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1997-1998 i got a disc with some demos BoE was on it. I absolutely loved it. I got lost in other games later on (half-life, Diablo’s) but for some reason non of those games gave me such a long lasting impression as VoDT, I even bought the exile trilogy by mistake thinking it had blades of exile in it (not SW exile trilogy may I add, but its cool I sold it for more than I paid for it on ebay) anyway in 2003 or so I got BOA and then shortly after Avernum3, G3 and recently Avernum4 (I am on fire lol) I even thought about getting A1 and A2 but I couldn’t get used 2 the way characters moved (BIG SHAME)

 

Kind of sad that it all started with BoE and i only own the demo frown

 

Wow I did not mean for this to turn out this way…oh well. My fav game so far is A3 but I think I’d love the exiles a lot more if I had them…a little 2 late now.

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From 1991 I was playing Darklands by Microprose. It was then the most interesting and peerless game I've seen. I even copied all the riddles and puzzles from it. But since I've finished that medieval adventure I started searching for something to look like and there I found Exile I: Escape from the Pit. As for the Avernum, I came to it about two years ago.

 

Edit: Forgot about the last question. My favorite game, I guess, is King's Bounty. I'm inclined to think the same favor from me can be spread over the Warlords I.

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How did you first find avernum?

I founf it by looking at the Spidweb Website. After playing Nethergate.

 

What game did you first play?

Something to do with chucking my food wildly around when I was 2 or so. Oh, so you meant computer games... Probably Minesweeper or Solitaire.

 

Why did you play it?

Because.

 

What is your favorite game?

Hmmm... At the moment, GF3. Or Nethergate.

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Since this is in the Avernum Trilogy Forum, Dikiyoba assumes that all questions are about Avernum.

 

How did you first find Avernum?

Shareware CD.

 

What game did you first play?

Avernum 2.

 

Why did you play it?

Because it was on the CD and Dikiyoba was bored.

 

What is your favorite game?

Avernum 2.

 

Edit: Typo.

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I found Avernum because I already liked Exile and Nethergate, and I played them in order. A2 is my favorite, both because it is the best and because I am a mindless sheep that follows popular opinion.

 

—Alorael, who does not have any deep psychological insight into why he does anything, much less why he specifically plays Avernum.

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Originally written by Dikiyoba:
Since this is in the Avernum Trilogy Forum, Dikiyoba assumes that all questions are about Avernum.
I hope it is quite discussable. Still, while no special comments are made by the thread's author, I guess it is for the one answering to decide, Dikiyoba included smile
BTW in my lang "Dikiyoba" should be translated (homophonically) as "both are wild". A coincidence? smile
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Originally by Meeshka:

 

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BTW in my lang "Dikiyoba" should be translated (homophonically) as "both are wild". A coincidence?
What is the name of your language? I'll make note of it on my list of names.

 

Dikiyoba's name can be transformed in many ways. Now it can be translated in many ways as well. (Human) nature abhors a vacuum and attaches meaning to the meaningless.

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I found Avernum 2 when I stambled across www.spidweb.com in summer of 2001. As for Spidweb games in general, I first found Exile II when looking online for sharewere in whatever year it came out. I think it might have been on AOL games. I played it because I like RPGs and because I wasn't allowed to buy computer games at the time. When I found A2, I've registered that, and a couple of later Spidweb games as well. My favorite computer game is Civilization 4, but if you are talking about Avernum games, it's A2.

 

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Originally by Meeshka:

 

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BTW in my lang "Dikiyoba" should be translated (homophonically) as "both are wild". A coincidence?
What is the name of your language? I'll make note of it on my list of names.

 

Dikiyoba's name can be transformed in many ways. Now it can be translated in many ways as well. (Human) nature abhors a vacuum and attaches meaning to the meaningless.

I think his language is Russian. I'd translate it from Russian as "wild Oba". "Dikiy" is male form of adjective "wild" and "oba" means "both", but to make it gramatically correct it would be "Dikiyeoba" (using plural form of "wild"). I guess Dikiyeoba could go on your list as "botharewild".
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... but to make it gramatically correct it would be "Dikiyeoba" (using plural form of "wild")
I think you wanted to say "Dikieoba" then. That is why I specified only homophonical similarity without changing the original. I like the spelling of Dikiyoba.
And yes, my first native language is Russian.
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Word order in Russian isn't as fixed as in English, so either is fine. Although oba dikije, does sound better than dikije oba. Which word goes first determines emphasis: "Oba vi dikije" emphasizes "both", while "Dikije vi oba" emphasizes "wild".

