Blasphemy!! - Champions of Norrath (or I Finally Snapped...)

[John Crichton]

Okay, I admit that I'm a closet fan of the hack-n-slash RPG genre. Not on the PC but on consoles. Loved PSO, Gauntlet (arcade and later home versions) and now I am getting into the next generation arena with Everquest: Champions of Norrath. I know I'm a little late to the party, what with Baulder's Gate: Dark Alliance 1&2 already out and popular. But I have the game coming in soon and had to share. That and it is playable online with the PS2 modem...

Anyone else getting it/got it?

 

[Alcareru]

Okay, I admit that I'm a closet fan of the hack-n-slash RPG genre. Not on the PC but on consoles. Loved PSO, Gauntlet (arcade and later home versions) and now I am getting into the next generation arena with Everquest: Champions of Norrath. I know I'm a little late to the party, what with Baulder's Gate: Dark Alliance 1&2 already out and popular. But I have the game coming in soon and had to share. That and it is playable online with the PS2 modem...

Anyone else getting it/got it?

I am. Although CoN has no real connection with EQ other than the name and setting, I was a big EQ geek years back.

But anyway, CoN's developers are Snowblind who did the first Dark Alliance game. And they were former employees of Blizzard so I think its all a good thing. So far the games got great reviews. Its not perfect, but supposed to be good. I might actually get an network adapter just for this game.

 

[Alcareru]

Okay, I admit that I'm a closet fan of the hack-n-slash RPG genre. Not on the PC but on consoles. Loved PSO, Gauntlet (arcade and later home versions) and now I am getting into the next generation arena with Everquest: Champions of Norrath. I know I'm a little late to the party, what with Baulder's Gate: Dark Alliance 1&2 already out and popular. But I have the game coming in soon and had to share. That and it is playable online with the PS2 modem...

Anyone else getting it/got it?

Oh yea why is it blasphemy?

 

[John Crichton]

Oh yea why is it blasphemy?

Ah, because I have always considered myself a hard core RPGer, not a hack-n-slasher.

 

[Ankh-Morpork Guard]

Ah, because I have always considered myself a hard core RPGer, not a hack-n-slasher.

Pfft. Hack-n-slash is always fun. Mindless killing is a good break from the hard world of roleplaying. That's why I love Diablo II, playing a CE character in NWN Core campaign(kill all!), and BG: Dark Alliance!

 

[Ruined]

I demoed this at my local Babbage's and it looked like a lot of fun. I had never played EQ, so I was intrigued. The game wasn't out yet, so I said, 'Hey, why not try out the real thing (i.e. Everquest)?' And now I'm a junkie...

Didn't realize you could play Norrath online. That's extra cool.

 

[Dark Jezter]

Ah, because I have always considered myself a hard core RPGer, not a hack-n-slasher.

Bah. Hack n' Slash is every bit as valid as as a game with a deep story. I enjoy both Diablo II (Hack 'n Slash) and Baldur's Gate II (Story-driven). I also have a huge collection of Neverwinter Nights modules on my computer, ranging from story-driven to hack 'n slash.

As a famous game developer once said: A great game with a bad story is still a great game, and a bad game with a great story is still a bad game.

 

[John Crichton]

Bah. Hack n' Slash is every bit as valid as as a game with a deep story. I enjoy both Diablo II (Hack 'n Slash) and Baldur's Gate II (Story-driven). I also have a huge collection of Neverwinter Nights modules on my computer, ranging from story-driven to hack 'n slash.

See, I've never really enjoyed those kinds of games. I liked Diablo 2 a bit but it didn't hold my interest. I could see why people could like it (as well as Baulder's gate and its kin) but it just wasn't for me. Heck, even Neverwinter Nights didn't hold me for long and I was really looking forward to it.

I do agree that a good game is a good game no matter how you slice it.
But that is very subjective. And as I said, I'm a little late to the party. I'm really looking forward to CoN. I hope it arrives by the weekend so I have something distracting to do on Saturday due to a cancelled D&D session.

 

[WizarDru]

See, I've never really enjoyed those kinds of games. I liked Diablo 2 a bit but it didn't hold my interest. I could see why people could like it (as well as Baulder's gate and its kin) but it just wasn't for me. Heck, even Neverwinter Nights didn't hold me for long and I was really looking forward to it.

Well, I suspect your dissatisfaction with NWN may have to do with the original game's weak campaign and single-player action. The online community has done some amazingly innovative work using NWN, and multi-player is top-notch. And the SoU and HotU expansions are much, much better storys and games than their predecessor.

As for hack-and-slash, I love it, too, sometimes. Diablo II was fun, but fell down on the rewards system, IMHO...it was too much effort to attain full sets of nifty items like armor sets (though it was fun to try). My wife and I have almost finished playing through Dungeon & Dragons Heroes, which is a blast. It's pure hack-and-slash with D&D trimmings (can you say, AC 86?), but with pelnty of it's own charms. It's rather interesting some of the creatures they chose for the game, like the Destrachan, Osyluth, Yrrkath, and Frost Worm alongside the bullette, beholder, drows, yuan-ti and lich.

And casting a Meteor Swarm? Worth the cost of entry, alone.

 

[Shard O'Glase]

meteor swarm is cool but storm of vengence is better. A bit less damage but it frezes people and it looks just as cool. Frakin clerics make the wiz obsolete. Especially since wis is the magic regen attribute.