Released - check the first post for a download link.
I've had to rush it out a bit because I think my computer may be dying. It's been acting weird for the last few weeks and sometimes failing to boot. Today seems to be worse.
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Enjay wrote:I have to confess that I never completed LOL, but I have dipped in to it a few times - and I've probably seen most of it in one way or another. I keep meaning to give it a proper go.
I think the problem for me was that I got completely obsessed with EOB - I mean, really, really obsessed. It's pretty much what got me into PC gaming properly. EOB2 was bigger and badder and I really enjoyed it too. I was absolutely stoked for EOB3 and desperate to complete the trilogy with my battle-hardened party from the first two games. However, the updated engine for EOB3 was awful and barely ran on even pretty beefy (for the time) hardware, the art direction had shifted slightly (my character portraits looked a bit different for starters),
EffinghamHuffnagel wrote:Always loved EOB. Always thought it would work nicely in Hexen. Somewhere I still have my original 5-1/4 floppies along with all the other Gold Box games. I've always had a question about EOB. I've searched intermittently over the years, always unsuccessfully. I wonder if maybe you've found the answer in your research. Was there a missing level? The game seemed to be set up as four 'episodes' of three levels each, and a final boss level. But one episode only had two levels. I think it was seven and eight. I know something was wrong because I always had one extra unused key afterwards. And the teleporters felt like a 'kludge'. Were the authors pushed up against a hard deadline? Is that why there was no big finale/glorious return animation at the end of the game? Just one screen of text and back to DOS.
Really looking forward to this. If it's well-received, I'm hoping someone with sprite skills might be inspired to convert some of the D&D monsters, or maybe all of EOB. Surprised so few monsters have been adapted/converted. Thri-kreen would seem to fit in any of the id games.
Mithloraite wrote:Did they (EOB-III portraits) change things for the worse for you?
As I think of it EOB-III authors changed many things about these portraits and mainly spoiled the impression of the game.
Enjay wrote:Mithloraite wrote:Did they (EOB-III portraits) change things for the worse for you?
As I think of it EOB-III authors changed many things about these portraits and mainly spoiled the impression of the game.
changed for the worse, definitely. I don't mind that they changed, but they changed in a way that made them not feel like a continuation of what went before. I wouldn't have minded, for example, if the characters had looked a little older (in fact, that would have been cool) provided that they still felt like the same individuals. But something (something quite intangible to be fair) made them just seem "not right" IMO.
Enjay wrote: IMO, they tried to improve almost every aspect of the game but, in practice, their "improvements" lost sight of what had worked and made almost every aspect of the game worse (sometimes only slightly so, but sometimes in a big way).
Mithloraite wrote:What I'm thinking about, EOB-III authors did some good things too, I mentioned it on Vogons, preventing the game from becoming a total failure. Like using polearms efficiently or 'All Attack' instead of 8 mouse clicks, dealing with AD&D level limits...
Mithloraite wrote:Might you say "returning" the original portrais would be a nice idea?
Enjay wrote:...every time a new entity or sound was about to be encountered, an hour glass timer would appear and the game would halt temporarily, letting you know that you were about to face something new, thereby taking all of the surprise out of it.
Enjay wrote: much of the time the all attack button really helped. However, by the time I was fighting the big-bad guys, my party was pretty tough and so the all attack button made the battles very easy.
Enjay wrote:Mithloraite wrote:Did they (EOB-III portraits) change things for the worse for you?
As I think of it EOB-III authors changed many things about these portraits and mainly spoiled the impression of the game.
The portraits changed for the worse, definitely. I don't mind that they changed, but they changed in a way that made them not feel like a continuation of what went before.
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