thoughts on arcanum its premise and general - /vrpg/

Anonymous10/12/26, 21:49No.4128636

Thoughts on Arcanum? Its premise and general uniqueness appeal to me, how well is the execution in your opinion? I'm also interested in something with a fair amount of content: does Arcanum deliver in that regard?

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Anon10/12/26, 22:23No.4128668

Only dead people and Eastern Europeans play this kind of game. The rest of us just watched sseth's review, bought it, and realized it's shit.

Anon10/12/26, 22:41No.4128678

It's really just fucking terrible all around. Everybody is praising exactly one quest line and the fact that you can tell the end boss to just die lole.

Anon10/12/26, 23:01No.4128690

I had fun with it as a kid I tried reinstalling it recently and I uninstalled after the first fight with the wolves at the crash site Just didn’t age gracefully at all

Anon10/13/26, 01:41No.4128830

Install the unofficial patch from here, the game is super broken otherwise, it's just like VtMB: https://terra-arcanum.com/drog/uap.htmlThat said, it's the same style of CRPG as Fallout 1/2 (especially 2), a big world with a meh main quest but lots of sidequests that you can tackle in different ways depending on your build. Don't follow any guides, just experiment, you can't mess up, even if you kill all the story critical NPC's there will still be a way to progress the story.

Anon10/13/26, 02:12No.4128868

It's carried by the setting and playstyle variety. The story and characters are just okay, and the combat is either a very basic turn based punching, or a bad Diablo clone.

Anon10/13/26, 02:15No.4128872

The eternal Gnome must be destroyed before more breeding experiments are conducted.

Anon10/13/26, 02:23No.4128878

I might be alone to say that Arcanum is my favorite CRPG>sandbox type gameplay that allows you full freedom to do what you want >can go full melee, full tech, full magick, or a mix of the 3 >can be stealthy or charming >i don't recall NPCs being important so you can kill pretty much anyone >use real time for weak enemies (random encounters), use turn-based normally >multiple ways to do quests, i once ignored the necromancers and just stole the info to Bates so I didn't have to kill them >story starts generic then gets some twists of its own

Anon10/13/26, 03:29No.4128898

I thought it was one of the best games I ever played. On my first playthrough, that is, after that I couldn't play it again. Just can't seem to get back into it. So make sure you're thorough the first time through. I got lost in the world, it was immersive and just fun to play. I was a mage though, don't know about industry.

Anon10/13/26, 03:31No.4128899

IMO, it's poor-man's Fallout. Similar gameplay, but none of the soul or charm. In fact, everything about the game is kind of bland and uncompelling.

Anon10/13/26, 05:41No.4128968

>Interesting setting and premise >Fucking awful gameplay mechanics and design >Became popular because purely because of the times Arcanum is every useless retard idea-guy's wet dream.

Anon10/13/26, 05:45No.4128973

people hating this game are weird, it oozes soul and the gameplay and rpg mechanics are really fun. Its basically the true Fallout spiritual successor.

Anon10/13/26, 08:41No.4129082

kill [[[gnomes]]]

Anon10/13/26, 08:46No.4129085

The story and world building are top tier. Quest design and level design is a step up from Fallout 1&2, but I still wouldn't consider it good yet. The same could be said for combat. I like how the AP system feels like it actually has a point now with most characters being melee, and getting more points for more movement in general. It definitely needed more development time to refine, or perhaps another game iterating on it, but it works pretty well for what it's meant to be. The levelup mechanic was surprisingly clean and effective. I really enjoyed the magic system as a pure mage. I need another CRPG without vancian magic, pls. It's a good game, but I really wish there were more games in this same style being made later. From what I heard, Temple of Elemental Evil, and VTM: Bloodlines don't really fit the same style of gameplay.And I didn't harp on about it, but the quest design is genuinely annoying to deal with at times. The journal is next to useless nine times out of ten, and any direction you're given is probably not even going to be written down, if you even get any direction that is. Sucks if you only play this game hour by hour because you're not ten any more.

