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But diplomacy was always an excellent trade-off in Geneforge. Lockpicking was easily handled as part of a general 'tech' stat in Geneforge and it worked fine - was still a clear means of making a 'try to avoid combat by noticing patrols, using environment and sneaking through locked areas' build. Similarly disappointed about simiplification - more by loss of diplomacy path rather than the lockpicking part. But the actual execution is machine-like and mundane - think great setting, great themes, great branching but it isn't exactly the home of PS:T-style or MotB-style wonderful language.

What he does brilliantly in Geneforge is setting and he also knows the STRUCTURE of writing well, and the geneforge games are great for originality and amazing branching, and they have terrific multi-layered themes, so that puts him ahead of many 'professional' game writers (better than any of Gaider's work, for example).

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I've never rated Vogel as a 'great' writer - I like his efforts, but he writes like an indie developer, not a professional writer or even a game developer who has 'proven himself' as a writer ala MCA or Ziets. Still looks better than the mainstream, but severely disappointed by it taking the Avernum 'linear main quest with side quests' approach rather than the Geneforge branching factions+subfaction-driven approach. Avadon: The Black Fortress is the start of a new franchise, and so far it is looking like we are in for a great series!ĭisappointing in some ways, though I'll certainly get it. Spiderweb took a chance this year – they left behind the established and well-loved worlds of Avernum and Geneforge and set out on a new adventure. I applaud them in general – but with things like Din’s Curse, Eschalon Book II and now Avadon … I can more specifically applaud their efforts. Between Soldak, Basilisk and Spiderweb, RPG fans have three ‘indie’ game studios willing to do the hard work of developing worthwhile and robust games that fill the void left behind. Bethesda did a very similar thing with Oblivion compared to the much better RPG Morrowind – and I truly doubt that Skyrim will suddenly have robust RPG systems. I have been very vocal about my disappointment in recent ‘major’ RPG games and developers: Bioware has been moving towards story-based action games with little RPG content in Mass Effect series, and Dragon Age II also took a major step in that direction. But it also has a great combat system, excellent balancing, great characters, and so in spite of those minor complaints this is my favorite Spiderweb game. Is Avadon: The Black Fortress perfect? Not at all – the story isn’t the best Vogel has written, and some of the game elements could use more fleshing out. But Avadon is a tighter experience – as I said the trash mobs have been reduced, so the hours you spend are actually doing RPG-related things rather than battle after battle … or wave after wave within a battle!

For some, that is short – it is certainly shorter than Avernum 6. Jeff Vogel targeted a run through at 25-35 hours based on your own style of play, which is about right. I would estimate it at about 40 hours based on my slow play-style. One thing I didn’t mention is the length of Avadon. It seems the game left a pretty positive impression:

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Gear Diary has a review of Avadon: The Black Fortress available, based on the recently released mac version of the game.

#Avadon the black fortress lockpicking software

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