temple o' elemental evil

atoga · Post by **atoga** » Sat Aug 26, 2006 7:09 pm

Should I play it?

POOPERSCOOPER · Post by **POOPERSCOOPER** » Sat Aug 26, 2006 7:33 pm

It has a lot of DnD rules and things in which you can develop your character, so if you don't know the rules that well prepare to read a lot of manual and information in the character screen. The combat is good but everything else is pretty lackluster, don't expect to have a lot of fun quests or dialogs. It's a lot of dungeon crawling. It wasn't that great for me because I don't really like the DnD ruleset and I thought the game was hard

Make sure to get the official patches and probably those unofficial fan made patches to go with it.

Naked_Lunch · Post by **Naked_Lunch** » Sat Aug 26, 2006 7:36 pm

With the proper fine tunage, oh hell yessssssss

atoga · Post by **atoga** » Sat Aug 26, 2006 8:02 pm

I know DnD pretty well, and I've even played the "Return to the Temple of Elemental Evil" module, which was awesome & why I want to play the original on PC now.

What fine tunage do I need? Some sorta Co8 mod?

Naked_Lunch · Post by **Naked_Lunch** » Sat Aug 26, 2006 8:20 pm

Yar, get the whole Co8 shebang thing. That comes with all the good stuff.

Mad Max RW · Post by **Mad Max RW** » Sat Aug 26, 2006 8:50 pm

I bought it last month and played nonstop until I beat it a week later. Go to the CO8 forum, download the shit and follow their instructions.

My major gripe with the game is how short it is. It's about the length of a single chapter in Baldur's Gate. ToEE is designed for people who played pen and paper D&D as a kid. Bare bones story, cliched setting, and all about combat. That said, I enjoyed it through the final battle. Combat is perfect, magic is the best I've seen, crafting items is cool, there's lots of different monsters, and the temple design is awesome. $9 for a week of good fun is more than worth it.

Darksun: Shattered Lands is still the reigning champ.

Frater Perdurabo · Post by **Frater Perdurabo** » Sun Aug 27, 2006 6:20 pm

DnD is the kind of rules they have in Icewind Dale, Baldur's Gate and Planescape, right?

Mad Max RW · Post by **Mad Max RW** » Sun Aug 27, 2006 7:03 pm

Yeah, except they flushed D&D gameplay down the toilet with realtime combat. Ignore the people who say ToEE has a steep learning curve or whatever. It's easy as hell to jump into.

Naked_Lunch · Post by **Naked_Lunch** » Mon Aug 28, 2006 1:00 am

Yep. And if you have any trouble, you have the excellent manual and the in-game tutorial to help you out.

atoga · Post by **atoga** » Mon Aug 28, 2006 1:56 am

Actually, the combat is quite orthodox to tabletop DnD in PS:T, provided that you're doing it turn-based. It's just that DnD combat sucks (though I guess the 3rd edition rules used in TOEE/NWN/whatever would make it more tolerable).

POOPERSCOOPER · Post by **POOPERSCOOPER** » Mon Aug 28, 2006 3:52 am

Mad Max RW wrote:Yeah, except they flushed D&D gameplay down the toilet with realtime combat. Ignore the people who say ToEE has a steep learning curve or whatever. It's easy as hell to jump into.

It wasn't for me but I just might be stupid. I think I may have just made really bad characters because there was a ton of options and lots of places to make stupid choices.

Megatron · Post by **Megatron** » Mon Aug 28, 2006 12:19 pm

i couldnt be bothered getting into it, or past the guard house. if you lived in jolly england id mail you my copy.

vendetta · Post by **vendetta** » Mon Aug 28, 2006 4:33 pm

Dear god!

http://www.co8.org/forum/showthread.php?t=2050&page=3

Just scrool down and look at the pretty face of one of DaC's famous people.

Frater Perdurabo · Post by **Frater Perdurabo** » Mon Aug 28, 2006 5:13 pm

The DnD system is why I didn't get into Baldur's Gate and such games. I never understood the damage modifiers on the weapons, then shit like "Bastard swords" etc, they had too many of those. I never knew which ones to specialize in, or what it really meant for me.

Too much information in one go, and I lost my interest for the games. I'm still playing Planescape because of the awesome storyline, though.

Megatron wrote:i couldnt be bothered getting into it, or past the guard house. if you lived in jolly england id mail you my copy.

Mail it to me, I live in London now

vendetta wrote:Dear god!

http://www.co8.org/forum/showthread.php?t=2050&page=3

Just scrool down and look at the pretty face of one of DaC's famous people.

xD

Megatron · Post by **Megatron** » Mon Aug 28, 2006 6:19 pm

no you arent part of mammas gang xD

Frater Perdurabo · Post by **Frater Perdurabo** » Mon Aug 28, 2006 6:22 pm

Megatron wrote:no you arent part of mammas gang xD

:tear:

Nicolai · Post by **Nicolai** » Mon Aug 28, 2006 6:27 pm

Mail it to me, eh. I'm right across the pond.

atoga · Post by **atoga** » Mon Aug 28, 2006 7:46 pm

Mail it to me anyway. I'll give you... eprops.

It's impossible to warez it, eh.

Wolfman Walt · Post by **Wolfman Walt** » Mon Aug 28, 2006 7:49 pm

Can't you lazy bastards go to walmart? They sell em in jewel cases for like 5 dollars.

atoga · Post by **atoga** » Mon Aug 28, 2006 8:02 pm

I don't have five dollars.

And the nearest WalMart is like a subway ride and then two bus rides away. I don't live in the suburbs, mang. Inner city 4 lyfe.