AVERNUM 6 MAPS SOFTWARE
This is a complete non-issue to me as code reuse is one of the goals of good software development and if you’ve never played an Avernum game or a Spiderweb Software game it’ll all look new anyway. You can just play, there is a brief tutorial mission to get you going and conventions from Ultima or Diablo remain in Avernum.Īpparently the big criticism of Avernum and it’s creator Jeff Vogel is he reuses the engine and some of the graphics from the previous Avernum and other Spiderweb Software games. I never played any of the others, though they are all available even in sets of three, if you want. So if you want an RPG with a bigger world, with that old school Ultima or Bard’s Tale feel, try Avernum. I never hit up against that and I bought before I tried anyway.
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You can download a lengthy demo which is basically the full game, you just can’t get past a certain quest or rank.
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Avernum 6 is available for Mac and Windows PC for I think 29.95 but if you bought it in October which I did, you got a further 10% off. This is an indy game so no big cut scenes or intros, no famous stars doing voice overs, no need to buy a new processor to run the latest greatest engine. Assassins and enemies of the state exist to ambush you. Goblins and such still attack generally as soon as they see you. Avoiding combat is often a valid tactic and the only way to complete some missions is improve your “Nature Lore” so you have to fight less wild animals. Like I said I seem to be allowed to go most places now, though some are dangerous and NPCs generally warn you not to go to certain places or mess with certain monsters or groups. I don’t know how far off the official track you can go, although I played for many, many hours in the last week or so, I have only made it to Lieutenant and am not sure how far I’m through the game. You can choose to help certain NPCs or you can refuse, literally taking sides in a conflict or two. Undercroft had the trickier puzzles, Avernum 6 is more like Ultima in that the world is big and what you do has some consequences. The game has multiple difficulties, an isometric view, turn based combat, ie not a JRPG or Action RPG, more old school, like Undercroft, a game for a more mature audience perhaps, but there isn’t any nudity and something like Diablo II has way more exploding guts animations and such, but this isn’t Paper Mario.
Now I’ve explored the bottom two thirds of the map, some parts pretty thoroughly. Certain areas are off limits, generally for your own safety until your party is more powerful and you’ve achieve a higher rank. Secret stuff is a little harder to spot in Avernum and your party’s stats and abilities affect this, so does your rank, the spells you know, and which missions you’ve done. It doesn’t necessarily feel like that, as you can just spend hours walking around looking for secret stuff.
The game has many, many side quests but the main storyline is supposedly linear.
You and your party start out as Privates in the Avernum army and if you complete missions/quests you get promoted and get harder missions/quests. This is the sixth and final game in the series. Short story I stayed up way too late three nights in a row wondering around the world of Avernum.Īvernum is a fantasy world with most of your usual fantasy races, except the world is underground.
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So after getting stymied in Rimelands by bugs or flaws in the program, I ended up learning about an indy RPG series and impulsively downloaded the latest game from Spiderweb Software: Avernum 6 if you haven’t guessed.
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