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Hellbishop
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Age of Wonders II: The Wizard's Throne: 9/10 points |
Excellent sequel to Age Of Wonders and many times easier to learn and get involved.The combat is fantastic.Hearing the nymphs so sweet scream when getting hit by my skeletal minions is sweet indeed! And oh those female Vampires can they climb walls and be oh so seductive leading the enemy troops astray HAR! HAR! HAR!The ranged combat is well done with terrain being tooken into account and melee combat is bone crushing orgasmic to the core!When creating a new game i love the fact you can custom create your own ruler or pick a pre built one.The artwork is excellent but only for certain taste.Its like looking at a buetiful oil painting with a brilliant shine.The portraits for the rulers are mixed from romantic to buetiful to mean to ugly to downright hideously morbid.Just the type of portraits i can enjoy admiring as make the enemy suffer or bless him with a worldly gift and friendship.Another great touch is being able to see ones enemies battle each other giving one a chance to learn more quickly what units do what and who is best at destroying them.Another strategy game to get lost in. |
Dark Sun 1 - Shattered Lands: 10/10 points |
A very convincing savage brutal world.It actually felt like i was there and when one of my fellow adventurers bit the dust in this desolate wastelands of scantly clad amazons and overly muscular barbarians i felt sad.Recent games of the past two years have not gotten me as emotionally involved as Dark Suns did.One of the classics. |
Dungeon Hack: 8/10 points |
A classic that is still fun to play. |
Elder Scrolls 1 - Arena: 8/10 points |
The first game i got for my first IBM 486/33DX.It was everything the box it came in said it was.Even with all the crashes i was playing it non stop.It was because of this game that i rushed out like a maniac to buy Daggerfall as soon as it hit the stores. It has not aged well but that is because Daggerfall is truly its complete evolving sequel unlike Morrowind which feels like a step backward for the series and plays more like a boring prequel to Arena. |
Elder Scrolls 2 - Daggerfall: 9/10 points |
I am still playing this game years after rushing to buy it as soon as it came out. The ultimate fantasy simulator with heart and soul and frights galore.Too bad the empty shallow boring half done Morrowind was nowhere near as good as this masterpiece.Oh and use the patch it kills almost all the original bugs DEAD! |
Elder Scrolls 3 - Morrowind: 3/10 points |
To think i paid $80.00 hard earned dollars for the collectors edition and another $20.00 for the strategy guide because i thought it was going to be just as good as Daggerfall.I guess I thought wrong! Boy this does not have a single thing similar to Daggerfall.Its quests are dull and the combat is like moving a twig up and down with no strategy needed to hit an enemy that dies with two hits after searching for him for 20 minutes real time all over this landscape that looks the same only to find the monster in a small two room dungeon. If you loved Daggerfall dont buy this game it is the elder scrolls in name only.They took everything from Daggerfall out and made Morrowind more into a console game and even on that level it falls flat with boredom on its full of hot air face.The construction set editor was no help no matter how many home made mods from other peoples hard talented work i used this game still felt lifeless and not right.This is the last time i buy a Bethesda game without playing a demo or a friends copy first.The Elder Scrolls this is not. |
Elder Scrolls 3 - Morrowind: 8/10 points |
Reading my first review of this game i do believe i was TOO harsh with my score of 3 considering all the months of joy i got from it. I guess i was playing the game too much and got burnt out.The combat is good and the construction set is excellent without it i would have never enjoyed all the incredible mods made by very talented people in their spare time for free.Thanks Bethesda but i still wish it had the life like game play and roleplaying simulation mechanics of Daggerfall yea it may sound schizo but thats because I AM! HAR! HAR! HAR! and a Ha! Ha! too. |
Elder Scrolls 3 - Morrowind: Bloodmoon: 10/10 points |
Carries on the tradition of Bethesda creating an even better product then what they previously produced.Very exciting and immersive.You really feel like your in another land besides Morrowind while still seeing plenty that lets you know this is the world of THE ELDER SCROLLS.Very action packed and the Expansion plays like greased lightning on my Pentium900 with a Geforce2 GTS three year old PC.Characters are also more interesting and you find yourself drawn into their situations and wanting to help.The Wolves and other wildlife look excellent and dungeon creatures look morbid and unnatural in a HP Lovecraft kind of way.Another winner by the hard working people at Bethesda!Thanks Bethesda! |
Elder Scrolls 3 - Morrowind: Tribunal: 10/10 points |
Excellent addition to Morrowind.Adds alot of gothic beauty ala Daggerfall to Morrowind.The new creatures are powerful and frightening to behold especially the errie Fabricants.The Assasins and how they were implemented from the start is a excellent dramatic touch.Too bad i took so long to buy such a all around masterpiece of an expansion pack. |
Elder Scrolls 4: Oblivion: 10/10 points |
A worthy sequel to MORROWIND.Bethesda delievered everthing they promised. The support for different levels of computers is incredible.Am playing it on my 2.4ghz with a Radeon9550 with no problems at all and looking gorgeous.
