I am VERY anxious to play it. Unfortunately, I'm in the middle of Arcanum. I'm almost done though. I'm the kind of person that has to finish a game before starting a new one. When I do start, I'm sure I'll be posting frequently. Looking forward to it!!!

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Welcome! You will really enjoy the game once you get into it. Also, how was Arcanum?

v

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<blockquote>quote:</font><hr>Originally posted by Verdant:
Welcome! You will really enjoy the game once you get into it. Also, how was Arcanum?

v<hr></blockquote>

Thanks for the welcome. I'm familiar with Sazerac from the Wizards and Warriors forum. He's helped me greatly. As for Arcanum, I like it. I'm not a big fan of 3/4 perspective but it keeps you busy quest wise. Very addictive. Mature dialogs.

Arcanum Sounds delightful. In fact, when I purchased Wizardry 8, it was a choice between this game and Arcanum. Three factors pushed me squarely into the W8 camp: the absolutely addictive demo, this discussion board (fast friendly answers, lot's of info, nice folks), and the fact that I had hit a saturation point with 3/4 perspectives games (the entire Infinity engine franchise).

Perhaps after I thoroughly exhaust W8's charms (no end in sight), I'll pick up Arcanum!

V

Hello, Xerin! Glad you're here. You WILL like Wizardry 8. It is a bit more...challenging than Wizards & Warriors was.

-Sazerac

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I really loved Arcanum, played through with an Elfish Warrior-mage character. My only grudge is with the RPCs. Or rather the lack of control of them, you could not assign their stats/skill when they levelled up and their (lack off) AI in combat was driving me mad.

I only began to enjoy it when I discarded all the RPCs and soloed through.

hehe(don't want to start an Arcanum discussion but...)

i started Arcanum with a technologists/armorer and i had all these grand ideas about building a super fast guy with sweet self-healing armor and nice hand made weapons... after getting my butt kicked when i got to the mines and the rock golems and finding out that the armor required energy cells to run i started over. elf-swordmaster-mage... game was way too easy. that could have been balanced a tad.
my favorite place was Caladon. I liked the city, the music, the quests there. Very well designed.