Cover Troika Games was a short-lived game development company started by former Black Isle and Interplay employees: Leonard Boyarsky, Tim Cain and Jason Anderson (the latter two would later join other post-Interplay companies like Obsidian and inXile while Boyarsky went on to Blizzard). Download mp3 hijau daun suara ku berharap. The studio’s name – which referred to the fact that it was created by three people – would unfortunately become prophetic concerning their output as well, as Troika only made three games: Arcanum, Temple of Elemental Evil and Vampire – The Masquerade: Bloodlines. Each of those titles gained a large cult following due to their deep, complex and non-linear RPG gameplay, while also receiving significant criticism for a large amount of bugs – Troika’s games all were released in a very broken state and the official patches couldn’t always fix all the problems. Arcanum, the first of Troika’s games, clearly betrays its lineage from the early Fallout games.
It can be seen in everything from the way the characters move over the map to gameplay mechanics like action points, intelligence significantly affecting dialog choices up to making ‘stupid’ characters incapable of conversation more complex than ‘yes’, ‘no’ or ‘ugh’, and the ending divided into multiple segments related to different characters and locations, reflecting changes that happened as a result of your actions. There are also direct references, like a two-headed cow in the town of Tarant, a quest concerning a gem of water purity and a person not allowed to go back home after being influenced by the outside world, just like the hero in the original Fallout.
While Arcanum is still different enough to become more than just Fallout with steam engines instead of vacuum tubes, it’s obviously a spiritual successor in many ways. The old Fallout games were known for their non-linearity – there were almost always multiple ways of solving quests, character building wasn’t restricted by classes and the world reacted to your choices. Arcanum takes this ‘choice and consequence’ aspect even further – players can freely develop both their skills (also affected by apprentice, expert and master training received during the course of the game) and their stats.
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The choice between magic (or ‘magick’, as the game clearly prefers Aleister Crowley’s spelling of the word) and technology is an important part of the game too, and characters will not only treat you differently based on your morality and reputation but also depending on race – humans, halflings and half-elves don’t face too much discrimination, dwarves and elves dislike each other, gnomes managed to get accepted in society after years of hatred and everyone is prejudiced against half-orcs and half-ogres. Arcanum tries to be a sort of virtual tabletop – a game where different choices result in a different game. It mostly succeeds. You start Arcanum as the sole survivor after the crash of the dirigible IFS Zephyr. At the crash site, a dying gnome gives you a ring and tells you to ‘find the boy’. Assassins try to kill you, and then you meet Virgil – a man who claims that you are a Living One, a reincarnation of the elven wizard Nasrudin who lived 2000 years ago. While all of this sounds like a generic ‘chosen one’ story, as you uncover the game’s mysteries (which might require several playthroughs as some information is available only to characters of a certain alignment) it becomes clear that it’s anything but. Software download games.