Forum Overview :: Reviews :: Re: I hate Arcanum, but why?

[quote name="Senor Barborito"][quote name="FABIO"]I mean objectively it mirrors Fallout in a lot of ways, and I draw a lot of blanks wondering why it's on the polar opposite end of the fun spectrum. The character creation that appears super deep but is actually shallow as hell? The forcing you into one niche role since magic and technology cancel each other out (so it ends up being either a piss poor Fallout clone with guns or shitty Diablo clone with swords/spells)? Using the same attack spell over and over again? Getting some of the best weapons and armor in the game right away (fire ax, air sword, mechanized platemail) and not having any new loot to look foward to? Waste of time random encounters? Pointless, confusing, and ugly wilderness screens that you could <b>potentially</b> use to travel between towns instead of the fast travel map? Story dungeons taken straight out of Diablo with no alternate non-combat solutions? Said story dungeons being ridiculously fucking hard for that point in the game (fucking ore golems for the very first dungeon?)? Said story dungeons completely fucking you over if you didn't go with a combat character? Agonizingly slow power advancement that discouraged diversity? Running slow and jerky? Multiplayer consisting of a single broken and buggy scenario (that hits you with deadly poison attacks right away with no means of curing them)? Which was it?[/quote] I didn't notice any of those gameplay flaws because I'm so good at games I can even compensate for bad design. I just got shut down completely at the point where there is an OGRE RAPE subplot that you can't ever "win." You can learn about it, you can even VISIT THE FUCKING OGRE RAPE PENS where giant ogres brutally rape and impregnate human females to create slaves for gnomes or whatever, but you can never bring those involved to justice even though you can save/destroy the world. IIRC nobody even believes you if you try to talk to them about it, even though you had the option to talk to people about it. WTF? You're even set up to have your evidence destroyed or something. I thought that was disgusting, creepy, sad, and sick. It made me stop playing the game as soon as I had methodically gone through every game area and killed every gnome, and never returned, and get this: when I first brought that shit up at OMM, jeep was like "what's the big fucking deal? How is that a game-stopping flaw?" and out of everyone only <b>Creexul :(</b> got why that would suck so much. I think Barbie posted about how it was an exciting development in gameplay, an unsolveable rape subplot. HOW NOVEL, HOW REALISTIC. I mean jesus fucking christ, even thinking about it now, years later, I still get so fucking pissed about that. I'm just unbelieveably pissed that I played so much of that game. I'm so fucking pissed that I paid money for it. I paid money to see ogre rape pens. I paid money to unsolveable ogre rape pen constructors to play their sneak rape game. Those sick mother<b>fuckers</b>. Fat sweaty pederast fucks I could crush like eggshells in rage. RRRRRGGGGHHHHH I HATE HATE FUCKING HATE ARCANUM.[/quote]