I think anyone who completes this game deserves some kind of medal. Just good old fashioned dungeon crawling ruled with an iron fist. UBIsoft has released the long awaited 1.3 patch for this bug ridden game It hasn't been posted on their website yet, but you can find the patch on their FTP site. You won't encounter any stupid shoo the wisp door opening puzzles. The game's strong points are, in my opinion, its heavy dungeony and D&D atmosphere, its challenging encounters, and its relatively simplistic honesty. But the one thing that tried my patience to its breaking point was the Ruins' layout itself, specifically how to get to certain areas by going up one set of stairs to gain access to one section of map on level one that is clear on the other side from where it appears to be, etc. Yes, there are lots of undead as there are supposed to be. Playing and completing PoR: RoMD is an exercise in patience. While it is true that the graphical and physical layout of the Ruins themselves is repetitive in some ways, and thus daunting for someone not accustomed to RPGs from this era, the rooms themselves do not have the exact same encounters every time and there are plenty of surprises and unique encounters and areas to qualify this as the kind of game it was intended to be: a game that simulates exploring and clearing the desolate Ruins of Myth Drannor that have been lying in state for ages before the players arrive. Secondly, what you state above about the game is patently false and misleading. ![]() (21 days to go!)įirst of all, when you use the word it's, it's only used when contracting the words it and is. In short: please tell me everything important about this game that I should know before I fire up that bad boy. The game uses three-dimensional characters over pre-rendered two-dimensional backgrounds. Unlike Baldur's Gate and other Infinity Engine games, Ruins of Myth Drannor features turn-based combat rather than real-time combat. What about minor bugs or glitches? are there any game-breakers or plot-stoppers? crashes? save-file corruption? what about widescreen-resolutions or widescreen-mods?Īnd afaik there's that issue that the game deletes your hard drive when you're trying to uninstall it? Ruins of Myth Drannor takes place from an isometric third-person perspective, similar to the Baldur's Gate series. what I'm asking: can this game be played from start to finish without using patches or mods? and if the answer to that is "no", then what patches and/or mods should I use? but of course there's only so much a man can tolerate. Usually I just play vanilla, bugs and rough edges don't scare me. nonetheless I'm well aware that said reputation mostly has to do with bugs, lots of bugs. I know this game has a not so favorable reputation, but I'd rather make up my own mind and see for myself. ![]() So this year I've asked Santa for Ruins of Myth Drannor and it seems like I've been a good boy, because I've already spotted the Collector's Edition in a "hidden" place.
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