En ce moment, je me fait #ArxFatalis, un des premiers jeu d'Arkhane, sorti en 2002.

Et ça tourne nativement sur Linux, grâce au travail incroyable de #ArxLibertatis, un moteur open source du jeu.

C'est un dungeon crawler, dans la lignée des Ultima, mais avec une sauce moderne, qui illustre les prémisses de ce que sera le rpg occidental pour les 10 années d'après.

Gestion de l'inventaire, quêtes interactives, clés et portes. Que du bon.

#rpg #jeuvideo #dungeoncrawler

I returned to Arx Fatalis after three weeks. And this is a game that I really want to love.

But... goblins.

Maybe the goblins and trolls are only on the second and third level and the rest of the game is very different. But the NPCs you're interacting with in the first couple of hours all come across as if they are written to entertain six years olds. This is so bad.

As much as the graphics with Arx Libertatis wow me, this game just doesn't work for me. 😐

#videogames #crpg #ArxFatalis

Arx Fatalis seems to have often be treated as a poor man's Morrowind.

And after four hours of play, I can totally see where that's coming from.

It certainly is an interesting game, but in a world where Gothic and Morrowind already existed, this game surely must have felt obsolete by the time it was released. In 1997, it could have been very impressive. By 2002, it really wasn't.

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