Hey Sup Forums, I know 70% of you aren't old enough to even know of this game, but for the other 30%...

Hey Sup Forums, I know 70% of you aren't old enough to even know of this game, but for the other 30%, is Champions of Norrath supposed to be broken for non-physical characters at the beginning?

you just reminded me i failed to finish this like 13 years ago. I have no answer since I played physical.

If mana didn't regen so slow starting out it wouldn't be as much of a problem. As much as I liked this game it was absolute garbage to play alone.

If playing alone yeah its kind of impossible to be like a full on mage.

Played a cleric solo years ago and seemed just fine early game. Can't say much more than that as I mostly played an archer.

All those PS2 Baldur's Gate and Everquest ARPG games were fucking amazing. Spent so much time with friends going through them.

NO MANA

felt bad getting kicked all the time online since I didn't have the special item for doing the challenges, and I couldn't do the challenges since my game would freeze on one of the screens.

I CAN'T CARRY ANYMORE
I CAN'T CARRY ANYMORE
I CAN'T CARRY ANYMORE

Kind of sad about this. I emulated the beginning part of it with a wizard and it worked thought that the combat felt nice. Then I played some other stuff but came back to it and went into the 'real' first area as a wizard and found I'd have to sit around waiting for my MP to recharge forever to do anything

I have this game still in shrink-wrap. Never bothered to open it.

everyone knows this is the superior game

>tfw being a mage just turned into "running away while throwing explosive potions simulator"

Is there any reason to play Norrath then?

Back then I played Return To Arms first since I knew nothing about this series. This game had inferior levels, they're just tilesets with shit to kill, and starts with a tough difficulty. The first game had context to the places you fight through, so you probably shouldn't skip to RTA.

>get network adapter
>playing RTA online
>some chick joins my lobby
>she's level -127 and her character is so huge only her giant feet are on screen
>kills 1 enemy
>immediately sends me to level 80
>hands me a mace that attacks as fast as I can press the button
>its faster to move forward by attacking now
>never play online again
it was fun while it lasted

different areas and bosses. they're both cool and I enjoyed them more than Dark Alliance 1/2

Is it balanced better for ranged characters?

There's no way she was a real girl, user

That xmen game was good too

Since we're on the subject of these kinda games, did anyone else hit a huge wall in the first DA that made the difficulty really fucking spike up? I think it was the snow level. The enemies don't respawn so you can't grind levels but there aren't enough non-respawning enemies to get to a high enough level to where you don't have to fucking kite everything and get killed in two hits/swarmed by dogs

>bought a ps2 just to play these again

fuck emulating, I need that real shit

I have Champions of Norrath to thank for my online alias and gamertag etc. random name I gave my dark elf

Any other loot grinders and dungeon crawlers like Champions where I can use heavy and light attack instead of just clicking on an enemy and watching my character swing away until things die?

I beat DA on GCN and never had that issue for some reason, but I played as melee so I assume I was a lot tankier. If you played with a squisher style character maybe that would be it? I do remember having to chug potions like an absolute madman near the end of the game but I always ended up being able to pay for it or getting enough as drops

well it was a girl that I was talking to for several hours or a dude who had 100% perfected the tone of voice and inflections that the average girl would use with no slip ups

>Played in EverQuest from pre-Kunark at age 7 to GoD
>Played this
>Immediately found out how to duplicate gear and twink myself out

Also Necromancer is waifu class.

Fuck you, everyone knows this was the best

Oh yeah I guess that makes sense. I always played the hot mage lady

For some reason Diablolikes feel more fun to me with a controller. I just can't stand the basic nature of "click to attack"; it just doesn't work for me. How many games like this on PC have good controller support?

,I disagree. I had an amazing mage who shot raining ice through walls and did that without running out of mana. But I duped gems.