I played the demo ages ago and was thoroughly unimpressed. The concept was really cool but I felt like I was playing Fallout all over again - i.e. a very dated looking game with fedex quests. But I've seen it in bargain bins so it got me thinking. Does it get better? Does the gameplay and character development make up for the rest? I am in serious need of a new game and though dungeon siege looks beautiful, I'm not interested in a hack fest.
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[OT] Is Arcanum worth playing?
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It's quite good.
The subquests are sometimes a little tired, but tend not actually to be that FedEx-like. Many of them are actually quite interesting.
The main plotline is quite complicated, but very interesting. It also allows two main paths from around the middle to the end (good or evil)
Character development is very good: the character generation system is extremely flexible, and there is a great deal of scope for non-combat characters: a Charisma-based diplomat could be very effective in Arcanum.
Graphics are a little old, sound is hauntingly good.
The NPCs are well-written (well, the voiced ones at least)
On the whole, I enjoyed it. I wouldn't jot it down as all-time favourite, or anywhere approaching that, but it seems ok.
Alternately, try Planescape: Torment. It's about two years old now, so a little weary, but you can get it really cheap and in terms of character development, plotline, immersion and character interaction it's still a classic.
The subquests are sometimes a little tired, but tend not actually to be that FedEx-like. Many of them are actually quite interesting.
The main plotline is quite complicated, but very interesting. It also allows two main paths from around the middle to the end (good or evil)
Character development is very good: the character generation system is extremely flexible, and there is a great deal of scope for non-combat characters: a Charisma-based diplomat could be very effective in Arcanum.
Graphics are a little old, sound is hauntingly good.
The NPCs are well-written (well, the voiced ones at least)
On the whole, I enjoyed it. I wouldn't jot it down as all-time favourite, or anywhere approaching that, but it seems ok.
Alternately, try Planescape: Torment. It's about two years old now, so a little weary, but you can get it really cheap and in terms of character development, plotline, immersion and character interaction it's still a classic.
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Hehe well, you may want to consider TDD if you haven't tried it yet.
Or Ascension (especially if you haven't tried it, but that's just end fight fun).
If Arcanum isn't too expensive I'd say give it a go, it is a bit like Fallout, just gotta be sure to get the patches and not have a high end video card (maybe problem still with the lighting code that causes insane system-lag if you happen to have a video card with 32mb vram or more
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Or Ascension (especially if you haven't tried it, but that's just end fight fun).
If Arcanum isn't too expensive I'd say give it a go, it is a bit like Fallout, just gotta be sure to get the patches and not have a high end video card (maybe problem still with the lighting code that causes insane system-lag if you happen to have a video card with 32mb vram or more
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