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Temple of Elemental Evil

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Shelly21

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I played D&D, so I thought to myself, maybe I should try some D&D games on my PC. I played this module back in high school so I thought I'd give it a try.

I spent $49.99 on it. And it's really a piece! Does other software always contain this much bugs?

This lady wants me to get an orb, I got it, and there's no dialog to give the orb to her.

Stupid features like Identify cost the same money when you do it youself (100gold) or at shop. If they want to implement spell cost into it, it'd make sense to have it cost more in the shop.

Also, after identifying magic items, there are no in-depth description! A cloak turns into An cloak of elvenkind... that's it.

To make it worse, my latest save game appears to be corrupt, all my character's stats turn to 0. 😱


 
Yea, I beat it but its pretty suckass. The ending sucks and the bugs suck. It really makes me wish there was another Baldurs Gate game out though.
 
That sucks, I was going to pick that up after I finished KOTOR on my XBOX. Oh well, I guess I'll look for something else.
 
That is unfortunate and disappointing to hear.

This was one of my favorite modules that we used in our AD&D club back in high school (Ahhh.... the memories........)

I had some high hopes for this game (mostly personal nostalgia).
 
I really liked it, but I liked it because of it's history as a module. It's full of little issues but if you're willing to role play it, not power game it, it should be pretty good.

Atari has commissioned a patch for it also. So don't lose all hope yet.

EDIT: I changed my mind. The game is fair. It's better than most other RPG titles out right now and that's why I like it, but just because other RPG's suck shouldn't make this title stand out.
 
Originally posted by: Thera
I really liked it, but I liked it because of it's history as a module. It's full of little issues but if you're willing to role play it, not power game it, it should be pretty good.

Atari has commissioned a patch for it also. So don't lose all hope yet.
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Little issues? Like save games becoming corrupt, like broken quests, like the game crashing to desktop without error message on several different occasions and almost 100% of the time in large battles? On their official site someone started a bug post where they tracked every bug. The top post is like 7 pages long (real life page wise). There are several very severe bugs in this game.

Ignoring the severe bugs there are also the stupid bugs. Like the pathfinding AI is retarded. You cannot simply click on the map and go to where you clicked, infact you can barely click around a house and go there. And the further you click from your guys, the longer it takes to process the click.

Then you get into the really retarded bugs, like if you build a monk properly, you will never even get to level past level 2. Because if you take the 2 bonus feats, then at level 2 your monk won't have anything to pick from and will never get to level again.

Ignoring those you have the fact that almost every single quest in the actual temple is broken. You rescue several people from the temple and they are supposed to thank you via a random encounter on the world map, but most of the encounters you never even run into them. Some of them, if you even run into the random encounter, don't have any text except goodbye.

3/4 times that I tried to make a magic item, my game would crash.

Need I go on? I could, it isn't just small bugs. Sure, you can go through them, I mean, I did. But when you start hitting the REAL ugly bugs you are going to kick yourself.

Like how about this bug... There is a guy that you can rescue from the temple. You have to lead him to the surface and then he promises to thank you. Upon getting to the surface, he won't leave your group, and the next zone you enter will crash your game to desktop. Regardless of what zone you enter it will crash. So you are forced to KILL this NPC that you were supposed to be helping just to continue your game. Now you are probably wondering, why do I have to kill him? Can't I just let him go? Nope. Because 90% of the time that you tell an NPC to leave your group, they go hostile and attack you. Another bug? Yep. If that doesn't ruin the role playing experience for you, nothing will.
 
Wow, that is really bad.... I guess I should wait, and play later when the "patch" comes out.

I'll go back to Dark Cloud and try to finish that.
 
Dark Cloud 2 is much better than 1. They took the same gameplay elements and added a really awesome world and more things to do. Too bad the combat still gets repetitive.
 
The game never crashed for me, never got a corrupt save game, never played a monk character, never escorted anyone out of the temple. 🙁

So for me it was good. If I read the official forums and went searching for bugs I'd probably be unhappy also. I was 90% done with the game the first time I saw the official forums so I know people have had problems. I guess I'm lucky.

 
Originally posted by: Shelly21
Wow, that is really bad.... I guess I should wait, and play later when the "patch" comes out.

I'll go back to Dark Cloud and try to finish that.
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send bug reports to them. i'm sure there's a forum on their site for you to do so. good luck.

ps: girl gamers rock 😉

 
I checked out the offical forum site.... Looks like there are other people who are having major issues.... but regardless, I'll just wait. Don't want my money going to waste.

I just recently started to play pc games. It's amazing how console games have almost no bugs compare to PC games.

I don't want to play DC2 until I finish DC1. If DC2 is even better, wow, hopefully by the time I finish it, it'll be on the greatest hits list.
 
Originally posted by: Thera
The game never crashed for me, never got a corrupt save game, never played a monk character, never escorted anyone out of the temple. 🙁

So for me it was good. If I read the official forums and went searching for bugs I'd probably be unhappy also. I was 90% done with the game the first time I saw the official forums so I know people have had problems. I guess I'm lucky.
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You make it sound like I went to the official forums looking for bugs because the game was running too good for me. I went there because the game constantly kept crashing to desktop when I rescued the NPC. I originally thought it was because I was rescuing 2 NPCs at once and one left and the other didn't. I couldn't figure out, I had spent 2 hours trying to get the guy rescued. I found the forums and read them and realized that this was a 100% reproduceable problem. ANY person who rescues this character will have a crash to desktop. The fact that you didn't rescue them is all well and nice (maybe you killed him, I don't know) but most people will run into the problem if they talk to people in the temple.

It goes far beyond that 1 NPC though. Infact, about 50% of all NPCs in the temple are bugged in some way or another. From prisoners that will ask for 1000 gold and then not doing anything else to allies that will attack you.
 
Originally posted by: Shelly21
I checked out the offical forum site.... Looks like there are other people who are having major issues.... but regardless, I'll just wait. Don't want my money going to waste.

I just recently started to play pc games. It's amazing how console games have almost no bugs compare to PC games.

I don't want to play DC2 until I finish DC1. If DC2 is even better, wow, hopefully by the time I finish it, it'll be on the greatest hits list.
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A lot of people stopped playing DC1 because the "place a house in the right spot and get a cookie" got old after awhile. So they went back to the drawing boards with DC2 and made it a lot more fun. There are multiple methods to build each town that will reward you. Like instead of putting the house in the right place you have to fullfill goals like "plant 3 trees" or "complete the great tree". Plus they expanded the landscapes and gave it a cool plot. If you are addicted to DC1 you will be very suprised by DC2 🙂
 
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