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Post by Discoalucard on Jan 3, 2010 2:28:51 GMT -5
www.hardcoregaming101.net/shannara/shannara.htmIf I weren't committed to doing Legend game articles, I probably wouldn't have bothered playing/writing about this one, because it's exceedingly mediocre. I'm not much for fantasy fiction, but both Companions of Xanth and Death Gate (so far) have managed to be at least somewhat engaging. This one is just kinda...there, and the RPG elements are really badly integrated, which is a shame coming from the folks who did the Quest for Glory games.
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Post by Strider on Jan 3, 2010 9:37:57 GMT -5
So the Shannara game is overwhelmingly mediocre?
How in keeping with the books.
Oh yeah, I went there.
- HC
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Post by bioniccommando83 on Jan 3, 2010 15:20:28 GMT -5
Some of the books are mediocre- though I have a great fondness for Elfstones of Shannara and the Heritage series (and still own most of the run from the Knight of the Word through the High Druid series). A shame the game wasn't better on execution as I was looking to give it a play someday.
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Post by Discoalucard on Jan 3, 2010 18:55:38 GMT -5
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Post by Gendo Ikari on Jan 8, 2010 6:27:20 GMT -5
Some reviews at the time were too generous, since the game is effectively too easy (I've never considered myself a good solver, yet I managed to breeze through entire sections of it), I found it good anyway - having read the first Shannara book a couple of years earlier must have helped. However, it seems like some mark of Legend's gradual decline towards the development of Wheel of Time and, finally (in all the means), the disappointing Unreal II.
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Post by blackdrazon on Jan 8, 2010 14:54:33 GMT -5
"...the return of the Warlock Lord Brona, commander of the undead"
Star Wars did this too. What posses an author to look at a series of multiple entries and villains and go: "Whelp, the only possible way this is going to work is to bring back the original big bad" Nevermind the fact that Sword of Shannara had about one unique, memorable piece to it, and it was how the Brona was destroyed. C'mon people, it's not the lack of adherence to canon (I don't care), it's the banal lack of creativity. One imagines the Coles were phoning it in.
(I second the praise for Elfstones and Heritage, however).
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Post by roushimsx on Jan 10, 2010 11:44:51 GMT -5
Just dug through some Computer Games Strategy Plus issues and turned up some more fun reading for y'all. Preview: Another Review: Mid-90s computer game magazines are loaded with just so much awesomeness. Right now I'm reading an article on Mechwarrior 2 gameplay tips and it makes me just want to abandon playing Crysis and fire up Mechwarrior Living Legends.
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