Nox is better than Diablo

I played this again recently and it doesn't hold up. It's super rudimentary and a bunch of enemies have immunity to magic so you can get cockblocked if you're magic. The puzzles are cute when you're young

It stinks

Sorry bud but diablo 2 is still top dog. Even more so now with pd2.

Titan quest was always a bit boring tbqhfamalam.
Making builds was fun but playing the game sure wasnt

oh no a dragon

right click right click

oh no! A mummy

right click right click

Oh no! A boss mummy

1, right click right click

but that is fixing her, adult women who are still into subcultures meant for confused teenagers are mentally ill, they should be mothers focusing on raising their offspring at that point

Wizard is the most fun imo.

She is not in an actual subculture, she just kind of looks like a goth *for a lack of better term* and that's it. She would be better if she kept that aesthetic, not a generic and boring fake blond.

>oh no a dragon

>right click right click

>oh no! A mummy

>right click right click

>Oh no! A boss mummy

, right click right click
That's literally the whole genre

Cox lol

buy an ad

Agreed. Wish they made a sequel to it though.

Warrior. I just like beating shit to death.

Tradfag zoomers (in their Orthodog, Cathonigs Protistic and sometimes Jizzlamic varieties) are just so fucking devoid of any life experience, intelligence and wisdom that they actually think this shit unironically. Imagine thinking a boring, generic woman with no interests is better than a woman with good looks and an actual personality.

The only time that a woman being in a subculture is outright bad is when it borders on occult nonsense like Wicca/wichcraft or that other overtly demonic shit. Goth shit is not even close to being mentally ill, you underaged turd.

The jiggle physics in that game were nice.

Why the fuck did we never get a spiritual successor to it?

Imagine thinking a boring, generic woman with no interests is better than a woman with good looks and an actual personality.

"Goth" is a paint-by-numbers clique subculture for teenagers in high school. These women are the female equivalent of manchildren. Get more life experience and you'll understand why you don't actually want a goth wife.

Wasn't this game made by the developers of diablo 2?

"Goth" is a paint-by-numbers clique subculture for teenagers in high school.

The first goth chicks were women in their 20s-30s, you retard. Even now, there's still women in that age range that do that shit.

These women are the female equivalent of manchildren.

I've talked to goth chicks about very regular mundane things that a manchild would never even think of talking about. Just because a woman wants to stick out stylishly doesn't mean she's the next Chris-chan.

Get more life experience and you'll understand why you don't actually want a goth wife.

I don't. I'm just sick of zoomers pretending as if they have any and thinking a boring 1950s era housewife who's addicted to psychiatric meds and a bunch of other shit is magically better because of their poor understanding of their religion.

Based and NoXpilled.

Like most cliques, goth chicks are just attention seeking. They've just survived the 2000s (unlike scene and emo) because of the big titty goth gf meme

It had some Diablo 2 staff, the project leads were Diablo 2's character designer and one of Diablo 2 programmers.

I will now play your game

Divine Divinity is better than Nox.

Another Westwood classic

Sacred is better than both

She can be a goth wife/mom.

If only Larian games had gameplay that doesn't devolve to barrelmancy...
Literally every game they made is just "get a chest and fill it with heavy bullshit then throw it around the battlefield to one shot everyone even bosses".

they should have left out the teleported from modern world to medieval magic world thing
i know back to the future was still popular culture at the time but it was already played out

better

At what?

This game is older than you and the developer is long defunct.

so don't cheat? is that so hard? apparently yes

In terms of atmosphere I still think Throne of Darkness came the closet to Diablo. It was also the first of these games I remember REALLY drowning you in loot. I wish there was a sequel to flesh out some ideas.

or at least play the damn thing in beyond 800x600 resolution which is apparently hardcoded

Dungeon Siege 1.

God I miss this game. One of the few games out there where I wouldn't have hated a remake or an HD port of it. Granted I have no idea who owns Westwoods IPs now.

