The Drunken Lizard Pub

Is there any way to increase walking speed? I am trying to continue this game (started on my desktop) on a netbook and it is even slower than I remembered.

What's a 'decent' first week? 500? 2000?

Aethra Chronicles
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Yes, good old Rolemaster and it's pages of combat modifiers. I've always been surprised that the Rolemaster system was never adapted to a cRPG, since all those calculations could be figured nearly instantaneously by a computer.
There was one shareware game in the early 90s based on a (simplified ...

There's a 'Mysterious Cave' in Tanglewood, just west I think of the Ossuary map which is defended by a mercenary standing outside it. I assume that's where the Ore is but I can't open the one door I can see in that cave, there's a weight sensitive plate in front of it but it does nothing, nothing ...

Make some interesting quests.

Add dialog.

Sorry, but I'm five hours into the game and I'm a little disappointed.

Finished the demo.

I was a bit disappointed by the NPCs in that first village (only 7 of them?). I hope other towns are more interesting.

Combat seems to have a few problems.
-Salamanders and Jelly creatures walk as fast as my Speed 15 character
-Just wearing some leather sandals if you don't have ...

I did a direct download from Basilisk Games and got 480 kb/s (just over two minutes) - normally I'm lucky to get 150 at the best times.

For an Action-'RPG' (more like a medieval combat sim) but which is very good, try Mount&Blade (www.taleworlds.net)

Only able to play half an hour or so but looking pretty good so far.

Regarding travelling between locations I would much prefer a Realms of Arkania or Return to Krondor approach: pre-defined branching routes, of course which you have to discover.

The travel system of Fallout was one of my major disappointments with the game.

Extraterrestrials has been on my 'most wanted' list for some time. I hope they don't delay it again... (meant to be out 28th February)

If you want some good X-Com style fun, check out UFO: Alien Invasion, an open-source project but which is fully functioning: ufoai.net

Also waiting for Age of ...

I thought Evil Islands was very good. If the demo experience is a good representation of the whole game I'll buy it. Kult is OK, some interesting ideas but I expect very boring.

Why?

Maybe because it's a huge amount of work. You could make a crappy game based on the Fallout 'atmosphere' where you just shotgun Geckos, chat up some hookers or whatever but nobody would play it. Putting in all the quests, dialog, context-sensitive descriptions and other interactions is what ...