PaxForce Posted December 22, 2016 Share Posted December 22, 2016 Greetings, Obsidian fans. Wouldn't it be the greatest thing if they made a sequel to Arcanum? http://store.steampowered.com/app/500810/ Of course this time it would have to be a much more balanced game than the original, however awesome it was 1 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
HooAmEye Posted December 22, 2016 Share Posted December 22, 2016 I don't know. I've never really thought Arcanum was that great of a game. Intresting story and setting to be sure, but the UI, graphics, combat, and movement was just horrible Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Apatia Posted December 23, 2016 Share Posted December 23, 2016 Arcanum is owned by Activision and I doubt they are very interested in doing anything with the license, including selling it. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Gizmo Posted December 26, 2016 Share Posted December 26, 2016 (edited) Look at Torment: Tides of Numenera; does anyone even know who owns the license for the Planescape:Torment cRPG? [License hell, last I heard] They could make an Arcanum sequel, by just skirting the line enough. It wouldn't have to be a direct or official sequel, or use anything at all from the original. Arx Fatalis was an unlicensed sequel to Ultima Underworld. A revised and even re-imagined Arcanum could ~by another name, be just as superb, or better. Edited December 26, 2016 by Gizmo 1 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
PIP-Clownboy Posted December 27, 2016 Share Posted December 27, 2016 I don't know. I've never really thought Arcanum was that great of a game. Intresting story and setting to be sure, but the UI, graphics, combat, and movement was just horrible Your opinion is objectively bad. 2 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Blodhemn Posted December 27, 2016 Share Posted December 27, 2016 Look at Torment: Tides of Numenera; does anyone even know who owns the license for the Planescape:Torment cRPG? [License hell, last I heard] They could make an Arcanum sequel, by just skirting the line enough. It wouldn't have to be a direct or official sequel, or use anything at all from the original. Arx Fatalis was an unlicensed sequel to Ultima Underworld. A revised and even re-imagined Arcanum could ~by another name, be just as superb, or better. That plus the fact that Boyarsky has said he's currently working on his "dream game". The only logical conclusion at this point is that it's the Arcanum spiritual successor, with whatever grain of salt you want to take that with. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Gizmo Posted December 27, 2016 Share Posted December 27, 2016 (edited) The only logical conclusion at this point is that it's the Arcanum spiritual successor, with whatever grain of salt you want to take that with. That or this: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=3X8Z14ExYxo Edited December 27, 2016 by Gizmo Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Rostere Posted January 3, 2017 Share Posted January 3, 2017 I don't know. I've never really thought Arcanum was that great of a game. Intresting story and setting to be sure, but the UI, graphics, combat, and movement was just horrible Behead all those who insult Arcanum! 5 "Well, overkill is my middle name. And my last name. And all of my other names as well!" Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
IndiraLightfoot Posted January 4, 2017 Share Posted January 4, 2017 Arcanum is one of the few CRPGs, I haven't played, it seems. The more praise I read, the more I wonder if it would tickle my fancy. I hope to get around to play it someday, for sure. *** "The words of someone who feels ever more the ent among saplings when playing CRPGs" *** Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Nonek Posted January 5, 2017 Share Posted January 5, 2017 A word of caution, Arcanum is in some ways fundamentally broken, it is undeniably ugly even for the period, and some of the mechanics (such as trapfinding) are infuriating. That said however the game offers massive amounts of reactivity, a narrative that unfolds masterfully, characters who are extremely interesting (though sometimes mechanically useless,) a setting that is very well made and cohesive, and ambition by the bucketload. A divisive game that is not for everyone, and also empty of many modern idiot proof measures, so exploration and experimentation still play a part instead of following the big flashing lights. 2 Quite an experience to live in misery isn't it? That's what it is to be married with children.I've seen things you people can't even imagine. Pearly Kings glittering on the Elephant and Castle, Morris Men dancing 'til the last light of midsummer. I watched Druid fires burning in the ruins of Stonehenge, and Yorkshiremen gurning for prizes. All these things will be lost in time, like alopecia on a skinhead. Time for tiffin. Tea for the teapot! Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
ShadySands Posted January 5, 2017 Share Posted January 5, 2017 (edited) Arcanum also can't read good and its mom dresses it funny I don't know. I've never really thought Arcanum was that great of a game. Intresting story and setting to be sure, but the UI, graphics, combat, and movement was just horrible Behead all those who insult Arcanum! but really though when are we going to get some game announcements? Edited January 5, 2017 by ShadySands 1 Free games updated 3/4/21 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Gromnir Posted January 5, 2017 Share Posted January 5, 2017 (edited) Arcanum is one of the few CRPGs, I haven't played, it seems. consider self lucky. never has our expectations been so brutally crushed. broken mechanics and terrible writing. notice the near complete lack o' arcanum additions on those ubiquitous "best crpg characters" lists? the one unforgivable sin for a writer is to be boring. the arcanum characters is universal dull, flat and lifeless. you didn't play? you win. arcanum were at its best Before we played. rare has a crpg garnered