Oh hey I'm the first nox fan! Fancy meeting you here! As for me it's gotta be conjurer all the way. The warrior class is so otherwise underwhelming tbh
"It feels like sim coaster, but I'm able to kill" that is the perfect explanation of Nox. Back in the day Nox's online play was amazing. It had PvP modes where you were thrown into a deathmatch, capture the flag, or this soccer like game. It also had a dungeon crawl mode where gear would be randomized and scaled to the level of dungeon you were doing. You had to climb the different levels and some of them were hard with tons of traps and what not.
Back when it released this genre tried to explore not just pure grind that we ended up with, but rather a dynamic adventure type of game like what Nox is. It sure doesn't look that good decades later, but back on release it was visually pleasant, physics were novel in games and the story was much more than other alternatives.
Never heard of this one but that’s because I was raised in isolation with only off-brand Poptarts and a laptop with D2 on it. Fun to see all the games I’ve never heard of via this series. Balls!
@@seer6251 There's PVP and they even added a free content update including a stage-based "quest mode" with roguelike progression, the love the developers had for this game was pretty impressive, it's tragic what ended up happening to the company...
@@seer6251 It is very, very high octane. Bull rush on warriors basically autokill wizard players, so its high adrenaline all the time on either end of that exchange.
@@seer6251 You actually completely missed out on the replay ability factor which stemmed from the multiplayer rpg side of this game. I did play the story of all three classes. However, I played pvp multiplayer excessively when this was still on Westwood servers. Before EA ruined everything good in the gaming industry as they do.
Not only did the game have pvp but it had ranked pvp and clan pvp updated weekly. You also had different pvp modes, arena, king of the realm, capture the flag. Capture the flag was by far my favorite and some maps would last a long time due to hiding spots and players defending flags in a stand off. Pvp also had full gear spawns and hidden items in specific locations on the map. The spells in the game imo were also incredibly balanced and really worked well together.
So, as far as I can tell, the reason the equipment and skills (especially on the Warrior) is because the game had multiplayer. It was basically an arean-style PvP, where you competed for points each round. My guess, is that they banked a lot of the game's success on an online community, which was a fairly new thing back then. And yeah, the PvP was actually quite good. Like a decade ago, I found a private community of like 20 people (this was before the age of Discord, so gathering people together through Ventrillo or Mumble was pretty rough) that were trying to revive the PvP scene. While I don't think they got very far with their community, I did get to play against them for a couple weeks, and had quite a bit of fun. All the classes are over the top, so your guaranteed to kill another player if you can hit them, so PvP tended to be about skillfully finding a way to do so, since missing with the Warrior could leave you open, and the Wizard could teleport away, but then wouldn't have mana to defend himself, etc. Equipment and even spells were somewhat randomly dropped into the map, while a plethora of traps and environmental hazards were all over, making simple 1v1 combat very tactile. In regards to armor, they were used for different things. Metal armor had high defense, so it was good for tanking warriors and summons, but that meant the Wizard's lightning spells would destroy you. The Conjurer could wear heavier armors and was sort of a middle ground between Warrior and Wizard, because it could melee and use magic, but it mostly relied on Summons, and while it did have heavy hitting death spells, they tended to have a delay after, that would leave you open. A lot of your setup choices were deliberate, and they kind of forced that upon you in single player, where it didn't really matter as much. The campaign didn't really teach you too well about the importance of this equipment diversity, since you have limited item space and it's an RPG, so "gotta use da bigger numbers, right?". It was a weirdly balanced and unique experience, unlike say D2, where you would get one shot by thunderstorm from a mile away or some other undodgeable meta build. You move by holding down Right Click, so even your character's mobility was skill-based; if you just dove in without surprising someone with that limited sight provided by the game engine, you were probably going to fail miserably. I'll always look back at Nox with find memories. I wish it got a sequel.
Nox is a masterpiece that was ahead of its time and still is! I very much enjoy replaying it, and it's the top-1 game in "my most favorite games" list.
The warrior skills HAVE purpose. You dont just see better, you see invisible enemies that occur quite often later in the game. Tread lightly is for traps, and since there are quite a few this makes sense even storywise, as warriors have to adapt to the enemy factions skills.
"It feels like I'm playing "Sim Coaster" but I'm allowed to kill people" If only you knew the death tolls of im/properly played "Sim Coaster"; or a fate worse than death: Mr. Bones' Wild Ride.
I grew up on this game and me and my friends would play it IRL in the backyard when ww werent playing tve actual game. To the point where would know the handsigns and the language the wizards and conjurers spoke when casting spells.
