Thread: Arcanum
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Old 09-21-2001, 05:13 PM   #2
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Join Date: May 17, 2001
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Age: 38
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Cons: It's pretty short, only it's turn-based combat works, real-time is too confusing and fast-turn-based is buggy, pretty damn unbalanced between magic and technology, magic is the clear winner, NPCs earn XP but only level up when you do, no matter how much they have, needs a larger variety of spells and technology, some locations can only be found by poor chance, which means walking directly over them when on the outside map, many NPCs have next to no dialogue, even if they are the more exotic ones who could easily have dialogue leading to more quests or info about their background, no NPC quests, and not enough NPC partymember dialogue when speaking to non-partymember NPCs, quite a few quests and NPCs are VERY, VERY, VERY well hidden.

Pros: VERY stable, has a good level-up system, the way NPCs react to your race, stats, alignment and whether or not your character is using magic or technology is pretty well done too, realistic ways to circumvent problematic quests, such as disentigrating a door instead of finding the key or picking an NPCs pocket instead of trading for whatever item they have that you need, a good and an evil solution to most problems, MANY locations, the few times that partymembers DO interrupt a conversation to add their 2 cents it's usually worth listening to, ALL skills are useful, cool characters, even if they DO lack dialogue, these include an ancient undead warrior whom you ressurect and a lizardman.

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