Legend of Grimrock

[Broseph]

I am playing Normal. It isn't so hard that I've had to give up on it, but it's definitely a little challenging for me. I'm liking it quite a bit.

 

[Blaine]

Great game, played it to completion the week it released.

Only annoying bits were when I knew I'd win a battle and that there was absolutely nothing the enemies could do to stop me from winning (unless I stroked out at the keyboard), but dozens of hits and an aggravating amount of Dungeon Master Two-Step were necessary to achieve victory. I suppose that comes with the territory, though.

 

[made]

hard as in you die lots if you don't strafe quick enough? yes
hard as in you constantly get stuck due to the complex level and puzzle design? no

unless you're a next-gen gamer, then it might be the other way around

 

[Jasede]

I thought the game was pretty easy actually, on the hardest setting.
Then again, I know how to tango.

By the way, if you guys have three hours spare and don't know what to do- go clean the gutters or vacuum the house because both of these are a much better and more entertaining use of your time than seeing The Hobbit would be.

And before you ask, I got free tickets and a free dinner out of that and I'm much too miserly to reject free fancy dinner, thank you very much.

 

[Broseph]

Most of my deaths came from forgetting to tango properly, yes.

 

[jagged-jimmy]

hard as in you die lots if you don't strafe quick enough? yes
hard as in you constantly get stuck due to the complex level and puzzle design? no

unless you're a next-gen gamer, then it might be the other way around

It is not quite easy, as you make it sound. The game is not hard, but pretty challenging. Combat is getting steadily easy, but the puzzles are alright.

 

[ohWOW]

Puzzles are tolerable, but combat is shit.

 

[Multi-headed Cow]

very, very hard. I'm totally getting my ass kicked though, been savescumming like hell.

I am playing Normal.

Not to shit on you too much, but damn man. You must need to work on your party composition or something 'cause I was playing on normal and wasn't waltzing and I was pretty much fine until ogres. Just had to rest often and actually use healing potions.

 

[Broseph]

I'm on level 7 of the dungeon now so I think I'm doing pretty well. My party is a minotaur fighter, lizardman rogue, and insectoid mage + human mage.

 

[Captain Shrek]

I'm on level 7 of the dungeon now so I think I'm doing pretty well. My party is a minotaur fighter, lizardman rogue, and insectoid mage + human mage.

That's a good (to be honest almost optimal) party composition. The sad fact is that it is much more important to kite the enemy than use a good composition of the party. The only skill you need to master is dragging the enemy around without being hit while hitting all the time, almost never worrying about what you are hitting with.

 

[Broseph]

I'm on level 7 of the dungeon now so I think I'm doing pretty well. My party is a minotaur fighter, lizardman rogue, and insectoid mage + human mage.

That's a good (to be honest almost optimal) party composition. The sad fact is that it is much more important to kite the enemy than use a good composition of the party. The only skill you need to master is dragging the enemy around without being hit while hitting all the time, almost never worrying about what you are hitting with.

Indeed. I've found the combat to be fun at times and completely retarded at others. The game would be better as a full fledged puzzle game I think.

 

[mindx2]

Any good user created dungeons made for this yet?

 

[Wolfus]

Bunch of my friends are working on the EoB remake. First two levels are already available.

 

[Unkillable Cat]

Wolfus: You mean this one?

 

[Gord]

Some interesting news:
Linux version available and additions to the editor that allow for modding of the UI now.

 

[Kukulkan]

Bunch of my friends are working on the EoB remake. First two levels are already available.

Is it of an exceptional quality equal to or greater than that of the original game?

 

[evdk]

I'm going to give you a shocking announcement: the original will be better.

 

[Kukulkan]

I'm going to give you a shocking announcement: the original will be better.

Oh come on. There always exists the possibility of a superior remake to the game. That way I don't have to fiddle with Dosbox to play the game.

 

[evdk]

Sure and there exists a possibility that id soft releases a true DooM successor. I am not holding my breath.

 

[Kirtai]

I'm going to give you a shocking announcement: the original will be better.

Oh come on. There always exists the possibility of a superior remake to the game. That way I don't have to fiddle with Dosbox to play the game.

Doesn't the latest ScummVM nightlies play the DOS versions of EOB 1&2 now?

Checked: it does indeed.

 

[Kukulkan]

I'm going to give you a shocking announcement: the original will be better.

Oh come on. There always exists the possibility of a superior remake to the game. That way I don't have to fiddle with Dosbox to play the game.

Doesn't the latest ScummVM nightlies play the DOS versions of EOB 1&2 now?

Checked: it does indeed.

 

[Stabwound]

Are there any complete and good Grimrock campaigns yet? I have a hankering to play it, but I don't really want to play the original campaign again. Failing that, what's the best similar game that has automapping? I'm a lame fuck that can't be arsed to draw my own maps.

 

[Broseph]

I know there's an automap plug-in now for the DOS versions of the Eye of the Beholder games, if that interests you.

 

[darkling]

Dungeon Hack has an auto-map! And you can be an overpowered 2E bard. I vote it.

I'm working on a Grimrock mod based on the D&D module 'Rahasia' but I don't wanna post a bunch of BS on steam workshop and everywhere til it's in a playable state. Which means it'll never get posted anywhere. The editor is amazing, though. I can't wait for a bunch of decent 3D modelers show up and make monsters for us art-impaired nerds to stock our crappy dungeons with. =D

 

[Kahlis]

I'm working on a Grimrock dungeon as well. Nothing really ambitious at the moment, but I am considering gimmicky stuff like pseudo-outdoor tilesets. Unfortunately I mostly grew up mapping for brush-based engines and those are the ones I'm fondest of, so I've never really bothered to learn modelling properly. Just kind of vertex manip/hack things together in Blender, so my workflow probably isn't the best. Maybe I'll just have to learn some silly program like SketchUp, because I like the CAD style interface of things like Hammer much better.

Honestly while the editor is pretty flexible, I am disappointed that there's no easy way to modify magic, classes and skills. That's what's really lacking in the base game.