What other games complement your Dominions 3? - Page 15

sansanjuan · #1 April 11th, 2009, 12:51 AM

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Anyone remember Darklands (post patch however, prior to the patch it was unplayable).

I have it still somewhere. Bought it from a discount rack years after it was in its prime. Played it for a few days, got distracted by something else and forgot about it. Had heard raves about it way back when. Seemed interesting.

My brother and I played Ultima 1 way back when. Turned up a year ago in a pile of old junk. He sold it on ebay for $90 (?) bucks if I recall.

-ssj

S.R. Krol · #2 April 11th, 2009, 06:53 PM

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I think it really needs to be stated, for the old guard who are not aware - Arcanum was done by a studio who made a bid for the Fallout IP. They didn't get it, and they chose instead to implement the majority of Fallout2's character design features, and seemingly many of the game mechanics.

Actually, Troika were the main designers behind Fallout. After finishing Fallout 2 they left Interplay and formed their own company, hence the similarities with the FO series and Arcanum.

JimMorrison · #3 April 11th, 2009, 08:57 PM

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I think it really needs to be stated, for the old guard who are not aware - Arcanum was done by a studio who made a bid for the Fallout IP. They didn't get it, and they chose instead to implement the majority of Fallout2's character design features, and seemingly many of the game mechanics.

Actually, Troika were the main designers behind Fallout. After finishing Fallout 2 they left Interplay and formed their own company, hence the similarities with the FO series and Arcanum.

Fair enough.

The little blurb that I found about it, did not explicitly mention that, only that they had tried to (re)purchase the IP.

While I think that the revision of the combat system in Arcanum left something to be desired, the world truly is as detailed and interesting as FO 1+2, and character advancement is very interesting. Cool game, highly recommended. <3

calmon · #4 April 7th, 2009, 06:47 AM

Some funny browser game, easy and no need of registration:

http://chaom.mybrute.com

lch · #5 April 7th, 2009, 07:38 AM

Nice. I'm here: http://thayos.mybrute.com

What I'd like to know: How does this game work? :P How do you advance? Is it all random?

Ruminant · #6 April 7th, 2009, 11:39 AM

Haha, this game is certainly making the rounds. One of my friends got me into it the other night, it's strangely addictive

http://king-hobo.mybrute.com/

As far as I can tell it's incredibly random. A friend has a level one with 120+ hp, another is the same level as mine and has several abilities seemingly gotten at random while I have none. About all I -do- know is that you sometimes take weapons from the brutes you beat.

Trumanator · #7 April 7th, 2009, 03:25 PM

Well Oblivion is the obvious one, though its system reqs could be an issue. Probably the single thing that makes Oblivion trump Morrowind for me every time is that it doesn't take forever and a day to get anywhere.

Ironhawk · #8 April 7th, 2009, 03:29 PM

Fallout is like a slimmed down version of Oblivion, except with guns instead of swords. A decent game, overall.

I'm trying out Mass Effect now, myself. Seems ok so far. Very much like KotOR 1/2.

Ruminant · #9 April 7th, 2009, 04:14 PM

Oblivion was cool. When it first came out I took one look at the bland graphics and began to diss it, but two years later I finally got onto it and enjoyed it quite a bit. It really wasn't the same as Morrowind though, the environment was much blander, less diverse and had a little bit less of the sense of exploration and mystery. I'm no sadist, the quick travelling was a really handy feature but they could have given you more than just endless identical forests and the odd mountain paths to explore so that you actually felt the need to venture off the beaten track.

Fallout 3 was really awesome, though unfortunately you got so powerful so quickly that it became a turkey shoot before the end. It was slightly harder going again as a pure unarmed guy on hard though ;p The deathclaw gauntlet is teh greatest weapon ever. Still not enough to make me replay the main quests again, seeing as you can basically get to max level from randomly exploring a relatively smallish part of the map O_o

I didn't give Mass Effect more than a few hours, it seemed alright but not really my thing. KOTOR was cool for a while in the first game but I could never really get into it, combat just seemed a bit... static.

Keep those suggestions coming

Trumanator · #10 April 7th, 2009, 04:27 PM

You thought the Morrowind graphics were better? As for the variety of places, I thought that it was still better than Morrowind, however I also thought that it was much more focused on dungeon diving than exploring the outside world. If you're looking for something new to do, try visiting elderscrolls.com and dling a mod or two.

I have a friend whos very much into Titan Quest, apparently its basically a Diablo clone with better graphics and a greek mythological setting. That or there's a number of D2 mods.