Comments | maffyew: Eschalon: Book I

maffyew

Eschalon: Book I

Nov 19, 2007 11:17

Eschalon: Book I is a classic role-playing game experience that will take you across massive outdoor environments and deep into sprawling dungeons as you seek to uncover the mystery of who - or what - you are.
A tile-built, turn-based game world where the result of absolutely every action is rolled, calculated or statistically ( Read more... )

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sithmagician November 19 2007, 06:50:46 UTC

Hmm, tempting!

I'm currently replaying Warcraft 3, because I never played Frozen Throne and I'd like to before Wrath of the Lich King. Also, the expansion for never Winter nights 2 has my attention.

As well as playing the amount of WoW I do, this game would require me to quit sleeping.

Still, tempting.

maffyew November 22 2007, 11:16:28 UTC

I bought it, and then forgot that Mass Effect (the new 360 RPG by Bioware, the makers of the original Knights of the Old Republic XBox/PC game) also came out this week.

This one's going to be gathering dust for a while.

alex_adventures January 2 2008, 21:16:47 UTC

Did you ever end up playing this? I did, and I declare it broken. Loot is just too rare. Monsters don't drop anything, ever. Not even human enemies! They all explode. This means that there's finite loot in the gameworld, and that finite amount is way too small to play with. Invest wrong, fail to minimax, and you're screwed. Restoring a save from before a boss fight I can deal with, but before I stock up on potions and buy the next level of armour just in case I spend my treasured gold pieces on the wrong thing? No thank you.

I think I'll just replay Baldur's Gate II again.

maffyew January 4 2008, 10:09:52 UTC

I can't stand Minmaxing to the degree that this game takes it. The "choices" aren't rich enough to make up for an underlying engine that's essentially broken in terms of fun, for me.

I'd rather make tactical decisions during combat, as opposed to having to plan my character out on paper before I even start playing. This is why I haven't been able to get into the D&D games based on the more recent editions - I'm interested in discovering as I go, not having to plan from level 1 where I want to be at level 20.