What other games complement your Dominions 3?

[Ruminant]

Originally Posted by Burnsaber

Has anyone tried out the Sam & Max adventure games? I heard that the first season or something is on Wii and I was wondering if I should grab that.

If you like adventure games, and it sounds like you do, you need to buy those games I'd pretty much have to say their my all-time favourite adventure games. Better'n Monkey Island for me. The whole two series (11 games, ranging from 2/3 to 6+ hours) are pretty cheap considering the length of time they'll take you too.

On a freer note I totally have to recommend the Adventure Game Studio website. It's a treasure trove of games hand-made by adventure game lovers, filled with games that range from better than most professional games to total trash. The award winning games are a safe bet to start off.
http://www.adventuregamestudio.co.uk/

My favourite comedic AGS adventure game is Jessica Plunkenstein and the Dusseldorf Conspiracy (as recommended by the New York Times ). I lack words for how awesomely witty/random it is.
http://www.gregames.net/games/jessica/overview/

My other favourite AGS games are the Trilby games. This series of atmospheric, Lovecraftian horror adventures are NOT for the squeamish or feint of heart. I was surprised that a game could make me actually feel uneasy, in a good way That said they are not full of gratuitous violence just for the sake of it. Well, at first it might seem a little like that but stick with it and you'll discover a truly epic horror plot that is probably my favourite horror story in any medium, and will introduce you to the greatest horror character ever . It's actually a really cerebral experience and I recommend that -anyone- who has the remotest interest in adventure games, horror themes or good storytelling to give 'em a look. Make sure to play them in this order, without reading up on the others, to get the full experience:
5 Days a Stranger
http://www.adventuregamestudio.co.uk...=detail&id=269
7 Days a Skeptic
http://www.adventuregamestudio.co.uk...=detail&id=430
Trilby's Notes
http://www.adventuregamestudio.co.uk...=detail&id=736
6 Days a Sacrifice
http://www.adventuregamestudio.co.uk...=detail&id=848

NWN2 was cool, especially doing the campaign co-op. Well, at least for my fire-resistant tiefling wizard it was. For some reason my friends objected to my unrelenting barrage of firey aoes in melee range But as long as I was left standing after the fight they would get up after a little while. Loved that death system

The expansion, Mask of the Betrayer, is better in every way except multiplayer (it has such an engaging story you want to read and carefully consider every dialogue, not so fun for people waiting on you).

[Gandalf Parker]

This thread, and the one on rogue-type games, has thrown me back into the mud. Of course it helps that besides Dom3minions.com I also host Shadowdale MUD (sdmud.org 7777).

Next maybe I will shift back to Ultima Online on the free servers which are much better than the pay servers. (yes, I host www.ShazzyShard.org)

Im also looking at the new effort by the Space Empires crowd to revitalize their PbEM server and might start hosting some of that. I never lost my love of SEIV.

Gandalf Parker
--
I was asked "Do you think playing games is a life?"
And I responded "Dont you think living life is a game?"
(and by the way, Im winning!)

[Atreidi]

Hey guys, whats new around here, its been very long. This thread grewwwww!!!!
I've been playing poxnora lately. I've also been going to the gym

[Trumanator]

Well I joined the rest of the lemmings and bought WoW. Look out for Frozenlama the Gnome Mage.

[Atreidi]

Originally Posted by Trumanator

Well I joined the rest of the lemmings and bought WoW. Look out for Frozenlama the Gnome Mage.

Oww man, You have to be STRONG!!! I've been able to succefully avoid WoW for years now. I bought it when it was first released, played for a month and quit afterwards.

[Trumanator]

Well, I have some friends who play it, and I've been looking for a decent RPG. Also, I'm getting a monthly stipend from my ROTC scholarship and have nothing to spend it on

[DonCorazon]

I have had the RPG itch of late. Was about to re-load NWN2 and see if I could get into it when I came across this German game - Drakensang. Wonder if its any good?

[Ruminant]

Originally Posted by DonCorazon

I have had the RPG itch of late. Was about to re-load NWN2 and see if I could get into it when I came across this German game - Drakensang. Wonder if its any good?

