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Re: I hate Arcanum, but why? by Senor Barborito 01/04/2005, 4:30am PST
FABIO wrote:

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 potentially 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?

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 Creexul :( 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 motherfuckers. Fat sweaty pederast fucks I could crush like eggshells in rage. RRRRRGGGGHHHHH I HATE HATE FUCKING HATE ARCANUM.
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review reques: the new pirates! game by FABIO 01/02/2005, 5:16pm PST NEW
    Re: review reques: the new pirates! game by Lizard_King 01/02/2005, 6:13pm PST NEW
    Did the same mongoloids who made Civ 3 make this? NT by Mischief Maker 01/03/2005, 5:21pm PST NEW
        hey, PC Gamer awarded Civ 3 best turn based strategy game of the 2001! by FABIO 01/03/2005, 5:34pm PST NEW
            I just want to say: I viscerally despised Arcanum. by Senor Barborito 01/03/2005, 7:04pm PST NEW
                Kabuke is imitating SB now? NT by FABIO 01/03/2005, 9:16pm PST NEW
                    Fucking Arcanum, fucking Kohan by curst 01/03/2005, 11:33pm PST NEW
                        Re: Fucking Arcanum, fucking Kohan by Kab(uke) Seme 01/04/2005, 1:11am PST NEW
                        I hate Arcanum, but why? by FABIO 01/04/2005, 1:46am PST NEW
                            Re: I hate Arcanum, but why? by Senor Barborito 01/04/2005, 4:30am PST NEW
                                Arcanum came out way past OMM's demise. NT by what's wrong with you? 01/04/2005, 4:37am PST NEW
                                    Rage makes me dumb? by Senor Barborito 01/04/2005, 4:41am PST NEW
                                        You're mad over rape NT by How...effeminate 01/04/2005, 9:11am PST NEW
                                            Re: You're mad over rape by Senor Barborito 01/04/2005, 11:17am PST NEW
                                                Re: You're mad over rape by Souffle 01/04/2005, 11:40am PST NEW
                                                    Re: You're mad over rape by Senor Barborito 01/04/2005, 12:35pm PST NEW
                                                    Are you a streamlined Souffle of Pain or someone else with the same shitty taste NT by in nicks? 01/04/2005, 3:07pm PST NEW
                                                        You two come strokes leave me the fuck out of this NT by Souffle of Pain 01/04/2005, 11:23pm PST NEW
                                                            Come Strokes. Forever Gay is you. NT by Casserole of Torment DARR! 01/05/2005, 12:18am PST NEW
                                                                Re: Come Strokes. Forever Gay is you. by Souffle of Pain 01/05/2005, 12:32am PST NEW
                                                                    Re: Come Strokes. Forever Gay is you. by Casserole of Torment HURR HURR HURR 01/05/2005, 12:38am PST NEW
                                                                        Re: Come Strokes. Forever Gay is you. by Bill Dungsroman 01/05/2005, 12:09pm PST NEW
                                    No, it didn't by FABIO 01/05/2005, 3:17am PST NEW
                                        Seconded. by Bill Dungsroman 01/05/2005, 12:21pm PST NEW
                                            Re: Seconded. by Shredder 01/05/2005, 12:58pm PST NEW
                                                Re: Seconded. by Bill Dungsroman 01/06/2005, 12:01am PST NEW
                        Qt3 is on crack by Mysterio 01/04/2005, 7:14am PST NEW
                            Hear that Bill? The Sims 2 is a much better game than Half Life 2... by Those YOU LEFT BEHIND. 01/04/2005, 8:54am PST NEW
                                Re: Hear that Bill? The Sims 2 is a much better game than Half Life 2... by Bill Dungsroman 01/04/2005, 2:05pm PST NEW
                                    Re: Hear that Bill? The Sims 2 is a much better game than Half Life 2... by Creexul ;) 01/04/2005, 2:15pm PST NEW
                            You must be the slow one. NT by Bill Dungsroman 01/04/2005, 12:09pm PST NEW
                            Eve of Destruction is HORRIBLE NT by FABIO 01/04/2005, 2:10pm PST NEW
                    Har, har, har. by Kab(uke) Seme 01/04/2005, 12:49am PST NEW
                        Re: Har, har, har. by Mischief Maker 01/04/2005, 11:32am PST NEW
                            Re: Har, har, har. by Kab(uke) Seme 01/04/2005, 11:57am PST NEW
                                I think it might be because computer games are basically free I guess? NT by Kthor 01/04/2005, 12:47pm PST NEW
                                Then why ask for a review? by Kab(uke) Seme 01/04/2005, 1:28pm PST NEW
                                Re: Har, har, har. by Mischief Maker 01/04/2005, 1:31pm PST NEW
                                    INC does the intentionally obtuse far better. by Kab(uke) Seme 01/04/2005, 2:31pm PST NEW
                                        Re: INC does the intentionally obtuse far better. by Souffle of Pain 01/05/2005, 12:35am PST NEW
                                            Re: INC does the intentionally obtuse far better. by Kab(uke) Seme 01/05/2005, 2:13am PST NEW
                                            Re: INC does the intentionally obtuse far better. by Bill Dungsroman 01/06/2005, 12:02am PST NEW
                                        Re: INC does the intentionally obtuse far better. by FABIO 01/05/2005, 3:07am PST NEW
                                            Re: INC does the intentionally obtuse far better. by Kab(uke) Seme 01/05/2005, 3:17am PST NEW
                                What's your problem exactly? Detailed timeline for drama queens by FABIO 01/04/2005, 2:23pm PST NEW
                                    Re: What's your problem exactly? Detailed timeline for drama queens by Kab(uke) Seme 01/04/2005, 4:25pm PST NEW
            my favorite quote by FABIO 01/04/2005, 1:49am PST NEW
                Re: my favorite quote by Bill Dungsroman 01/04/2005, 12:09pm PST NEW
 
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