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[changeling]

I've installed and played Arcanum...

...and I'm already dead. Like, within half an hour or so. Feh. I think this is a strong hint to a) buy more bullets, b) choose a better second weapon and c) put a point into healing spells/tech.

I like it so far, though. It's reminding me of Diablo. I'm finding it a little hard to navigate so far, and considering I've read more of the manual than usual (ie, some of it), that doesn't seem right. So, I can go back to the game tomorrow and keep dying until I master the basics, or I can actually read the manual.

Choices, choices.

Comments

IMHO...

[seekeroftheway.livejournal.com]

...Arcanum rocks. But do remember to specialize instead of crossing over too much.

For example, if you do want to blast things, play a dwarven gunsmith and make sure you buy or fashion enough bullets to last you an adventure.

How far've you gotten?

/Tias

Re: IMHO...

[delirieuse.livejournal.com]

I didn't say it didn't.

And I didn't get very far, as I said before.

[gadge.livejournal.com]

The most useful thing you can do in Arcanum is to get healing tech; even if you want to be all magical, it's only a little science and it can save you.

Also, make sure to turn combat into turn-based rather than letting it happen in front of you to a degree where all of a sudden a sick wolf has killed you.

And guns are nice ... but not nearly as useful as a sword, because of the whole hit'n'miss thing.

Still, I loved Arcanum, and hope you enjoy it.

[delirieuse.livejournal.com]

I actually wanted my character to be technologically based, I decided. And I didn't realise you could change it to turn based until I read the manual after I died. Well done me.

I had a gun, but I also had a dagger as backup. Next time I'll have a sword as backup, I think.

I'm sure I will!

[davidcook.livejournal.com]

Manuals are overrated, I'm sure :)

I got Arcanum a while ago, but barely played it - I'd just finished a Baldur's Gate binge, and got PlaneScape:Torment and Arcanum thinking that I wanted more of something similar. As it turned out, I played about 2 hours of each, then played lots of first-person stuff (Quake IIIA, Half-Life, and then ... Morrowind. Boy did that cost me some late nights ... ). And then, three weeks ago or so, as if a switch flipped over, I got a suddent urge to stop my latest Morrowind game, download updated BG II mods (and maybe some new ones), and start a new game. Then, after playing that party a bit I decided to load my old not-quite-solo game (it was intended to be as much soloing as possible, but I picked up Aerie right at the start, and she's still there, and now so are a couple of others ... Oh well, party of 4 is almost soloing, right ?).

Errr, anyway, Arcanum seems neat, and I'm sure I'll make time for it one day :)

[delirieuse.livejournal.com]

Yeah, they really, really are. Online walkthroughs are almost as useless, when it comes to working some things out (namely things that for some reason people think are *obvious*, when they're really not).

I've only played a little Baldur's Gate on a friends console-that-wasn't-his-xbox, myself. As in, only one session. We're on about the second quest, I think. And I haven't played PlanetScape at all, though I have a feeling he owns that one too. I really suck at FPS on PCs--after my startling proficiency with Halo I have decided that I can clearly only play FPS on consoles. I can never remember where all the keys are, so I get my arse handed to me on a platter.

Luckily, I haven't become too obsessed with Morrowind yet--my computer only runs it passably, and after I got killed in the windmill and then got lost in some rocky pass, I got distracted by other things. It helped that each time the game loaded the next section it took several minutes. Give me Diablo II any day. ;)

(Gods, I haven't even finished the third level of Diablo. That reminds me...)

I haven't played too many games, because my money tends to be spent on graphic novels or comics or books. And I'm currently unemployed...