Arx Fatalis Reviews

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ultragem

I like having to repeat the first part of the game multiple times because my fat fingers can't trigger a lever. 11/10

The only half-decent game Arcane Studios ever made. Everything since has been politically correct d0gshit with deliberately ugly characters. They were one of the fist studios to go woke, & they were one of the first studios to go broke. Rest in pi55.

I get so in aw of old video games. I'm not joking. You deserve to play this game and at the same time this game deserves your time (and maybe a quick youtube search when your stuck once in awhile). One of the most interesting rpg sandboxes ive ever played. Made in 2002. How we dont have more like this ill never understand. 9.5/10. One of the greatest first person rpgs of all time. Playing this 23 years late feels like a crime.

This is an *extremely* good game for its time period and genre. I really enjoyed it, and put in a lot of hours just messing around. I got it during the Chinese New Year festival sales, and I feel like I got every last dime of my money's worth from it. I give it 9/10 stars and would highly recommend. Pros: If you like a story-based quest progression game in a swords&sorcery genre, then this fits the bill. It's not mind-numbingly expansive like Skyrim or Witcher3, and it's not truly open-world (areas are restricted until you progress the main quest), but it's loads of fun and decent exploration. I searched through every last nook and cranny of the game world, finding hidden treasures or the occasional easter egg. The game is relatively easy to learn, and the combat is pretty simple if you're into combat. It's nowhere near Dark Souls difficulty, and you could probably run this game on a well rigged potato. Having said that, you WILL want to download the community "patch" (Arx Liberatis) to make the game playable on modern systems (it was almost entirely unplayable until I did so because modern mouse sensitivity kinda destroys the magic system and you *must* have *some* magic on your character to make the game work...ish). In 136 hours, I had no lag or stutter, and not a single crash or "have to reload" bug....not one. I only dropped through the world geometry requiring a reload (I never enabled the console) *once*, and I was really trying very hard to get somewhere players were clearly not meant to go at the time. ;) The economy is great (I never struggled for cash, but you have to manage some resources like torches mid-to-end game), and most of the loot makes sense (you get a couple pieces a wee tad too late for my tastes, but I'm greedy). I only did a very minimum amount of savescum grinding out of a personal desire to max out my character for kicks and theft. You're not buying this for sandboxing or jaw dropping graphics, you're buying this to tell/reveal/experience a single main story and save the world. Again...this isn't Skyrim and you can't "live" in this world long-term. Think of it more like decent-length digital one-shot solo D&D campaign. My one complaint is that the absolute end scenes after *everything* was done and/or defeated felt a wee bit . . . underwhelming. I guess I wanted accolades of some sort. I'd love to see the company revisit and reboot this title someday...expand some side quests, add some content (I really wanna be able to talk to the king about a certain letter I found....). Still, I've loved everything I've ever played from Arkane, and this is another great title.

guid to arx fatalis magic system 1 install arx libertatis 2 get really fuckin high 3 draw pretty pictures :)

Probably one of the most unique fantasy settings in existence. Probably the most unique magic casting mechanic in videogaming. If hand-crafted feel and experimental originality can beat out polished refinedness for you, this one is for you. It's quite old, so it obviously won't blow anyone's socks off graphically, but the specifics of the setting ameliorate any technical limitations of the engine. As an upside it'll run on a potato. Sadly, if you're gonna be playing this on anything other than a potato, you'll need a community port to run it at modern resolutions (beyond 1080p) - Arx Libertatis has your back there. Regrettably, the maintainers of the port use some 3rd party launcher that pings antiviruses though. If you're afraid of the antivirus notification, and are running a modern system, you can just extract the x64 binaries (or the x86 ones if you're running a potato) from the port's folder structure and avoid the launcher - truly baffling decision by the port maintainers.