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Bateau <Gamera@work.stomping.aza> looked up from reading the entrails of
the porn spammer to utter "The Augury is good, the signs say:
>"Mils Michael" <mickmils@hotmail.com> wrote:
>>>I can only find German links to this game, will it be made for the rest of
>>>the world?
>>
>>It's just another name for plain old Arx Fatalis. The sequel
>>has not been showed anywhere yet. It will use HL2 engine.
>
>Is Arx Fatalis any good? I got it with a video card.
It's a kind of second rate Ultima Underworld.
The same kind of feel in a lot of ways, except for those times you have
control of the character taken away from you for a cutscene - when, just
like KotOR and others, it puts you somewhere you'd never have gone
willingly.
A lot of choices simply aren't there at all, they're made for you during
a cutscene.
The "draw the runes" spell system is also intensely aggravating since
it's "handwriting learner" breaks and suddenly stops accepting runes
drawn _exactly_ the way you drew them before.
There were also numerous bugs at release - those might have been fixed -
I don't know since I never had any impulse to play the game again,
unlike Ultima Underworld.
Xocyll
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FOAGCIPPEDI. -- Mike Andrews responding to an idiot in asr
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