Temple of Elemental Evil

[Balintherlas]

I just got this and havent played very far but im a lil ticked about a level cap at 10, other than that it seems to play pretty sweet. The combat rounds werent as bad as i thought theyd be. Also i found a glitch in the character creation that allowed me to put stats greater than 18 in one of the attributes. But i was really wondering if this game was worth paying for?

[Dace De'Briago]

Well, it's in Atari's 'Best of Range' at the moment and can be picked up quite cheaply.

I got TOEE, Master of Orion 3 and Neverwinter Nights/SoU for £20 on an Atari 'best of' special.

I think this game is ok for the price, though I wouldn't pay more for it in any circumstances.

[Balintherlas]

20 euro thats like 23 us? i payed frickin 30$ for it at a store. I knew it was gonna be a let down.

[Dace De'Briago]

£20 GBP = 30 Euro or $40.

Still a cracking price mind [img]tongue.gif[/img]

[Q'alooaith]

Dace is talking about all the games he's listed for £20.

I picked up my ToEE in the best of range, £7.63 that's 10,86 Euros, about $16 but your looking at maybe $10-14 if you look around a bit..

Not bad for such a good game.

[Griefmaker]

Supposedly most of the bugs have been patched now. I played it for a short while (by stealing my co-worker's laptop--even though I still don't admit to it!) when the first patch came out. It was playable but the worst problem was the slow down, especially later in the game when there was a lot happening all at once.

My thoughts on it was that it was pretty fun if you look at the fact that the game is supposed to be a short story based in a small area. It is not an "epic" like the Baldur's Gate games, but a scenario taking place in a small chunk of land. There is not much to the story, there are very few quests, and there are relatively few major characters, and the NPC's pretty much suck.

Some good parts to the game is that it is turn-based combat (combat, BTW, is very important in this game), you create 6 characters to play with, the 2D graphics are rather nice for the most part, they use 3.5 edition rules (if you like those rules--I personally still prefer the 2nd edition rules myself), and, from what I remember, the sound is fairly decent.

If you can get this game fairly cheaply and make sure that it is patched, you may want to give it a try.

Just to give you a fair warning though, I know of people who absolutly hated the game, as well as many who have loved it.

Hopefully this helps a little bit. Good luck!