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Game News Avadon: The Black Fortress Revealed

Tails

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Fowyr said:
Vogel's games decline so much in so many areas after Exiles.
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How so?
 

Aikanaro

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Eeeeh - it looks a bit uninspiring. Geneforge has a very unique setting, but this seems like bog-standard fantasy.
 
Fowyr

Fowyr

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mondblut said:
Fowyr said:
By the way, last version Disciples of Steel was 1.013?
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Appears so, yes.
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Found my old disc with 1.001, patched, cracked and currently playing it. Oh YEEES! Fuck Eschalon 2.
 

Severian Silk

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Regarding the ugliness of the Avernum/Geneforge graphics: I think the original portraits somehow got "squashed" between the time they left the artist's hands and the time Jeff got them. Compare the images below:

avernum_portrait_original.png
avernum_portrait_stretched.png


At left is an example of one of the original portraits as they appear in AV5; at right is a version I stretched vertically a tad in a graphics program. At least to me the stretched version looks marginally better.

If this is in fact the case, I don't see how nobody noticed/commented upon it before now. :shrug:
 
mondblut

mondblut

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The one to the right is too sexually objectified :smug:

Perhaps the artist worked on an old dos machine with 640x400 VESA video at 8:5 aspect ratio? ;) Could be still, back in 97.
 

Severian Silk

Guest
If you're right, then it should be a cinch to determine the correct re-scaling amount. Will try and figure out the math later.
 
Awor Szurkrarz

Awor Szurkrarz

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I felt that the female characters in Avernum are too sexualized and that these games don't have enough sex and rape to justify it.
It's just trying to manipulate the audience.
 
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