What RPG are you playing right now?

[prfsnl_gmr]

Part IX though... it's just straight up addictive.

I realized that...and it is in part the reason that I forced myself to put it down. Once I realized how many hours I had spent farming alchemy ingredients and grinding levels, I realized that I really needed to put the game down for a while.

[Menegrothx]

I'm playing Arcanum: Of Steamworks & Magick Obscura, Disgaea 3: Absence of Justice and Arc the Lad 3 at the moment. I'm enjoying Arc a lot more than Disgaea for some reason.
I dont know why I didnt notice it when I first played the game but god damn Arcanum is awesome. Why it isn't nearly as popular as Fallout 1/2? To me it feels like it has the mechanics that made Fallout so good but with more freedom of choiche and depth. It's a travesty of justice that a developer like Troika Games goes defunct.

This is the most stupidly named RPG I've ever seen

spent my weekend playing a bit of Planescape Torment for my first time.

heard it was the greatest game ever made and thus far, I'm not really having much fun.

I was super confused at first, then I turned to a walkthru and have been using it to help me a bit.

Gonna stick with it for a bit more hoping that maybe it'll just click soon and I'll get to enjoy it like so many other ppl do.

It starts up quite slowly. You'll get the most out of it if you become a wizard/mage and increase your Intellect, Wisdom and Charisma to the max. It's a story based game so the best thing about the game is the dialogue and the quality of writing, not the combat and leveling up and things like that.

[isiolia]

I dont know why I didnt notice it when I first played the game but god damn Arcanum is awesome. Why it isn't nearly as popular as Fallout 1/2? To me it feels like it has the mechanics that made Fallout so good but with more freedom of choiche and depth. It's a travesty of justice that a developer like Troika Games goes defunct.

Probably timeframe more than anything else. Fallout and Fallout 2 were '97/'98 respectively. Arcanum hit in 2001. There were some pretty big releases between those years, and the presentation was considered dated by the time it hit (figure, it was mere months before FFX hit, or Morrowind for that matter). Icewind Dale II was similarly dinged for graphics/etc when it hit in 2002.

[Menegrothx]

That's a valid point, but the same thing happened also to Vampire: The Masquerade – Bloodlines, and that one came out 2 years before Oblivion and 4 years before Fallout 3. It was buggy before it got patched, but so were many of those other more popular sandbox RPGs.

[MrPopo]

That's a valid point, but the same thing happened also to Vampire: The Masquerade – Bloodlines, and that one came out 2 years before Oblivion and 4 years before Fallout 3. It was buggy before it got patched, but so were many of those other more popular sandbox RPGs.

Morrowind came out first. And Bloodlines isn't very sandbox. It's more that it has a couple hubs with some dungeons and lots of sidequests in the hubs. The structure is more like Deus Ex in that regard.

[isiolia]

That's a valid point, but the same thing happened also to Vampire: The Masquerade – Bloodlines, and that one came out 2 years before Oblivion and 4 years before Fallout 3. It was buggy before it got patched, but so were many of those other more popular sandbox RPGs.

I think the larger problem with that really was the bugginess. Figure, for both Arcanum and Bloodlines, critical response was good. It's not like they got panned. They just had caveats.

'course, the angle for Bloodlines could also be that it is much closer to Deus Ex than the Bethesda titles, thus, was likely seen as an FPS. In that respect, it basically launched head to head with...Half-Life 2.

[BurningDoom]

This is the most stupidly named RPG I've ever seen

It's confusing. It has that Ninja Gaiden conundrum to the name. I'm not sure if I'm supposed to pronounce it as "Legend of "Leg-eye-ah" or Legend of Leg-Aye-ah" or "Legend of Leg-eye".

[MrPopo]

I decided to put IWD2 to the side and pick up Planescape Torment again. I figure I'll knock out the last of the AD&D games I have before getting too deep into 3rd edition. It's striking just how wacky the animations are. It seems like the Infinity engine was not made to handle as many animation frames as they put in, so you get this comical "walking in place" look to it, and some moon walking.

[Ack]

It's confusing. It has that Ninja Gaiden conundrum to the name. I'm not sure if I'm supposed to pronounce it as "Legend of "Leg-eye-ah" or Legend of Leg-Aye-ah" or "Legend of Leg-eye".

Actually I believe it is Leh-gai-ah. You know, like how Gaia is pronounced, but with a "Le" at the beginning.

Anyway, I just beat Alpha Protocol. Managed to pick up about 57% of the trophies on the first run through. The game had some tech problems, but I enjoyed myself overall. Not a bad experience, though having maxed out stealth, I can see why it is considered so broken. Wandering through heavily guarded sections of the game was easy when I could basically go invisible for 20 seconds.

[MrPopo]

It's confusing. It has that Ninja Gaiden conundrum to the name. I'm not sure if I'm supposed to pronounce it as "Legend of "Leg-eye-ah" or Legend of Leg-Aye-ah" or "Legend of Leg-eye".

Actually I believe it is Leh-gai-ah. You know, like how Gaia is pronounced, but with a "Le" at the beginning.

Anyway, I just beat Alpha Protocol. Managed to pick up about 57% of the trophies on the first run through. The game had some tech problems, but I enjoyed myself overall. Not a bad experience, though having maxed out stealth, I can see why it is considered so broken. Wandering through heavily guarded sections of the game was easy when I could basically go invisible for 20 seconds.

I maxed stealth AND pistols in my runthrough without knowing ahead of time how broken they were. The stealth was crazy broken because you could do takendowns without breaking the 20 second invis, so I'd knock out half the room, and then finish it off with an instant 5 pistol headshots on the rest. About the only difficulty left in the game at that point was the boss fights.