I love this game! I played it when I was a kid, and I think about it every few years. Nox, Dungeon Siege, Disciples 2, and some others that I cant remember right now.
The constant evolution of the editing you do - mainly the visuals - is so interesting to observe that I find myself watching your videos purely for the way you pace them, piece them together and transition from thing to thing. Absolutely enchanting... In other news, great video. Really liked the exhaustiveness of the review, just enough information to let me know if I'd like to play the game, but not enough to spoil the important part of it. Good stuff, Seer, seeriously good stuff!
While Nox's campaign didn't age all that well in the ways you described, its multiplayer is still a really fun one of-a-kind experience when you find people to play with. It's a novel mix of Action RPG combat and arena shooters style map control that works quite well.
Nox Quest is also great. I love trying to see how far I can get as a wizard. Really feels like a inklings of a roguelike, game was way ahead of its time.
Man, I remember Nox. Didn't play it all that much, but I got a wave of nostalgia when I saw this upload. Can't wait for you to start covering the X-Men Legends series.
Was fun to listen to your thoughts on one of my childhood favorite games. :D I understand how you can get bored with Nox, especially if you play Warrior with only a couple really useful skills, due to the singleplayer campaign not having much substance like exciting loot and replayability the same way Diablo II does. But just to give some more perspective based on my own experiences with the game and what other people have said about it in their reviews; PvP was Nox's end-game. The story campaigns were like tutorials for each class before entering the real game that was the PvP scene. In fact the main reason why Wizard, in my opinion, is the most fun class to play is because it was originally the only class in the game before Warrior and Conjurer were added. Nox was supposed to be the Quake of ARPGs with fast paced action using magic instead of guns and focusing on PvP arenas, Capture the Flag and King of the Hill modes. Nox's PvP was something truly special and I believe there is still a small active community that plays it despite EA shutting down the servers decades ago. They even got their own Discord. It's truly sad what happened to Westwood Studios. One of the best game developers of the past who made not only Nox but also Command & Conquer obviously and the Blade Runner point & click adventure game. The only true competitor to Blizzard back in the day. If only EA was not, well, being EA even back then...
Westwood could make any game from any genre. Back then developers could make games from different genres and it was cool. Good luck with Revenant (1999) it's a rough but gem nonetheless
@@SpecShadow If I remember there wasn't a hotkey like usual so you had to manually go and save each time which felt annoying, but yeah back then I was overambitious sometimes.
Back in my days when I barely knew anything about English except memorizing its alphabet and when there weren't as many classic western RPG games from that era readily available in my country(and virtually none was translated), I somehow managed to get my hand on a copy of NOX, having no real understanding of what this game was unfolding, yet beating the game in all 3 routes. I remembered how mesmerized I was by its sheer uniqueness compared to all the ARPG games within my early scope of gaming knowledge. Now I speak English as fluently and idiomatically as any foreign learner I knew yet such pristine, esoteric wonder of amazement is forever lost, as well as this unique, beloved retro masterpiece.
You feel like a whole new thing at the same time that you feel like an incredible homage to classic "salty gamer/nerd" Seanbaby. I'm so glad you're growing; nobody deserves it more.
Appreciate the coverage of a game mostly lost to time now. I grew up playing CRPGs like Baldur’s Gate, and played and loved Nox before getting into Diablo. As a result these more hand-crafted, adventure focused games feel more natural and normal to me than modern ARPGs that use random generation and repetitive grinding for loot. Even though I enjoy other ARPGs now, the design logic still feels kind of alien to me
Nox was my and my sister's favourite game when we were kids. You have no idea how many times we've replayed this game. Pretty sure we found all of the secret rooms. It's easier to see if you toggle on the map. I actually like it when enemies don't respawn. So I'm like, wipe out the area of all bad guys, then move on. And my favourite class was actually warrior while my sister was conjurer lol
I remember being very impressed and having fun... then my mind gets spammed with words "THAT FUCKING CRYPT IS ENDLESS I'M EXHAUSTED WHEN WILL IT END I HATE IT I HATE IT I HATE IT" for some reason. Overall, I agree with your reserved assessment of it. Some cool quirks, lots of charm, but not much more than a unique little game with its share of problems and severe limitations. Definitely not "the best game ever made" as some claim and has nothing to do with Diablo at all. I always considered that surface-level comparison nonsensical. I guess it could be made by people who only played Diablo and Nox, for the lack of other reference points. I'm not even trying to be sassy here. One of my friends only played one RPG, Gothic, and he compares every rare game he so seldom plays to it, and his comparisons are as absurd as calling Max Payne a Tomb Raider clone. Which also happened, but with another guy.
