First thing I did was turn-off the annoying music. Ugh. You cannot easily paint a part two different colors. When re-assembling the aeroplane, it would not let me rotate or zoom to see what I was hammering. I ended up just blindly clicking everywhere. The voice in the game is also unspeakably annoying. I just turned off all sound. I was never talked to like an idiot as a child. Why would you put that in a game? Is that how others were treated? Do they like that sort of thing now? Perhaps you should have used an assistant rather than a child. I would have bitten anyone who told me "Good job. You're a natural!" or anything remotely like that. I don't need people's praise and I resent being told when I've done well. I know when I've done well. I was always that way, as were all of my siblings. If I was unsure, I asked if it was correct.
I am stuck in a small hut, where a portal is not spawning, although I have the item. I have put the code into the .lua file to use the move area cheat, but that does not work. CTRL+space does not open the command console. Anything else that BeamDog wants to screw up on these games? I'm tired of people praising these hack jobs. I played the original and at least you could use the command console to fix these sorts of bugs. Now, you cannot. The .lua file is called Baldur.lua, as are all of the save files. This is not Baldur's Gate. This is Planescape: Torment! Regardless, if the game is using that .lua file, the command console should open. Please provide a key for access to the NON-Hacked-Edition of this game.
In a discussion with Darkest Dungeon fans, some of them claimed that the design team was obligated to diverge so hugely from DDI when creating DDII. You can diverge too far and in the wrong direction. I sadly did not get the chance to play Bard's Tale back when, because I was busy from 1984-1999 with real-life problems, the military, and working my way through university, and although I had a Commodore 64, I did not have the money or time to play much at that time. The Bard's Tale series are 4 great games! In the first one, you are exclusively in various dungeons and towers of Skara Brae. You are hunting down a servant of the Mad God. The mechanisms for fighting and leveling up are very comfortable. In the second one, you are in Caith generally. You can and must leave Skara Brae to pursue your quest in other towns. Here, you must find the pieces of an ancient artifact to save Caith. In the third one, the Mad God has destroyed Skara Brae and all of Caith. Here, you are dimension hopping. The first portion of the game is just leveling up your character. Sadly, they did not build-in a mechanism, like we've had for some time now, to level-up the characters. Many people complain about having to dungeon crawl in the labyrinth of the Mad God again. The fourth one obviously came out much later, and is for another review. You can have a party of upto 7 characters, or 6, depending upon what mode you choose. You will be challenged with many puzzles and various monsters to fight. I love that they provide the old cloth map. I intend to get them all taken to a print shop and hang them on the wall with my BG I and II and IWD I and II maps. Modern creators under-estimate the charm of a cloth map.
You play a person, who finds themselves in an ancient, and seemingly forgotten, Roman city. This is filled with information about actual ancient culture. Your choices do not always have very real consequences, because of an in-game element. There are well-thoughtout mechanisms that keep game play moving forward. There are indeed many plot twists. Most of all, I enjoyed the philosophical discussions, which are sometimes in disguise. Overall, this is an intricate, thought-provoking, and entertaining game! By the way, the sex you choose does have minor, somewhat subtle, but understandable, effects on game-play.
People continually compare Oblivion to Skyrim. That's like comparing Baldur's Gate I and BGII, and saying BGI isn't good, because it isn't BGII. Technology advances. I am still in awe of the beauty of this world. I was enthralled by it when it was very first released. Back then, I bought the German version, being in Germany, for 89€. It was barely playable. It was horribly bugged. Players have since brought out patches for it. Shame on Bethseda for NEVER finishing their games!! You can choose from the standard Elder Scroll races. You choose a "class" in the beginning, but it is not a strict choice. It simply dictates what your major and minor areas of focus are. You can create your own and mix it up a bit!! I do not choose things I will use all the time. Why? They max-out too quickly, then you quit leveling up. You have to use abilities to be able to level up. You also choose an astrological sign, which gives you certain advantages/disadvantages. I think the main story line is fine. My points of annoyance: - If I bump against a bookshelf, the standing cup stays, but the laying book flies off. Seriously??? - A pearl is worth 7 gold, but a flop on a filthy floor costs you 10. ??? - Your character hits 10th level, and the Oblivion world (through the portals) becomes so stupid-hard that I cannot do it without at least dipping my toe into God Mode. With a mage-oriented character, I have to go full-on into God Mode. Physics and economics systems were never fixed. :-( I want to know more about: - The dwarven civilization; - The lost elven civilization. The combat system is still a bit overly-simplistic, but not as much as it was back in Morrowind, a game I played until my disc exploded in my harddrive one day. Bwahahahaha!!!! Beyond that, you can purchase houses in each city of varying quality, and some with a quest to make them livable or to acquire them. Overall, I have gotten over a thousand gaming hours out of this game, and am still playing.
I cannot even play this game. I can create characters, but when I start a game, this goes down into a window 1/12th the size of my screen. I looked in the options, and it is set to full screen. I tried disabling and re-enabling it. It did not help. This does not seem to be suitable for modern monitors.
I have Win 8.1, and after passing out in the building, this was loading for 20 minutes, but never loaded. It locked up my system so hard, I had to force a reboot. I will try again on my son's computer, but this claims to work with Win 7, yet it will not even work with Win 8.1.
The new characters are indeed intrusive, but most irritating to me is that the ToB and ToSC are not even included. How old is this game? And you people are still making money off of it, but didn't package the add-ons into it? Instead, you had to mess around with the original in ways that I can do by just downloading mods. Sadly, I cannot mod this version like I want to, because of the missing components. This was a waste of money. I really wish people would stop chaning things just to change them.
The controls take getting used to and the English needs some improvement in some places. That's a bit curious, because the Knights of Pen and Paper 1 and 2 had pretty excellent English. Anyhow, this is still similar, except, you can create your own assignments. Beware, also, not every planet has someone, who will buy minerals from you. Another reviewer talked about the space battles being simplistic: I'm glad they are. This is a role play game, not a combat game. The idea is to role play characters, not to have in-depth space battles with lots of technical details. The KoPnP didn't have in-depth aspects, so as sharpening your weapons, oiling your armor, where to go to the toilet.... People confuse games with real life. This is a game, and a fun one at that.
This is a really fun game for those of us coming out of a Pen & Paper background. I played the original D&D starting back in 1977. The humor is great. The devs didn't do a great job of limiting this the way they should, so that you need to be careful with quests. You can easily get in over your head. The second one is more fun than this, but I prefer not to base the review of this off of the second one. I have played both for hours on Steam. I'm busy moving my game collection from Steam to GoG.
