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Discussion in 'Game/SP News & Comments' started by Taluntain, Mar 9, 2005.

  1. Taluntain

    Taluntain Resident Alpha and Omega Staff Member ★ SPS Account Holder Resourceful Adored Veteran Pillars of Eternity SP Immortalizer (for helping immortalize Sorcerer's Place in the game!) New Server Contributor [2012] (for helping Sorcerer's Place lease a new, more powerful server!) Torment: Tides of Numenera SP Immortalizer (for helping immortalize Sorcerer's Place in the game!) BoM XenForo Migration Contributor [2015] (for helping support the migration to new forum software!)

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    What we asked:

    Q: How do you feel about the death of Troika (The Temple of Elemental Evil, Arcanum, Bloodlines...)?
    (524 votes total)

    I'm very sad about it (229) 44%
    I'm somewhat sad about it (160) 31%
    I couldn't care less about it (89) 17%
    I'm glad that they're out of business (46) 9%

    Most of the poll participants (44%) feel very sad about the death of Troika, the creators of The Temple of Elemental Evil and other CRPGs.

    31% of those who voted feel somewhat sad about it, and 17% couldn't care less about it.

    9% of the people who participated in the poll, however, are glad that Troika is out of business.

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    Taluntain, Mar 9, 2005
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  2. chevalier

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    Their games had the spirit. However, Arcanum was killed by the graphics, the boring character stats system and the not so balanced fights. ToEE did have the feel of a real D&D adventure, but the loading times between combat turns were driving me mad. And I don't understand why it kept stuttering on a computer on which KotOR and NWN ran fine, if the game was isometric and not fully 3D. I liked it a lot and I mean a lot... until it tired me beyond even finishing. I had enough of it when I got to the Belsornig fight. I like tough fights, but their toughness should rely on having to think of a good strategy, not on just tweaking the monsters' stats and multiplying their numbers and coming up with still new uberpowers to annoy the player. Perhaps this is a wrong impression or maybe I did something wrong, but... This is one of the things I didn't like in ToEE, so far as combat goes. Maybe if the stuff hadn't stuttered and taken several minutes between each turn of combat, it would have been easier to try different strategies.

    Anyway, there were things I liked and things I didn't like in the game. Although I have great memories associated with it, I couldn't make myself finish the game. As for Arcanum, I dropped it pretty early.

    Whatever we say on the games, it's always bad to see Fallout devs get in trouble.
     
    chevalier, Mar 9, 2005
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