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Garrett
Joined: 13 Jul 2001
Posts: 74
Location: Munich, Germany |
| RPGDot Feature: The Temple of Elemental Evil Review |
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Troika's Temple of Elemental Evil has been thoroughly tested by our D&D expert EverythingXen. He played no less than three times through the game before writing down his impressions of this hardcore RPG. Here's a little teaser:<blockquote><em>In combat the most wonderful feature Temple put in was the area of effect masks from pen and paper. They're cut out masks you can put on a battle-map to get an opinion as to who exactly you're going to bake when you throw a fireball, etc. Being computer generated masks you can move them so that a fireball missed a paladin by a half foot. It's more accurate than you get with tabletop, but it certainly doesn't diminish a game's quality to have perfect control over where your spells land. I loved it. And it made cone effects (fear, cone of cold) useful for once... in other games you almost always hit a friend with a cone because they're so hard to aim properly.</em></blockquote>Click <a href="http://www.rpgdot.com/index.php?hsaction=10053&ID=776">here</a> for the full feature review!
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Mon Nov 03, 2003 10:22 pm |
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Ammon777
Warrior for Heaven
Joined: 20 Apr 2002
Posts: 2011
Location: United States |
This has actually made up my mind to buy this game. Thanks, nice review. |
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Mon Nov 03, 2003 10:22 pm |
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Roqua
High Emperor
Joined: 02 Sep 2003
Posts: 897
Location: rump |
I agree, it is a good review that covered everything fairly. I do think the bad voice acting could of maybe been highlighted more. But I think everything was covered nicely. I am glad you reviewed before the patch also.
I was wondering why there are 7 screens from the game movie and opening movie and only 3 screenshots of game play?
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Tue Nov 04, 2003 6:29 am |
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Garrett
Joined: 13 Jul 2001
Posts: 74
Location: Munich, Germany |
Movie Screenshots: Because the movie is beautiful and looks so much nicer than the in-game schots and we didn't have that many in-game screenshots in out gallery to chosse from. |
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Tue Nov 04, 2003 9:13 am |
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Ale
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Joined: 09 Aug 2003
Posts: 90
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If I want to see a movie I'll go to the movies. Gameplay and funfactor are the only things that matter in the game. |
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Tue Nov 04, 2003 4:03 pm |
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Garrett
Joined: 13 Jul 2001
Posts: 74
Location: Munich, Germany |
So you say I shouldn't post movie pics to articles anymore??? *lol* funny guy |
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Tue Nov 04, 2003 4:22 pm |
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Val
Risen From Ashes
Joined: 18 Feb 2002
Posts: 14724
Location: Utah, USA |
If you want some screenies, I can send you some good ones.
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Tue Nov 04, 2003 4:35 pm |
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Garrett
Joined: 13 Jul 2001
Posts: 74
Location: Munich, Germany |
Who? To me? No...not really, thanks 
But if you want, you can upload them to our gallery, do you know the link? If not, I'll mail it to you! |
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Tue Nov 04, 2003 4:39 pm |
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DeusIrae
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Actually, I also tend to prefer in-game screenshots in a review; don't get me wrong, it's nice to see the pretty cutscenes, and one or two screencaps are fine, but I do like to know what the game actually looks like when I'm playing it, and I especially like screenshots that show the interface. |
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Tue Nov 04, 2003 4:49 pm |
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Garrett
Joined: 13 Jul 2001
Posts: 74
Location: Munich, Germany |
Ok...I'll keep that in mind for the next review I am layouting!
Still, at the bottom of the review, it says 'Game Info' and that leads on to our gallery of ToEE pictures |
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Tue Nov 04, 2003 4:52 pm |
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Val
Risen From Ashes
Joined: 18 Feb 2002
Posts: 14724
Location: Utah, USA |
quote:
Originally posted by Garrett
But if you want, you can upload them to our gallery, do you know the link? If not, I'll mail it to you!
No, I do not. Please send the link and I'll expand the gallery a little. 
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Tue Nov 04, 2003 4:55 pm |
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EverythingXen
Arch-villain
Joined: 01 Feb 2002
Posts: 4342
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I love random errors eating my huge message here. Oh well. To summarize:
- Yes, needs more voice acting. Even the crappy voicesets from Baldur's Gate would have helped.
- I didn't run into many serious game stopping bugs. Maybe I'm lucky but I can only review what I experience. The few bugs I hit didn't detract from the enjoyment.
- I should have taken screen shots. I always forget to do that leaving our editors to do their best with what they have.
Ammon: Wait a few days for the patch. The game is great and worthy of its rating as is, in my opinion, but in case you are one of the people who will suffer the endless crash to desktop errors I'd wait. The patch is only a few days away, they're claiming.
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Tue Nov 04, 2003 5:32 pm |
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Secret Agent Lawanda
The last thing you see...
Joined: 23 Oct 2003
Posts: 1041
Location: World of Darkness (LA) |
Thanks, I think I'll pick this one up now once the patch is out and I'm done with Gothic 2. I was hoping this one wasn't a flop.
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Tue Nov 04, 2003 10:21 pm |
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Ammon777
Warrior for Heaven
Joined: 20 Apr 2002
Posts: 2011
Location: United States |
Xen: yep, thats why im not buying it until another month at least. |
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Tue Nov 04, 2003 11:10 pm |
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EverythingXen:
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Patch should be out Friday: The patch notes fix pretty much EVERYTHING I remotely complained about.
So if they deliver what they promise the game will be MUCH better by Friday. You'll be able to enchant already magical weapons and armor, which is as it should be... potions cause attacks of opportunity (oh, I'll love those suicidal bugbears then... now they're annoying), and the full list of magical items in item creation will be able to be created.
A month isn't a bad idea, but two weeks would probably do. Then again we all know how patches tend to break as much as they fix at times... |
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Wed Nov 05, 2003 12:52 pm |
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