EPTWas replaying this weekend. The memories :D
Nox Anyone?
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Ziken
Ghana1743 Posts
Was replaying this weekend. The memories :D | ||
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WiljushkA
Serbia1416 Posts
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DamnCats
United States1472 Posts
edit: yes our town was being evacuated and the first thing i thought i had to get out of the house was my desktop. wtg priorities. | ||
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R0YAL
United States1768 Posts
 Back when I was in 4th grade I used to get up at 4am every morning so I could play for 3 hours before school ^^ I wish more games took after Nox because it definitely promoted skilled players. | ||
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Lopert
Canada17 Posts
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sluggaslamoo
Australia4494 Posts
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Hikari
1914 Posts
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Sandrosuperstar
Sweden525 Posts
played it around the time i also played bw the first time Edit: no wait i think it was a year l8r | ||
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Sandrosuperstar
Sweden525 Posts
On September 08 2010 02:06 Hikari wrote: Brings back memories of charging into stuff and smashing them with a huge hammer! Should find a torrent :p im still seeding for this game  | ||
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MrBitter
United States2940 Posts
The multiplayer was craaazy. I loved porting people onto traps as the mage. | ||
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Uranium
United States1077 Posts
I'd love to see a NOX 2 with modern gfx/items/multiplayer | ||
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Ziken
Ghana1743 Posts
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Meantime
Germany140 Posts
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Mikami_
Estonia274 Posts
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Vei
United States2845 Posts
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Madcatcf
Vietnam77 Posts
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Go0g3n
Russian Federation410 Posts
Basically it's Diablo with a bit better gfx (questionably) and effects, but everything else: story, combat, immersion, RPG elements, - a lot, lot worse. | ||
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R0YAL
United States1768 Posts
On September 08 2010 03:26 Go0g3n wrote: Don't bother. I played it back in the days, didn't complete it for some reason, decided to give it a go about a month ago after stumbling upon some RPG Gaming thread here on TL. Basically it's Diablo with a bit better gfx (questionably) and effects, but everything else: story, combat, immersion, RPG elements, - a lot, lot worse. Definitely a matter of opinion, Nox's PvP is better than D2 tenfold and I played D2 for years. | ||
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Wohmfg
United Kingdom1292 Posts
I'm definitely going to give it more of a go after all the praise it's received here but I don't know how long it can hold my attention. | ||
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MrBitter
United States2940 Posts
On September 08 2010 03:50 Wohmfg wrote: I just installed NOX for the first time about an hour ago after reading this thread. It's ok. The controls are a bit awkward when you compare it to D2's one click/hotkeys. Knocking down those destructible walls with a bow having to single click every time I want to fire gets a bit tedious as well. I'm definitely going to give it more of a go after all the praise it's received here but I don't know how long it can hold my attention. IMO, the multiplayer is what really makes Nox shine. I wish I could find a copy of this game somewhere, I'd love to play with some TLers. Edit: But in regards to single player, if you give up on it before the last level, you're really cheating yourself. Literally one of the best ending sequences I've played. (Granted the final boss is tedious as shit, but the trek up to her is siiick) | ||
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Zona
40426 Posts
On September 08 2010 02:34 Ziken wrote: Yea, that would be great, too bad westwood hasnt really planned anything in that direction The old, authentic Westwood Studios is dead and buried; this is ancient history (when speaking in video game terms). | ||
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dbddbddb
Singapore969 Posts
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Wasp82
United States12 Posts
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Excludos
Norway8247 Posts
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Nitrogen
United States5345 Posts
tunngle supports nox (tunngle = better version of hamachi/garena) download | ||
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oddeye
Canada716 Posts
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potatoedoughnut
United States334 Posts
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t00ey
Canada57 Posts
I loved how angry people would get at me for spamming that spell. | ||
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Aukai
United States1183 Posts
It was generally frowned on to play a Conjurer online as oppose to a warrior or a wizard. | ||
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gogogadgetflow
United States2583 Posts
On September 08 2010 03:05 Vei wrote: Came for NO Xplode, leave confused | ||
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ggrrg
Bulgaria2716 Posts
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seRapH
United States9803 Posts
well single player, haven't tried multi. (never played multi). but my saves won't load and the game just crashes when i get to some areas T_T but yes, this game was awesome when i could play it :DDD | ||
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CharlieMurphy
United States22895 Posts
