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Year 2003 in Review at RPG Codex

Discussion in 'Game/SP News & Comments' started by NewsPro, Jan 24, 2004.

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    (Originally posted by chevalier)

    RPG Codex have posted a Year 2003 in Review article in which they sum up the past year's good and bad moments for the roleplaying genre. Bioware, Troika, Interplay, everyone gets his own. Here's a snip:

    BioWare being horrible to mediocre is pretty much par for the course, really. But while we can just laugh at the Canadian developer's stumbling first steps towards CRPG design, it's harder to accept that Troika Games, a staff favourite, might make some mistakes too. Arcanum: Of Steamworks and Magick Obscura was a great game, but it had its flaws (which I won't go into here--I'm not talking about the games of 2001). The same can be said about (take a deep breath) Dungeons & Dragons: The Temple of Elemental Evil - A Classic Greyhawk Adventure.

    Expectations were high for this dungeon crawler D&D title inspired by the old-as-dirt module by older-than-dirt D&D progenitor Gary Gygax. The game we got was certainly a terrific dungeon crawler--the game that Icewind Dale by Black Isle Studios (more--lots more--on them later) should have been. But in some respects, it disappointed us.

    Read the whole thing at RPG Codex.
     
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