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Originally posted by Assassin:
Well, though I personally liked Baldur's Gate 2, I despised utterly Fallout 2 for its combat system. There wasn't any thinking involved in the first bit; just click, click, click. Maybe, if I had stuck in longer, I might've liked it, but I disliked Fallout 2.
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Fallout's combat system is extremly interesting, once you learn more about it. You can aim at about every body parts. Hit the eyes to blind people, hit the groin to temporarily disable them, break arms and legs.... For even more fun, use a minigun/flamethrower/plasma weapon and see them die an extremly painfull death.
There are full of attack types: Normal, electrical, laser, plasma, explosions... All armors have there pros and cons, and you also need to find out ennemies's weakness.
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Now, as for Arcanum; I bought it, started up a new game, and didn't like it that much. The turn-based combat system only starts when the creature actually reaches you, which really bites for ranged people. Harm is overpowered for the first little bit. Beware of this game if you're very fond of BG2's style of Mages as destruction dealers; there are a total of 10 or less spells that actually damage the stupid enemy out of 80. All of the rest are summoning/weakening/buffers.
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Sure, battle only automatically start once something is hit, but you can manually turn it on at any time.
As for magic, I agree that the spell selection is rather slim, but mage are extremly powerfull in this game. Harm, Desintegrate and Quench life can kill most ennemies extremly fast. So does fireball.
For lots of fun, do my combo. Dominate the ennemy, polymorph him into a sheep, shrink him, then cast spell shield on yourself and cancel the spells on the guy. They'll become permanent! [img]graemlins/hehe.gif[/img]
I didn't like this game at all at first, but I then gave it a chance and played it until I understood the system, and now I can't get enough if it! [img]smile.gif[/img]
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Out of all of the ones that you mentioned, if you like small party tactics, I'd recommend Icewind Dale 2; very nice for combat. Less roleplaying, sure, but the combat is actually pretty darn good.
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I'd reccomend Fallout Tactics more for small party tactics, but Icewind Dale II is good for that, too.
[ 12-09-2003, 05:35 PM: Message edited by: Luvian ]