so much hype. back in the days o' print magazines, arcanum were getting frequent and enthusiastic previews. development team were universal well-regarded and the setting were unique. the developers were a bit tight-lipped (jerks) 'bout actual game mechanics, but with their fallout pedigree, most industry writers had high hopes. a bunch o' reactionary crpg fans has convinced themselves o' the greatness o' arcanum, 'cause it checks the right boxes. is a sand-box open world which lets you explore. is, for the time released, a dynamic setting. you got freedom o' classless character creation. got tim cain. etc. so how could game be bad? buggy, horribly balanced and dull. is no forgiving dull. HA! Good Fun! ps we wouldn't mind if obsidian did an arcanum sequel, just as long as they went for a kinda battlezone (1998) take on the original. Edited January 5, 2017 by Gromnir 2 "If there be time to expose through discussion the falsehood and fallacies, to avert the evil by the processes of education, the remedy to be applied is more speech, not enforced silence."Justice Louis Brandeis, Concurring, Whitney v. California, 274 U.S. 357 (1927) "Im indifferent to almost any murder as long as it doesn't affect me or mine."--Gfted1 (September 30, 2019) Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
IndiraLightfoot Posted January 5, 2017 Share Posted January 5, 2017 (edited) You're one convincing, man, Gromnir! After your colourful write-up, I'll heed the warding and not touch Arcanum with a stick, even. Now I understand why MCA never did live up to his KS promise of an Arcanum playthru. @Nonek: Granted, I do love myself some juicy idiot-proof exploration, but the rest just seems off-putting, to say the least. I happened to read Gromnir's post first, and I googled around for a bit, and watched two Youtube clips, and I didn't enjoy what I saw. Edited January 5, 2017 by IndiraLightfoot 1 *** "The words of someone who feels ever more the ent among saplings when playing CRPGs" *** Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Fenixp Posted January 5, 2017 Share Posted January 5, 2017 (edited) You're one convincing, man, Gromnir! After your colourful write-up, I'll heed the warding and not touch Arcanum with a stick, even. Now I understand why MCA never did live up to his KS promise of an Arcanum playthru. I wouldn't discredit it entirely. If you liked the original Fallout (and if you've not played that well... Screw Arcanum and go play it, Fallout's insanely ahead of its time), Arcanum is a very nice throwback to it. It's true that the game is neither as elegant, as concise nor as functional as the original Fallout was, but it's still a very nice story to experience, and it has city of Tarant going for it which is among the best cities in RPGs (even if a little starved for content in places.) It does have a lot of problems of course - they went with a choice of whether you want to play turn-based or real-time battles, resulting in neither method working particularly well, character development is broken beyond belief when combined with (rather poor) encounter design - I could go on, the game just doesn't play very well. But the world is amazing, extremely detailed with a ton of hidden things to find and it gives you a lot of agency in how do you wish to resolve individual quests. And while Gromnir isn't wrong about individual characters being rather forgettable, many locations and stories unfolding in them will stay with you as some of the finest RPG experiences. At the price you can currently get Arcanum at, especially on sales, there's very little reason to not at least give it a shot, especially if you're a fan of classic Fallout games. idiot-proof explorationNote that the large part of idiot-proof exploration actually means that the game has limited level scaling (none with fan patch), so you can meet random encounters that will kill you with no choice but to reload the game, more or less regardless of location of the map you're at. And considering method of saving the game on global map is... Rather contrived, you'll wish the game was a bit less idiot-proof (how did original Fallout get this right and Arcanum managed to screw it up is beyond me, but it's a big pet peeve of mine with the game.) Edited January 5, 2017 by Fenixp Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Rostere Posted January 8, 2017 Share Posted January 8, 2017 a bunch o' reactionary crpg fans has convinced themselves o' the greatness o' arcanum, 'cause it checks the right boxes. is a sand-box open world which lets you explore. is, for the time released, a dynamic setting. you got freedom o' classless character creation. got tim cain. etc. so how could game be bad? buggy, horribly balanced and dull. is no forgiving dull. It's not because it "checks the right boxes", it's because it is so fun. It is pure fun to just create different character builds (which can be very varied) and go around exploring the world. The balancing of Arcanum is like the opposite of most modern RPGs. Nowadays, you just grind and get items which incrementally give +1 to your whatever stat. Arcanum is wild and crazy in that you will always discover new wacky strategies. Some things are "easy mode", some things are more hard to find. It's great fun to replay the game and restrict yourself to specializing your character in different ways. On the other hand, if you are a min-maxing dork then Arcanum must truly suck. There is a huge number of NPCs, who differ from not having anything to say at all, to commenting on your every action. I love that always when you talk about how Arcanum is broken, people give completely different examples of what they believe is the one broken way to play the game. Hint: you should also increase difficulty if you think the game is easy overall. Also, the setting and how is realized is one of the best in any game I've played, ever. Arcanum also can't read good and its mom dresses it funny You're one convincing, man, Gromnir! After your colourful write-up, I'll heed the warding and not touch Arcanum with a stick, even. Now I understand why MCA never did live up to his KS promise of an Arcanum playthru. What do you mean? MCA started on his Arcanum playthrough, and it is the best "Let's Play"s ever, in fact I would dare say that it is one of the highest expressions of art ever. He's just taking a brief pause to strategize about fighting wolves, and reading the manual, which by the way is awesome. The manual of Arcanum is better than many games are on their own. You can skip playing the game if you are an irredeemable heretic but you should at least read the manual. 6 "Well, overkill is my middle name. And my last name. And all of my other names as well!" Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
