Fan Graveyard

I'm sure this is old news to all of you, but I recently stumbled upon the fan graveyard, totally by accident, and it makes me even more mad that Troika didn't succeed financially. You can tell they fucking loved their fans, and got them. Totally appreciated them. It makes me upset that companies like Black Isle and Clover and Troika and others who make awesome, innovative games and have great rapports with their fans get the axe or fade away while crap or mediocre companies stay afloat and make Barbie's Horse Adventures or Marine Sharpshooter III or Nancy Drew and Agatha Christie games or Total Extreme Wrestling or whatever. :x

 

I think we need to have Obsidian absorb the rest of Black Isle and Troika and start producing a game called Barbie's Agatha Drew Total Extreme Sharpshooting II so that everyone buys it...only it's actually just Arcanum II.

 

Zombies like rpgs?

 

What kills me about the place is they created a beautiful little graveyard full of fresh graves next to a big-assed swamp - and then did nothing with it. There's what - a total of 5 bad guys to kill? That's on top of no treasure, no hidden crypt, no endless hordes of zombies, and no mystery to solve. That bites to the bone.

I'd love to know what was originally planned for that place.

 

It's an Easter egg.

 

Surely the swamp wasn't included in the eggy goodness?

 

I think it was. Just a couple dozen sectors of swamp and one Fen Fiend.

Whoopie-ding-dong....

 

there was another egg i think it was a wepon called the something decapicator i remember it made strange noises and you got it from some old dude...

 

Yeah, there's that village with a bunch of kree and a dead human mage... :lol:

 

Are you talking about the Secret Village? Those are kites running around.

 

That village was modelled after The Smurfs

 

Kites, kree...they both start with a k, and I've no other excuse explaining my mix up.

 

Well, that in fact is almost the same, isnt it?

Speaking of easter eggs, I remember a half-ogre trainer of mini-monkeys with a circus-like name which I don't remember at the moment. Was that also some kind of reference to something, like the smurf village?

 

Garbonzo the Monkey Trainer at the Small Pond.