It's massive in content such as character creation and progression, world, characters, quests, etc. Music is phenomenal you'll never get enough of it or ever get tired or it, the main menu music is ah, so good, too good. Gameplay is fun and interesting, from talking, to exploring, to fighting (in real time mode), many races, skills, traits, technologies, magics, weapons and armour to learn and yield, great journal that keeps track of quests, events, stats, kills, curses and blessings, etc. Good sound effects, not alot of voice acting but what voices you'll hear are very, very great and well done like Virgil's voice you'll hear from the start. Entire game looks beautifull and superbly well done, atmosphere is fantastic, cutscenes are great and so classic, random encounters when you travel, day night cycles, very smart AI with intelligent shopkeepers, many quests with many ways to complete or fail them, basically game of the year from long long ago, you'll do yourself a favour to buy this, I can't recommend it enough, you gotta play Arcanum.
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you'll do yourself a favour to buy this, I can't recommend it enough, you gotta play Arcanum
I have come to the same conclusion myself! :D
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Hehe, generally I like to say I am a very patient man with a short temper :P
But that doesn't apply to games. The game has to be pretty bad and offer equal to nothing for me to get pissed off by the bugs and whatnot... :)
Thanks for the fair warning though! :)
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It's a joke, because it is a contradiction. Since I tend to get pissed off in a second by, let's say - sheer and utter stupidity and ignorance, on the other hand I won't get pissed off by someone who does not know how to do something but is eager to learn; so I can teach, no problem.
Hope? In that case, I am sure I shall live up to your hopes.
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A little cheese though: your name matters in the game, at least in one case for sure. The treasure chest in the first area can have gems worth a couple hundred gold, or can contain an enchanted heavy armor worth way or (or may be usable for you as well) - if you'd play multiple characters, pick different names, as the same name always will give same loot.
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Hahahahahhhaha, you, sir, certainly took it to the next level! :) That's great! :D
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Well every quest offers you at least 5-7 ways to solve it. And I'm not even talking about main quest line. To avoid spoiling, I'll say one "vague" example that is part of the main quest line - you enter a place (there's more ways than one to enter, to start with) and there's thing happening. Situation change not only based on your rush to fight / discuss then fight / discuss and blackmail decision, but also on who you have with you (regarding NPC) and what skills you have (you can kill enemies then summon their spirit and torture it until they tell you what you wanna know... sadly, does not work all the time). What's more, half of the interactions in game change based on just one NPC being or not being with you all the time (and it ranges from various people not willing to talk to you at all or even attacking you on sight to the very same characters being very helpful and even giving you free items you'd have to steal/buy/gamble for otherwise).
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Whoa! That, I must say, sounds absolutely GREAT!
I love that type of approach, where not only I matter, but my company as well!
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Well you can become a strong summoner before you even leave Shrouded Hills and let your 2x Ogre Berserker deal with troubles next to the bridge for you... and for the rest of the game. Or you can transform into water elemental. Or bribe enemies. Or destroy some supplies for them. Or lie to them that you went to the same college. Depends on your stats too. Or what you did before - if you saved the bank they won't believe you, but then if you robbed it... citizens won't.
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Regarding about citizens - I think once I attacked someone by accident, guard came, had to kill everyone. I got the title of something like murderer of Shrouded Hills, got immediately hated by max negative reaction - and as every npc in the area counts as a villager.... angry chickens started to assault me :D I was amazed
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Phahahahhaa xD damn those chickens attacking you in a group! You've played Angry birds before it was cool :D
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For first playthough, while playing without any rebalance mods, I'd suggest playing as mage and cast Disintegrate of every enemy, every closed door and everything that pisses you off.
That will make game very, very, VERY easy, so you'll be able to appreciate story.
There's no saving throws against it, you can only cast reflective shield spell that will make Disintegrate affect caster, not target, and it deals enough damage to kill everyone with one shot. It is expensive to spam against level 1 mobs, but if there's boss who you can't kill normally? Disintegrate. Doors you can't unlock? Disintegrate. Some random NPC who wears shirt in color you hate? Disintegrate.
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Disintegrate is a 5th level spell though, so you need a lot of points to unlock it, which means you will need to grind levels without your only really useful weapon. Followers get you so far…
If I want to tell a newcomer to have it easy, I advise thrown weapons with high agility. Thrown weapons never break, they have an insanely high hit rate, often higher ranges than bows and guns, and they cost 2-3 AP instead of 5-8. I have soloed the game with the starting boomerang once, it is that broken.
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Yes, PE influences hit chance, and no, backstab only works with daggers (or with swords on advanced training) and when you are standing on a neighbouring tile, so it pretty much needs advanced prowling to even be feasible. (Also, as I found out once, half of the enemies are immune to backstab or have perception that makes sneaking with anything but master level impossible anyway…)
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Weird, I seem to remember backstabbing with an axe in my backstab playthrough, but maybe it was just an enchanted sword. I found backstab to be pretty OP though, early in the game you can just stun enemies for free backstab chains and later on with maxed prowling nothing could stop nor see me, not even the final boss (he died in like 2 backstabs). The only part I remember struggling with combat was the dwarven mine, but that part's annoying with pretty much any character.
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If I made a backstab character, it would probably be a mechanical one to make as many stun grenades as possible. Any incapacitated status drops their awareness, and it doesn't need to wait until you finally manage to do the master prowl quest (to be frank, I hate that quest, like most any "run around from point A to B to C to D and back to point A again" type ones).
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You certainly justify your nickname, don't you? :D :P
I dunno, I usually like to play everything on the highest difficulty... So I don't really mind the grind
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I don't own the game on Steam so I can't vote in your poll, but I will tell you that I really enjoyed the game multiple times back in the day.
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Yeah, sorry 'bout that - first time making a thread, first time making a poll here xD Didn't know it had an ownership requirement till it was too late...
Thanks for the feedback :) Appreciate it! :)
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As the title says, never played the game, but heard many, many great things about it. Feel free to express your opinion about the game and tell me what did it remind you of, or what you did/did not like in the game. :)
A BIG, FAT EDIT (hopes no one's mom/wife is called Edit): I'VE BOUGHT ARCANUM!!!!! YEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEY!!!!!!!!!!!
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