I recompleted that recently on the PC version - Apart from a couple of extra levels and easier controls, the sega saturn version was better for three reasons.

1. Cut scene demos, They didn't seem to be in the PC version.
2. Urea 51 - The secret level if you smash all the toilets in the game, then return to a toilet that is out of order in one of the levels. You have plenty of aliens to kill, and the aim of the level is to drop in to a giant toilet.
3. Death tank - A secret game you got for completing it, which was quite frankly, one of the best multiplayer games I ever played. Imagine Worms armageddon, but even simpler graphics, in real time, up to four players. Damn that was awesome.

PC version advantages -

More hiden levels (No Urea 51 )
Easier aiming (Saturn had no analogue sticks)
More Mini-battle lords to fight.

Sorry, I'm a bit of a duke nukem fan - Did you know that they had to ask Sam Rami for permision to use "hail to the king baby" etc because Ash from evil dead used the lines? along side "give me some sugar" etc

lol...you remembered all that bu heart? That's....sick. Hehehe. And yeah, I meant Duke Nukem Forever, sorry about that. It's just that I've come to the point that the entire thing is so elusive that even the title becomes hard to imagine/understand.

I'm sure will be released on the .

Going to look for it in the low-budget bins the few game stores here have. A magic system like that is brilliant in its simplicity. Sure, you'll miss complicated spells like Ice Storm but creating your own basic spells must give the game a more realistic (well, realistic...) atmosphere. A pity most game creators focus more on graphics than stories and gameplay these days. Oh and Morrowind fighting system... that was... well... a nice try and no more than that. I mean, walking in a direction + attack key = different attack. Usually ended up doing that overhead attack. Liked the game though The things I remember most are the mage falling from the sky and jumping or running everywhere to improve the Acrobatics/Athletics skills. Should play it as a mage some day

btw did anyone play the Dungeon Lords demo? God that was a disaster. Had high hopes for it, but when I started the demo I was in a pitchblack area (apparantly a field) with a minimum line of sight leaving you stuck in the dark (literally). While you're running blindly through this 'field', goblins jump out of the dark everywhere to kill you, and they're really good at that. Perhaps I should give it a better try but tbh I don't know if I still want to *shrugs*

Hehe, cool, I hope you can find Arx. I bought it off ebay because I couldn't find it around here, but maybe there are better and bigger budget shops in Holland, dunno. It would seem like a very Dutch thing to have budget shops tho. hehe, jk. But Arx still is a great game to this day. I've actually been replaying it in the last week, great fun. Awesome atmosphere, good story, great casting system, and requires a lot of thinking....it's not a very easy RPG, pretty 'basic'. But that won't be a problem.


Btw, found a new low-quality vid about Dark Messiah, and you can see a bit about the different styles and stances in it.

http://media.pc.ign.com/media/736/736193/vids_1.html

the left one is the better of the two, imho. I'm impressed by some of that action, too...I liked the way the guy fighting with two short swords/daggers could use them as throwing weapons...or in the fight with the orc, the way you can smash his shield with a certain strike. Or the awesome disarmament. Or pushing him off your sword and over the ridge. All real good stuff!

And is almost ready. Winter 2005 release, just a few more months. It's biggest new thing is religion, but it also looks gorgeous, you can see from cities on the map what improvements they have.

Have a crack at the Fahrenheit demo if you have the time...I was pleasantly surprised. it's a bit of a unique game mixing elements from different genres, with a great, cinematic atmosphere. Action/Adventure thingie, not a lot of those these days.


http://www.gamershell.com/download_10034.shtml