The game would be good if they fixed the repair part of the game. You on a number of occasions get put in situations where you cant go back to town and have to go forward. Because of this certain classes like the conjuror are physically gimped because they A-cant go far before the staff breaks down B-dont get enough arrows from store and C-magic is best used as a healing/defense sort of thing.

The game wasnt bad otherwise but again, these games that put a repair option usually fuck their customers over.

Chosen Well of Souls did the same fucking thing-weird repair rules and that game is for masochists only. The warrior in this game should be impossible unless you have 1 weapon for each type which is very very stupid.

Repair isnt realistic because realistically you want to player to not have to carry 5-6 items/weapons just so they can adventure. If the breakdown rate werent so bad I wouldnt be writing this though.

Repair and durability has been discussed and jeff vogel said do you want to frustrate players with realism or make it a little less frustrating and attract more fans. I think the answer is right in front.

Unlike e.g. Diablo 2, the inventory in NOX is big - certainly enough to carry multiple sets of equipment so I never ran out of stuff completely. I never equipped my best stuff unless I came upon very strong enemies or bosses. As a warrior, there is no shortage of armors as you can wear just about anything you find, e.g. each vampire wears a full set of decent armor that you can wear and throw away when durability gets low or when you find another set of the same type. You don't have to run to town and repair gear all the time if you resort to using 2nd rate equipment. Using the best you have all the time is overkill and not necessary. There is a reason why the inventory is so generous, that way you can switch equipment depending on which enemies you encounter.

You got to understand that I have most of my saves close together. I didnt think I would be unable to go back to town. That is a stupid and broken way of making a game not difficult just frustrating. If they wanted to do that then make the bosses harder but dont add a gay way of using equipment.

Do you really think people that play this game are going to resort to using 3 sets of armor/weapon/equip. No way! That is why no one will play and beat this game.

Man Good old games, more like Good Old Garbage is more like it. Most of the games they have released like this game are not worth playing.

They really need diablo 1 on here because unlike this game and World of Aeden Plague, Diablo 1 is an actual success. When was the last time a game was made below 1999 that was good. Ok fine you said Baldurs gate 1 and Diablo 1.

Other than that, I rest my case. This isnt good old games, this is good old garbage.

I'm kinda paranoid about getting stuck in a dead end in RPG games in general so I keep at least one save from before I leave town and keep my inventory well stocked with at least 2 additional sets of gear, if the inventory allows it. Had plenty of gear left even at the end of NOX, and I had to sell or even throw out a lot of stuff because I kept finding new things.

Every game has its own set of rules, it makes little sense to get upset about what you can't change. Due to not having a save game from before you got stuck, you're faced with either starting over or abandoning the game. I know the feeling of frustration, the same happened to me when I got caught in a dead end in a dungeon in Lands of Lore 1 where I got trapped at a lower level and there was no way to get back up again. All my save games were from the lower level so I had to restart the game. It makes no sense to go online and vent your hate for the game, start a new game or just play something else, the developers aren't going to edit the game 15 years later. Diablo 1 isn't perfect either, the characters can't run and walk too slowly, that fact alone makes me not want to replay Diablo 1 - loved it back in the day, no patience for that today. Movement in NOX is a lot more fun. Still playing Diablo 2 though which obviously has more replay value than NOX.

Many people including myself completed NOX without trouble and even though the game wasn't a commercial success at first it has become a cult classic to a small but dedicated audience. Unfortunately for NOX, it was released a couple months before Diablo 2 so most people just waited for Diablo 2 to come out and didn't buy NOX even if they would have enjoyed that game, as well. Back in 2000, games were still expensive so it was often either this or that. I was one of the people who didn't buy NOX back then precisely because I was waiting for Diablo 2.

Anyway, sorry you didn't enjoy the game. Better to just let go then getting angry and eat yourself up over it. Happens to all of us. There are many popular games I personally don't like at all but nowadays we can get games so cheap that it's no big loss if you hate a game and won't finish it. If not finishing a game makes you upset per se then it's more an OCD issue - a lot of people have a compulsion to finish games or else they feel like crap. I don't finish most of my games, only with point & click adventures I have a bit of a compulsion to finish them all even if I don't like them. So I'm super careful about having multiple save games (paid off well back when I played Kyrandia 1 and encountered an absolute dead end, fortunately I could fall back on a previous save)

I'm trying to stick to a new rule for myself now: If a game stops being fun for more than 1,5 hours, I quit and abandon it. Even if it's a popular or even famous game. It's not easy to do as we all want to "beat" our games but with so many games to play, obsessing over any one thing is a waste of time and energy. I'm still finding it hard to abandon games I don't like which is why I still have about 60+ games in progress right now...

I like the game but here's the problem after what you just said-What do I do. If I have an extra save before that then do I buy 3 sets of weapons and 3 sets of armor?

I only have 1 bow, 1 set of armor and 1 staff

I am a Conjuror and I am lvl 5 at the ogre area. I dont mind the game but I simply dont understand what I am supposed to do for keeping armor, weapons and bow for conjuror.

If you know what the basics are for keeping my character from breaking stuff then Pmessage me. I am sorry to get frustrated I just hate it when that happens when I am playing a game that isnt bad and something like keeps it from going.

All you have to do is pick up the stuff that monsters drop, use what you can and sell the rest so you can buy additional supplies (like potions and quivers).

Use simple items until they break and repair the items you want to keep whenever you see a shopkeeper.

If you somehow manage to get yourself physically stuck somewhere (has never happened to me) there are always cheatcodes you can use to get out.

I don't think this thread should make you think anything on how to play the game. The OP doesn't understand how games work and can be different. It's like going to a Celine Dion concert and whining about no guitar solo. Some people like games that make them think of things like strategy. I never thought NOX as one of those games since it's a simple hack and slash, but apparently there are people who can be challenged by this.

I now completed the game and I can say that there were times when even my wizard's equipment turned to dust due to heavy damage – mostly in the Underworld level and near the end of the game. I can only imagine it's much worse for fighters. But it's still a terrific game, I enjoyed it far more than Diablo, so OP's comments are unjustified. I'm going to replay it again after I've worked on my backlog a bit, this time with a conjurer.

It definitely sounds like the OP is just bad at the game and needs to get better. When I was a 14 year old kid I was able to do it just fine. Some people just can't beat some games. It is what it is.

I remember a time when games came out and that was it. No patches, no popularity fixes, nothing. You got a game and you beat it or you didn't, and as long as there were people around that could beat it, no one gave a damn about the whiners that couldn't.

I'm not trying to sound mean or argumentative but really, OP, step back and read your complaints again. You sound like the whiners that just plain couldn't win and blamed the design over their inability to adapt to different rule sets. That's all games are anyways. Rule sets. Every game isn't the same. Different games require different approaches. Don't play Nox like Diablo or WoW or whatever. Play Nox like Nox.