Difficult, entertaining, memorable. D&D is a great RPG system, and Icewind Dale along Baldur's Gate is one of the best uses of the system in a video game. Icewind Dale is a lot combat oriented than Baldur's Gate. Lock your fingers onto Quick Saves and Quick Loads. Memorise your spells and unsheathe your blade. The adventure has summoned you Will you answer it's call?
Duke broke new ground when back in the day the relatively brainless genre of games. Duke was one of the first protagonist with a distinguishable personality, his cheesy one liners and corny references. Memorable music, excellent level design, and the voice of the legendary John St. Jon. It's a must buy, if only to see one of the most badass characters in gaming history in his top form (nevermind Duke Nukem Forever)
Unfortunatelly it's not the one at Krondor ( See what I did there?) First of all Dear Good Old Games, this game misses the point by not being GOOD. I also feel inclined to call your bullshit "Dive into the rich and extensive fantasy world that is a worthy setting for the extravagant finale..." Lie...Outright fucking Lie " Witness the final chapter in the chronicles of Britannia--a story so epic that its script takes hundreds of pages in writing." Another outright lie. Even if it took hundreds of pages in writing it didn't help the story not to be the worst story told ever in an RPG " Take up the mantle of the Avatar one last time and free the land of Guardian’s curse using an incredibly vast assortment of weapons, armor, items, and spells." What we don't mention that through good chunk of the game magic doesn't work. Enemies get stunlocked after each hit making them harmless. Everyone involved in the creation of this deserves to lie frozen in the ninth circle of hell with acid in the eyesockets. THIS is the most insultingly bad game I ever played in my fucking life and it can go RIGHT TO HELL along with everyone involved with it. I have never seen a worse story told more poorly, the button-mashing retarded combat with over 90% of enemies being rats and brigands, OFFENSIVE NARRATIVE retconning and fucking up the story stated previously. Completely atrocious stability, this game crashes like crazy and saves take eons to complete. The Avatar character behaves like an utter moron (WHAT'S A PALADIN!? The Codex of Ultimate Wisdom? Who are the Gargoyles? What are the Mantras to the Shrines of Virtues?(Which even if YOU written down won't work unless you discover them in this game). Basically EVERYTHING from begining to end is wrong on this game. t
Electronic Arts is quite talented at ruining good franchises and studios. This is the shining example. The game was created in under 8 months and it really fucking shows, quests, maps, conversations, romance subplot among many others are incomplete. Easily exploitable leveling system, retarded combat with less actual tactics and difficulty than Diablo 3. The technical issues were back in the day piling up on one another. Patching that made the instant-deathlakes platforming needless busywork( and they are a core focus of the game) Needlessly complicated and convoluted magic system with so much busy work it hurts. The promising setup is ruined by pilling up technical issues, bossfights reduced to clicking them ONCE with an item from the inventory, 90% of your enemies are zombies and ghost. Same percentage exemplifies the amount of dark gray monochrome caves you will be dealing with. Not to mention playing this game essentially pointless since it's ending is retconned right at the 90 seconds mark into Ultima IX, the most insultingly bad game I ever played in my fucking life. With this game the technical issues could be fixed, Ultima IX had a really big problem because it's case was the complete betrayal of a fucking storyline...But I think everyone if a sliver of taste knows that. Anyone who tells you this game is actually worth a wet fart (Especially given the masterpiece that was it's predecessor) is outright fucking lying to you or has the worst taste imaginable...Given the fact theese are probably the same people who call Modern Warfare revolutionary and tune in every year into the Madden franchise... Don't buy. Don't play. Don't buy it's follow-up, don't play it's follow-up. FUCK YOU EA YOU KILLED ULTIMA FUCK YOU
This is by far the best way the Build Engine was used since Doom. Tons of humor, the redneck atmosphere (Be sure to play in a wifebeater and beer on the desk), great country music, inventive weapons (like say an Alien Energy gun...Coming packed on a cut-off hand of the said alien) and labirynth-like crazy level design that will often get you lost in it's complexity. If anything else worth checking out to see how fun and creative FPS games USED to be
Polish "People Can Fly" studio released a really enjoyable albeit pretty brainless (while still more intelligent than Modern Borefare)first person shooter with DROVES and DROVES of enemies to ravage and destroy. It's bloody, it's fun and it's a breath of fresh air in comparison to brown and gray shitfests that are Modern FPS games. My advice to you however is taking a little wait since the game is going to be re-released using Unreal Engine III. Funny trivia - People Can Fly later on went to port original Gears of War to the PC and coded the exclusive chapter, later to be integrated into Epic Games and releasing much less fun but still playable Bulletstorm