I too have recently had that most horrid of gamer-diseases, the RPG itch. Specifically the urge for a new Morrowind-esque atmospheric exploration RPG. I looked up Drakensang, it looked very promising at first until I discovered that it's really, really old-school in its style. As in, some reviewer said he fought only 6 different enemy types (mostly animals) for the first -fourty- hours. I don't really think I could stand that kind of repetitiveness.

I've started playing Arcanum through again, I didn't really get that far last time. It's more comparable to Baldur's Gate with the world map and isometric perspective than Morrowind's massive 3D countryside. The graphics aren't exactly top-notch either. However, the atmosphere is rather awesome if you like steam-punk-esque fantasy and they've put a fair amount of work into the world and its lore. If you haven't played it you might give it a try. Picture a world of magic VS technology, where half-ogres, dwarves, elves and half-orcs wear tophats, carry shotguns and ride in steam trains. You can create a mage of incomparable power, but because of the negative effect magic has on technology you have to ride in the very back of the train in a special compartment or alternatively you could create the gnomish equivilent of Nikola Tesla but none of your party's mage's healing spells are guaranteed to work on you. Or make a dashing rogue who robs banks with a pistol and metal armour ala Ned Kelly, a foppish half-elven dandy who can't do anything much on his own and relies on his way with words and cotrie of thugs or anything in between, it has quite a robust character creator (just not much difference in graphical representation).

Anyone played any comparable games to Morrowind they wouldn't hesitate to recommend?

[JimMorrison]

Originally Posted by Ruminant

I've started playing Arcanum through again, I didn't really get that far last time. It's more comparable to Baldur's Gate with the world map and isometric perspective than Morrowind's massive 3D countryside. The graphics aren't exactly top-notch either. However, the atmosphere is rather awesome if you like steam-punk-esque fantasy and they've put a fair amount of work into the world and its lore. If you haven't played it you might give it a try. Picture a world of magic VS technology, where half-ogres, dwarves, elves and half-orcs wear tophats, carry shotguns and ride in steam trains. You can create a mage of incomparable power, but because of the negative effect magic has on technology you have to ride in the very back of the train in a special compartment or alternatively you could create the gnomish equivilent of Nikola Tesla but none of your party's mage's healing spells are guaranteed to work on you. Or make a dashing rogue who robs banks with a pistol and metal armour ala Ned Kelly, a foppish half-elven dandy who can't do anything much on his own and relies on his way with words and cotrie of thugs or anything in between, it has quite a robust character creator (just not much difference in graphical representation).

I think it really needs to be stated, for the old guard who are not aware - Arcanum was done by a studio who made a bid for the Fallout IP. They didn't get it, and they chose instead to implement the majority of Fallout2's character design features, and seemingly many of the game mechanics. In my eyes their only real failing with their conversion, was that the combat is not true turn based, sometimes it's just a bit silly, really. I should get back into it, I look at the icon sometimes, and try to remember exactly what I was up to in my last save.

I tried Titan Quest. I even liked D2 (I played that damned game until I beat Baal on Hell difficulty with every class in the game, twice with Druid since Shapeshifter and Elementalist were so fundamentally different - playing D2 as an Elementalist Druid is just painful though.....) - But I felt Titan Quest missed the boat, since they didn't manage to provide randomized maps, which meant any alt, and any subsequent playthroughs lacked any real feeling of adventure. Also the final boss battle was retardedly, sadistically, mercilessly difficult, in contrast with a mostly fairly easy game. Apparently in the patch before I got ahold of it (most of my games come used ) they really buffed the end encounter, because the fight had really abusable/exploitable flaws on initial release. I give a HUGE thumbs up for their character creation though, so many skills, and so much interesting synergies..... If only there was a cool hack and slash game in there to use them in.

Oh and BTW - Et tu, Brute!

Maybe we should make an OT thread for the Brutes, for as long as they remain entertaining?

[chrispedersen]

Anyone remember Darklands (post patch however, prior to the patch it was unplayable).