 

And to try to get this discussion back towards the topic of Avernum, how did people come up with Vahnatai language? It seems to appear in only a few places in the game, but Drakey has a whole dictionary.

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I found Spidweb's website when I inherited an old mac from a family member, hooked it up to the internet (my first computer - freedom was MINE) and googled something like "download free games mac". So then I got the A1 demo, and played it ad nauseum. A while later the A2 demo came out, so I played that to death too. Then I explored the website more carefully and played more or less all the demos, including E1-3 and BoE, and after about a year I managed to persuade someone to let me use their credit card (didn't have my own one then) to register A1 and A2. I've also got A3, BoA and Nethergate now.

 

I don't know which game is my favourite, but I think I enjoyed playing A1 and A2 best, since I'd played the demos for so long that it was a huge relief once I finally got past the registration barriers. Haven't played any other computer games in the last ten years or so except for Myst and Riven.

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this is getting off topic...
Not for the first time on this boards, as I have understood. smile
To make it back on topic, all newcomers should just answer the first questions. laugh
And for homophone names I suppose there is a place somewhere on general board for a new thread, isn't it? wink Sorry for a sudden offtopic
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Originally by Meeshka:

 

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And for homophone names I suppose there is a place somewhere on general board for a new thread, isn't it? Sorry for a sudden offtopic
It's better just to leave it here and keep several discussions in this topic going at once. And you don't have anything to apologize for. It was highly enlightening.

 

It would be great if Dikiyoba is an account run by two hooligans. Unfortunately, Dikiyoba is an account run by one well-behaved individual. Or at least mostly well-behaved.

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Originally by Tyranicus:

 

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I discovered Avernum 4 years ago.
Really? It's been out for years? I thought it was more recent than that. :p

 

Originally by llama:

 

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if my spelling is bad i dont care dont post abought it
Obviously, you do care. Just type your posts in Word or some other program with a spell check and then copy and paste them into your reply. It won't take too much effort and will make you and everyone else much happier.

 

Dikiyoba has been trying to persuade a friend to download a Spiderweb Software game for months. The lack of Internet at said friend's house makes this difficult.

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The computer my dad bought when I was 7 or so came with a lot of games on it for some reason (I think we got it used…). They were all those old classics like Civilization and Ultima III, and among them was the demo version of Exile 1.1.3. I had no idea how it worked (after a couple years, I found the instruction menu and found out that you don't talk in complete sentences), but screwed around with it a bunch, off and on. Then something odd happened and I apparently lost the actual application. (Don't ask me how…) I searched for Exile online, found Spiderweb Software's site, and redownloaded it (although it was 2.0.1, the graphics of which are vastly inferior, at least IMO). I had no idea there were more games. I played through the demos of Exile 2 (which, I found out, actually WAS named "Crystal Souls", not "Hordes of Monsters Ripping AT YOUR FACE!!!" or whatever the other title was =D=D) and 3, then Nethergate, then this weird "Avernum" business. (Huh?! A remake of Exile? So it was.) I don't know which I like better. Exile is classic, but Avernum has more quests, therefore character development… meh.

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I think I will, but I give it about two months.

 

I first found Avernum by looking through the downloadable demos on the SpidWeb site. I was led to SpidWeb by a shareware disc with Exile 3 on it.

 

Exile 3.

 

I played it because my brother played it and I wanted to see what about it he liked so much.

 

BoA. Despite its ugly graphics, bad combat system, limited range of scenarios, and bugs, it's still the best SpidWeb game I've registered (although BoE is my next target).

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I bought a CD of 1000 games and the Exile demos were on it. Only Exile 3 would install so I played that and liked it. I bought the Exile trilogy and Blades since the other games wouldn't run on my system. When I upgraded I tried the Avernum demos and bought them and Geneforge games. I'm finally getting around to the Geneforge trilogy and might try Nethergate later.

 

I started playing Ultima II on my roommate's computer (Apple II+).

 

It was a group purchase and I liked it until I reached the end.

 

I guess I like Avernum 2 the best, but A4 is a better combat system.

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I got one of those shareware disks back in like 1997-98-ish. I discovered Exile 2 on there in about late 2000, and finally found the website (and the other games) in 2002.

I didn't actually play (or register) the Avernum games until about two years ago.

 

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I believe that he needs to stop reading Lewis Carrol's poetry for a bit.

