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Author Topic: Any games where i can be a bad-ass wizard?  (Read 5506 times)

HonkyPunch

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Any games where i can be a bad-ass wizard?
« on: August 30, 2009, 03:05:46 am »

I've played plenty of games as a mage, but none of them feel like they capture the true potential of the magicks.
Anyone know of a game where you can bring the shit to your foes, instead of flinging wimpy little fireballs?
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Re: Any games where i can be a bad-ass wizard?
« Reply #1 on: August 30, 2009, 03:06:53 am »

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Re: Any games where i can be a bad-ass wizard?
« Reply #2 on: August 30, 2009, 03:09:50 am »

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HELL YEAH
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Re: Any games where i can be a bad-ass wizard?
« Reply #3 on: August 30, 2009, 03:10:44 am »

I'd play that, but it has difficulties creating my character and seems to require me to pay them money to get out of the starting city.
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Re: Any games where i can be a bad-ass wizard?
« Reply #4 on: August 30, 2009, 03:12:32 am »

Maybe i'll just wait till there is magic implemented in Dwarf Fortress.
In which case, i think we should be able to crumple people into balls/shrink their armor around them, crushing their organs and making a fountain of intestine smoothie spray from their empty eye sockets.

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Re: Any games where i can be a bad-ass wizard?
« Reply #5 on: August 30, 2009, 04:02:15 am »

First result for badass wizard search in google:
http://www.i-am-bored.com/bored_link.cfm?link_id=25302

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Re: Any games where i can be a bad-ass wizard?
« Reply #6 on: August 30, 2009, 04:02:57 am »

Try Avencast.  Focus on Blood magic.  Then, bring unholy smackdown to your legion of foes with your fiery staff of desecration.

It's very rare to see a spellcasting dude enter the thick of things.  But man, is it ever satisfying to smash your foes around with those powers...

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Re: Any games where i can be a bad-ass wizard?
« Reply #7 on: August 30, 2009, 04:08:29 am »

Sacrifice or Age of Wonders II.
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Re: Any games where i can be a bad-ass wizard?
« Reply #8 on: August 30, 2009, 04:20:15 am »

More of a god-game, but I enjoyed the fact that I could crush my opponent's followers using giant boulders in Black and White. And also you could use hand gesture (using mouse) to cast spells!
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Re: Any games where i can be a bad-ass wizard?
« Reply #9 on: August 30, 2009, 04:27:07 am »

Of all the games I've ever played, Daggerfall and Morrowind have best captured my idea of what it's like to be a mage.

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Re: Any games where i can be a bad-ass wizard?
« Reply #10 on: August 30, 2009, 04:29:32 am »

Of all the games I've ever played, Daggerfall and Morrowind have best captured my idea of what it's like to be a mage.

Still can't get over how awesome Morrowind is.

Yes. Morrowind is a good game in general, and has some fun potion-brewing, spell-flinging, item-enchanting gameplay mechanics.
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Re: Any games where i can be a bad-ass wizard?
« Reply #11 on: August 30, 2009, 01:34:10 pm »

Morrowind WAS pretty bad-ass, maybe for me the gameplay just limited the feeling of power that i wanted from magic.
Although the sword that enrages/calms a person at the same time is awesome, and being able to make it so I float when I fall, and reflect damage IS awesome.
i'll have to find my cd's...
And get some mods..
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Re: Any games where i can be a bad-ass wizard?
« Reply #12 on: August 30, 2009, 02:55:03 pm »

Of all the games I've ever played, Daggerfall and Morrowind have best captured my idea of what it's like to be a mage.

Yes yes yes yes yes.

Especially Morrowind, where the potion system was ridiculously broken (and it takes a lot of work to make something more broken than Daggerfall in some regard).  Being able to brew potions that give one god-like power (literally) would probably fit your definition quite nicely.
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Re: Any games where i can be a bad-ass wizard?
« Reply #13 on: August 30, 2009, 03:19:08 pm »

umm... Baldur's gate?  ???
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Re: Any games where i can be a bad-ass wizard?
« Reply #14 on: August 30, 2009, 04:25:40 pm »

Triangle Wizard.
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