Arx Fatalis

As other have mentioned in their reviews, the Arx Liberatis mod is required to play this on a modern system. It might be worth GOG figuring out how to implement the mod in the base download, but I know this probably is difficult due to the GPL licensing. The setting is really cool and characters have a lot of charm. I actually like the inventory and interaction system, despite feeling very dated. You can build the main character into various stats that align with the 3 basic arctypes you see in most fantasy games: Warrior, Mage, and Thief. There's usually at least a couple ways to solve quests, some being very obscure. There are no quest markers and you have to really pay attention to books you read and things that characters say to figure out where you're supposed to go. The "quest log" is really basic and borderline useless unless you're coming back from not playing for a while to see where you left off. This could be a positive or negative, depending on what you're looking for in a game. There are some serious flaws that keep this from being a classic game gem, though. The "puzzles" are typically just finding items strewn about to advance. Advancement at certain points require either having enough magic skill to cast certain spells or a scroll containing said spell. Unfortunately, as with all resources, there are a limited number of spell scrolls in the game, so if you decided to use them before you could get stuck. The difficulty spike is also very high near the end of the game. As I specced primarily in melee for my first playthrough, the only way to really fight some end game enemies was use scrolls or spam healing potions (which are also limited) during combat. I am not ashamed to say that I had to enable invulnerability in the console to defeat these enemies once I ran out of healing potions. Despite the issues, Arx Fatalis is worth a playthrough if you aren't afraid to look up guides and are willing to spec into magic or cheat if you get softlocked.

On new Pc,s huge Framerat Drop because Nvidea Dx emulate

Not even finished yet, 10/10 for sure. Snake Women, Spellcasting, Voice Acting, Snake Women, getting obliterated by a demon while running away from it trying to cast a spell that I cast a million times before but right now the damn thing just kinda doesnt wanna come out. Cultists, JPGs as faces, Snake Women. Arx Fatalis has a certain spring in it's step that reminded me of how forced many games nowadays feel - we need to get weird with it again. Just put society underground and roll with it, maybe call a dude Falan Orbiplanax and make the Voice Actors say his name in every line and then string them together.

honestly this could of been one of the best games ever made it certainly has issues but that does not stop it from being pretty darn cool i mean the runes you use are actual real runes in norse mythology. Of course the atmosphere sense of exploration weirdness of forced interaction of vastly different races underground( since the sun went out) make me want to play this game over and over.

Arx Fatalis is my all-time favourite RPG game with his atmospheric, magic stones and places. Yeah it's linear and sometimes a bit buggy, but still fascinating for me! If you allow for the gameplay, you will imagine something completly different world!