Having this video as my only reference point for Nox, it seems closer to a story-driven adventure game than an ARPG. The dnd comparison is spot-on. While progression is very constrained, the amount of interactibility really makes the game feel like anything could happen, and that's what adventure is all about in my eyes
I randomly had flashbacks of this game and decided to youtube search nox. It's cool to see there were others that remember this. For those that don't know. some of us kids were too young or genuinely too stupid (myself) for D2. It was just too hard. This game was our Intro. My second Game before D2 was Titan Quest and that's where I connected the dots on things and I was into arpg's ever since.
Seeing your desktop at 2:11 I see you are a connoisseur of good games, Halls of Torment, Slay the spire, great RPGs... Are we gonna get Baldur's Gate 3 review?
I'm thinking of getting BG3 around the holidays, when I have a lot of time to sink into it, so if people still like the game at that time, I'd love to do a review of some kind for it!
omg, i remember playing this online multiplayer and it was so fun! it was intense, fast-paced and fun. Come to think of it we took that for granted. It's impressive how devs of yore were able to make such an enjoyable multiplayer game and yet nowadays they have to do 'everything just right' in order to make it 'fun'. Legendary game, should've had more fame.
This was a pretty sweet game. I love how each character has completely different skills and the way they were controlled, although using the mouse to move takes some getting used to. I just wish you could grind in this game.
underrated game. one of those rare games that feels unique in a way that hasnt been duplicated to this day. and the multiplayer deathmatch was amazing for the short time it was active.
I remember liking it more than Diablo growing up because it was a bit more lighthearted and adventure-y. Today I remember it fondly for the reasons stated at 10:00 ("A fun, nostalgic memory of a time when games were just trying to be a bit of fun.").
The PVP is where this game gets crazy. You can create custom traps as a wizard which combines certain skills.. and people got really creative. For example, you could layer a trap with teleport, and teleport someone to a lava lake that you've closed off with a wall. Just overall chaos. Also, the quest mode is 100x better than the story - it's basically a randomly generated dungeon crawl that gets progressively harder.
Definitely a nostalgic game for me, one of the first PC games I played as a kid. It did feel a little basic in places, but I did like how it's not just a dungeon crawler and was a little more interactive. Too bad I have an actual physical copy that I have not been able to install and play for more than a decade.
+1 also avoid Beyond Divinity - it's a garbage that almost made Larian bankrupt oh and he could try DivDiv clones called "Inquisitor" made by small Czech developers. It's really rough but cool if you conquer it and all its flaws
@@ponyponyponypony1408? People be having gay sex in DND for as long as DND has existed, very strange to stifle people's personal joy over a minor issue in a dead end culture war
@@fartface8918 People would stop engaging in "culture war' if devs stopped putting said "culture war" into their own works. I really wish western devs stopped thinking that "white leftwing californians" are the baseline of gamer demographic.
The best game of my childhood, conjurer was so fun to play, can do melee, can do ranged, can do spells, can do summons, and oh my god are summons powerful. Summoning a golem and sending him down the elevator to kill everything bellow, and if it dies, you just summon another one. The ability to unlock new summons as you learn about monsters, weapon durability (not my favorite mechanic) and of course the hatred between mages and warriors, it really made the world seam much more real and immersive to see some division and racism
I love this game, without a doubt my favorite ARPG of all time without exceptions. Warrior was so fun with his ram skill and the funny noise he was making. The Conjurer was outright godlike - he could use bows, summon/charm creatures, cast powerful spells like meteor, or powerful AND absurd spells like that stone fist falling from the sky, and the most absurd of all - these walking kamikaze gremlins which you could load with a few of your own spells to make stupidly powerful combos - stun+stone fist for example. Never liked the wizard though, but he had perhaps the best "happy end" of all. Poor warrior drew the short stick.
The fanbase is fueled purely by nostalgia and I'm one of them. The graphics, the music, the voiceovers all activate my hippocampus. Although I heard the online play was amazing back in the day, especially as wizard.