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Originally by Tyranicus:

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I discovered Avernum 4 years ago.
Really? It's been out for years? I thought it was more recent than that. :p
You'll soon be free of lice with all that nit-picking, Dikiyoba. :p

Edit: I edited the 4 to four in an effort to at least keep some semblance of sanity around here. That's probably a lost cause though. :rolleyes:
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Originally written by Dikiyoba:
Originally by Tyranicus:

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I discovered Avernum 4 years ago.
Really? It's been out for years? I thought it was more recent than that. :p
You'll soon be free of lice with all that nit-picking, Dikiyoba. :p

Edit: I edited the 4 to four in an effort to at least keep some semblance of sanity around her. That's probably a lost cause though. :rolleyes:
Sanity is overrated. smile
I think Dikiyoba's post was supposed to be a joke.

And while we are talking about victims of turtles,
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Dikiyoba has been trying to persuade a friend to download a Spiderweb Software game for months. The lack of Internet at said friend's house makes this difficult.
Most computers still have floppy drives. You can use WinZip (or any other Zip program) to make a zip file from the demos and split it into 1.4MB (floppy-sized) chunks. Then use floppy disks to copy the files to friend's computer and recombine them.

Or you could get a USB flash memory key-chain thing that holds 128MB for about 10$.
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Originally by Zeviz:

 

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Most computers still have floppy drives. You can use WinZip (or any other Zip program) to make a zip file from the demos and split it into 1.4MB (floppy-sized) chunks. Then use floppy disks to copy the files to friend's computer and recombine them.

 

Or you could get a USB flash memory key-chain thing that holds 128MB for about 10$.

Dikiyoba has a PC and Dikiyoba's friend has a Mac. That's the tricky part.
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I discovered Avernum on the website after finding Exile III on a shareware CD. Suffice to say that when I first saw the CD, I never thought it would affect, one way or another, the next five years of my life (as it now has). My favorite game is Avernum 4. No, wait. I'm messing with you. It's Blades of Exile.

 

Regarding Drakey's Novah: It is invented, but "made up" is a misleading term seeing as the vocabularly is chosen in such a way as to give the names in the game a meaning. In a way, it's partly invented and partly reverse-engineered.

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Originally written by Tyranicus:
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Originally written by Dikiyoba:
Originally by Tyranicus:

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I discovered Avernum 4 years ago.
Really? It's been out for years? I thought it was more recent than that. :p
You'll soon be free of lice with all that nit-picking, Dikiyoba. :p

Edit: I edited the 4 to four in an effort to at least keep some semblance of sanity around her. That's probably a lost cause though. :rolleyes:
Trust me, keeping a semblance of sanity around her is the most lost cause you will ever encounter. No sanity around Dikiyoba, no sir. wink
(sorry. you made that too easy...)
(and sorry for the double post. There is a reason. Severe technical limitations. I'll explain later if desired.)

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Originally by Arancaytar:

 

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Trust me, keeping a semblance of sanity around her is the most lost cause you will ever encounter. No sanity around Dikiyoba, no sir.
I'm amused. I was tempted to quote lord llama's last post to prove that I saw it but I figured it was time to leave him/her alone for a while.

 

Besides, Dikiyoba hasn't ever corrected anybody else. Why start now?

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Couldn't you download the PC version to a Mac and then put it on a disk and transfer it to the PC?
Hmmm... I bought the Disc version of Geneforge(s), and it said on that it was compatible on Mac and Windows.

Haven't actually tested it on Windows though.

Or with any older Discs. Like Avernum 1-3
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Originally written by Erika Maroonmark:
Couldn't you download the PC version to a Mac and then put it on a disk and transfer it to the PC?
Hmmm... I bought the Disc version of Geneforge(s), and it said on that it was compatible on Mac and Windows.
That would be really fun for everybody to know at last, that Win and Mac versions of Spidweb software are the same thing, splitted just to pull the wool over everybody's eyes. smile

Edit: Typo
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Instead, both versions are put on the CD.

 

If even the save files aren't cross-platform compatible, it would be a bit surprising if the games themselves were.

 

—Alorael, who just noticed that nobody mentioned discovering Avernum by getting hurled through a portal after committing pety crimes.

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Originally written by Iron Eyes:
—Alorael, who just noticed that nobody mentioned discovering Avernum by getting hurled through a portal after committing pety crimes.
Sort of:
-If you are followed by 4 faithful friends everywhere you are heading;
-If your pockets can store four miniguns and there is more space
-If seeing a corpse your first wish is to ransack it
You are definitely overplayed Fallout.

Can be transferred to Avernum series.
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