POLL: Magic vs Bashing?

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In games such as NWN, BG etc do you prefer magic (sorcerers etc) as opposed to good old bashing with a very big sword etc

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Poll Results: Magic vs Bashing? (33 votes.)

Magic vs Bashing? (Choose 1)
* Magic - 30% (10)
* Bashing - 70% (23)

 

THARG WILL SMASH!!!

*cough*

What I meant to say was that I generally prefer a melee-based attack strategy, with ranged and magic available either as support or as enhancements. I also like stealthy characters, so lots of backstabbing is also often the order of the day. Generally I play Rangers (Stalkers rule!) or FMTs, so I can cover all of these bases (sort of) in one character.

 

Magicians are usually too vulnerable imo, i'm a powergamer, that's why i usually go with the melee type of characters.

Except for Sacred, but that's mainly because the "Battlemage" option presented itself in the main menu.

 

Magic. It was, of course, so much better when I hadn't seen any of the spells before. Now they just kind of all blend into one.

 

I've mostly played melee-based characters, usually just fighters, but as of late I've gotten an incredible interest in the arcane casters.

 

With the exception of PS:T, my main char is always a fighter class. like pac man, I feel that casters are too vulnerable and I like my main character to be able to protect himself even without companions

 

I prefer hiding and evasion nah, not really , i like a mixture. Sometimes i feel like frying an orc sometimes i feel like decapatation...

 

Bashing, though my favorite class is Thief/Rogue.

 

Has to be magic for me.

Take BG2 for example, you could easily solo with a magic character, but I don't think a fighter class would get very far.

 

I like magical enhanced melee.

I usually play a cleric who uses stats-altering buffs for more melee carnage. I voted bashing.

 

I'm much the same as Magpie on this one. I like playing the fighter types and tend to use magic in more of an artillery fashion.

 

I belatedly apologise for the amount of etc's I used in the first message

 

I've said it before and I'll say it again; there are just too f***ing many fights in a row with CRPGs to exclusively use magic. In PnP I can be a magic-user, but with CPRGs you need some bashing ability to survive without annoyingly time-consuming tactics like shoot->run->hide. That being said, I do still occasionally like the sneaky path.

 

Agrees with Fellinoid.

Especially with new games, where magic looks cool and is slow and tedious to rememorize... I just hack and slash.

In the old games where magic was quick and rest was plentiful, I liked magic more. Nothing weirder than charming the entire group of enemies and getting zero experience for it.

 

Much like Magpie, really - rrraaAAARGHH! Me SMASH you good!

I much prefer to get in close and bash away. Magic is fine, especially the instant-death spells (particularly in NWN - Finger of Death is just awesome in effect and in depiction), but lacks the personal touch of a good honest stomping.

This is particularly true in the first 5 minutes of HotU - to quote Homer Simpson, "I'll teach you to mess with my stuff! I'll chop you good!"

Backstabbing and sneak attacks are fun, too. But in the end, it's just a degenerate form of bashing.

The NonSequitur Method:
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1. Hit 'em.
2. Keep hitting 'em.
3. If anybody casts a spell, hit 'em.
4. If someone's taking too much damage, pull them out of combat, heal them, then see #1-3.
5. If there's no-one to hit, cast True Sight.
6. If some sneaky git is revealed by True Sight, hit 'em.
7. If there's still no-one to hit, grudgingly put weapons away.

 

I prefer melee as well. And you dont have to go sleep after every 3 fights like with a spellcasting party.
This is not to say that magic is useless but only that it acts complementary to the meleeing powers.

 

OFELIX WILL SMASH YOU SMASH YOU TO GOO!

'Nuff said.

 

Magic.
Pretty colours...

 

Magic all the way!

Though I do admit that in one-man-show games it can somtimes get tedious. Then again I went through both Diablos with magic users and found it much more fun than any bashing class.

 

I have found something which expresses my need to hack 'n slash more than zap with magic. The Faster Way