Forum Overview :: Rants :: Re: why DOES Arcanum suck?

[quote name="Lizard_King"][quote name="FABIO"] It had all the ingrediants of a great RPG. Fallout in an industrial age setting with magic? Sign me up!.....ugh Was it the fact that all the main story quests were mindless Diablo hack n slash affairs (the first of which was ridiculously hard for your current level)? The fact that, in a game that blended technology and magic, you were forced to play either a pure mage or puretech character and thus could not cast flaming uzi bullets +4? The fact that despite appearances to the contrary, the character customization was a mere shadow of Fallout's? The fact that multiplayer was completely fucking broken and unplayable? I dunno[/quote] For me it all began with the fact that they managed to make graphics arguably worse than Fallout 1 or 2 with none of the charm, progressing through the "here's a big helping of go fuck yourself" interface. That and what you cite pretty much sums it up, setting aside the crap storyline that is almost a gimme in most rpgs anyway. I played Fallout 2 again afterwards just to cleanse myself. [/quote]