I have really fond memories of NOX but seeing it right now i definetly agree, i played it when i was like 8 and things where much simpler back then and having fun was easier. Love your videos handsome
Some more games worth covering for this series: Kult: Heretic Kingdoms, Shadows: Awakening, Victor Vran, Sacred 2, WH40K: Inquisitor-Martyr, Dungeon Siege 1+2, Din's Curse/Legacy, Ember, Silverfall Nobody Saves the World, DeathSpank, How to Survive 1+2, Warhammer: Chaosbane, Vikings: Wolves of Midgard, Avencast: Rise of the Mage, Moonlighter, Hammerwatch: AE, Children of Morta, Xanadu Next, Ghostlore, Prince of Qin, Revenant, Throne of Darkness, Darkstone, Soulbringer.
In each of these videos there's always at least one joke that just kills me. This time it was the 50% opacity birth memories bit - I died. Absolute manic ranting that's sometimes about ARPGs. Love the videos man.
Your videos are such a breath of fresh air in modern, censored, child level UA-cam where every content creator bends over for their advertisement daddies. Reminds me of ancient avgn and sseth before they became corporate shills.
I'm glad you think so! I love the concept of being me and never being censored. I would do advertisements, only if they let me be honest, so fat chance of that, but you never know!
Rose-tinted glasses obviously raise this game above in my mind. I didn't have the internet at home until after D2 LoD was already a thing, so single player only gamer enjoyed NoX much more than... well... nox... as in nox D2 lol
The fact that he is only reviewing single player insane.. this game is a PVP GAME with alot of replay ability theres no need for more types of GEAR; heavily gear base would ruin PVP everyone needs to be on the same playfield for balance pvp. Warriors already do asston of damage they dont need anything new. bad review soley on the reason he only reviews the campaign which is not difficult at all. a PVP GAME the key factor right over his head.
Awsome video as (Mostly) always my dude! Thanks for making my afternoon just a little more fun. And... glad to move on from THE GAME THOU SHALT NOT NAME (unless you like toxic hissy fits and drama that is, then you do you) and back these lesser known games only small number of people will riot and scream about.
"I can already hear the thunderous roar of both their steps" LMAO
Thats the wit we're here for
I’m dead lol
Yep that gave me a laugh and prompted me to leave a comment. Seems there is more than 2 of us!
As the second Nox fan - I'm saddened my old game didn't win and I agree Wizard is where it's at.
Oh hey I'm the first nox fan! Fancy meeting you here!
As for me it's gotta be conjurer all the way. The warrior class is so otherwise underwhelming tbh
I waited for this one. Nox is a masterpiece. Nothing but the fondest memories
"It feels like sim coaster, but I'm able to kill" that is the perfect explanation of Nox.
Back in the day Nox's online play was amazing. It had PvP modes where you were thrown into a deathmatch, capture the flag, or this soccer like game. It also had a dungeon crawl mode where gear would be randomized and scaled to the level of dungeon you were doing. You had to climb the different levels and some of them were hard with tons of traps and what not.
Capture the Flag was the best until the hacks started to take over.
Back when it released this genre tried to explore not just pure grind that we ended up with, but rather a dynamic adventure type of game like what Nox is. It sure doesn't look that good decades later, but back on release it was visually pleasant, physics were novel in games and the story was much more than other alternatives.
People saying it's a Diablo 2 clone have no clue. Nox was released a couple months before D2.
Very underrated game.
Never heard of this one but that’s because I was raised in isolation with only off-brand Poptarts and a laptop with D2 on it. Fun to see all the games I’ve never heard of via this series. Balls!
I remember playing this on a demo disk back in the day until I played the full game properly when I was in my 20's. Fucking great to play.
jesus the PVP in this game was so fun. Nostalgia blast. I don't even remember single player.
Holy shit there's pvp? I didn't even know lol
@@seer6251 There's PVP and they even added a free content update including a stage-based "quest mode" with roguelike progression, the love the developers had for this game was pretty impressive, it's tragic what ended up happening to the company...
@@seer6251 It is very, very high octane. Bull rush on warriors basically autokill wizard players, so its high adrenaline all the time on either end of that exchange.
@@seer6251 You actually completely missed out on the replay ability factor which stemmed from the multiplayer rpg side of this game. I did play the story of all three classes. However, I played pvp multiplayer excessively when this was still on Westwood servers. Before EA ruined everything good in the gaming industry as they do.
Not only did the game have pvp but it had ranked pvp and clan pvp updated weekly. You also had different pvp modes, arena, king of the realm, capture the flag. Capture the flag was by far my favorite and some maps would last a long time due to hiding spots and players defending flags in a stand off. Pvp also had full gear spawns and hidden items in specific locations on the map. The spells in the game imo were also incredibly balanced and really worked well together.
