GameFAQs says Arcanum Best CRPG

DarkUnderlord · Jul 3, 2007

In one of <a href="http://www.gamefaqs.com/features/top10/1233.html">their retarded top 10 lists which they pump out daily</a>, GameFAQs has said Arcanum is number 1:
 <blockquote>#1: Arcanum: Of Steamworks and Magick Obscura (PC)
 
 While most of the reviews in the mainstream public gave this gem poor scores, the thruth is that the main complains have been about graphics and the linearity of the game. But Arcanum did it all right: Meaningful choices and consequences, good character development, strategic combat, lots of possibilities, and is a lot less linear than most games today. The setting is pretty interesting too.</blockquote>
 So there you go.
 
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Frigo · Jul 3, 2007

Arcanum is the best CRPG. Big news.

Philes · Jul 4, 2007

I read a lot of the those Top 10 lists because I have no life, and that has got to be one of the most poorly written I've seen. It's lame and it's short.

However, Arcanum is the awesome, etc. etc. etc. What Frigo said.

DarkUnderlord · Jul 4, 2007

STFU&GTFO

Both of you. We hadn't had news for a while and here was something I could post so I posted it.

Bunch of whingers.

Vorak · Jul 4, 2007

I PMed mathboy a copy of an article about 2 months ago but he never posted it.

DarkUnderlord · Jul 5, 2007

2 months ago? This one was released on 2nd July 2007. Clearly, this is the more updated one than that old and out of date one you PM'd mathboy.

Vorak · Jul 5, 2007

I'm merely saying that he is supposed to be in charge of news and even though I gave him something to post he'd still rather leave this section to rot.

mathboy · Jul 6, 2007

Oh, I decided not to post it, because after I searched for a couple of the sentences on the internet, I fount this: http://terra-arcanum.com/phpBB/viewtopi ... 4417#84417

And compare that to the PM Vorak sent me 3 months ago:

This was in a magazine I was reading and I thought the one line mention Arcanum gets might make it worth posting in the news section. I scanned this and extracted the text with Acrobat Reader, but since its the first time I've done it this long thin column is the best I could do.

Atomic magazine, page 10, issue 75

Diabloed to death

Logan Booker does his best not to catch the
hack'n'slash fever.

Role-playing hack'n'slash gaming is back in
a big way, judging by the recent increase in
games of this type under development. Perhaps
spurred by the success of Iron Lore's Diablo II clone
Titan Ouest, Monte Cristo's Silverfall, SkyFalien's
Dawn of Magic, Ascaron's Sacred 2 and finally, the
TO expansion Immortal Throne, have come out of
the woodwork in the last eight months.
'[Titan Ouest] marked a strong global success for
THO on both a critical and commercial level, ' said
the company's senior VP of worldwide marketing
Bob Aniello in a November 2006 press release
announcing the development of Immortal Throne.
Apparently, gamers have yet to tire of the pokiemachine
gameplay of the genre.
Monte Cristo has made little effort to hide the
influences on its title, Silverfall, with the game's
project manager Jehanne Rousseau stating
in the company's IGN-hosted developer blog
that 'Strictly in terms, Silverfall is akin to games
like Diablo or Sacred'. Silverfall, unlike Titan
Ouest, will mix the formula up a little by providing
two schools for players to pick their abilities
from - Science and Nature (this may borrow
from Troika's Arcanum, which is fine by us). For
example, if a player wanted to be melee-based,
they could choose to be a werewolf, or gain
robotic implants that increase physical strength.
Both choices achieve a similar effect, but allow
the player to flavour their character. Monte
Cristo also mentions on the game's site the
player's choices will alter the state of the world,
changing the types of items vendors sell and the
appearance of the environment.
Sacred 2 is Ascaron's hack'n'slash effort, which
we've mostly covered in Pipeline this month (check
out the page opposite). Six characters should be
playable at launch but currently only information on
one has been released. We'd like to say more about
the game but sadly the only 'feature' we know of
is 'Gore Feedback', which displays visually as you
combat foes how powerful you are. Lovely.
Dawn of Magic, or Blood Magic as its known
overseas, takes yet another approach. Instead of
supplying the player with multiple classes, there's
just one - the magician. Customisation comes
through spell selection, of which there are a dozen
schools to peruse. Gameplay consists of casting
spells by themselves, or combining one or more
spells along with a weapon to produce unique
effects. DoM will be tailored for online play and will
feature duelling and arena components so players
can test their skills against one another. Finally, five
difficultly levels should have you coming back for
more after you finished the game.
01 course, for the Titan Ouest enthusiast,
there's Immortal Throne which, beside Sacred 2, is
the most disappointing of the lineup. The strongest I
criticism of TO came from its lack of originality with
the hack'n'slash formula, and this trend is set to
continue with the expansion. To Iron Lore's credit,
it is introducing another set of skills to customise
your character but otherwise it looks to be more
of the same.
Click to expand...

I decided to save him from the embarassment, but if he wants to bring it up, let him have it his way.

Vorak · Jul 6, 2007

I bow to your superior ninja editing skills.

DarkUnderlord · Jul 6, 2007

Yeah I was about to say, "That's funny. The news system doesn't allow for BBCode so how did that get all nicely formatted in Calis' post like that and how come the HTML he did have there is now b0rked?" but then I read Vorak's post and decided to encase it around quotes with this extra bit of text on the front and the end of it.

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