Pat schrieb am 12.09.2014, 14:10:...auch, weil er jedes Rollenspiel spielen will - aber das auch nur in der DOS-Version.
Ich lese ihn trotzdem gerne.

Den Test in der Power Play finde ich ebenfalls schlecht. Wo sind da die Kritikpunkte ausser "es ist zwei Jahre zu spät".

Eloton schrieb am 07.08.2014, 18:14:
ja, die Powerplay ... und ausgerechnet diese Nerds belästigen noch heute die Retro-Szene ...

The game is an interesting misfire. It starts with an interface and quest reminiscent of The Bard's Tale but adds some innovative features. The quest is original and intriguing, and the combat system blends some neat characteristics of games like Wizardry and Phantasie, along with some fun animations. It has excellent graphics and sound.

Unfortunately, almost everything it innovated, it screwed up. It introduced some new classes and made them irrelevant. It introduced a system by which the characters could learn to speak to every creature in the game, and then made it unnecessary to speak to any of them. It introduced food as a logistical challenge (and an associated morale system) and then loaded the characters up with so much that I eventually had to drop meals on the floor. It introduced NPCs who would join the party for specific reasons and then never say anything again. It set up an interesting combat system but made it so long that you almost always want to use "quick combat," and it made combat completely optional since every one (except the final, I assume) is escapable. It offered nice graphics for monster portraits and screenshots but screwed up the navigation graphics by not showing items in your periphery and by making every enemy sprite a ghost. It offered pocket-picking (and an associated jail system!) but didn't provide enough gold to make it worthwhile. It had a system by which weapons and armor become damaged but then made it a trivial process to fix them. In almost every way, it undermined its own positive contributions.