So, as far as I can tell, the reason the equipment and skills (especially on the Warrior) is because the game had multiplayer. It was basically an arean-style PvP, where you competed for points each round. My guess, is that they banked a lot of the game's success on an online community, which was a fairly new thing back then.
And yeah, the PvP was actually quite good. Like a decade ago, I found a private community of like 20 people (this was before the age of Discord, so gathering people together through Ventrillo or Mumble was pretty rough) that were trying to revive the PvP scene. While I don't think they got very far with their community, I did get to play against them for a couple weeks, and had quite a bit of fun.
All the classes are over the top, so your guaranteed to kill another player if you can hit them, so PvP tended to be about skillfully finding a way to do so, since missing with the Warrior could leave you open, and the Wizard could teleport away, but then wouldn't have mana to defend himself, etc. Equipment and even spells were somewhat randomly dropped into the map, while a plethora of traps and environmental hazards were all over, making simple 1v1 combat very tactile.
In regards to armor, they were used for different things. Metal armor had high defense, so it was good for tanking warriors and summons, but that meant the Wizard's lightning spells would destroy you. The Conjurer could wear heavier armors and was sort of a middle ground between Warrior and Wizard, because it could melee and use magic, but it mostly relied on Summons, and while it did have heavy hitting death spells, they tended to have a delay after, that would leave you open. A lot of your setup choices were deliberate, and they kind of forced that upon you in single player, where it didn't really matter as much. The campaign didn't really teach you too well about the importance of this equipment diversity, since you have limited item space and it's an RPG, so "gotta use da bigger numbers, right?".
It was a weirdly balanced and unique experience, unlike say D2, where you would get one shot by thunderstorm from a mile away or some other undodgeable meta build. You move by holding down Right Click, so even your character's mobility was skill-based; if you just dove in without surprising someone with that limited sight provided by the game engine, you were probably going to fail miserably.
I'll always look back at Nox with find memories. I wish it got a sequel.
That "This many people like this quality of writing" joke at 4:07 is legit so fucking good. This is Seer at his best
Well said aha
Nox is a masterpiece that was ahead of its time and still is! I very much enjoy replaying it, and it's the top-1 game in "my most favorite games" list.
Man, I remember buying this on release. Now I'm feeling all nostalgic and shit. I hope you're happy!
I'm happy because you used 'you're' instead of 'your'.
Best PvP of any ARPG.
By a lot.
The warrior skills HAVE purpose. You dont just see better, you see invisible enemies that occur quite often later in the game. Tread lightly is for traps, and since there are quite a few this makes sense even storywise, as warriors have to adapt to the enemy factions skills.
"It feels like I'm playing "Sim Coaster" but I'm allowed to kill people" If only you knew the death tolls of im/properly played "Sim Coaster"; or a fate worse than death: Mr. Bones' Wild Ride.
Amazing video Seer! This series keeps getting better!
I grew up on this game and me and my friends would play it IRL in the backyard when ww werent playing tve actual game. To the point where would know the handsigns and the language the wizards and conjurers spoke when casting spells.
I love this game! I played it when I was a kid, and I think about it every few years.
Nox, Dungeon Siege, Disciples 2, and some others that I cant remember right now.
The constant evolution of the editing you do - mainly the visuals - is so interesting to observe that I find myself watching your videos purely for the way you pace them, piece them together and transition from thing to thing. Absolutely enchanting...
In other news, great video. Really liked the exhaustiveness of the review, just enough information to let me know if I'd like to play the game, but not enough to spoil the important part of it. Good stuff, Seer, seeriously good stuff!
SEER is goated with the sawsce 4 sho
Agreed. I edit professionally, and I'm always astounded by Seer's level of skill and how fast he gets videos out when factoring in their quality.
While Nox's campaign didn't age all that well in the ways you described, its multiplayer is still a really fun one of-a-kind experience when you find people to play with. It's a novel mix of Action RPG combat and arena shooters style map control that works quite well.
Nox Quest is also great. I love trying to see how far I can get as a wizard. Really feels like a inklings of a roguelike, game was way ahead of its time.
Man, I remember Nox. Didn't play it all that much, but I got a wave of nostalgia when I saw this upload.
Can't wait for you to start covering the X-Men Legends series.
I remember this being the one game on the family computer no one would delete but no one would play either
Still my number 1 favorite content creator. You are hilarious.
I still remember getting to the final boss naked bar from my underwear and a staff because the swamp area ate the rest of my wizard's equipment.
