Decline J_C fails his Codex check...again - Betrayal at Krondor is the best RPG ever, but I'm not feeling it

[J_C]

J_C said: ↑
Reading this thread I realized how much I declined in terms of playing games. When I was younger, I played only good games. Seriously, if you had looked my game library's quality 10-12 years ago the average score would have been 90%. And I finished almost every one of them. Now, I can barely finish an average action game. Sure this has a lot to do with having a job and a girlfriend who I live with, and as a second job, playing shit games as a reviewer (I refuse to call myself a journalist). But every day I have a 1-2 hours free time, and what do I do? Surfing the net watching banal shit boring sites (including the Codex), wasting my time. And meanwhile my Steam and GOG account is choke full of amazing classics I never played or should be replayed. And I want to play them, i just can't bring myself to it.

Does anyone know what's wrong with me?

This is different. I was mainly talking about not having the time to play. Since then I gave up reviewing games and I can take my time with them. And actually the reason I try to play BaK is because I want to finish my backlog.

Also, how do you dig up things like this? :D I don't even remember where did I say that!

 

[Rhuantavan]

That said, maybe I should give BaK one more time, just take a different approach.

Oh, and also nobody ever reads the game manual. Please do.

 

[ghostdog]

Also, how do you dig up things like this? :D I don't even remember where did I say that!

A Codex Carol : Your past self just came to warn you of your decline

 

[:Flash:]

 

[DramaticPopcorn]

Combat was shit, everything else was mediocre about this game.

 

[FeelTheRads]

Wait, is there any game left that is not shit? Have we finally come full circle? Is it time to ascend?

 

[FUDU]

I think you mean descend.

 

[Absalom]

Oh, a new BaK thread just at the right time. Let me just ask this question real quick: How the hell can I kill Black Slayers (the guys that constantly re-animate) ? Is there a conventional means of killing these fuckers dead?

There is a spell you can use to instakill them, but you can also kill them all on the same turn. This is easier than you'd think it would be, since characters (And enemy) stats degrade as they lose HP. Or you can just avoid them, you don't need to fight them.

 

[hoverdog]

JC is such a faggot.


ban him and DramaticPopcorn too.

 

[Somberlain]

Some people will say it that this is great, it is so immersive that you have to make your own journal, you take notes and stuff. NO, faggot! It is not fun, it wasn't fun back in the 80s, 90s, and it is not fun now.

 

[Darth Roxor]

There is a spell you can use to instakill them, but you can also kill them all on the same turn. This is easier than you'd think it would be, since characters (And enemy) stats degrade as they lose HP. Or you can just avoid them, you don't need to fight them.

You can also cheese it by standing on their corpses to block their resurrection.

I'd love to write a detailed opinion why J_C is an idiot, but atm I can't really do it, so I'll just keep it short: J_C, you are an idiot.

 

[ERYFKRAD]

Ban J_C.

 

[Absalom]

You can also cheese it by standing on their corpses to block their resurrection.

I'd love to write a detailed opinion why J_C is an idiot, but atm I can't really do it, so I'll just keep it short: J_C, you are an idiot.

Eh really no value in taking J_C seriously at this point.

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Spoiler

Still not sure what the actual betrayal was. It was that wizard guy right? I'm always hazy on actual details.

Spoiler

That's one way to look at it. But since the story is about Gorath, you could also take it to mean his betrayal.

 

[Haba]

Yeah. yeah yeah.

J_C fails at a game I had no problems with as a kid. While I was still learning English.

 

[IncendiaryDevice]

J_C fails his Codex check ...again - Betrayal at Krondor is not fun

Staff at codex fail their freedom of expression check ...again - talking honestly is not fun

 

[hoverdog]

J_C fails his Codex check ...again - Betrayal at Krondor is not fun

Staff at codex fail their freedom of expression check ...again - talking honestly is not fun

 

[IncendiaryDevice]

Because someone who has to change a thread title in order to "win" a debate isn't the one...

 

[FeelTheRads]

What was the original title? Why don't all games have a quest compass?

 

[IncendiaryDevice]

I don't give a shit really, I was just showing how the real butthurt and fanboyism is from the devs...

 

[Absalom]

I don't give a shit really

 

[Siveon]

Spoiler

That's one way to look at it. But since the story is about Gorath, you could also take it to mean his betrayal.

Spoiler

Never thought about it like that, actually. I always figured the betrayal was going to be something outright negative.

 

[Infinitron]

The thread title has not been changed.

 

[IncendiaryDevice]

Oh no... someone's saying something mildy negative and disagreeing with me about a game I like...

 

[J_C]

It was not changed.

Also, if only I had a dollar each time someone wants me banned. I could buy the Star Wars collection on GOG.

Funny thing is, everything I have written is objective facts about the game. The movement is a chore, there is no journal and some of the mechanics are not documented well, even in the manual.

Now if somebody can overcome these problem and don't care them is another thing. They might not even notice it. It is like when 80% of the Codex can't control a 3D camera in the game, and wines about them in Obsidian (and other) games. And I don't get what are they talking about, because to me, controlling a 3D camera is 2nd nature.

 

[ERYFKRAD]

Also Gorath is the only cool elf. Rest are fagets.