Duck and Cover

Koki wrote:Shouldn't it be S3ph1r0t15 then?

I wanted a shorter name with fewer numbers in it that represented what a douchebag Susan is. I was also kind of on the spot, but I think it works pretty well.

I started playing Arcanum about two and a half years ago, and I'm still playing it. Once a month, every month, I load the latest game and scroll through my journal for 30 minutes to see what I was doing last time I played. Then I get bored and quit without saving.

It's amazing when you first start out, especially with all the techno gadgetry and trash-collecting involved, but by the time you've gotten somewhere and become someone, piled all the extra quest things together, got the main part neatly figured out - it's shit. When you hit that mentality, you suddenly see all the flaws in plain view illuminated by a bright light. Music's great doh.

how ubermenschlich. Meine Güte

Role playing doesn't necessarily involve even stats and shit. It's about playing a role. So basically, if you went deep in the character of the Space Marine, you could call Doom an RPG.

That's why this definition sucks

Look just go to Wiki read the def and let's end this ok

"A role-playing game (RPG) is a type of game in which players assume the roles of characters and collaboratively create narratives. Gameplay progresses according to a predetermined system of rules and guidelines, within which players may improvise freely. Player choices shape the direction and outcome of role-playing games."

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Computer_role-playing_game

"RPG gameplay elements can be found in real-time strategy games, first-person shooters, third-person shooters, and some other types such as massively multiplayer online games. However, games that are actually called just "RPGs" are usually limited to top-down perspective point-and-click and some third-person perspective types."

That sounds about right.

That wiki crap is just a brainwashing tool created by Bill Cosby and the Chinese government to control our minds. Don't buy into it.

Nein, it can't be true

Koki wrote:http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Computer_role-playing_game

Please be more specific.

Anyway, I wanted to say my word about Arcanum:

-crappy combat [worse than Morrowind];
-extremely unbalanced tech/magic sides [magic too cheesy and tech too dull];
-diabloesque levels in which you have to fight millions of similar monsters to find the whatever needed quest item after;
-buggy;
-crashy;
-wierd character development [devs really did not think it through].

What I liked:

-really good music;
-the intro movie;
-some NPCs;
-portraits;
-no loading between indoors/outdoors.

In brief, it's a dream game that actually turned bad. Anyone that refutes that has no credibility, really.

I think it was best for Troika to die actually. They really had the best RPG ideas and dreams but never managed to deliver in any of their 3 games. Best for them to be history.

If those are the things you liked about the game then you have no credit credibility.

vendetta wrote:Anyone that refutes that has no credibility, really.

Lovely criteria, v. Woe betide rational, reasoned argument.

Disagreement != U R WRONG.

Perhaps in addition to "suspension of disbelief" we could add "suspension of disenchantment" to account for things that are liked despite glaring flaws.
We just ignore parts we don't like and fill in cracks with our own imaginations.

Doom 3 OLOLOLOLOLOLOL

Chapelle?

Nico, this site rocks.