The Temple of Elemental Evil

I have played BG, BG2, NWN, NWN2, etc.. This game (which I love the pen and paper version of TOEE) is way too hard. I shouldn't meet the frogs on the way to the moat house and die 4/5 times. Just way over powered sucking the fun right out of it.

I am going to say it straightly - The Temple of Elemental Evil is the worst cRPG based on DnD I have ever played. The Temple of Elemental Evil is a game about ... nothing. The game lacks of any videogame concept, there is no story, there is no reason why you are doing what you are doing, sidequests are often resolved just by a bit of talking and they are underdeveloped and lead to nowhere. You did a favor for the lord of the tower in Hommlet? He would just tell you to go to Nulb. That's it! LOL...Why? Why am I supposed to go there? What's the purpose? .....Or the situation when your characters force evil traders to tell you where The Temple of Elemental Evil is. Why the heck they want to know that? They even did not come to the town because of it and they have absolutely no idea something like The Temple of Elemental Evil actually exists, so why are they asking that out of the blue? On the other hand, I love the game's dark atmosphere, fantastic graphics and awesome ambient music. I liked the combat system as well, but the turn-based system here is too basic and battles can become stereotypical after a few hours if they are too easy. The game is also too short - aprx. 50 hours. The manual notes that the level cap is 10 but my ranger reached 11 before the final boss so I really do not understand it. Also the manual "lies" in some aspects, as for example absolutely ignores the option to flee combat. The manual acts as if there was no such option but there is actually. The Temple of Elemental Evil may be the purest DnD PC game (personally I cannot tell because I havent played any tabletop DnD RPG) but that actually does not matter at all because as a computer game it fails basically almost at everything. Yes, I am disappointed.

Did anyone that reviewed this game actually play it? I couldn't wait for it's release and when i got it.... ugh. It crashed all the time, and that radial menu. Don't get me wrong, a radial menu works.... if you do it right. Bioware did... Troika... did not. Arcanum is a much better effort.

This is one of only a few D&D computer games I've ever played that was actually D&D and not some garbage point-and-click adventure game like Planescape Torment. It is the first (and last) D&D computer game since the the Gold Box games of the early 1990's to stay true to both the rules of the game as well as the published setting and the only computer game to use the third edition rules (Earlier games like Dark Queen of Krynn use the second edition rules, Baldur's Gate, Icewind Dale, and Neverwinter Nights use strange variant rules made up solely for those games, and Planescape:Torment and Dragonshard don't use the rules of D&D at all). Additionally it has a better choice of campaign setting than most D&D games, being set in the fun and interesting World Of Greyhawk campaign setting rather than the tediously pretentious Forgotten Realms setting of Baldur's Gate, Neverwinter Nights, and Treasures of the Savage Frontier. I highly recommend it.

I used to play this game on my old computer and it was running fine, all good. Some decades later I had an itch for playing this game again after so long, back in the day I was never able to finish it so I wanted to close that chapter once and for all. So I read that I needed some circle of eight mod and temple + to make it run on my system. All good but the first thing I notice is that every monster is super strong and that every attack I make misses all the time. I just made this my test run, gave myself a couple of levels using the console and tried the combat again but I was still missing every attack while the computer was hitting everything and doing a lot of criticals, so I thought maybe I had a bad party. I restarted the game and did my run legit, just reading a guide on GameBanshee to try and get enough experience to get to level 2, great let me try some combat on my party full of min maxed characters with 18 and 20 in their main stats. Nope, miss after miss after miss, I noticed I was never rolling higher than 1-5 on my d20 dice for attacks on the console log, I was baffled, I kept playing but that was the general thing, the only way to hit enemies was to give myself big bonuses with bulls strength, bard song, etc. I felt like a little munchkin, it was very different from the experience I had with this game as a kid, no idea if the circle of eight or the temple + increased the artificial difficulty in some way, but this game is not satisfying to play at all. You know that a low level party will miss everything, it will be a miss fest, but when the enemies keep rolling 20s on my party, it just gets boring eventually.