Good Old Games - Anachronox Now Available
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I remember finding the characters a bit weird for my taste, but being on GOG might lead me to giving it another chance.
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I quite liked Anachronox for the adventure and humor, but remember never finishing the game due to a ridiculously hard (at least to me) arcade bit involving meteors. I hate turret sections and such. Especially in an adventure game or RPG. Latest offender would be Dead Space, a quite good atmospheric shooter that I also never finished due to a ridiculously hard arcade bit involving meteors…
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I finished the game and enjoyed it overall, but it's definitely a mixed bag. When you got to explore a non combat area and interact with people I enjoyed the game quite a bit. But the combat system was tedious, pointless random encounters were frequent, and the game features no character customization at all. So in general I loved the game when I was in town, exploring and talking to people, but I hated the game when I went into a "dungeon" and actually had to fight things.
Overall it plays out kind of like an old school JRPG, but with Western characters and influence.
Overall it plays out kind of like an old school JRPG, but with Western characters and influence.
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I played and finished Anachronox when it was released in 2001. Great story, interesting characters and places to explore, great soundtrack. This game also has a turn-based combat borrowed from Japanese RPGs. System works well, rewarding and tactical. Also you can see the monsters and no random encounter is a plus. I also remember long and beautifully crafted special attack animations like in JRPGs. Only drawback is the graphics, which was below the standarts even back then (Quake 2 engine).
Too bad Ion Storm couldn't live long to make a sequel to this game. I think it was the Daikatana disaster to blame for this.
Too bad Ion Storm couldn't live long to make a sequel to this game. I think it was the Daikatana disaster to blame for this.
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I completely forgot about that, yes, it's possible that ppl disappointed into that crap decided not to risk another IonStorm release. Too bad.
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Which is it? This game's on my backlog of games to get back into but I loathe random encounters.
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No. But you assemble a team, unlock skills and... Well... There is a special way of making some more skills, I've never seen anything like it in any other game and it rocks.
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You can get xp and level up, and like Joxer said, sometimes you unlock new skills. But you have no choices, no skill points or any kind of customization. Even back when the game was released, that part of it seemed really out of date. Now it's one part which will definitely not hold up well.
But the crazy characters and the humor….those will definitely still hold up. To this day it features the most creative and original party member that I have ever seen in a RPG. If you play it, you are definitely going to play it for the exploration/story/humor and not for the game mechanics.
But the crazy characters and the humor….those will definitely still hold up. To this day it features the most creative and original party member that I have ever seen in a RPG. If you play it, you are definitely going to play it for the exploration/story/humor and not for the game mechanics.
What? No character building?
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I loved this game and still think I have the disks so no need to go to GOG but nice to have the option. Very jRPG-like but with the western sensibilities. I seem to recall that it was somewhat out of date graphically when it first came out so that probably hasn't improved.
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What? No character building?
The game was modeled after JRPGs, so character building would be limited. I haven't played yet, but based on what I've seen, I would assume that it would have the old-school Final Fantasy type battle system, maybe with some added twists.
I'll have to check this out now that its on GoG, I missed it the first time around, and I don't think it was Win 7 compatible until now, though I could be wrong. That's one of my favorite things about GoG - the way they make games easy to play without having to jump through a lot of OS compatibility hoops
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Actually most JRPGs have significantly more character building then Anachronox, even back when the game came out. Combat is a bit like FF, though more basic and tedious (which is saying a lot given that JPRG combat was often tedious to begin with). But the story is way better then any FF game (at least to me).
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I remember seeing the monsters in the distance and they can be avoid if you want to. But I may remember wrong, since 11 years has passed since I last played this game.
The best western shot at the JRPG genre. Funny, quirky and (except for one sequence) ultimatly very, very good.
For a strange reason a lot in KotOR:TSL reminded me of Anachronox...