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dhex · Posted: Sun Mar 04, 2007 1:06 pm Post subject: jade empire?

yay or nay?
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Scratchmonkey · . Joined: 02 Mar 2005 Posts: 1439

You liked KotOR, right? So probably a yea, then.

I happen to think that Jade Empire is worse than either of the KotORs, although it's a lot prettier and I still played all the way through it.

What's important to you about it?

dhex · Posted: Sun Mar 04, 2007 2:15 pm Post subject:

actually, after watching the trailer, i'm nay'ing myself.

"in a world filled with chinese people and paper lanterns that fly, one man will use mighty magical kung-fu and boxes of calgon to beat up giant boars..."
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simplicio · . Joined: 03 May 2005 Posts: 1091

Uh oh.

KotOR works as well as it does largely because the Star Wars universe is a pretty silly place to begin with, which lowers the bar drastically for anything taking place therein. It's kind of the ultimate white dude playpen.

Jade Empire is those same white dudes trying to get all wu-xia.

ryan · . Joined: 20 Feb 2005 Posts: 999

billy dee will pretend he didn't see that.

I enjoyed the first KOTOR, never played the second, and Jade Empire bored me to tears. I fell asleep watching a friend play a copy, then I fell asleep playing it. I can't recall ever having fallen asleep during a game before.
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dark steve · . Joined: 17 Jun 2005 Posts: 1110

Nay, dude. XBoxification + faux-china fantasy slurry + the exquisite depth and subtly of making moral choices in a Bioware game. Take a pass.
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Joe · . Joined: 27 Nov 2006 Posts: 179

I thought the combat was fun. If you can find it for $10, I'd pick it up.
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Scratchmonkey · . Joined: 02 Mar 2005 Posts: 1439

Ethoscapade · . Joined: 30 Oct 2005 Posts: 276

it's awful.

every reason everybody had for not liking kotor (i like kotor), rolled into one.

SuperWes · Posted: Sun Mar 04, 2007 7:29 pm Post subject:

Horrid. I'd rather play Grandia II. Twice.

-Wes
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dhex · Posted: Sun Mar 04, 2007 7:51 pm Post subject:

internisus · . Joined: 25 Nov 2006 Posts: 354

dhex · Posted: Mon Mar 05, 2007 11:21 am Post subject:

even baldur's gate (I and II)?

edit: as a follow-up, anyone have any experience with arcanum?
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The Soviet Onion · . Joined: 05 Dec 2006 Posts: 41

Every time I find myself experiencing a twinge of nostalgia pertaining to Dungeons & Dragons, I think of the time I tried to play through Baldur's Gate and I'm instantly cured. It is a game made by people who hate gamers, played by gamers who hate themselves.

ryan · . Joined: 20 Feb 2005 Posts: 999

There are some pretty good stories about the development of the first BG over at Qt3. One involved the lead designer hosting a D&D game with the staff, with he as dungeon master. In an hour, over half of the 40 players were killed. He was the lead on BG2 and had to be convinced to tone down the difficulty since so many were irked by the first.

I never tried the first, and I really enjoyed the second one. BG2 is one of the few games where my character feels like an actual extension of myself. I ran into a weird bug though, then skipped past some story elements to try to reload but ended up screwing myself over. I'll go back to it someday.
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The Soviet Onion · . Joined: 05 Dec 2006 Posts: 41

It wasn't the difficulty in and of itself, so much as the moronic bloody slog. Not to dwell on the bad, it looks as if Kuju have got the right idea with D&D Tactics.

nICO · . Joined: 19 Feb 2005 Posts: 120 Location: WVUSA

seryogin · Posted: Tue Mar 13, 2007 5:57 pm Post subject:

Shapermc · Hot Sake! Joined: 14 Oct 2004 Posts: 6279

Isn't that DoS re-release cover hilarious?

Anyways, It's probably worth $10-$20 if you haven't played an exploration based CV in a while.
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