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Kexx
Germany240 Posts
the controls felt so much more fluent than in diablo 2, you could sprint, you could jump. and the flexible fog of war was awesome, especially in multiplayer. good times. | ||
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Acritter
Syria7637 Posts
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Antisocialmunky
United States5912 Posts
The Vampires with Plate Armor and Warhammers were my favorite characters. | ||
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Tennet
United States1458 Posts
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his_shadow
United States48 Posts
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Consummate
Australia191 Posts
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NeoLearner
Belgium1847 Posts
Only thing I hated was the rather small weight limit. I'm a bit of a pack rat and ended up running back and forth to carry additional stuff... Conjurer's for the win! I like the unit format, summoning and archery make a good mix. | ||
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Bosu
United States3247 Posts
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Nitrogen
United States5345 Posts
On September 08 2010 16:31 Consummate wrote: Nox was awesome, always felt that Wizard was ridiculously OP and the Warrior was waaaayyy too hard. Well, the part where you have to collect the parts for the halberd was ridiculous when you're a Warrior and have to infiltrate the Wizard area. Wizard infiltrating the Warrior area on the other hand was easy. the warrior entering the wizard place was probably the most fun part in singleplayer nox. i just love chasing those wizards around as they teleport away and try to use fireballs and shit on you, but you just use warcry and they all run away, haha. the most annoying part there is that the wizards use fumble on you. | ||
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LarvaRush
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Dfgj
Singapore5922 Posts
On September 08 2010 17:34 Nitrogen wrote: the warrior entering the wizard place was probably the most fun part in singleplayer nox. i just love chasing those wizards around as they teleport away and try to use fireballs and shit on you, but you just use warcry and they all run away, haha. the most annoying part there is that the wizards use fumble on you. Fucking awesome, I loved that part as Warrior (and entering the Warrior place as Wizard, too). Nox is great, I always hated that I never found people to play multiplayer with =( | ||
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Antisocialmunky
United States5912 Posts
On September 08 2010 16:31 Consummate wrote: Nox was awesome, always felt that Wizard was ridiculously OP and the Warrior was waaaayyy too hard. Well, the part where you have to collect the parts for the halberd was ridiculous when you're a Warrior and have to infiltrate the Wizard area. Wizard infiltrating the Warrior area on the other hand was easy. The Wizard area wasn't too bad once you figured out that you needed to stock up on Shurikens and Chakrums... Like tons of shurikens of bewilderment. | ||
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-Sky-
Bulgaria284 Posts
I just love that game man. Its realy well made and realy interesting and its soooo awesome!!! And has one of the best multiplayers Ive ever played I have an orginal copy of it cus im a diehard fan of NOX! | ||
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MassArbiterFTW
Australia52 Posts
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WiljushkA
Serbia1416 Posts
On September 08 2010 17:34 Nitrogen wrote: the warrior entering the wizard place was probably the most fun part in singleplayer nox. i just love chasing those wizards around as they teleport away and try to use fireballs and shit on you, but you just use warcry and they all run away, haha. the most annoying part there is that the wizards use fumble on you. +1 also using the bullrush and the hook on them was loads of fun. id always use that huge hammer that kills most of them in one hit, just draw them in with the huk and blast them :D | ||
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kidijs
Latvia40 Posts
On September 08 2010 03:33 R0YAL wrote: Definitely a matter of opinion, Nox's PvP is better than D2 tenfold and I played D2 for years. Haha, it's also better than SC2's PvP  Anyway, Nox was a really, really fun game. I didn't make it to the last level though, but was close. I simply played it when I was a bit too young to understand how to use the warrior's spells properly. | ||
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keeblur
United States826 Posts
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Dfgj
Singapore5922 Posts
On September 08 2010 20:58 Antisocialmunky wrote: The Wizard area wasn't too bad once you figured out that you needed to stock up on Shurikens and Chakrums... Like tons of shurikens of bewilderment. And use the halberd of horrendous (which can't be fumbled) a fair amount, along with charge/warcry to move quickly and keep from getting spelled down. I'm going to second that it was my favorite part of the game, though. | ||
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Ziken
Ghana1743 Posts
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luNkan
Sweden9 Posts
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Carfo
United States6 Posts
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Maedi
United States477 Posts
Goooooooooooood times. | ||
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hellbound
United Kingdom2242 Posts
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Xapti
Canada2473 Posts