Anon10/13/26, 09:16No.4129097

Great game, played it from start to finish without ever using the combat system, always had a horde of companions beating people for me. I can't fathom the awefulness of actually playing the combats, like why?

Anon10/13/26, 09:22No.4129101

Charisma builds are fun because there are speech options that will fail the interaction if selected, so even with high speech you need to know the setting's lore to succeed (or just use trial and error).

Anon10/14/26, 06:18No.4129861

I installed the adult mod. It was kind of okay but a part of it made me uninstall quickly.First off, the mod is pretty extensive and female centric. Basically you are whoring yourself out throughout Arcanum and I haven't got to the part where there's apparently a radiant quest mod where you prostitute yourself weekly. It makes use of your beauty stat so it's no longer 'useless'. (without the mod, beauty affects prices and how other people treat you, so you needed a minimum of 8 or 10 just so people don't attack you on sight and still give you quests)Anyway, the reason I uninstalled it is because I feel like the dialogue is AI made and might have ruined the characterization of some people .For example: Lukan the witless, he's supposed to keep misusing words, but in the mod he speaks mostly fine with the pattern being that he only misuses words at the end of his sentences, so it took my immersion out quickly.

Anon10/16/26, 15:02No.4131457

So is the consensus that Arcanum is nowhere near titles like Baldur's Gate or Fallout or Planescape in quality?

Anon10/16/26, 15:32No.4131470

It's the best game I've ever played. I don't think anything will ever come close to it. It's a shame that instead of building upon arcanums design philosophy retards continued making baldurs tier garbage which offers no roleplaying, freedom of choice or anything besides mindless combatslop

Anon10/17/26, 09:13No.4132155

Cool ideas. Mediocre game.

Anon10/17/26, 23:15No.4132755

Genuinely the worst fucking gameplay I've dealt with in a CRPG.

Anon10/17/26, 23:47No.4132798

It's OK. I've done a full playthrough in the last couple of years and enjoyed it. It's fun to do gamey things like robbing store inventories in a setting that still takes itself seriously and has some verisimilitude.

Anon10/18/26, 01:15No.4132939

I like the story I like the nusic I ilriek blah bleghrg i shoot gun yeah

Anon10/18/26, 23:29No.4133761

>The Good -Rich setting -Has some more freedom compared to IE CRPGs>The Bad -Combat is shit -Buggy as fuck and barely works -Generic side quests>The Ugly -Looks hideous -Story has unfinished parts. -Half-assed characters -Forgettable soundtrackOverall verdict: I'd give Arcanum a solid 4/10 thanks to its rich setting and some unique ideas in its gameplay, but it falls flat with its poor execution, horrible coding and generally bad combat & progression balance.

Anon10/19/26, 09:17No.4134341

kept memory leaking after playing the game for like 1 hour.making it unplayable except in short sessions... or i guess i could check the walkthrough and "speedrun" it. yes, even with the fan patch it leaks and lags. the music at the main menu also seems to lag out the menu too. horrible. had to turn it off .maybe i should make a single core WinXP rig just to play buggy 2000s games like this. if i even had the extra money. but i also said that about making a proper gaming Win98 rig too but gave up after seeing how rusted up my old P2 rig was.

Anon10/19/26, 19:42No.4134649

Arcanum is a weird case of a game that is actively anti-player. It is not incompetent, bugged, or hard, it just hates (You).Mana is stamina and you need to wait in real time before it SLOWLY regenerates before you can play the game again. This happens in every combat sequence. All your weapons have a durability bar and like 70% of all the enemies that you encounter are made of metal and hitting them damages your weapon's durability. Oh by the way MAGICAL WEAPONS CANNOT BE EASILY REPAIRED!!!And these are just some example but the whole game is like this...

Anon10/20/26, 05:00No.4135174

poser game, if someone has it in their favorites you know they're a tryhard loser from rpg codex