Lmao 😂
Was fun to listen to your thoughts on one of my childhood favorite games. :D
I understand how you can get bored with Nox, especially if you play Warrior with only a couple really useful skills, due to the singleplayer campaign not having much substance like exciting loot and replayability the same way Diablo II does. But just to give some more perspective based on my own experiences with the game and what other people have said about it in their reviews; PvP was Nox's end-game. The story campaigns were like tutorials for each class before entering the real game that was the PvP scene. In fact the main reason why Wizard, in my opinion, is the most fun class to play is because it was originally the only class in the game before Warrior and Conjurer were added. Nox was supposed to be the Quake of ARPGs with fast paced action using magic instead of guns and focusing on PvP arenas, Capture the Flag and King of the Hill modes. Nox's PvP was something truly special and I believe there is still a small active community that plays it despite EA shutting down the servers decades ago. They even got their own Discord.
It's truly sad what happened to Westwood Studios. One of the best game developers of the past who made not only Nox but also Command & Conquer obviously and the Blade Runner point & click adventure game. The only true competitor to Blizzard back in the day. If only EA was not, well, being EA even back then...
Westwood could make any game from any genre. Back then developers could make games from different genres and it was cool.
Good luck with Revenant (1999) it's a rough but gem nonetheless
Revenant which I enjoyed still piss me off with zero Autosave functions. So much backtracking whenever you forgot to save.
@@TheEtherea you don't save after every fight? Dang...
@@SpecShadow If I remember there wasn't a hotkey like usual so you had to manually go and save each time which felt annoying, but yeah back then I was overambitious sometimes.
Lands of Lore 2 is one of the best games they ever made that wasn't a c&c game.
"enjoy the weather"
You're having a giggle. I'm melting here and you're having a giggle.
Back in my days when I barely knew anything about English except memorizing its alphabet and when there weren't as many classic western RPG games from that era readily available in my country(and virtually none was translated), I somehow managed to get my hand on a copy of NOX, having no real understanding of what this game was unfolding, yet beating the game in all 3 routes. I remembered how mesmerized I was by its sheer uniqueness compared to all the ARPG games within my early scope of gaming knowledge. Now I speak English as fluently and idiomatically as any foreign learner I knew yet such pristine, esoteric wonder of amazement is forever lost, as well as this unique, beloved retro masterpiece.
You feel like a whole new thing at the same time that you feel like an incredible homage to classic "salty gamer/nerd" Seanbaby. I'm so glad you're growing; nobody deserves it more.
I was waiting for my boy to be the subject of your video !
I didn't think I would love a video about Nox as much as I loved Nox back in the day. I still don't but this came close.
Appreciate the coverage of a game mostly lost to time now. I grew up playing CRPGs like Baldur’s Gate, and played and loved Nox before getting into Diablo. As a result these more hand-crafted, adventure focused games feel more natural and normal to me than modern ARPGs that use random generation and repetitive grinding for loot. Even though I enjoy other ARPGs now, the design logic still feels kind of alien to me
Nox was my and my sister's favourite game when we were kids. You have no idea how many times we've replayed this game. Pretty sure we found all of the secret rooms. It's easier to see if you toggle on the map. I actually like it when enemies don't respawn. So I'm like, wipe out the area of all bad guys, then move on. And my favourite class was actually warrior while my sister was conjurer lol
"There are dozens of us!" - Nox Fanboy
I remember being very impressed and having fun... then my mind gets spammed with words "THAT FUCKING CRYPT IS ENDLESS I'M EXHAUSTED WHEN WILL IT END I HATE IT I HATE IT I HATE IT" for some reason. Overall, I agree with your reserved assessment of it. Some cool quirks, lots of charm, but not much more than a unique little game with its share of problems and severe limitations. Definitely not "the best game ever made" as some claim and has nothing to do with Diablo at all. I always considered that surface-level comparison nonsensical. I guess it could be made by people who only played Diablo and Nox, for the lack of other reference points. I'm not even trying to be sassy here. One of my friends only played one RPG, Gothic, and he compares every rare game he so seldom plays to it, and his comparisons are as absurd as calling Max Payne a Tomb Raider clone. Which also happened, but with another guy.
Having this video as my only reference point for Nox, it seems closer to a story-driven adventure game than an ARPG. The dnd comparison is spot-on. While progression is very constrained, the amount of interactibility really makes the game feel like anything could happen, and that's what adventure is all about in my eyes
As one of the two Nox fans - yeah, all of that makes sense.
It would be cool if you released you videos and then streamed the game after. Would love to see more Seer streams.
