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Sam Jansen
has rated the following games:
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Baldur's Gate: 8/10 points |
One of those rare RPGs that brings the computer role playing game back into the top 10 and really does something new for the genre. This time that something new was a superbly polished game with depth and a compelling storyline. |
Baldur's Gate 2 - Shadows of Amn: 9/10 points |
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BattleTech: The Crescent Hawk's Revenge: 7/10 points |
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Blades of Exile: 8/10 points |
Very cool game at the time. Got stuck really near the end and never did solve it, but really enjoyed the game. |
Curse Of The Azure Bonds: 9/10 points |
It's been a long time since I've played this game, but I've always felt it was a winner. I can't quite put my finger on what made it so good, but I know I enjoyed it immensely. Made the Gold Box series what it was - and is. |
Dark Sun 1 - Shattered Lands: 9/10 points |
I only wish there were more games set on Dark Sun. Great setting, very good game. |
Elder Scrolls 3 - Morrowind: 10/10 points |
Mind-bogglingly good. Looks like they've set a new standard for single-player RPGs to me. |
Eye of the Beholder: 7/10 points |
A fun dungeon crawl. I remember getting very lost all the time without an automap, unfortunately, and this combined with the sometimes hard puzzles to be quite frustrating. This was offset by the fact that the rest of the game was a load of fun. |
Fallout - A Post Nuclear Adventure: 10/10 points |
Came out when there wasn't a lot of competition, but it really was a great RPG. Before Fallout I had never been interested in non-fantasy RPG's, but this changed my mind ever after. Decent story, still non-linear, good character advancement, very dynamic. NPC's on your party sadly had bad AI and were prone to shooting you or allies. If that had been fixed, it would have been a definite 10. |
Fallout 2: 8/10 points |
Fallout was definitely worth a sequel, and Fallout 2 didn't disappoint. Probably because it was so similar :) The party NPC problems were not completely resolved but were a lot better. A very good game, though I remember getting stuck in the very last place for some reason. Not quite as compelling as Fallout 1, though that may have just been because I played it fairly recently after I had finished the first one. |
Might & Magic 3 - Isles of Terra: 10/10 points |
To this day, I believe Might&Magic 3 to be the best Might and Magic game produced. This game is just pure fun. Now, I have played all the series up to 8 (I haven't got around to buying 9 at this point in time) and still think none of the games coming after it quite beat the Might&Magic experience presented in this game. The graphics at the time were top notch, unlike the following 5 games. With Might&Magic 3 came watching your characters develop from weasly to strong, stupid to genius-level. The dungeons were well crafted, the equipment was great - who can forget finding their first obsidian item? There were puzzles, there was exploration, but overall there was enjoyment. This one is up there with Ultima 7 and Planescape: Torment for my all time top RPGs. |
Might & Magic 5 - Darkside of Xeen: 6/10 points |
Good enough to keep me playing, but certainly not great. The ending of World of Xeen was particularly poor. Still, this game and its counterpart M&M4 kept me playing for some time. |
Might & Magic 6 - The Mandate of Heaven: 8/10 points |
It does that Might&Magic thing that just makes you keep coming back. It is easy to pick things wrong with it, but when it comes down to it, I played it all the way through: didn't you? |
Moraff's World: 6/10 points |
I can't exactly say this was a great game, but it was fun for quite some time. Somehow for all its quirks I still enjoyed it. |
Planescape: Torment: 10/10 points |
Excellence in an CRPG - a must buy if I have ever seen one. The story is great, perhaps the best plot I have ever seen in a CRPG. |
Pools of Darkness: 8/10 points |
I loved this game mainly for the fact that you could get so powerful. Running your characters around this game for the second or third time (a quirk of the game allowed you to do this) and having level 40 characters was just plain fun. The graphics were also improved slightly, it was the best looking in its series. Well designed adventure (only game I've played that I got to adventure inside a rotting god), though my version had a corrupted data file so I couldn't play past the final battle! A great gold box game, they surely don't make them like that anymore. |
Star Wars: Knights of the Old Republic: 10/10 points |
I read the excellent reviews, heard my friends drooling over this game, but nothing prepared me for the RPG I experienced. It was as close to perfect as I have seen in ANY game. I'm not even a fan of Star Wars in particular. I mainly enjoy fantasy RPGs. But Knights of the Old Republic is a great game.
Good graphics. Good sound. Enjoyable combat. Believable NPCs. Great story. Every part of this game is well polished and works well. This game made me feel like I'd acted out my own movie or my own book set in the Star Wars universe.
My only problem with this game is that it didn't last forever. A brilliant CRPG, I encourage everyone to play through this game. |
The Temple of Elemental Evil - A Classic Greyhawk Adventure: 8/10 points |
Enjoyable turn based hack-n-slash. This game restored my faith in 3rd Edition AD&D on the computer. Too short, the plot was either bad or non-existant, I'm not sure. It wasn't too buggy for me, but I did encounter the odd strange happening.
But it was very fun. I really enjoyed this game and hope they make a sequel or similar. |
Ultima Underworld 1 - The Stygian Abyss: 9/10 points |
A classic hardly begins to describe it. A little hard when I first played it (I was fairly young at the time) but a great game nonetheless. |
Vampire: The Masquerade - Redemption: 6/10 points |
I've seen better. A game I was looking forward to, but something that didn't quite live up to expectations. A few of the design decisions in the making of this game really made a game that had all the markings of one of the greats into something much less. Probably worth a look still, but there is better out there. If you are a PnP RPG-er and haven't played PnP V:tM, then you should. You may wish to avoid the CRPG, thats all. |
Wizardry 8: 7/10 points |
I came into Wizardry 8 with no prior Wizardy experience. I had always wanted to play the Wizardry games but had somehow failed to play any of them. Hearing so much about this game and the series, I had high expectations. I enjoyed this game, but felt its gameplay wasn't really all that great. The plot seemed fairly loose, and the NPC interaction wasn't great. Those few beings you could converse with were generally nothing amazing. The combat system I thought was quite good, but waiting for those 20 friendly allies and not-so-friendly enemies to move before you characters get their 1 attack got tedious quite fast. Though a decent RPG in its own right, I found myself wanting to play a Might&Magic game again rather than finish this one. |
