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Avernum or Avadon?

sea

inXile Entertainment
Developer
Joined
May 3, 2011
Messages
5,698
One thing that really bothers me about this game: the goddamn boss fights. Sorry, Jeff, "bosses summon lots of enemies to buttrape you if you kill them too fast" is just fucking cheap. Seriously, it's actually a better strategy to avoid attacking and just wait for them to summon their trash mobs before you actually attack. I cannot believe how fucking moronic this encounter design is at times.

Bonus points if the boss fight has an obvious source of spawning enemies (slime puddles = slimes) but you can't do anything about it before the fight. Sometimes the game even mentions "those sure look dangerous!" just to rub it in your dumb fucking face.
 

Raghar

Arcane
Vatnik
Joined
Jul 16, 2009
Messages
22,499
One thing that really bothers me about this game: the goddamn boss fights. Sorry, Jeff, "bosses summon lots of enemies to buttrape you if you kill them too fast" is just fucking cheap. Seriously, it's actually a better strategy to avoid attacking and just wait for them to summon their trash mobs before you actually attack. I cannot believe how fucking moronic this encounter design is at times.

Have you played DnD game? Contingency HP < 1/2 of max. Summon loads of monsters and activate protective spells. Or even better shadow gate.
 

ohWOW

Sucking on dicks and being proud of it
Dumbfuck Queued
Joined
Nov 15, 2011
Messages
2,449
I bought Avernum 4,5,6 long time ago for little potato at some sale. Didn't bother to play it yet.
Convince me and tell is it good or shit and why.


I hated Avadon.
 

Kem0sabe

Arcane
Joined
Mar 7, 2011
Messages
13,076
Location
Azores Islands
Finished Geneforge 5 a couple of days ago and having played both Avadon and Avernum, both of which i enjoyed, Geneforge was the better game overall, better story, better combat, better C&C and an unique world.
 

Xavier0889

Learned
Joined
Nov 30, 2012
Messages
318
The Avernum remake is boring to death. It's easier and I don't really feel that I'm progressing that much. Then again, Exile was better than the original Avernum.
But I must agree that pokemon digimon Geneforge is prob. the best Spiderweb game.
 

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