Wayward Son
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IV is non-ironically my favorite FF. Followed closely by the first one.
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Is there any game that you guys DON'T hate?
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Your computer can't run them and you are just bitter.
Zeriel
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You're ignoring the most likely possibility: he is dead, and hence can no longer post. If I ever stop posting on the Codex, it's because I'm six feet under.
Remember, you're here forever.
Didn't the Codex always consist of Infinity Engine fanboys, to a considerable extent? Of course, the 2002 Codex did have enough sense to pick Morrowind as its 2nd-best RPG of the Year, behind only Geneforge.Evidence that many early Codexers rejected Biowarean decline.
Original, virginal Codex was composed of Arcanum fans, mostly. One of the big and early exoduses to Codex was when Sierra shut down its forums and IGN shut down the VN Arcanum forums. I was a VN Arcanum transplant myself, and if you knew my VN Arcanum username you could find my first account on here. Arcanum fans were basically Troika/Fallout fans, so it makes sense. One of the first holy wars was over whether BG was a shit adventure game, or a fun sort-of RPG. I don't think very many people ever thought it was perfect, though. I joined in 2002, but I can't remember whether the BG holy wars predated the great battle between the Cave Troll Volourn and the brave knights of Grognardia over the release of NWN, or whether the BG holy wars were a past-time we engaged in afterwards in the wastelands of despair wrought by NWN.
There is a refreshing vigor to early posts on the Codex. People still cared. Witness this manifesto by a young philosopher known only as Metalwyrm:
SERIOUSLY wrong
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IV is great, no joke. Probably my favorite, depending on the version. (Not Easytype, not DS one or the ones based on it.)
gaussgunner
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oldmanpaco
Master of Siestas
Starflight was the last RPG I truly respected.
I'm Big Into Anal
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JA2 and Underrail are probably the least complained about games here.
All the other classics are worshiped here but even they arent immune to some form of fundamental flaw, eg: fallout, torment, witcher et al have shite combat or some other sand that gets into the codex's collective vagina.
All the other classics are worshiped here but even they arent immune to some form of fundamental flaw, eg: fallout, torment, witcher et al have shite combat or some other sand that gets into the codex's collective vagina.
The Witcher series is crap.
The first one was a struggle against tedium until I gave up towards the end. The second was a bewildering mess until I gave up after about two hours. Only played three for long enough to prove I could get it to work under Wine, but I don't utterly hate it yet.
Prime Junta
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I thought 3 was the weakest of the bunch actually. Some very good bits but too much filler.
Burning Bridges
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The oldest thing I remember here was a bit of hype over "The Fall - the Last Days of Gaya". So considering how much this sucked the Codexers of old were not totally immune to dumbfuckery either.
I can not remember what exactly they were discussing at the time except that it was often funny because of the lack of word filters. After lurking for 2 years I kind of fled here because my freedom of expression was increasingly stymied everywhere else, and when the new batch of consolified games came out in 2006 most communities I had been to split in half.
That was the end of the great era of PC gaming basically. I also guess that many of the people I had been with before quit gaming at this time, and it would have been better to do just that; but here I am
I can not remember what exactly they were discussing at the time except that it was often funny because of the lack of word filters. After lurking for 2 years I kind of fled here because my freedom of expression was increasingly stymied everywhere else, and when the new batch of consolified games came out in 2006 most communities I had been to split in half.
That was the end of the great era of PC gaming basically. I also guess that many of the people I had been with before quit gaming at this time, and it would have been better to do just that; but here I am
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I don't really get this meme. You think the entire Might & Magic series, Fallout 1&2, Disciples of Steel, Death knights of Krynn, Dark Sun : Shattered Lands, Blade of destiny, Quest for glory 1&4, Legend of Faerghail, ... are all shit?
Mustawd
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He probably means the modern equivalent. Which are indeed just huge sandboxes filled with MMO-like content.
Zeriel
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Might and Magic, Wizardry, etc, aren't open world games. They are "RPGs". Back then we just made massive RPGs chockful of meaningful content without worrying about assurances that "that's totally impossible man, if you want lots of content it has to be filler". Now they make large games with no content. "Open world game" is a modern marketing term for a specific type of game that could not be more different from Might & Magic if it tried.
Its quite clever how simple the dialog interactions between the player and creatures are, and yet it is written so well it keeps you interested. A good game.
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Yeah. Gameplay free larp garbage. Self masturbatory number growers. Idiotic stories for nerdy manchildren. Utter fucking garbage.
Burning Bridges
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Though this isn't a problem of open world games but how they are made.
Take a world the size of Arma III and fill it with real, persistent, manipulable objects and emergent gameplay, and people would play this for the next 100 years. But instead it's much cheaper to cut corners with Potemkin villages where you are not doing anything, just walking around like a visitor in a museum. For totally incomprehensible reasons, people don't look through this and play these games (GTA5, Witcher3) like a religion.
It must be said some good games like Mafia were also culprits in this respect, and deserve the same criticism. The new Vavra game Kingdom Come Deliverance goes down that same rabbit hole, in which you have an open world with great attention to detail but get cockblocked when you cannot even pick up a fucking apple or an egg.
And don't tell me it is because of technology because that's a joke. The possibilites with today's hardware are almost limitless and all this was already done better in Ultima VII with 4-8 Megabyte RAM.
This was also why I enjoyed Morrowind a lot. although it was a shitty game in a completely retarded world, it gave a little glimpse of what a real simulationist persistent world could entail, technologically about halfway between 386 that Ultima VII used and the 4000 Mhz CPUs of today.
Take a world the size of Arma III and fill it with real, persistent, manipulable objects and emergent gameplay, and people would play this for the next 100 years. But instead it's much cheaper to cut corners with Potemkin villages where you are not doing anything, just walking around like a visitor in a museum. For totally incomprehensible reasons, people don't look through this and play these games (GTA5, Witcher3) like a religion.
It must be said some good games like Mafia were also culprits in this respect, and deserve the same criticism. The new Vavra game Kingdom Come Deliverance goes down that same rabbit hole, in which you have an open world with great attention to detail but get cockblocked when you cannot even pick up a fucking apple or an egg.
And don't tell me it is because of technology because that's a joke. The possibilites with today's hardware are almost limitless and all this was already done better in Ultima VII with 4-8 Megabyte RAM.
This was also why I enjoyed Morrowind a lot. although it was a shitty game in a completely retarded world, it gave a little glimpse of what a real simulationist persistent world could entail, technologically about halfway between 386 that Ultima VII used and the 4000 Mhz CPUs of today.
I think when codex talks about "open world games" they mean "open world games" as the mainstream knows it... Free-roaming games that began with GTA 3...
fantadomat
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I dare say that i speak from everyone on the codex when i say:We fucking love a survival "rpg" with a lot of crafting,that is in early access and is made in unity!
Krivol
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I can't hate Grimmoire... No, really, I cant't.
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Zeriel
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