6th June 2004, 10:10 PM
After how incredible the first one was, wouldn't that be a national tragedy?
I do have Stonekeep, actually. It's one of the numerous games in that Interplay 15th Anniversary Collection (15 good-to-great Interplay games for $15-20! I got it five years ago (that'd have been their 15th anniversary, right? I think this year was their 20th... all they did was do a limited online re-release of Freespace 2...), and it was worth it. Sure there are plenty of not great games in it, but it's got Conquest of the New World, Norse by Norsewest, Fallout, Castles II (I loved the first Castles... Castles II is very different, and probably not as good (though it's more a LOTR-style game than a focused castle building game), but still great to have...)... Shattered Steel, Descent... several others too.).
I only played Stonekeep a little, but it seemed like a very average old-styled dungeon hack. With extremely simplistic combat (okay, I didn't get far enough to get multiple party members or magic. But early on it seems to consist just of ' how fast can i click to hit them and will I die first or those stupid goblins'... stupid goblins, they killed me like three times then I quit playing...), node-based movement, and FMV! It didn't seem terrible, but it doesn't exactly stand out as one of the great RPGs. Or even one of the great Interplay RPGs. But I think you know that. :)
I do have Stonekeep, actually. It's one of the numerous games in that Interplay 15th Anniversary Collection (15 good-to-great Interplay games for $15-20! I got it five years ago (that'd have been their 15th anniversary, right? I think this year was their 20th... all they did was do a limited online re-release of Freespace 2...), and it was worth it. Sure there are plenty of not great games in it, but it's got Conquest of the New World, Norse by Norsewest, Fallout, Castles II (I loved the first Castles... Castles II is very different, and probably not as good (though it's more a LOTR-style game than a focused castle building game), but still great to have...)... Shattered Steel, Descent... several others too.).
I only played Stonekeep a little, but it seemed like a very average old-styled dungeon hack. With extremely simplistic combat (okay, I didn't get far enough to get multiple party members or magic. But early on it seems to consist just of ' how fast can i click to hit them and will I die first or those stupid goblins'... stupid goblins, they killed me like three times then I quit playing...), node-based movement, and FMV! It didn't seem terrible, but it doesn't exactly stand out as one of the great RPGs. Or even one of the great Interplay RPGs. But I think you know that. :)
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