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Kalten
has rated the following games:
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Baldur's Gate: 3/10 points |
This is a very poor game. It gets boring very quickly. The story isn't gripping. Whilst it sticks closely to the D&D rules, the characters you generate are boring. The combat is not very good either. |
Betrayal at Krondor: 10/10 points |
The strength of the feeling of being part of the story of an RPG is a trade-off on the volume of randomness within the game.
Whilst many like the ability to generate their own character with attributes of their own choosing (this is half the fun), whilst this also brings a level of flexibility and possibilities, the result is a character with no.....character - no history. You don't know anything about that character except that which is randomly generated and assigned. There is very little depth to that character.
This is where Betrayal at Krondor differs to most RPGs. This story telling RPG has all its characters, monsters and landscape completely defined from the start and whilst there is no room for creating your character, you get a complete feel for the character's personality throughout the game as you do with all the people and many enemies that you meet on the way.
Don't make the mistake into thinking that this means that the world is small - not only is it large, but many areas, because the enemies have been carefully created and placed, it is not just some random combat where the only goal is to kill for experience and possibly the drop. Many combats result in moving the story along.
This is how RPGs should be made.
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Elder Scrolls 3 - Morrowind: 7/10 points |
This game has fantastic graphics and is an absolutely fantastically large beautiful world to explore.
If you like strategic turn-bard combat, this is not for you.
If you like story-based RPGs where emphasis is in world immersion, a feel for the characters that you are playing, less randomness and more depth, then this isn't for you.
Everything is pretty much random and characters and quests have little depth compared to story-based RPGs.
This is not necessarily a bad thing if you're not bothered about character and story depth.
However, I find this game very boring at times. |
Return to Krondor: 9/10 points |
Another good story-based RPG. Didn't live up as a sequel to Betrayal at Krondor though. Good points: nice graphics, good music (almost as good as BaK), improvements on lock-picking (not as tedious as BaK), good recorded dialogue (better than the printed text in BaK). Bad points: too short, some of the games were real time (if you didn't do it within a given time, you would fail) - not the kind of thing you expect in this type of RPG, characters walked very slowly (very slow to get from A to B), world is too small (not enough space to explore), did I say real time? When you get to the end of the game where you have to rush to the beach, if you leave the game running for 30 minutes before doing so, you won't be able to defeat the enemy and complete the game no matter how strong your characters. However, overall, this game, like BaK has that amazing quality of making you feel immersed as one of the characters in the game - you feel like you know Jazhara and the rest of the team as they have very distinct personalities not found in games where characters are generated. Even the enemies that you fight have dialogue that moves the story on in a lot of cases making the game more and more interesting as the plot thinkens. Overall, definetely worth playing. |
Wizardry 8: 6/10 points |
This game is an above average RPG.
It's on par with the likes of Might & Magic. If you like M&M, you'll like Wizardry 8. If you like character generation, Wizardry 8 is pretty good for that. There is a variety of interesting things to do, but if you are like me of the story-based RPG kind, the shallow generated characters and random combats in the game make the game very boring after a while. This game is also annoying in that if you linger in the early stages of the game you can encounter enemies that can disease you but its beyond your capability to cure - and you can't buy a potion. Still, the game is okay. Kept me engrossed for a couple of weeks. |
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