I freaking love this game. I have played this game nearly as much as I've played Diablo II, and the love that went into this game is so clear.
This game was a big part of my childhood. Glad someone knows about it.
just wanted you to know that I laugh to myself like a psycho at work because I've got you in my earbuds
I randomly had flashbacks of this game and decided to youtube search nox. It's cool to see there were others that remember this. For those that don't know. some of us kids were too young or genuinely too stupid (myself) for D2. It was just too hard. This game was our Intro. My second Game before D2 was Titan Quest and that's where I connected the dots on things and I was into arpg's ever since.
Seeing your desktop at 2:11 I see you are a connoisseur of good games, Halls of Torment, Slay the spire, great RPGs... Are we gonna get Baldur's Gate 3 review?
I'm thinking of getting BG3 around the holidays, when I have a lot of time to sink into it, so if people still like the game at that time, I'd love to do a review of some kind for it!
@@seer6251 I'd say people will like it for years to come. :) Such a great game. Hope you'll enjoy it as much as I am.
omg, i remember playing this online multiplayer and it was so fun! it was intense, fast-paced and fun. Come to think of it we took that for granted. It's impressive how devs of yore were able to make such an enjoyable multiplayer game and yet nowadays they have to do 'everything just right' in order to make it 'fun'. Legendary game, should've had more fame.
Great video as always Seer!!
This was a pretty sweet game. I love how each character has completely different skills and the way they were controlled, although using the mouse to move takes some getting used to. I just wish you could grind in this game.
I k ew i recognized that super mario rpg song 😂
Great videos, i do t think i ever played Nox but im gonna find it and give it a try now 😂
underrated game. one of those rare games that feels unique in a way that hasnt been duplicated to this day. and the multiplayer deathmatch was amazing for the short time it was active.
Thank you for this service noble sir. Great content and very funny.
I love how two of the classes are Matt Mercer and David Arquette.
i remember we were playing this game in coop as a child and it was really fun
This game made my childhood, it's still a real joy to play it
i remembered seeing it on magazines, but i missed out on it until now, thank you for sharing.
I remember liking it more than Diablo growing up because it was a bit more lighthearted and adventure-y. Today I remember it fondly for the reasons stated at 10:00 ("A fun, nostalgic memory of a time when games were just trying to be a bit of fun.").
This is a great content hope you get big on here
Nox PvP was some of my favorite gaming back in the day.
There really was nothing better at the time.
The PVP is where this game gets crazy. You can create custom traps as a wizard which combines certain skills.. and people got really creative. For example, you could layer a trap with teleport, and teleport someone to a lava lake that you've closed off with a wall. Just overall chaos. Also, the quest mode is 100x better than the story - it's basically a randomly generated dungeon crawl that gets progressively harder.
Definitely a nostalgic game for me, one of the first PC games I played as a kid. It did feel a little basic in places, but I did like how it's not just a dungeon crawler and was a little more interactive. Too bad I have an actual physical copy that I have not been able to install and play for more than a decade.
As the third nox fan, i thank you bringing the game to light
In the light of Baldur's Gate 3, could you do "best ARPG ever" about their very first game, Divine Divinity?
BG3 is Bud light, the video game. Shame on every idiot that bought the queer propaganda ruin of DnD
+1
also avoid Beyond Divinity - it's a garbage that almost made Larian bankrupt
oh and he could try DivDiv clones called "Inquisitor" made by small Czech developers. It's really rough but cool if you conquer it and all its flaws
@@ponyponyponypony1408 no.
@@ponyponyponypony1408? People be having gay sex in DND for as long as DND has existed, very strange to stifle people's personal joy over a minor issue in a dead end culture war
@@fartface8918 People would stop engaging in "culture war' if devs stopped putting said "culture war" into their own works.
I really wish western devs stopped thinking that "white leftwing californians" are the baseline of gamer demographic.
I love your videos man. You deserve 10 X the subscribers at least!!
Thank you!
@@seer6251 You're welcome!
Not even a single mention about the pvp smh my head
I will NOT enjoy my breakfast, you cant tell me what to do 😡
The best game of my childhood, conjurer was so fun to play, can do melee, can do ranged, can do spells, can do summons, and oh my god are summons powerful. Summoning a golem and sending him down the elevator to kill everything bellow, and if it dies, you just summon another one. The ability to unlock new summons as you learn about monsters, weapon durability (not my favorite mechanic) and of course the hatred between mages and warriors, it really made the world seam much more real and immersive to see some division and racism
NOX is one of the best games ever made, massively underrated
I love Nox, and i wish i could still run it. I played it as a kid alot and loved the Conjurer
I love this game, without a doubt my favorite ARPG of all time without exceptions. Warrior was so fun with his ram skill and the funny noise he was making. The Conjurer was outright godlike - he could use bows, summon/charm creatures, cast powerful spells like meteor, or powerful AND absurd spells like that stone fist falling from the sky, and the most absurd of all - these walking kamikaze gremlins which you could load with a few of your own spells to make stupidly powerful combos - stun+stone fist for example.
