It's pretty enough, and has enough skills and such to keep min maxers happy. Garnett Lee mentioned it on the final 1UP Yours podcast, so I thought I'd give it another trial. I'd downloaded the demo to consider it for our Sunday gaming group, but it's a fairly conservative group, and the female characters are pretty tarted up. It's an emotional experience more on par with weeding a garden than actual combat. Either shoot some arrows, run back a bit, and repeat, or wait for an opening, then hack until victory.
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Once you know how to pull one or two enemies out of a group, combat's always pretty straightforward. But Gothic 3's combat isn't frenetic enough to get me worked up and is rarely frustrating. In an action game, I hate having to wait just when I'm getting into it or am at my most frustrated. I guess the main difference is the pacing, the groove of the game. I've even been rereading the last few issues of EGM (ever) while the game loads. It's like the horrible load times are part of the game's relaxed pacing. Normally, I hate saving and loading as game design, especially when the loading takes upwards of two minutes. He still got a shot off, but this time I'd equipped two fire resist rings, so it only took off most of my health instead of killing me outright. The next time, (pictured above) I just peeked out to get his attention, then ambushed him at a corner. The first time I met him, he killed me with one hit of a fire spell. Apparently he's what the prophecies were warning me about. There was one bad guy that this wouldn't work on, though. Luckily, I had a bright (hurr dee hurr) idea.įire arrows! They don't cast as much light, but it's better than having to lure every mummy in the temple all the way back to the entrance. :P And finally, you can see my problem with exploring deeper into the temple since I can't use a torch and bow at the same time.
You can also see copious amounts of spider webs. You can see the mummy at my feet to the left and the one in front of me (also to the left). Not many merchants sell arrows in the desert, so I'm at half my normal arrow compliment (normal being 1000 arrows). But mummies do not work that way and must be picked off with a bow. Skeletons aren't too bad, since I've learned how to spam them to death. There are lots of undead in the temple, and killing them is a pain. I hoped that by killing whatever was in the temple, I could stop the plague. This unleashed a plague of undead upon the land. I finally managed to get the five (!?) temple keys together and open the temple.