Arcanum

[Dis]

How did this game slip past me unnoticed? It's got some pretty good reviews, won rpg of the year, yet somehow I missed it.

I've pretty much already decided to order it. I was just wondering if anyone had any thoughts on it.

[DrSpike]

I have it, but have never got around to playing it.

[Spiffor]

I've played it quite a bit (went through the game with two different characters).

Very good game. The musical score can get boring, but the steampunk/magical atmosphere is very well done, and the game is very enjoyable. It's just as open as Fallout (though it's not as funny), and very interesting

[General Ludd]

Originally posted by Spiffor
The musical score can get boring,

It might all sound the same (although there are actually quite a number of different songs, they just all blend into one another very subtley), but it's a great score, and perfect for the game.

[Spiffor]

It's very well done, but it can get boring. The gameplay makes up for it, but when there are downtimes, the music certainly doesn(t help you remaining excited

[Apocalypse]

It has one of the most unique stories I've every been exposed to in a game due to some rather interesting turns.

The thing about choosing either magic or science....choose one and go all the way.

[ColdWizard]

Apoc got me to get it and though I never finished it, it wasn't too bad. My attention merely wandered after a while like it usually does.

[Dis]

I have it on order. should arrive in 5 days or so. possibly sooner.

I still haven't decided what kind of character to play. It looks similar to Fallout in ways, so I think I'll like it.

[Kassiopeia]

Maybe I just suck, but the game became too difficult for me when I tried to do a scientsy type who used firearms a lot and was perceptive and brainy. The fact that his party members started to hate him for no apparent reason contributed to this.

[snoopy369]

I bought it a while back, and played about 10 hours of it, but the story never really took off, so I shelved it and moved on to another game ... Looked nice, though.

[Spiffor]

Originally posted by Kassiopeia
Maybe I just suck, but the game became too difficult for me when I tried to do a scientsy type who used firearms a lot and was perceptive and brainy. The fact that his party members started to hate him for no apparent reason contributed to this.

My best char was a brainy gunner, and even though it's frustrating at the beginning, it's insanely powerful toward the end. The lazors roxxoz my boxxorz

[Dis]

I hear it's more difficult to use firearms. I probably won't do that for my first run through the game.

I may do melee or magic. Probably melee, as that's usually the easiest to start a new game with.

[Apocalypse]

It's hard to go completely melee...if you do, at least be able to make grenades. Molotov cocktails are pretty much needed for a technology build. You can make a lot of them fairly easily and they were my main starting weapon early on.

Only get party members that like what you like in terms of magic or tech. Then they won't make you. Healing is also a lot easier since techs can't heal magics and magics can't heal techs. Well, they can but not well.

One party member is an exception. I don't want to spoil things yet, but keep me posted on your progress and I will give you a hint when you get there. This character is awesome, but if you forget to do something, the character is lost. I forgot to do this before and restarted my character after quite a bit of gameplay just because of this character.

[LDiCesare]

Melee characters are in my opinion the easiest in this game, particularly considering that you can be meleer and magician at the same time.
But the game is awesome. Using a gnome with high charisma and talking one's way out of most situations is really funny (the only problem being there is one dungeon where you are bound to fight, unless maybe you're very very very sneaky).
Playing a very dumb half ogre or an ugly half orc are also very funny experiences.

[Dis]

got the game today. I just installed it.

The good news is the install went fine, and the game runs. I just picked a premade character and went through the opening movie and conversation and walked around for a little bit.

The bad news is I have no manual . I have a legit copy of the game, but it's packaged through one of those 3rd party discount software places. They only sent me a case and 2 cd's in a box similar to the old console game boxes. It has no room for a manual.

does anyone know where I can download the manual? The company I bought the game from offers to sell me the manual, but I already paid enough for the game I believe. I would like to get the manual for free.

I'm assuming since this is a game that was repackaged, it doesn't need a patch. Or maybe it does?