RPGs playing order?

[duke o' york]

If you play NWN, then you can get hold of the Dungeon of Apolyton!

Version 2 out soon (though not as soon as it was going to be, but I for one am patient and will wait for Jamski to be in a position to finish rejigging it).

[Jon Miller]

Originally posted by Verto
nor does it need it.

nonmultiplayer games are mostly uninteresting for me

JM

[Jamski]

Everyone is forgeting Arcanum! (Except obstructor and I)

Perhaps there's a reason to "forget" to mention that buggy *beep*

-Jam

[Illuminatus]

I never encountered any major bugs in Arcanum - while I had to redo a whole chapter in BG2.

[DarkCloud]

Icewind Dale I before BG 2... (or skip it entirely)
and morrowind after NWN

arcanum before IWD2 (possibly the best D&D game ever made [but only because 3rd edition is much better than 2nd] )

[DarkCloud]

You'll never get finished if you play IWD2 too early
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oh yes, and Planescape should be played before BG2 as well...
here's my suggestion:

IWD1
BG1
Arcanum
Planescape
BG2
IWD2
NWN
Morrowind

but you could alwasy flip arcanum and planescape before BG1 for consistency (I've played all those games except Morrowind and Planescape though planescape looked interesting to me!

[Jamski]

So many *wink smilies*

-Jam

[Imran Siddiqui]

No, I didn't forget Arcanum. I recommend you don't play it at all. I've played Fallout, Baldur's Gate, etc. Arcanum was a pain at times and I think I was still stuck in some area when I stopped playing.

What do you think is the fastest, as in Really competitive and all in one sitting, that you could finish each of thsoe? KOTOR, I could seee in maybe a couple of days, two if you were sooper good, maybe. Morrowind, I have yet to beat, so I don't know.
Btw, I'm tlaking jsut the basic stuff, sidequests not included.

Ah, but the side quests are the big fun in Morrowind. Straight through? Hmmm... maybe 60 hours or so? You have to do some side quests just to get the experience to get strong enough to win in the end.

[DarkCloud]

sorry about that Jamski
I suppose it's an invasion
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A warning about Arcanum, as Imran has mentioned, is that on the first level, it's almost impossible to defeat the **** bridge-guards!

[General Ludd]

Arcanum is just too high-class for for you gimps.


It's a great game, and i didn't have any problems with it. It's mechanics are not as polished as Baldur's Gate, ect... but it more than makes up for that in story and atmosphere.

[Apocalypse]

Seriously, the story and atmosphere in Arcanum just blows everything else out of the water, aside from maybe Fallout. In BG and other fantasy games like it, even though the story might be good, you are never really into it and it seems like just another story. Arcanum just sets itself apart in a number of ways.

And a thing about those bridge guards...they aren't that hard and you don't even have to fight them.

[DarkCloud]

"You dont have to fight them..." only if you're evil

[quantum_mechani]

Originally posted by DarkCloud
"You dont have to fight them..." only if you're evil

Or rich . But if you are going to fight them, save those stun grenades for the job.

[DarkCloud]

where do you pick up stun grenades?

[Imran Siddiqui]

Bah, in Arcanum, I couldn't get out of the rock mine. Those damn rock dudes were too powerful for my party .

And the story was alright, but Fallout's was better and more fun .