The only thing about this game I remember is fancy mouse pointer with particle effects. It was very cool back then.

bro just play suboptimally just ignore the game mechanics and handicap yourself then the game will be fun

If you can use in game mechanics to achieve a result, its not cheating.

everyman gets sucked into artifact

becomes one of three cool classes

fights fantasy monsters and becomes super powerful

gets the hot goth gf at the end

all in all one of my favorite games...but better than d2? not so sure about that

>gets the hot goth gf at the end

Only Wizard does.

better

At what?

Which was worse? Warrior in Wizard town or wizard in warrior town? And only wizard goes to hell.

People forget each class had its own story in Nox.

Warrior in wizard town was a joke, all they did was run and all you had to do is harpoon and charge them to one shot them. Its was more like an annoyance than anything chasing them all down when they proved no threat.
Where as going as a wizard to the warrior town was rough since you could be one shot even through barrier, and they would chase you down and harpoon you.

Which ARPGs do the survival horror aspect best?
I liked the restriction of limited supplies, not having free healing on tap, etc.

Depends on what you mean by "worse". Inter-faction hostility sucks major arse after you learn about the game's world and have to see (and unwillingly participate in) the tragedy firsthand. As for difficulty or maybe tedium everything pales in comparison to the swamp and everyone goes through that green hell like with Fields of Valour (which are fun).
Warrior really could have used some more abilities. He's fun to play but the other two classes have more fun things for variety.

It's been ages since I played it but I remember warrior against wizards being annoying as fuck because of teleporters. They always ran from you and there was a bunch of teleport fuckery

Where as going as a wizard to the warrior town was rough since you could be one shot even through barrier, and they would chase you down and harpoon you.

You get Invisibility and Traps. No excuses, go back to gittin gud.

You get Invisibility

You didn't beat the game.

since there are a bunch of old nerds here
I'm trying to remember a game that looks kind of like the thing I remember most from it was if you stole something a dude would appear and surround you with a ring of fire (?) and blow you up

implying I only ever beat it once with each class

I beat it once without abusing Invisibility. It's more tedium than it's worth. By the same reasoning you could argue that Charge or Harpoon are OP pls nerf. All classes having fun broken shit is why it's so good.

Grim Dawn lets me be a magic gunslinger that shoots bullets made of fire and lightning which makes it the best by default.

I believe that could be Ultima 7 or 8

I miss the giant fist falling from the sky.

Tower of Kalemonvo

I think it is ultima 8, I recognised some stuff when I looked for it (though my memory of it has warped since it has been like 25 years)

Diablo 1 is the best ARPG

Played pic related a few years ago and thought it was pretty fun. Are the sequels any good?

more of the same. I wasn't a big fan of tower defense headquarters.

Only really good in bombers with Stun or if you're willing to very carefully manage casting it directly (just remember that only one fist can be active at a time so either a bomber will fail or your direct spell). Force of Nature is way better if you do it right. But you get it pretty late.

Nox was the best game. Gameplay was SSS-tier, especially the multiplayer.

Wizard the GOAT. Most creative play and best drip.

After playing Nox I could never understand all the games that make spellcasters stand still to cast spells.

average

moderate

normal

what the fuck

Just play as a Warriror until you an understand.

I went for conjurer the first time I played it, so I kinda prefer him more.

I think he means that those are three different words that all mean the same thing.

Use War Cry for stunning those pesky spell casters and preventing them from doing magic.

one game that could actually use a good remaster and release on platforms other than EA's cancer

Agreed

You've piqued my interest so I've pirated this. I hope it's as good as you claim.

that intro

what's wrong with the evil chick's legs? I can't tell because the video's grainy but it felt like she was on stumps or something.
Also I can tell this gon be good, thanks nigs.

Hope you don't get filtered by the movement. It's a 10/10 game once you get used to the controls.

