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Posted February 11, 2009
If you find Arcanum don't forget to check out the unofficial patch
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Posted February 11, 2009
Arx Fatalis, Arcanum, TESII: Daggerfall, if you're into jRPG Final Fantasy VIII (well... I played it for some part because of cutscenes :D)
Oh, and System Shock 2. First one is free to download, but I'm not sure it's RPG-ish enough
Posted February 11, 2009
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Fenixp: Arx Fatalis, Arcanum, TESII: Daggerfall, if you're into jRPG Final Fantasy VIII (well... I played it for some part because of cutscenes :D)
Oh, and System Shock 2. First one is free to download, but I'm not sure it's RPG-ish enough
Arx Fatalis, is it only dugeons or do you get to go outside? If its only dungeons are they varied enough?
Oh and I've been looking for SystemShock 2 copy for a while now. :(
Post edited February 11, 2009 by Almak
Posted February 11, 2009
Only dungeons, but I think they really are decently varied. And since it's for 6 USD, well... I spent a lots of time playing this one, lots of stuff to do :-)
Posted February 11, 2009
if you find in budget bin Grandia II get it. it is kinda like Final Fantasy.
JRPG. I enjoyed it a lot.
Posted February 11, 2009
hmm... now i need to look up arcanum and maybe even FINALLY play bloodlines.
I'm playing through Arx, though taken a little break from it recently due to some other games, it's completely dungeon. It's ok, the control scheme kinda annoys the crap out of me, mostly with the inventory system, but even though i'm a frequent RPG'er and have played most games you have, it's not really holding my interest for some reason. I did love the Land of Lore series, the third one is crap though, stick with the first two. They're kinda dungeon crawly ala Eye of the Beholder but with actual plot, but you do have outside settings as well as indoor settings so its not all dungeon.
Posted February 11, 2009
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lukaszthegreat: I personally loved KOTOR2 more than KOTOR1. 1 is better SW experienced but number 2 is just so much more awesome on so many levels. and it features one of most complex and my favorite game character: Kreia.
You gotta play it and then you will wait impatiently for teamgizka to finish their mod.

1) KotOR2 was never finished. It was released in pre-alpha state. It's so full of bugs and broken quests that it's unbelieveable.
2) Team Gizka will never finish their mod. Their latest progress report is from October 22, 2007. The mod is dead. Stop waiting.
Posted February 11, 2009
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lukaszthegreat: I personally loved KOTOR2 more than KOTOR1. 1 is better SW experienced but number 2 is just so much more awesome on so many levels. and it features one of most complex and my favorite game character: Kreia.
You gotta play it and then you will wait impatiently for teamgizka to finish their mod.
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Wishbone: 1) KotOR2 was never finished. It was released in pre-alpha state. It's so full of bugs and broken quests that it's unbelieveable.
2) Team Gizka will never finish their mod. Their latest progress report is from October 22, 2007. The mod is dead. Stop waiting.

1. Calling it "pre-alpha" is a bit extreme. There are no bugs that actually prevent you from playing and completing the game and the only broken quests are side quests that do not relate to the main storyline at all. In fact, there are only two quests that are truly broken (Fuel for Telos and the Escaped Criminals quests), both of which have fan-made fixes that correct them.
2. As one of the moderators on the T-G forums, I can definitely say the mod is not dead and it will be released, sooner than you think. As for the progress reports, the last posting on the WIP page was over a year ago, but that is only because it was around that time that they finished implementing all of the cut content. Since then they have been working on testing and bugfixing. The team's Mantis bugtracker has been updated regularly, though due to real life issues, there haven't been any fixes posted in about two months. The next internal build of the mod will be the first release candidate build and the first public release of the mod may follow directly after that.
Posted February 11, 2009
wishbone, friend
with all respect
1) check what pre-alpha state means before saying things like that.
and with all those missing content (bugs. not so much. Game crashed twice. first time i restarted and it worked flawlessly till second crash. took some graphic tweaking to make it work. it was at release. unpatched. patched it has no bugs) cut content, a bit shitty ending the game is one of the best games i ever played. that is the truth for me.
2)apparently they are still working on it. I don't have high hopes but aren't you a bit of full of yourself ordering me not to wait.
KOTOR2 is a great game and i really recommend checking it out.
Posted February 11, 2009
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Coelocanth: I'm not clear from your post if you've played the expansions for NWN2. If not, I'd highly recommend both of those. Mask of the Betrayer takes you into epic levels and has a pretty good story to it. Storm of Zehir is a lower level campaign and is light on the story side, but some of the new game mechanics are awesome and overall it's a really fun expansion.
Finally, not an RPG, but well worth the 20 bucks, as it's an awesome puzzle/engineering game (if you like that type): World of Goo.

