Looks interesting. How would you classify it? Is it more of a Baldur's Gate style RPG, or more of a Diabalo type thing? Or am I reading it wrong, and it's actually a RTS game or something?
Posted by TheTick (Member # 2883) on :
Not too bad. It's very much like Diablo, with some neat gameplay innovations, but didn't catch my interest as much.
Posted by Noemon (Member # 1115) on :
Eh. I wasn't a huge Diablo fan. It seemed really cool at first, but I was pretty tired of it by the time I beat it. I prefer something more along the lines of Baldur's Gate or Morrowind in terms of depth of role playing experience. Or better yet, Planescape: Torment.
Posted by Noemon (Member # 1115) on :
That said, I got the expansion pack (really it's more of a refinment on the original game, and doesn't require the original to run) for Jagged Alliance 2 over the weekend, and while I haven't had time to even get past the first firefight, I'm enjoying it quite a bit.
Posted by Scott R (Member # 567) on :
It does play very much like a diablo clone; the 'innovation' are the combo moves that the player is able to define.
I don't like the class-lock that many CRPGs force on players (or for that matter, that RPG's force on players), and Sacred seems to follow that line.
We'll see. I don't even know if it will run on my home pc; I've played it a bit on a friend's computer, but not for more than 5 minutes.
Posted by Noemon (Member # 1115) on :
That was one of the things I really liked about Morrowind (the lack of class-lock, that is).
Posted by Scott R (Member # 567) on :
Me too, Noemon.
There were very few things I didn't like about Morrowind-- well, beyond the graphics requirements.
FUN game. Are they ever going to come out with a multiplayer version?
What I long for is a game in which a player's ethical decisions matter-- there's been some chatter that Fairy Tale will do this, but I haven't heard anything on that game for MONTHS.
Posted by Noemon (Member # 1115) on :
Yeah, I would absolutely *love* to see a game that successfully worked that in.
Posted by Noemon (Member # 1115) on :
There were lots of little things I'd have liked to see in Morrowind that weren't there (I think I detailed those in one of the Morrowind threads a year or so ago), but in the end, there were two major factors that dampened my enthusiasm for the game. One was that once my character had reached all of the attribute and skill ceilings, there was no point in leveling up. The other was that once my character had gotten that powerful, no combat in the game was challenging. I think I defeated the great lord sunflower (I can't remember his real name, but I thought of him as El Seed) in three or four blows. No challenge at all. Now, I realize that those two gripes are kind of at cross purposes, but there you go.
Posted by Scott R (Member # 567) on :
Here's a concept:
A CRPG that starts out standard-- character strives to become great through adventure, etc.
As his power and influence grow, he gets the choice to turn the game into a fantasy strategy game (ala Warcraft) as the lord of a burgeoning society, OR continue adventuring on his lonesome.
The big thing that bugged me about Morrowind is that after you got your stronghold, you still personally had to go out adventuring for your clan.
Nonsense. Send in the peons.
[ August 23, 2004, 12:51 PM: Message edited by: Scott R ]