About This Game Geneforge 3 is an Indie fantasy role-playing adventure, the third chapter of the Geneforge Saga. In this fantasy adventure, you can explore strange, hostile lands, choose which side you will fight for, and, as always, make your own horde of completely obedient mutant monsters. Geneforge 3 has a huge and open storyline. You can help one of several factions, each with its own goals. There are dozens of different endings. You can help the rebels, or fight them. Slay your enemies, or use stealth and diplomacy. When you finish the game, start over, choose a different side or tactics, and experience a completely different game. 1075eedd30 Title: Geneforge 3Genre: Strategy, RPG, IndieDeveloper:Spiderweb SoftwarePublisher:Spiderweb SoftwareRelease Date: 1 Apr, 2005 Geneforge 3 Torrent Download [Patch] I am enjoying the third installment of the Geneforge saga. However, I am tiring of the "same song, different tune" story that is going on.Generforge 1:You are trapped on an island in bum-hick nowhere with intruders. You have to either join the factions or fend them off. Pick sides, escape, and "win" the game.Geneforge 2:You are inspecting this bum-hick nowhere shapper area and quickly discover things are not what they seem. Find out that there are different factions. Either join them or fend them off. Pick sides, escape, and "win" the game.Geneforge 3:You are trapped on a series of islands where there is a rebellious shaper on the loose. Either join them or fend them off. Pick a side, escape, and "win."Now, I know that there is a different plot in the later games since I read ahead. Yet, the same plot is becoming stale. Don't get me wrong, I enjoy the game and some of the new mechanics that came with it, but the story, in my opinion, is lacking.7\/10-Love the graphics-Love the game series-Makes me think about the future of the story-Makes me think in general (many games do not)-Story is a bit stale-Little sound effects-New game mechanics. While Geneforge 3's gameplay is very similar to Geneforge 1 and 2, the variety of the ideological viewpoints present in the game world have been narrowed extremely. Instead of a variety of pro-shaper and pro-servile factions, there are two factions: shapers who enslave serviles, and serviles who are ostensibly fighting for their freedom but are now Actually The Villains. There's no reason to roleplay as a pro-servile shaper - the game doesn't seem to act any differently, other than punishing you by locking off dialogue options with shapers. Expressing opinions in this game doesn't mean a thing - it just matters who you decide to kill. I imagine a pro-servile rebel player character who expresses distrust in the canisters will be treated the same way. Pro-servile NPCs are now indistinct from the typical Big Bads you get in RPGs, where there's a vague reason why they're doing horrible things, but no reason that justifies it other than maybe "the ends justify the means". They've become indistinct from your typical goblin, skeleton, darkspawn, etc - meaningless beings that exist solely for the player character to come in and destroy with righteous protagonist fury. This game suffers from the same problems the last two did, too: the ideology of the factions seems entirely skin deep. You can't, say, probe a servile leader about what I perceived as a ruling class within the servile faction, and you can't ask the head shaper in this game why sympathy for serviles is considered anathema to the ~shaper way~. There is no way to learn more about or even influence a faction's politics - as soon as you get to the second island, you've seen all there is to see, and what you see is what you get - the narrative doesn't do anything interesting with faction politics. (This isn't a gripe I have with Geneforge 3 in particular - it's a disappointing thing that, as far as I can tell, is common to many Spiderweb Software games. It's just more noticeable in Geneforge.)I've never really played Spiderweb Software games for the combat - I enjoy the story, and exploring the big, nuanced worlds. The total simplification of factions and faction politics removes one of the most compelling parts of the Geneforge series, and I hope the later titles in the series bring back the ideologically distinct factionalism that made Geneforge 1 and 2 so great. Having the choice of fighting for the serviles, who want emancipation from slavery but will do so by killing innocent non-shapers with hordes of rogue monsters, or the shapers, who fight against those monsters while mistreating and oppressing serviles just isn't that fun for me. "Choose the side that is the objective lesser evil" does not make a compelling or entertaining narrative for your video game. It just looks like a desperate attempt to make a "morally grey" world. At least, that's just my opinion!. Many fans of the series deride this as the worst of the "Geneforge" games, but personally I think "Geneforge 3" is when the series gets interesting. Yes there are only two factions this time around compared to the previous game's four and it's structured in a much more linear fashion, but what the game loses in freedom it gains in complexity of plot and ethical dilemmas. With only two major factions to choose from, neither of which are perfect, the game's universe approaches "The Witcher" levels of moral ambiguity at times. This is a game where goodness is often shown to have a steep price and evil often has justifications which sound strangely good. In a time when gamers are known to petition studios when the ending to a game isn't as upbeat or things don't turn out exactly as they wanted them to (see: fan uproar over "Mass Effect 3"), it's kind of refreshing to play a game so brazen about the fact that even the best of intentions to do good often turn out much less than good.. Like fallout 1 and 2 but no guns and with better gameplay and story. Shaping your own creaatures to fight with you in battle is a coll gamplay feaure thats not in other games.. I have never written a review on here, but considering this is one of the best games and one of the most underated games ive ever played, ive decided to