Comments | trejo: Realms of Arkania: Blade of Destiny

trejo

Realms of Arkania: Blade of Destiny

Aug 25, 2006 20:58

A while ago, I tried this game after downloading it from an Abandonware site. I thought to myself, "This would be more fun if I had the manual, so that I could understand the game's RPG rules."

Then I got my hands on the manual, and found out it doesn't explain the RPG rules at all. At all. And this is one of those fantasy RPG games with tons ( Read more... )

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conditor_maloru August 26 2006, 02:16:23 UTC

I've never tried it in DOSBox. Is it more stable or something?

I keep DOSBox on my HDD mostly for an abrupt game of Master of Magic every few months.

trejo August 26 2006, 02:23:02 UTC

I haven't tried it yet. But I'm told that Exult (at least the version I had) only approximated certain aspects of the game, such as fighting. But as I recall, Exult had features you couldn't get through DOSBox, like the paper doll inventory from Ultima 7 1/2 in Ultima 7.

Maybe I'll just end up downloading Exult again. I tried playing some of the latter DOS games in DOSBox and they were unreasonably slow and unresponsive.

trejo August 26 2006, 02:24:51 UTC

Also: Have you tried playing a gnoll game, with all Black books, on the smallest world available, at the highest difficulty? :-P

At least I think they were gnolls. As I recall, one of the races sucked a lot. But maybe not as much as those insect guys.

conditor_maloru August 26 2006, 05:39:46 UTC

I have not!

I generally go for Death Trolls. It's a horribly cheat-y setup, if you have the patience. Not too good for rushing, but:

1) Go with just straight Death magic, You have to have Black Channels for this. Also, it's a really good idea to select Alchemy. It's way easier to get gold than to get mana, and Trolls can't built Alchemist Guilds, so it'll give you magic weapons for them ( ... )

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