RPG Games.

[Araanor]

Lionheart just went gold! It might be good.

[Skanky Burns]

Originally posted by H Tower
where is this apolyton d&d that I keep hearing about?

There is also one in the Stories/Diplomacy forum being DMed by SnowFire, just in case you were interested in lurking that one.


Also, there are some old RPGish games that I am currently playing called Exile. Very good games, highly recommended. Oldschool graphics, but great gameplay.

[Traianvs]

tassadar still lives in the stone age way back when everybody had a 28k connection that lagged like a *****...

also, most online games don't need a subscription fee... It's only the mmorpgs that require one, which is pretty logical to me because maintaining huge servers with thousands of people on them will cost them a few bucks, and all the people they hire to keep the story going on etc..... naturally those subscription fees will generate a nice cash flow too


l33t players ("I 0wn you n00bs!!") is more a phenomenon you will encounter in FPS games... Especially in mmorpgs gamers will be quite well behaving because you need to pay to play it, so that rules out the annoying kiddies

[Grumbold]

Lol the standing rule in MMOGs is that only 1/10 of the people are aholes but if you go anywhere near interesting content you'll bump into at least one of them 9/10 of the time.

[Makeo]

i haven't had any experience with rpg's but so far (with morrowind) its seems to me that there isn't much actual roleplaying involved in computer rpgs. Does this seem right? Just wander round collect the information of where to go next what to do next etc. i would imagin that with non computer rpg's that some thought needs to go into who your character is and what their motivations are etc.

[MattH]

TheD&D threads are still open. There are 3/4, 1 coordination, char creation, voting for DM's, etc... Check it out in the OT

[Dis]

Originally posted by Makeo
i haven't had any experience with rpg's but so far (with morrowind) its seems to me that there isn't much actual roleplaying involved in computer rpgs. Does this seem right? Just wander round collect the information of where to go next what to do next etc. i would imagin that with non computer rpg's that some thought needs to go into who your character is and what their motivations are etc.

You can roleplay in Neverwinter Nights- multiplayer of course. You have to type in all the stuff you want to say of course. I've played many games where we don't talk out of character. Also there are mods that have emote wands and such that make roleplaying a little easier.

but for single player there is little real roleplaying. It's mainly about building up your character and solving quest. Though on good feature is the ability to script alignment changes based on your actions.

[Araanor]

Originally posted by Makeo
i haven't had any experience with rpg's but so far (with morrowind) its seems to me that there isn't much actual roleplaying involved in computer rpgs. Does this seem right? Just wander round collect the information of where to go next what to do next etc. i would imagin that with non computer rpg's that some thought needs to go into who your character is and what their motivations are etc.

Play Fallout.

[child of Thor]

Well any computer RPG is going to be limited compared to any real Human-human rpg(pen+paper or over the internet). Still there have be a few decent ones.

1.Balders Gate series(any or all of)
2.Morrowind(+expansions)
3.Fallout(1+2)
4.Planetscape tournment.

The best thing is that most of these are now buget titles

[GhengisFarbâ„¢]

Well I have NWN now and will try it out this weekend. It sounds like it may be just what I was looking for.

[Dis]

neverwinter nights turned a lot of people off at first.

Because it almost seems like they made it more diablo-like. And it is true the combat is more action orientated like diablo, and less strategy orientated like Baldur's Gate.

But a well designed module can offer some decent roleplay. So it bothers me people think the game was a poor attempt to be like Diablo2.

There might even be modules out there with no combat . Although that might be a little boring for me, but some people like that stuff.

[Araanor]

Everything I've heard about nwn from people who's opinions I respect on RPGs is very negative.

[Space05us]

Wizardy 8, its different from all other rpgs you will ever play.

[GhengisFarbâ„¢]

What I have noticed from looking over the documentation is that NWN only has a few base races, no subraces like Icewind Dale II, and it doesn't mention Experience or Character Levels anywhere. Are they no character levels in NWN?

[Dis]

There are 20 character levels.

And no, no subraces. In the expansion there are prestige classes, but no subraces still.

Once you reach level 20 you have a problem. Anything beyond that is considered god like. I think they do intend on allowing chars past level 20 in a future expansion.

One problem may be levelling too fast. But that is also due to the fast nature of combat. A good module would lower monster experience and give more for doing quests. But once you reach level 20, there isn't a whole lot else to do. But the game was never designed to be a Diablo like game. And I think people try to play it like Diablo- and that's where the problem comes in.