Nox™

Well, I still have a CD with Nox. And I still play it from time to time. Yes, it is old, the graphics are outdated, the story is so linear... But it is a game worth being called classics. And classics never die.

I've had my eye on Nox pretty much since it was published, but never got round to playing it till now. I have to say it hasn't aged well. And I don't mean the outdated graphics but the control mechanism that feels really unnatural. I've tried to play for couple of hours but couldn't bring myself to like it. No skill tree, no attribute points distribution, no item level requirements... The most annoying was the inventory managment, having to click a separate button just to get the item stats made playing a chore. When I reached the middle of the first major dungeon and my inventory filled up without a chance to sell off the unused items I had to quit. So without the nostalgia factor you're probably best off skipping this one.

Nox it's a fun game. I was pretty nostalgic about it, as i remember playing it about 10 years ago, but i never got into it too much. Well, i kinda see why now. First of all, the game it's pretty good. General combat mechanics are good, the characters are ok, the story it's ok, you can follow it, but, for every positive thing, you have 3-4 negative ones that makes your adventure painful. First of all, the story. As i was saying, it's ok, but kinda deceptive. It starts out as this goofy story of an random trailer-park dude getting teleported into another world. And i'm ok with that. The biggest problem it's that the game it's getting serious and you're not getting the comedy that you would probably expect from that intro. Then, mechanics... Oh god, there are many things wrong here. Repair mechanics are a pain. Firstly, your gear broke up very fast. That would be ok if you could repair it easily. But you can't. There is no town portal mechanic, no waypoints. You pretty much hope that the current level will end into an town so you can repair. You need to cary more of the same type of equipment, to replace them if they broke. This it's an anti-fun mechanic imo. You have a nice weapon, well, you should preserve it and use an bad one, as you don't want to break your good weapon. Then, abilities. I only played as warrior. Most abilities are useless. I had to abandon game when i had to deal with a lot of wizards. It was impossible for me to kill them or at least go pass them. The only gap closer was imprecise and you are getting penalized for messing it up. The enemy scaling it's all over the place. You have an level where you one-hit everyone, you reach the boss, he one-hit you. Nox it's a good game only if you invest a lot of hours trying to get around the faulty mechanics. I recommend it, but with caution. Don't expect the game to be as good as it is in first 2-3 hours of play.

Do a playthrough of each class. Game mechanics are amazing and it will require some tweaking to run on Win10.

You will have to seek external solutions or the forums to run this game.