What Game R -U Playing now?

[narf poit chez BOOM]

Oh, and I keep forgetting: What's this Lords of Magic? I tried to find it on the internet, but couldn't find the main website, just some cheats, hints and faq sites.

[EaX]

Raapys said:
Daggerfall, X2, Planescape Torment, HoMM3, Lords of magic, Medieval:VI, Anarchy Online, SEIV, Babylon project(Freespace2), KotoR2 and Dominions2.

Where can i download the Babylon project????

[Alneyan]

Many of those mods only alter Daggerfall's graphics; if memory serves, there were three or four packs that added quests, and nothing more than that. I do not recall if those quests were made by users or by someone at Bethesda though. Either way, it certainly doesn't compare with Morrowind's mod support and editor (just to name that one). That, and Daggerfall's mods could not (or did not, as you will) alter the basics of the game, like creating more "dungeon parts" for those random dungeons, adding equipment, or radically altering monsters (though Andyfall did have a specific human monster).

Lords of Magic was a fantasy TBS game published in 1997 or so by Sierra, so the official site may have been shut down since then. The Underdogs have some information available on the game, including the Expansion Set that was released a while later.

The Babylon Freespace conversion is available here ; it does not actually require you to have Freespace 2, but the download is rather heavy.

[narf poit chez BOOM]

DFto3DS v1.1
16 October 2002 244 kb Export Daggerfall 3D objects in ARCH3D.BSA to DXF and 3DS files. 3DS files support textures.

Don't know if it imports, but if it can export, someone can figure out how to import.

And picky, picky, picky. For a game with no mod support, it's moddability is amazing for the time. I added a quest or two myself and didn't find it too hard.

[Gandalf Parker]

Daggerfall: yes I felt Morrowind went the wrong direction. The "open play" was just wander off the road, over the hill, find another road, find a dungeon. Everything you "found" you would have ended up at anyway eventualy in the story. And their "random dungeons" even I could have improved on which is something I rarely say.

Tranquility: definetly worth looking at but its NOT like any other game you have seen. Its actually an effort to live up to its name. It makes you WANT to play it hard and fast but if you do you will lose. What it reminds me most of is the star trek where Ryker brings a game back from Ryssa IV which almost takes over the ship. "you know the secret dont you? Dont force it, it almost plays itself". (and just as addictive)

SEIV and Moo3? Hmmm yes I guess Moo3 did have one thing going for it as far as being fairly ultimate in good player interface for a complicated game. Id rather see SEIV and Dominions2. I love SEIV but if it could have the oh so difficult rock-paper-scissors balance done at national level then I almost feel as if I would never need another game.

Magic Realm: just to throw something else into the mix.
http://www.boardgamegeek.com/imagegallery/22
This is a game on my "every developer should get this game and look at it" list. You can still sometimes find it on Ebay. An old game by Avalon Hill which I feel came out at the wrong time. Just as PCs were getting popular they created a FANTASIC board game whose only drawback was that it took hours to setup and an hour to put away. But that was done to achieve the maximum amount of random and even the person setting it up could play. It simply SCREAMED as a board game which should have been a computer program.

[Raapys]

"But once I got over the fact that they went for stability, I realised that it's about 300% greater than any other RPG on the market."

But that's just the problem, isn't it? Where did all the rpgs go? In the old days, one rpg after another was released. Morrowind had no real competition. Some people sets it up against Gothic, but I think that's an unfair comparison; Gothic is more of a adventure game, and doesn't focus very much on skills/stats at all, whereas Morrowind does. I like both; Gothic because of it's incredibly immersive world, it really makes you want to explore it, and Morrowind because of it's depth, which unfortunately is far less than Daggerfall's.

"What's this Lords of Magic?"

I would give you a link, but I think the underdogs site is considered illegal, because it's an abandonware site. Sufficient to say, google the site, and find a review of the game there. The Special Edition of the game is the best version of it, and the one they have a review of. It's basically the game how it "should have been", but it was rushed, so they made the expansion.

As for Morrowind; Imagine instead if they had improved upon every aspect of Daggerfall, instead of creating a completely different game. We could have had much improved random dungeons, better npc interaction, the missing features from Daggerfall(nations going to war, guilds being cut, etc.), better random quests, generally alot more features, less bugs, and better graphics for those who care.
It would have been fantastic.

[narf poit chez BOOM]

Daggerfall: From what I remember from Bethesda comments as the last patches came out, the code was so bad that even the people who had worked on it had trouble figuring out what some parts of it did.