The dungeons are the most well designed terrifying gruesome desolate places i have had the morbid pleasure of visiting.Finally dungeon design has evolved to a new highly detailed intricate level thanks to OBLIVION.
Plenty of grisly effects aswell.I remember once looting a decomposing body and hearing the squishy sound of putrid flesh as i began looting it.
Npcs really have alot of character and i found myself quite drawn to them from the old begger woman on the street asking for money to some shady Merchant whose so nice one wonders what the other Merchants have against him.
A true winner that will keep me happy for as long as i play it which will be many many years.
Thanks Bethesda! |
Elder Scrolls 4: Oblivion: 4/10 points |
After playing for a few weeks now the rush of the hype has faded and been replaced by alot of disappointment. OBLIVION feels like a slipshod slapped together unfinished game. Item prices for most objects is 0 unless its a weapon or armor.So now all the clutter in the world laying around is not worth stealing since my character cant sell it at the store. Item placement such as books is also a pain since one can no longer pick up something and just set it down.Now when you set something down it goes flying a few feet in random directions or just falling to the ground as if the character is suffering from broken wrists.The environment that looked so full of life in the preview shots is almost totally barren with only like two Deers prancing about most times and lakes with no fish in them except for like four scattered slaughter fish swimming here and there. Graphics are nice but already they have a behind the times look to them aswell as ugly flaws like Npc townsfolk whose faces glow brightly as if they have lightbulbs in their heads.The much talked about lip synching goes out of synch alot of times with words not matching up to lip movements or closed mouths while the person is still talking.Treasure in dungeons is downright ridiculous! I cleared out a dungeon of bandits and for all my trouble all i got were locked chests that only had 5 gold and a carrot in them.My kindom for a carrot! Level scaling was used which means whenever my character levels up all of a sudden that super unique rare Daedric weapon and or armor is being worn by everyone in the world including the local begger and every farmer across Tamriel. Which makes it very unrewarding to improve and level up my character when everyone in the world magically gets the same items i fought my tail off for in some deep dank dark dangerous dungeon.Its also not great to at level one to kill a rat then at level 20 have the same rat type kill my high level character with ease because it leveled up with me. Wow you mean theres a unseen RAT WORLD out there full of dungeon explorers that levels up just like i do? As for choices alot of conversations are just click on this SINGLE choice hear the character respond then click on the next SINGLE choice to hear another reply which all end up with the same path being taken.I was hoping for a great game but instead ended up with a half done job.Why does bankrupt 3DO and the now dead used to be great MIGHT AND MAGIC franchise come to mind? |
Eye of the Beholder 2 - The Legend of Darkmoon: 10/10 points |
One of the my first dungeon games i played on my old Amiga500.Back then they knew how to do puzzles right and still be fun.I still cant forget some of the areas haunted by Death Knights that if you tried to sleep you would get nightmares.I also remember that stinking little ungrateful thief we freed only to have em runaway while we were resting with our stuff.The intro was also one of the best,very warm and comforting yet tense.Thanks Westwood for the fun times and memories. |
Legacy: 8/10 points |
One of the scariest games ever and the first game i played on my first pc.Talk about a cool terrifying way to begin over a decade of gaming.Beware HP Lovecrafts evil haunts this game. |
Might & Magic 6 - The Mandate of Heaven: 10/10 points |
Fond memories rise up when i think of the first time i played this game.From the gorgeous weather effects of sunny days or foggy mornings to the amazing amounts of different monsters to fight and be killed by. And who can forget the gruesome images of the Cannibal campfire.Then there was rescuing the sweet little girl Angela from those nasty evil spiders in the dark cave just outside of town.Yes i can still feel the cool breeze from the shore where the ships are docked.What a classic that i still play many times. |
