Was it a good RPG?
it was badly designed
>following the main quest>goes from level 10 enemies to level 25 enemies in the next step dropped it right here
>>744641369One of the best. Few people know real-time combat was mandated addition by the publishers they cobbled together in couple of months.
>>744641369>npc react to your race, gender, tech affinity, state of undress and choices>npcs have a simple schedule to allow deeper roleplaying like thieving at night>can whore yourself out as a girl>can have 2 prostitutes at the same time>story has some funny twistsyes
>>744641369You can convince the final boss to kill themselves.That's a good game in my book.
>>744641572I wish more games had retard playthrough options if your INT is too low.>mfw retard's journal
>>744641693Beside Arcanum I know of the two Fallouts and maybe Planescape Torment, are there any other examples?
>>744641369>good rpg>westernpick one
>>744641369It's genuinely amazing how bad the combat is, so no
I don't know because I haven't played it yet but I will eventually. I just have a feeling it will be super janky but I'm ok with old, awkward games.
>>744641369It's not only good it's the BEST RPG. And only gnomes will say otherwise.
>>744641757it's hard to choose just one, but arcanum would be up there
>>744641757It's more steampunk than western.
>>744641439>rushing the main questskill issue
>>744641439sounds like my experience with AC Odissey in the first days after release. Artificially decrease your xp gain so your forced to buy the xp boosts
>>744641757I pick both
>>744641369It's a good concept for an RPG but not an actually good one to play
>>744641665>final boss is literally you>the good ending is suicide
>>744642219SUBVERSIVE
>>744641734>>744641693Only low ints I've seen arefallout 1/2arcanummaybe a bit of new vegasthat's itthere won't be other low int games, it's offensive
>>744641369Still is.
>>744641757Most good RPGs are western. JRPGs are adventure games with stats most of the time.
>>744641990the soundtrack was good
>>744641572I always found it fascinating how Arcanum lets you go about things in your own way without telegraphing it. You know if it was a modern day game Conjure Spirit would get a popup so the players are informed they can, in fact, kill everyone and still talk to them. Arcanum lets you use its tools however you wish.
>>744642939that dog has seen some shit
>>744641369Literally the only game in existence where you can play as an ugly person.
>>744641757As opposed to JRPGs which are visual novels with pointless grinding thrown in.
>>744642939I wish it had actual fleshed out companions, though. Most are just followers with a paragraph of backstory. Even BG1 handled it better overall.
>>744642985You meet it while it's being abused by a (((gnome))).
being a technology chad and sticking with it is very rewarding.
https://github.com/alexbatalov/arcanum-ce
>>744643034vtm:b as nosferatu is also fun
get guh nomed
>>744641369I would say it's good but not great
>>744641369the best RPG
>>744641734New Vegas has an extremely dialed down version of a low intelligence character
>>744641734In VTM: Bloodlines you get insanity dialogue if you pick Malkavian.
>>744641369If it was actually finished then it could have been
>>744645893Mandalore is correct on this one - it's THE game primed for a remake/remaster/enhanced edition.
>>744641369No. I'm told it was the best.
>>744645940Wasn't the source code for the game lost?
>>744646223No, Tim Cain has the source code. He's even made videos about toying around a bit with the code so it can run on modern OSs.
>>744641419but 4chins told me tim gay is the best game designer in the whole wide world web.
>>744641419All Troika games are borderline unplayable dogshit
>>744641369>was it a good role playingYes.>gameNo.
>>744643572>player can bring evidencecool it with the antisemitism
>>744646857This
>>744646857Nonsense.
>>744641369It's a crpg so of course not.
>>744642939Where did you find this in such high resolution?
>>744647007Kek
>>744643093>I wish it had actual fleshed out companions, though. Most are just followers with a paragraph of backstory.Which is the best way of doing it.Fleshed out characters are annoying as fuck: see Baldur's Gate 3 or any other RPG with characters who are self-inserts of the writers.
>>744643572>implying any of that is realThink about it: you go to an otherwise empty island and find an abandoned research facility with abandoned torture devices and an incomplete journal conveniently left there for you to find.You have no way of proving the provenance of that journal (which may as well be a fake) and if you return to the half-ogre island you won't find anything.I would stop thinking about it if I were you.
Like all CRPG, 95% of the game is dialogue and the gameplay is a barely functional afterthought. Hope you figure out you can spam harm like a mad cunt or that they dog's teeth are and invincible, unbreakable weapon.
>>744641369It had problems but it is a fucking fantastic setting.
>>744641369No, even Starfield is better
>>744647125A few fleshed out characters, like Virgil or Magnus can be great, but I agree that it's annoying in stuff like Kingmaker, where a lot of time it feels more like their story than your character's.
>>744643572>you now understand this is what happened in the caribbean with blacks and indentured irish women
>>744647223gnome hands typed this
>>744647437>A few fleshed out characters, like Virgil or Magnus can be greatSure, but those count as "followers with a paragraph of backstory". You don't really need more than that.The game has far greater problems than shallow companions, like both TB and RT combat modes being broken.
>game is supposed to make you pick between magic or technology>but with magic you get and instant win spell and in the same tree the spell that lets you talk to the deceased>meanwhile in technology you get to... make a robot spider maybe, if you can get the parts that are annoying as fuck to gather.
>>744647673Magic = Easy modeTech = Hard modeI don't think there's anything wrong with it in principle, but they should've implemented a system like in the Avernum games where you either pay trainers to learn spells or look in dungeons to emphasize magic being very powerful but hard to learn.
>>744647673>meanwhile in technology you get toRide in the Tarant metro and train unlike you unwashed m*ges.Jokes aside, if you want to have fun pick one of the conditional traits for aptitude like Nature Mage and you get to have fun with tech and magic both.
This thread inspired me to finally tackle this one in my backlog. Wish me luck bros
>>744648284You'll drop it after a few hours, it's just not that good
>>744648284Get Drog's patch
>>744647061Prima's Official Strategy Guide.
>>744647927actually just pure melee fighter is the most straightforward and strongest because you're not reliant on much. guns are also great, but you need meta knowledge to actually find the good guns and trainers.
>>744648284Good luck anon. As with many old games, read the manual if you're confused.
>>744641369Yeah