I'm playing through Mask of the Betrayer myself for the first time right now. I'm finding its story is more engrossing than the original campaign, nor do I mind the "curse" so far. Some of the new classes are also a lot of fun.
Coelocanth--- how much RAM's on your machine? I'm running XP but currently only have 1 GB. My computer had no trouble with NWN2 original, but has bogged a bit in places with the Mask expansion. I want to get Storm of Zehir, but the recommended specs for it have been raised to 2 GB, so I'm wondering if it's time to bite the bullet and add more RAM before installing Storm of Zehir. Have you noticed much lag increase?
And back to Almak's original post... PuzzleQuest may be worth a look. If you've not heard of it, the best description is probably "a mutant meld of Bejeweled and Magic: The Gathering, only it's -good-!" There are RPG elements, the story's not earthshaking but adequate, and you can walk away from it for weeks at a time and not have any trouble picking up right where you left off. It also lends itself to being played for small blocks of time (10-15 minutes), when you don't have time or don't feel like loading up your Big Monster Game of the Moment. Replayability is also high.
Post edited February 11, 2009 by Luned
Posted February 11, 2009
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cogadh: As one of the moderators on the T-G forums, I can definitely say the mod is not dead and it will be released, sooner than you think. As for the progress reports, the last posting on the WIP page was over a year ago, but that is only because it was around that time that they finished implementing all of the cut content.

I guess I jumped to conclusions then. In all fairness, I'll say that I would never have imagined that anyone would make a prominent "Progress Reports" link from their front page, and then simply stop making progress reports there without mentioning the fact on the page. All other places I've seen the same thing, the mod in question was stone dead.
Posted February 11, 2009
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Luned: Coelocanth--- how much RAM's on your machine? I'm running XP but currently only have 1 GB. My computer had no trouble with NWN2 original, but has bogged a bit in places with the Mask expansion. I want to get Storm of Zehir, but the recommended specs for it have been raised to 2 GB, so I'm wondering if it's time to bite the bullet and add more RAM before installing Storm of Zehir. Have you noticed much lag increase?

When I first played through Mask of the Betrayer, I had 2 GB of RAM (Windows XP Home SP3, 32 bit). I upgraded to a 2 x 2GB kit since I got it for a steal (XP sees 3.5 GB of it) just before I bought SoZ. I found the extra RAM makes a difference (for example, loading a new area in SoZ takes me 7 seconds or less. I've read some people are waiting 20 seconds or more). If you can afford to upgrade to more RAM, it will be well worth it and just going from 1 GB to 2 GB should make a very noticeable difference.
On a side note, I'm not sure if it makes much of a difference or not, but I've also moved my page file to a separate partition on a different drive then the OS and my games are also on a different drive than my OS.
Post edited February 11, 2009 by Coelocanth
Posted February 11, 2009
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lukaszthegreat: 1) check what pre-alpha state means before saying things like that.

I suppose I wasn't using any technical definition, just my own. I wouldn't release anything so obviously handicapped and call it alpha stage.
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lukaszthegreat: 2)apparently they are still working on it. I don't have high hopes but aren't you a bit of full of yourself ordering me not to wait.

It would seem you are right. And it wasn't an order. More of a piece of advice, to prevent you from carrying around false hopes. Turns out I was wrong and they aren't false after all, so lucky you ;-)
Also, I'm prejudiced regarding KotOR 2. My experience with the game (and the completely indifferent attitude of Lucasarts) back when it was released was so horrible, that I haven't bought a single Lucasarts game since. It had bugs that were so obviously the result of simple programming mistakes, and could easily be fixed with a single line of code, and yet they weren't fixed, even when an actual patch eventually did come out. And finally, once I got through the game and experienced the "ending"... Well, let's just say that "complete lack of artistic integrity" was the most flattering thought I had towards both the developer and the publisher.
Post edited February 11, 2009 by Wishbone
Posted February 11, 2009
Any of you guys played Lost Odyssey? How does it hold up, any good?
Posted February 11, 2009
I would also recommend the System Shocks as RPGFPS'.
If you can find it, I would recommend Elder Scrolls: Daggerfall from Bethesda. You get a huge world to explore, tons of skills that are useful, you get a horse AND carriage to haul off loot from the millions of dungeons. If you can't find Daggerfall, Bethesda has Arena for free somewhere.
If you have Dungeon Siege 1, you can download a free Total Conversion for it by the name of Ultima V: Lazarus. Granted, it changes the usual Ultima turn-based combat into real time but the actual story is still there.http://lazarus.planetdungeonsiege.gamespy.com/
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