've already shifted the animation speed slider. When I see all those red blips on the screen, though, I just steel myself and dive right in. After all, if I didn't want to get into fights I wouldn't be playing Wizardry, right? I've actually restarted the game four or five times already...

  13. What is it about BioWare...

    Since we're talking about a combat-heavy crpg, I'll mention that I've been trying to finish Wizardry 8 this past week. It takes a certain calm and passive mindset to play long stretches of Wiz8. Sometimes I'll initiate a turn and then walk away and brew some coffee while the 50 monsters each...

  14. What is it about BioWare...

    You can tell a lot about a game studio by the way they communicate to their fans. Troika, BIS, and Bethesda have had intelligent, thoughtful developers communicating what their games were about and what they thought about them. And they have been honest. BIS expressed (muted) disappointment...

  15. RPG Vault E3 wrap up hootinanie

    for such a mild mannered crowd... Wow, deja vu. It seems to me that every fortnight we get a sensitive web editor whose feelings have been hurt attacking RPG Codex. Who was the last one? Arcadian del Sol? I no longer remember the people who came before that. Either RPG Codex is an...

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