I'm thorougly enjoying Arx Fatalis at the moment and are just about to get into the thick of the Akbaa temple, but before I do, I have a rather menacing query lurking in the back of my characters subconscious:
Am I able to slaughter all of the goblins with bloody merry abandonment without losing any potential xp or creating a 'show stopper' in damaging the game in any way?
I hope to have already finished most of the quests where dealing with these sneaky slimy villains is necessary. I've already used stealth to greedily nick their entire cache of gold/gems, leaving only the last two chests which I'm sure Alotar has the keys to. I'm playing mainly a fighter type, but with some 'all round' abilities aswell to keep it challenging.
I think my character has heard the phrase "I'm an important guard for King Alotar ...stupid human" one too many times - although it still makes me laugh to hear it. Every time a repressed memory returns from what they did to my character as a prisoner, a heightened snarl ensues, a growing bloodlust for a complete rout of the Goblin City!
So is it ok? Can I kill them? Can I can I?
The game's ambience is very immersive and my skin veritably crawled on level four when I first encountered the slow moving cultists. My only complaints so far would be the lacklustre automap (inability write on it, as in the Ultima Underworlds, the games which Arx pays homage to on more than one ocassion.) and also the lack of choices in dialogue - the cutscenes are effective, but do take away some of the freedom in roleplaying. [img]smile.gif[/img] Otherwise, very good so far!
Cheers,
Cerebrodragon