Might & Magic 7 - For Blood and Honor: 10/10 points |
Excellent! The best Might and Magic i have played.The artwork is incredible and makes me want to keep playing to see more of it. The card game Arcomage is as good as the game by itself and really addictive.The art screens when going into shops and buildings are incredible too bad they didnt have some for Might and Magic 9.The combat is a hack and slash wet dream and i just love yelling at people to get out of the way!Truly a masterpiece hopefully they will make a Might and Magic 10 with all of this gaming goodness included some day. |
Might & Magic 8 - Day of the Destroyer: 9/10 points |
I really love the dark gothic setting of the game it really hits the spot on mood from the very begining with the Menu start screen with the sad pic of the old ship and haunting music to the grey skies with undead zombies and vampires stalking the land.My only complaint is the half done artwork that looks rushed out the door but still looks decent to good. |
Might & Magic 9: 7/10 points |
I got MM9 as soon it hit the stores and what a sad day it was when i played it and found it missing all the good stuff from MM5-8.No more buetiful artwork to inspire one to keep playing.No more cool looking characters making it hard to choose who to play with and adding to replay value.No more mood stimulating landscapes that felt like some nature simulation in a fantasy setting.If they had sold this game under another name it would at least be an average rpg with some gameplay value especially in dungeon areas.It reminds me alot of the old Eye Of The Beholder series too bad they didnt make it that maybe they would have made more money and the devs would not have gotten fired allowing them to make a REAL Might and Magic 10. Thanks NWC for the games that came before this including MM8 which had unfinished art but still had everything else from MM6-7.I hope someday someone makes a new line of similar games like Arx Fatalis did with Ultima.Untill then i will play this because it is still enjoyable along with the other true masterpieces. |
Neverwinter Nights: 10/10 points |
This is one of the most intricate rules/stats detailed roleplaying games i have ever played.What really is amazing is all this detail and yet it does not slow down the pace of the game or make it boring.Very fluid with the Computer taking care of keeping things balanced just like a great Dungeon Master is supposed to while the players enjoy adventuring in their fantasy world.The character generation and leveling are excellent!The graphics are stunning and bring back that old feeling i used to have playing the TSR Gold Box edition computer rpg games by SSI in the 1990s.The Manual is a notepad size book which is very descriptive and easy to read.It is one of the best informative and fantasy stimulating manuals i have read since the old days of every game coming with a thick manual with tons of information you did not have to pay extra for to get a "hint" book.I felt may character taking shape with no effort in my mind as i read what was available to me and what kind of world NEVERWINTER NIGHTS is.This is an all out winner i will be playing for many years to come.For those who have not yet played get the NEVERWINTER NIGHTS GOLD version that comes with extra mods by BIOWARE aswell as the first expansion pack THE SHADOWS OF UNDRENTIDE.Wow its great to know games of this high quality are still being created.Thank you BIOWARE!Thank you ATARI! |
Realms of Arkania 2 - Star Trail: 8/10 points |
Total intensity.A details and stats freaks dream come true.They dont come any meatier then this folks. |
Wizardry 8: 10/10 points |
SirTech really hit the zenith of quality and gameplay with Wizardry8.A truly fitting crown to end the series with.One of those rare gems that makes the memories of playing it remind me of others things in my life.A bit like listening to an old song and being flooded with great memories.Really top notch.Thank you SirTech and good luck on hopefully a Wizardry9 someday. |