BrotherFerg Posted January 23, 2017 Share Posted January 23, 2017 How about a new game set in the MATRIX. Why does a chair have arms and legs like a man, but can't walk or hold things? Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
LittleRose Posted January 24, 2017 Share Posted January 24, 2017 I don't need an Arcanum 2. I just want a good steampunk RPG. What it's called doesn't matter. 3 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Ganrich Posted January 24, 2017 Share Posted January 24, 2017 I don't need an Arcanum 2. I just want a good steampunk RPG. What it's called doesn't matter. Pretty much how I feel. I think the only thing I would lift is the versatility of the Character Generation system. I'd like it Open World like Arcanum, and I'd prefer TB combat. I would also enjoy the magic vs tech angle. I'd like similar levels of reactivity. Any other details are minute on my requirements. 1 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
milczyciel Posted January 26, 2017 Share Posted January 26, 2017 and here I am, sitting in the corner, hoping against all hope, that some day... SOME DAY! my uncannily inteligent and yet so blinded by self loathing and not-so-righteous anger half-ogre will drown the streets of Tarant in gnomish blood PS F me for watching that tech demo of Troika's unrealized post-apo rpg! ...again! lets out a powerless cry 2 "There are no good reasons. Only legal ones." - Ross Scott It's not that I'm lazy. I just don't care. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
dark___devil Posted January 29, 2017 Share Posted January 29, 2017 Arcanum is really fun game outside of the Half-Ogre quest and it will be fun to get a new game.By the way another good rpg that is crying for sequel is Vampire Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Rostere Posted January 29, 2017 Share Posted January 29, 2017 Arcanum is really fun game outside of the Half-Ogre quest and it will be fun to get a new game.By the way another good rpg that is crying for sequel is Vampire Oh, come on. The half-Ogre quest is one of the best in the game. It really plays with your expectations and then with what the resolution to a "quest" can be. 1 "Well, overkill is my middle name. And my last name. And all of my other names as well!" Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
selkino Posted January 31, 2017 Share Posted January 31, 2017 again with the music, the biggest issue with Arcanum for me were not the bugs or the imbalance, but the very heavily packed string insturments soundtrack 1 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Signer Posted February 6, 2017 Share Posted February 6, 2017 https://www.change.org/p/ir-activision-com-petition-to-lease-the-arcanum-ip-to-obsidian-entertainment 2 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Chilloutman Posted February 6, 2017 Share Posted February 6, 2017 again with the music, the biggest issue with Arcanum for me were not the bugs or the imbalance, but the very heavily packed string insturments soundtrack what are you talking about? This is HERESY! it was one of the best soundtracks EVER 2 I'm the enemy, 'cause I like to think, I like to read. I'm into freedom of speech, and freedom of choice. I'm the kinda guy that likes to sit in a greasy spoon and wonder, "Gee, should I have the T-bone steak or the jumbo rack of barbecue ribs with the side-order of gravy fries?" I want high cholesterol! I wanna eat bacon, and butter, and buckets of cheese, okay?! I wanna smoke a Cuban cigar the size of Cincinnati in the non-smoking section! I wanna run naked through the street, with green Jell-O all over my body, reading Playboy magazine. Why? Because I suddenly may feel the need to, okay, pal? I've SEEN the future. Do you know what it is? It's a 47-year-old virgin sitting around in his beige pajamas, drinking a banana-broccoli shake, singing "I'm an Oscar Meyer Wiene" Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Kilthan Posted December 12, 2017 Share Posted December 12, 2017 Man, i had to make an account just to reply to the Arcanum hate. I wonder if some of you ever played Wizardry VII. There was a kick-in-the-pants challenge.Yeah, the game is unbalanced, but that's half the fun. I am, at this moment, playing through as a half-orc Idiot Savant named Mervin. The only reason he didn't die in the starter area is because the Kite Shaman's chest contained some nice magic platemail. He can gamble and melt faces with harm (eventually Disintegrate). But by Nasrudin, he dies fast and everyone is a jerk to him. except for Dog. Dog is friend. Dog is whirling dervish of death.The soundtrack is amazing. It hits upon the right sort of music for the setting.The half-ogre quest line is awesomely frustrating. evil gnomes need to be squished.yeah, a lot of stuff is broken. But its fun despite brokenness, sometimes because of it.And anyone that claims the characters are flat and lifeless must have been playing a different game. Gar alone makes the game worth playing. And a play through with the idiot dialog has been consistently hilarious. I personally like the graphics. But i'd prefer companies to spend less time on graphics and more on game play. I'd love to see Obsidian get the rights to the IP, or to make a spiritual successor. Either way would be great. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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