try my hand at it. Starting off, i know it may say i only have a couple hours on record with the game, but id like to stamp that out now. I played this game years back off an old game engine before steam was a thing, buying it again now is more comfort and support for me, like buying an old book that you read years ago. I have well over 200 hours in the game, and about a thousand in the series. So let me dive in, and let you know what this game is about. Geneforge is more than a game, its a book, an experiance, a choice, and a beautiful combat system all in one. It cries out to the imaginiative, the 3 am readers, the DnD players, the indie game searchers. What it lacks in graphics, it makes up 10 fold in story. The game puts you in the middle of an entire world and has you influence the outcome of it. In the first game, you find yourself in this estranged world, where the game gives you a brief history of it, then immediately tears that away. It isolates you, shows you that you must survive, and asks you what to do to survive. But that is only the first part. once you gather your bearings, you have to forge a path. At first the paths seem clear, good or evil, but the more you progress the more you realize there is no good. there is no evil. This game makes you question everything, with the only clear progression being that of power. You single handedly experiance the start of a world rebellion, and reitre as a god or a soldier by the end. The same picks up in each consquensial title later on, each putting you, a young shaper, smack dab in the middle of the biggest points in history of this new world. The hours, weeks, months of text painstakingly put into this game alone makes it a solid game, but the combat is fantastic too. You play a tactics style turn based micromanaging comabt system, sort of like fallout: tactics or final fantasy: tactics. But instead of pre determined abilities, like everything else you determine your path. Conjure up an army to fight for you, use magic and objects to trick your opponets and take them out one by one, or don a helmet and sword and slash your way through hoards, the choice is yous. My by far favorite part of it however, has to be the fact that nothing is safe in this game from you. It emphasizes that your choices can change the entire reality. No npc cannot be killed, although it may be hard. The world will form to what you want it to, if you are brave enough to undergo the task. Dont take this as you cannot lose, for the wrong desicion will put you in a spot where you cannot escape. But understand that you are free to make that deicion, you are free to make any desicion. This is the closest i have ever come to DnD Freeplay. Pro's: Excellent story line, worth of a novel of the highest value. Freerealm as hell, you are free to make any desicion you want, nothing stops you, you shape the future and history alike. LOTS and LOTS of content, as said earlieri have over 1000 hours in the series as a whole. thats a lot for a single player non grind game. Decent combat tactics system, many ways to play out combat. Can easily engulf you in for weeks. Lots and Lots of TextCon's: The graphics are subpar at best, must be able to use your imagination Game doesnt hold your hand at all, in fact quiet the opposite. This may be a con or pro. Again, a LOT of text. again, could be a con or pro depending on your preferance.Overall i would rate this game a 9\/10, Despite the horrid graphics. i honestly believe that if ther were better graphics, there wouldnt be enough reasources to make everything else so amazing. Heres to you, Spiderweb Software.. The absolute worst game of the series. Only two factions, with ridiculous black and white moralities (looking at you, Lankan), it almost feels a parody of the factions of the first two games. The island system makes the game incredibly linear feeling (you still *can* choose a route, but you'll end up doing every area anyway and murder-boning 9\/10ths of the friendlies because of how xp-starved you are) The two recruitables are an interesting story-telling device, but they're weak as\u2665\u2665\u2665\u2665\u2665\u2665 barely customizable, an xp-sink in a low-xp game, and using them as dispensable meatshields (because the game won't let them die) is barely an option either with how much of a pain the\u2665\u2665\u2665\u2665\u2665constantly trekking back to the start to re-recruit them is. Also, this game has even more spawners in it than the first game (as well as bosses that can summon and shape mid-combat), and yet it also doesn't give a single exp point for killing spawned enemies. I'm not sure why my PC becomes incapable of learning from his battle experience at just these particular moments, but it makes what can already be something of a chore into an absolutely horrible experience, if you'll pardon the pun. I really don't understand why developers feel the need to put in these kind of "features". It wasn't an exploit, since standard xp scaling pretty heavily discouraged grinding. The final answer is that you shouldn't be trying so hard to discourage munchkin behavior, because it only breeds more of it to try to get around the barrier you've placed. For example, I was at the boss of an island, wanted another level up to beat the boss without extensive save-scumming, but couldn't find an easy source of the last 100 or so exp I needed. So, since spawned enemies weren't giving the exp I needed, I felt compelled to break character and murder-bone an entire town instead just to wring out maximum possible xp. Why does killing innocent civvies give exp but killing monsters doesn't? Who knows.. Geneforge 3 is the same as Geneforge 1 and 2, nothing new. Good thing about these games that if you want to try out another class, you can grab next game in Geneforge saga, and try it out there - no need to replay the game you already finished.. A lot of people dislike that this one forces you to choose between the rebels and the shapers, both of which have huge issues. But this is still a great game and in life sometimes you need to choose the lesser evil.
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