Comments on: Arcanum: Of Screenshots & Resolutions Obscura

By: pharma

pharma — Thu, 04 Jun 2009 03:39:56 +0000

I got sick last week… i was home… bored to death…so that’s when i’ve remember to started replaying one of my favorites games os all time… Arcanum!

Do you guys know other very good CRPGs just has good and full of possibilities as Arcanum?

Thanks in advance ;)

By: Naurgul

Naurgul — Sat, 30 May 2009 18:14:27 +0000

I found a mirror, at last: Clicky here

By: Naurgul

Naurgul — Thu, 23 Apr 2009 10:07:11 +0000

Argh, the soundtrack download doesn’t work for me. :|

By: Erlend M

Erlend M — Sat, 18 Apr 2009 17:40:48 +0000

Arcanum’s soundtrack is really unconventional and great. It’s sombre chamber music for a string quartet, which gives a very different feeling than all other game soundtracks I’ve ever heard. It’s been released for free, and can be found here. I often listen to it while walking or working.

By: Paul

Paul — Fri, 17 Apr 2009 16:09:29 +0000

Yes, the beginning ranks up there with Fallout 2′s Giant Ant Happy Fun Time, slowness-wise. I’ve attempted palying this game about 5 times before finding enough resilience to go past those first 3 hours.

Drog’s unofficial packs add a lot of greatly needed balancing to the game, but some features can’t be improved upon (he even mentions this several times). Despite the changes, the Tech path remains weaker, with the Constructor branch being notable due to the absence of high-level automatons, like the Medic or the Machinegunner (they were never programmed into the game, so there’s no hidden/partial code to activate).

By: sfury

sfury — Fri, 17 Apr 2009 12:41:00 +0000

@Maxheadroom

What I didn’t mention earlier is that I also started and left the game irritated around the 1st town – two times, and that was after heavy reccomendations from friends. It really is a very slow starter and the UI doesn’t help either.

But the 3rd time (probably 2-3 years after picking it up, shame on me :}) with some persistance in the beginning – thank our Good Lord the Flying Spaghetti Monster! – this turned out to be one of my biggest favorites, a true spiritual succesor to Fallout as game-mechanics go and so, so much on top of that!

Just clench your teeth for the first couple of hours, because what’s coming after is absolutely worth it. :)

By: Maxheadroom

Maxheadroom — Fri, 17 Apr 2009 11:34:45 +0000

I bought this after having completed (and loving) Fallout 1 & 2 but it just didnt pull me in quite like those did.

Over the years I’ve tried a couple of times to get into it but I’d get to somewhere around the 1st town/quest hub and stop playing. I forget exactly why, maybe it was the unfriendly UI that someone mentioned earlier?

The release of the unoffical packs and patches had completly passed me by so with those, and the new hi res pack, it might be time to give it another look.

By: phil

phil — Fri, 17 Apr 2009 09:12:34 +0000

My God the Gnome Conspiracy! I had completely suppressed the memories of it after years of therapy.

Essentially (and spoilers), the small squishy gnomes in the game are almost always accompanied by lumbering half ogre body guards, despite the fluff claiming half ogre were rare because, well who wants to bed an ogre? You discover, in a well hidden secret area that is all too easy to miss, that the evil little bastards had set up a rape camp with the precise purpose of breeding half ogre slaves and that the wife of a major NPC had died after giving birth to three of them. Possibly the most shocking plot line since Custer’s Revenge?

By: Subject 706

Subject 706 — Fri, 17 Apr 2009 08:16:49 +0000

Arcanum and Temple Of Elemental Evil, are two Troika games I haven’t played actually. Well I tried Arcanum, but I was too young at the time to really understand it properly, and now the disks are gone.

GoG, hear our prayers! Get Troikas games!

By: Tim

Tim — Fri, 17 Apr 2009 02:56:43 +0000

Couple questions for the patchmod experts:

I have the unofficial patch version previous to the latest one. Is there any serious reason why I should restart my game? I’m only in Tarant but would prefer not to bother.

Why does the game occasionally go crazy sometimes and quickly hide the information window after mousing over a character or object? It will work fine for a bit and then suddenly I have trouble looking at things.

By: psyk

psyk — Fri, 17 Apr 2009 02:49:54 +0000

Can buy here http://www.amazon.co.uk/s/ref=nb_ss_w_h_?url=search-alias%3Daps&field-keywords=Arcanum&x=12&y=9.

By: Derek K.

Derek K. — Fri, 17 Apr 2009 02:27:29 +0000

When I bought my new, top of the line gaming laptop last month, the second thing I installed on it was Arcanum.

<3.