Say what you want about this game, but I just love the graphics, both artistic and technical. Just went into that first town (Silverlake is it?), and its just awesome design and overall feeling.
Just wish the gameplay wasn't so dumbed down, and the quests and dialogues were better.
sorry, had to come back to this thread and bitch about the vegetation disappearing when you walk near it.....not sure if it was implemented to help the kiddies or to gain a few FPS
Say what you want about this game, but I just love the graphics, both artistic and technical. Just went into that first town (Silverlake is it?), and its just awesome design and overall feeling.
Just wish the gameplay wasn't so dumbed down, and the quests and dialogues were better.
"Just wish * was better"
Sums up about the entire game for me.
It's not bad but it just lacks so much.
An ok action/rpg game, just not up to Gothic level.
Well, I just finished it. Never expected it to be that short - took me 12 hours on hard at normal-paced gameplay without any rushing whatsoever. It was average, really average, and boring (got all the way to the end out of complete boredom and having no other games to play at the moment). Hopefully, Spellbound does its homework better next time with Arcania 2 in the works now.
I am near the end and it seems just to drag on, i just can't wait till it comes to an end. I can see how this game is nice for 360 where you can pick up and play anytime but i feel like there is not enough choices.
Armor is pretty much only given or crafted most of the game and only once did i find one toward the end. Weapon also seem lacking and most of the good ones are given through story boss but very few are actually good. Shields seem more for stats than actually standing there and blocking, 2 handed weapon with dodge seem to works best.
Slight spoilers regarding the above armor comment.
Armor can be found or purchased on several places if you explore, Steward armor is given initially as a reward but can be found in the forest area afterwards and then purchased from the smith in Silverlake castle should you want to change from what you choose as a reward.
Tooshoo style armor is also given as a quest reward but shortly afterwards you can find many different styles of equipment by exploring, robe of beliar for example and the desert themed armors (Seen in my earlier screens.) from the jungle area, Myrtana armor usually comes as a quest reward but some pieces can be found though overall it doesn't matter since they're all found in the Dark Tower close to the endgame.
(Along with plans for upgrading them with rune powers from the stuff found below the tower, similar with the special weapon and upgraded variety you can forge so overall crafting and exploring can help but you get really powerful stuff as rewards anyway so it's not necessary aside from these two things.)
Aren't almost all games full of these sorts of absurdities? I noticed them while playing but I've tuned it out because it's so common in games/movies/etc. I'm not sure how many people are interested in a realistic game that would be very complicated and time consuming to build trust and/or deceiving everyone when lets be honest, most people just want to explore, kill and loot. No? Read books if you want a good story.
Well I read books, thank you, specially like Pratchett.
But to the point.
There is a difference between makeing game awfully and paranoic realistic and game which is dumb and is trying to fake good RPG game.
He doesn't need to check his ID and send his (hero's) photo to Interpol, but still.... would be nice to add at list a bit of secrecy or normal chitchat.
harballaz wrote:
Hey dont be so hard the little console eunuchs, they need time to aim their lil vibratin thumbstick.
would be nice to add at list a bit of secrecy or normal chitchat.
Sure it might be nice, but is that what people really want in a game or is this topic just a form of complaining for us to feel morally superior and boost our ego as we criticize Spellbound?
I could make a similar video criticizing dialog just about any story-based game out there today, no?
There are many people in Arcnia-community complain for the official fix. On some computer systems this fix doesn't gain perfomance. This problem have gotten we - russians too. So there are Fixed official fix (but i think this can be fixed original exe) for each processors:
for 4-core based: http://ifolder.ru/19769175
for 3-core based: http://ifolder.ru/19769517
for 2-core based: http://ifolder.ru/19769267
...in ifolder.ru type validation code and press "Далее" to get the file.
P.S. i cant create more other mirrors for non-russian regions, because of my f..cked slow internet 56kbit/s....
There are many people in Arcnia-community complain for the official fix. On some computer systems this fix doesn't gain perfomance. This problem have gotten we - russians too. So there are Fixed official fix (but i think this can be fixed original exe) for each processors:
for 4-core based: http://ifolder.ru/19769175
for 3-core based: http://ifolder.ru/19769517
for 2-core based: http://ifolder.ru/19769267
...in ifolder.ru type validation code and press "Далее" to get the file.
P.S. i cant create more other mirrors for non-russian regions, because of my f..cked slow internet 56kbit/s....
-click the black link near the bottom that says 'сюда'
-click on any of the bigger links (you have to visit a sponsors site for 30 seconds)
-after 30 seconds have passed the text changes, click on the new link in the top frame
-should be self explanitory from there
Last edited by ffy on Fri, 15th Oct 2010 10:52; edited 1 time in total
-click the black link near the bottom that says 'сюда'
-click on any of the bigger links (you have to visit a sponsors site for 30 seconds)
-after 30 seconds have passed the text changes, click on the new link in the top frame
-should be self explanitory from there
thanks
edit: not working, non cracked .exe (asking for online activation)
Last edited by duggler72 on Fri, 15th Oct 2010 11:01; edited 2 times in total
I could make a similar video criticizing dialog just about any story-based game out there today, no?
Ofcz. But look on dialogs in Alpha Protocal or my beloved Witcher or PS:T and check this. I don't need wall of text like it happens in PS:T, but still would be nice to have better conversation like in Witcher for example.
Yes, we can critise everything around, becouse it is in our nature and there is no game that fits every single human being on earth. But still.... Gothic serie quality is lowering levels and in my opinion every NEXT product should have high quality. We should try to aim for perfection, yez?
harballaz wrote:
Hey dont be so hard the little console eunuchs, they need time to aim their lil vibratin thumbstick.
Ofcz. But look on dialogs in Alpha Protocal or my beloved Witcher or PS:T and check this. I don't need wall of text like it happens in PS:T, but still would be nice to have better conversation like in Witcher for example.
Sure but dialog and different story paths were the only thing good in Witcher, everything else was "oh please die in cancer stuff".
Sure but dialog and different story paths were the only thing good in Witcher, everything else was "oh please die in cancer stuff".
You don't like RPG games, go and play Diablo it's Action/RPG (99%/1%).
dude he has a point , there was nothing "RPG" in witcher apart story , and all things related to story ( dialogs, npc interaction and similar ) combat was annoying and boring after first 5 mobs, crafting was i dunno.. cant recall but it wasnt good, there was no real gear, and talents were nothing more than "needed to kill things "and you had what 523523 choices and like 10 talents to spent on..
witcher had best story in any rpg and tbh in any game, and trust me, i was like "oh its 3 am, just hour more " while playing witcher, cuz i always wanted to see what next, it wasnt cuz i enjoyed killing stuff, or was grinding that epic item i do in another 90% rpgs..
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