As far as I know, it was the first competitive action game in a fantasy setting - at least mainstream. As people have said, the singleplayer really wasn't that good, but some peopel are huge fans of it for whatever reason. The multiplayer was fantastic, and one of the main reasons was the design of the player input and combat mechanics. You either hit or miss based off where you clicked (and/or how close you were or if they had a shield up), no silly % chances to miss or hit (armor reduced certain damage types depending on the armor type (and increased an elemental damage type)). The way the controls were designed, you had access to far more abilities than you could in any other games I've ever played. You had 5 ability hotkeys (ASDFG) per ability set and you could easily toggle through up to 5 ability sets, making it quite easy to cast up to 25 abilities. Most games now used left hand for movement, but since this game uses mouse for movement AND aim, it frees the left hand to do much more. The only downside is you can't run backwards, but IMO that's a pretty good thing, because I find running backwards in virtually any game is really lame. I really wish this game got balanced and improved a bit more, and held it's popularity like some other games. This is one of the only good non-FPS/RTS PvP games I've ever played (along with Guild Wars), and it really deserves a spot in gamer's hardrive's instead of stupid grindfests that have ridiculously bad PvP such as diablo and diablo 2. I think games like DotA/LoL/HoN would be better if they used nox-style controls and mechanics, as it makes it much easier and skillful to do virtually everything. I am annoyed that Starcraft 2 does not support mouse position. It's so ridiculous, because so many potential custom games could take advantage of that, and it's absolutely critical to have a variety of good games on the SC2 platform. If SC2 supported mouse position, it would have been possible to make a remake of Nox for SC2 (although the game lag would have to be fixed for it to be viable PvP) | ||
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Maedi
United States477 Posts
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Nitrogen
United States5345 Posts
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Seann_William_Scott | ||
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LolnoobInsanity
United States183 Posts
I still have a copy of it somewhere, but only like Disc 1 and 3. Or something like that. Lol I miss that game. | ||
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Vharox
United States1037 Posts
Oh god so much fun. | ||
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StuBob
United States373 Posts
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seRapH
United States9803 Posts
any way to play multiplayer, since official servers are down? nvm i can't read. will see if i can get this to work | ||
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Gorguts
Canada254 Posts
On September 09 2010 06:53 seRapH wrote: any way to play multiplayer, since official servers are down? Yes, go to noxforum.net, downloads section to the "Easier Nox Download" thread and it's there. It uses a no-cd crack that gets a false positive on some antivirus programs (AVG mainly). Note: When you login to play multiplayer, do not click "Register". just type in a unique username and a password and login. The username has to be unique or you won't see games. And this is not illegal, its been tweeted by EA games and Westwood staff. Also the game still has good server hosting, although the servers are down often, I'm hosting a backup server for when they go down. I get like 50-60 ping in the servers, MUCH better than the official servers back in the day. I strongly encourage anyone to try this game, it's a total blast. Easy to get in to, and it has an insanely high skill ceiling. | ||
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bakedace
United States672 Posts
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Gorguts
Canada254 Posts
On October 26 2010 10:23 bakedace wrote: I've never played it.. but after watching some gameplay videos, I wouldn't say it had better graphics than D2.. The graphics are definitely better. Specifically the spells and particle effects. Its also higher resolution. Both games look nice though, and graphics dont mean anything. | ||
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humblegar
Norway883 Posts
Nox just got released on Good old games! Here is the Gamecard on gog.com. Compability (from above link): - Windows XP, Windows Vista, Windows 7 (32 & 64 bit) Good (old) gaming | ||
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Zhazulo
Sweden226 Posts
The single player is really good, but it really excels in its multiplayer. Though the official servers are down, the post above me specified how to play online. What I especially like are the mechanics of the game, e.g. jumping, line of sight and the spells. However, I did find the wizards to be a bit OP in multiplayer, imo. Did anyone else have difficulties against wizards' Death Ray ability? I remember playing 1v1 with my friend, though we were pretty even, he always had sick mouse control, being able to quickly snipe me with that spell. Ofc, my favorite class was conjurer, maybe that was the problem :O | ||
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Xapti
Canada2473 Posts
IMO warrior needed the most help, but a skillful warrior with good ping was really ridiculously powerful. IMO only having like 3-4 main skills and 1-2 less-used skills isn't that great — it would be nice if they could have been made more interesting by having more abilities. | ||
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achristes
Norway653 Posts
Also, this is an awesome game, played it all the time when I was a kid (sorry if this is not an appropriate reason to bump, but I can't find anything about it on the internet and I think it doesn't warrant it's own thread) | ||
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nofAcedAgent
United States952 Posts
"Ogres took the women - Have a drink?" | ||
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Val_
Ukraine156 Posts
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