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#1 Theo Nean Donly

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Posted 05 October 2003 - 12:18 AM

Hmm... I don't know if this is new news for anyone here, but NVN has a macintosh version!!! I figured roleplaying Cytherans might be interested in this (atleast, I remember Avatara getting annoyed whenever I asked if he played because he said there wasn't a mac version)

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Posted 05 October 2003 - 11:10 PM

It's been out for a few months, hasn't it?

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Posted 27 October 2003 - 05:27 AM

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Originally posted by -esw-dragoon_77:
It's been out for a few months, hasn't it?

Aye. And that's nwn, btw. I've played it through once, now I'm halfway through the Shadows of Undrentide expansion. Brilliant game, very replayable, extremely extendable with thousands of third party modules and cross-platform network play. Highly recommended. Pity there's no toolset for Mac, but the OpenKnights project looks promising.

While we're on the topic of other games, anyone else tried No One Lives Forever?

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Posted 06 November 2003 - 10:15 AM

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Aye. And that's nwn, btw. I've played it through once, now I'm halfway through the Shadows of Undrentide expansion. Brilliant game, very replayable, extremely extendable with thousands of third party modules and cross-platform network play. Highly recommended. Pity there's no toolset for Mac, but the OpenKnights project looks promising.

Wow... I've been out of the gaming scene for far too long...
Guess that's what I get for having an outdated computer. NWN supposedly requires 128 MB of virtual memory. I only have 92, and while it still runs, it's about half a frame a second. Quite sad... I've had it since it first came out (for windows) and my friend got it last week and is far, far beyond me.

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Posted 06 November 2003 - 04:34 PM

I played NWN's from start to finish, but I never really enjoyed it so much as others, it felt very linear, and the problems weren't real brain teasers like in Cythera, but more... well I got the feeling that if I walked around long enough I'd find the answer. Long enough in NWN's is about an hour or so, where as in Cythera it was months.
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Posted 07 November 2003 - 04:41 AM

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While we're on the topic of other games, anyone else tried No One Lives Forever?

Aye. One of my favorites. If it had a shotgun, it would be the perfect game.

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Posted 10 November 2003 - 01:33 PM

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it felt very linear...

For real linear, see Icewind Dale and Dungeon Siege. Posted Image

Didn't stop me enjoying either one of those, although they don't have the repeat-play appeal of NWN.

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Posted 10 November 2003 - 10:30 PM

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...and the problems weren't real brain teasers like in Cythera, but more... well I got the feeling that if I walked around long enough I'd find the answer. Long enough in NWN's is about an hour or so, where as in Cythera it was months.
Just my worthless opinion .

*refers again to how he bought it the week it came out but hasn't been able to play more than a tiny bit*
Doesn't it have a scenario creator thing? Couldn't you desine your own game to be more... puzzling? (continues sketching out his secret plans for the bestest game ever, atleast best in every way but graphically...)

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Posted 11 November 2003 - 04:24 AM

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Doesn't it have a scenario creator thing? Couldn't you desine your own game to be more... puzzling? (continues sketching out his secret plans for the bestest game ever, atleast best in every way but graphically...)

No tools for Mac or Linux, yet. That's what the OpenKnights project is for. As to scenarios that are more 'cerebral' than 'action', there are a few around that can be downloaded; just browse through the modules on the website.

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Posted 11 November 2003 - 04:34 AM

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Aye. One of my favorites. If it had a shotgun, it would be the perfect game.

Hmm, shotgun. I'm partial to the crossbow with telescopic sight, myself. I think NoLF2 might be one of the few games I'd be willing to pay full price for, when it's released, joining a very short list consisting of Civ3, WC3, NWN and EV:Nova. (I might consider an OS X version of Cythera, but it's getting a bit dated now.)

One thing I really liked about NoLF was that it wrapped up the storyline very well at the end. So many games just leave you hanging, with no sense of closure. Actually, Cythera was pretty good that way too, as I recall.

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Posted 12 November 2003 - 07:39 AM

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Hmm, shotgun. I'm partial to the crossbow with telescopic sight, myself.

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