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Post by Doomy on Jun 13, 2009 11:20:18 GMT -5
Some nice recommendations there. I'll need to look into Wizardry. Has anyone tried it on Vista?
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Post by Balgin Stondraeg on Jun 13, 2009 16:24:50 GMT -5
I've considered The Witcher myself. If it controlls similarly to Summoner, that's a shame The Witcher uses SUmmoner's "click in time to pull off combo's" thing for combat. However, it's got better on screen prompts but no character skill that increases, or decreases, the margins of success or error. However, when you use speed potions you don't speed up. Everything else goes into slow motion and it becomes easier to pull off combo's. Also there's in combat controls for dodging atatcks (short moves turn into dodges) and, if you do it right, dodges can turn into jumps over people's heads (and out of that annoying ring of blades and right in behind them).
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Post by Samildanach on Jun 15, 2009 8:49:37 GMT -5
I'm tempted to recommend Fantasy Wars and Elven Legacy I looked these up, and they sound fun for someone like me who has minimal turn-based strategy experience. I'm put off Elven Legacy, though, by Gamespot's comments that the tutorial is completely broken. Meh, we'll see.
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Post by Balgin Stondraeg on Jun 16, 2009 9:42:17 GMT -5
I'm tempted to recommend Fantasy Wars and Elven Legacy I looked these up, and they sound fun for someone like me who has minimal turn-based strategy experience. I'm put off Elven Legacy, though, by Gamespot's comments that the tutorial is completely broken. Meh, we'll see. Well Elven Legacy is just Fanatsy Wars 2. You shouldn't be put off if the tutorial's broken. You should be put off by the fact that it's advertised as having 3 campaigns (or more) and it only has 1. even Fantasy Wars had 3 campaigns (and you could see them all prior to unlocking them whereas in Elven Legacy you have to pick a campaign from a list of 1 and the elves are almost as evil and unsympathetic as the "heroic" arrogant genocidal elves people were forced to play in one of the Disciples expansion packs that only got released in america and had inferior voice overs too).
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Post by Samildanach on Jun 16, 2009 15:53:22 GMT -5
You should be put off by the fact that it's advertised as having 3 campaigns (or more) and it only has 1. Could this be what the advertising is referring to? (from Gamespot): "There are 18 campaign missions, including bonus missions, but you won't get to play all of them in a single campaign because you have to choose your route to the final objective." That's a bit of a cop-out really, but standard word-fiddling for advertising purposes. The reason I say it's the allegedly broken tutorial that puts me off is because I have very little strategy experience, so I need something to show me what I'm doing. According to the Gamespot review, Elven Legacy's tutorial misses out great tracts of information and switches spasmodically between English and Russian, so it's all but useless. In any case, the review of Fantasy Wars suggests that game is probably a better proposition.
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Post by zipp on Jun 16, 2009 20:44:47 GMT -5
I've considered The Witcher myself. If it controlls similarly to Summoner, that's a shame The Witcher uses SUmmoner's "click in time to pull off combo's" thing for combat. However, it's got better on screen prompts but no character skill that increases, or decreases, the margins of success or error. However, when you use speed potions you don't speed up. Everything else goes into slow motion and it becomes easier to pull off combo's. Also there's in combat controls for dodging atatcks (short moves turn into dodges) and, if you do it right, dodges can turn into jumps over people's heads (and out of that annoying ring of blades and right in behind them). Yahtzee does a GREAT review of The Witcher: www.escapistmagazine.com/videos/view/zero-punctuation/22-The-Witcher
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Post by Balgin Stondraeg on Jun 17, 2009 8:57:14 GMT -5
Could this be what the advertising is referring to? (from Gamespot) There are 18 campaign missions, including bonus missions, but you won't get to play all of them in a single campaign because you have to choose your route to the final objective. No. It goes something like this: sometimes you complete a mission and your next one is a choice of two. They both lead to the same place afterwards but play differently. If you can get the gold victory medal in either of these you get a bonus mission (normaly historical events related to the storyline of the first game and using a one off army instead of your campaign army). They're exactly the same game. Elven Legacy simply has more elven units, more multiplayer scenario's (Fantasy Wars only had about 5 and a major bug that prevented IP addresses from connecting to each other - and a patch to fix that, which didn't). Elven Legacy also has less sympathetic protagonists.
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