Nothing wrong with her aside from possibly early 3D being closer to the opposite from perfect. Never noticed anything. Also she's not inherently evil, just victim of circumstance. Or more like Jandor being a retard.

nice perspective, looks like a diorama. I ought to try this one some time.

Force of Nature is way better if you do it right.

That sound effect still gives me nightmares. Literally the sound of death.

Go Conjurer and summon monsters and launch the force of nature constantly to feel like a god of death. Theres nothing like it.

I'm not going to use this thread as a blog so this is probably my last post, but

that sick ass art style

that sick ass music

secret areas in an ARPG, and handcrafted maps

that line of sight mechanic makes exploration look cool

autosaved to run into a river of lava checking for secrets, died

necromancer chick's dialog makes it sound like there's unique game over voicelines for multiple scenarios

This is already fucking awesome. The artstyle's just so good dude, I thought the 3d model in the character creation looked bad but this makes me want to go and dig up my old drawing kit and give drawing and vidya dev another shot.

I hope I don't go back on this, but I went warrior and already I'm planning on replaying this game two more times with the other two classes.

Dungeon Siege did the whole party-based hacking and slashing better though

Marvelslop done in kinda same style

Literally the sound of death.

Really? It sounds nice to me. I guess death is part of nature.

I hope I don't go back on this, but I went warrior and already I'm planning on replaying this game two more times with the other two classes.

Oh yea you can't go wrong. Honestly warrior is probably the best to start with to get used to the game since you only have like 5 abilities. And gets more complex with other classes. Luckily each class has a unique story and some of the areas are different unless its like a main questline thing. Also make sure to talk to all the NPCs to get side quests.

Wasn't that more of a Dark Alliance clone?

>necromancer chick's dialog makes it sound like there's unique game over voicelines for multiple scenarios

There are.

and already I'm planning on replaying this game two more times with the other two classes.

This is how it goes, yes. I think I've beaten it with each class at least 5 times over the years.

4 player coop in this was the coolest shit, even if you were all kinda locked by how far away you all could go from each other.
Yeah, sort of.

why are you so obsessed with game competition?
both games are good and they have different gameplay
kill yourself

kill yourself fence sitter

for me, it's Champions of Norrath

Not Return to Arms?

Better than Diablo 1, sure but 2? No way, and I love Nox. It's just doesn't have the same staying power.

All I see is "stomp me mommy" box lady.
Is she in the game or one of those "I'm nothing but box and manual key art" ladies?

The sequel wasn't as good when I played them back to back years ago. Something always felt off

Is she in the game

She is the main villain.

Isekai is such a juvenile genre

I never played this. Did they ever explain why there was no X?

No what?

I played conjurer but it was kinda meh. It was funny summoning fat goblin females to fight for me though with my love spell.

Its actually named after the chemical Nitrous Decaoxide aka No10

X

No idea what you're talking about. "Nox" is the name of the land the events are taking place in. So the continent and possibly the world too.

Yeah, it is. I felt way more immersed in Nox as a kid than I did in Diablo 2. It being my first isekai helped with that, but the shadowy lighting and the cool spells like hand of death and the cute little goblin guys that threw stones and the comfy swamps were also factors.
It had capture the flag multiplayer that I never tried but always thought looked cool, among other MP modes

this camera angle is even worse than path of exile's

nah, diablo stays winning

that can't be right, why is the X capitalized?

merriam-webster.com/dictionary/stylize

hand of death

*Fist of Vengeance
EYAAAAAAH *slam*

But it had a ton of cool spells besides that. And I always liked regenerating mana with the crystals, felt comfy.
Also the capes and armor looked cool. RIP Westwood, they'd be as big as Blizzard now if things went down differently with EA

All these games in 3D should just let you rotate the camera however you want and freeze it there while you play. Why the fuck are they limited to this one isometric perspective still in 2025? It wouldn't break anything, it would just make it more fun. It was frozen like that in the 90s because they were 2D