Never liked the wizard though, but he had perhaps the best "happy end" of all. Poor warrior drew the short stick.
my favorite game of all time. waiting for nox 2 for many years
Had no idea Westwood made a game like this. Played all their C&C games.
Nox has Hecubah though, who was the love of my life as a young kid. Wizard ending for the win!
I loved Nox. An old favorite for sure.
The fanbase is fueled purely by nostalgia and I'm one of them. The graphics, the music, the voiceovers all activate my hippocampus.
Although I heard the online play was amazing back in the day, especially as wizard.
I never heard of NoX, i'm here because i like yer style! oh and Baaaallllzzzzzz
Keep up the good work man you are the AVGN of ARPGS.
I have really fond memories of NOX but seeing it right now i definetly agree, i played it when i was like 8 and things where much simpler back then and having fun was easier. Love your videos handsome
Hey, God of Gaming. I can not wait for your review of Titan Quest 2 once it comes out ^^
Nox came out before D2. God I wish I could go back and play full servers again. CTF/ Flag Ball and Quest mode all day long.
Loved this game. Still remember my brother buying it discount from Walmart
I kept watching the trailer of this game in the Tiberian Sun disc
Thank you, I am enjoying my breakfast significantly.
Found this channel an hour ago, wondered why he didn't cover Nox yet, saw a Nox video drop. Gotta click it
Some more games worth covering for this series:
Kult: Heretic Kingdoms, Shadows: Awakening, Victor Vran, Sacred 2, WH40K: Inquisitor-Martyr, Dungeon Siege 1+2, Din's Curse/Legacy, Ember, Silverfall
Nobody Saves the World, DeathSpank, How to Survive 1+2, Warhammer: Chaosbane, Vikings: Wolves of Midgard, Avencast: Rise of the Mage,
Moonlighter, Hammerwatch: AE, Children of Morta, Xanadu Next, Ghostlore, Prince of Qin, Revenant, Throne of Darkness, Darkstone, Soulbringer.
IS THAT DOKAPON KINGDOM MUSIC IN THE BACKGROUND? WHEN WILL WE GET A VID ABOUT THAT???
THE BIG DOKAPON, such a good game. I'd love to cover it!
Heyooo! Finally a new vid! ♥
The long prophecied nox video :O
In each of these videos there's always at least one joke that just kills me. This time it was the 50% opacity birth memories bit - I died. Absolute manic ranting that's sometimes about ARPGs. Love the videos man.
Oh hey, it's uhh...just the best UA-camr ever, wow!
Your videos are such a breath of fresh air in modern, censored, child level UA-cam where every content creator bends over for their advertisement daddies.
Reminds me of ancient avgn and sseth before they became corporate shills.
I'm glad you think so! I love the concept of being me and never being censored. I would do advertisements, only if they let me be honest, so fat chance of that, but you never know!
FINALLY! Nox is one of the best games, let alone ARPGs made.
Rose-tinted glasses obviously raise this game above in my mind. I didn't have the internet at home until after D2 LoD was already a thing, so single player only gamer enjoyed NoX much more than... well... nox... as in nox D2 lol
My childhood fav.
If Nox isn't an arpg then I cant wait to see how you categorize Hammerwatch
I think it's a great video but I'm drunk right now
Sounds good to me.
@@seer6251 Just in case - now that I'm sober, it's still really good!
Back in the olden days of gaming clans with websites, my old buddy in that clan played Nox and always loved it.. I instead continued to play Diablo 2
Since you did Nox just open it up and do Arcanum. Well not enough action for you in that one but it's fun.
Any publicity is good publicity, glad you played the game
The fact that he is only reviewing single player insane.. this game is a PVP GAME with alot of replay ability
theres no need for more types of GEAR; heavily gear base would ruin PVP everyone needs to be on the same playfield for balance pvp. Warriors already do asston of damage they dont need anything new.
bad review soley on the reason he only reviews the campaign which is not difficult at all.
a PVP GAME the key factor right over his head.
Needed more of the giant fist spell
Awsome video as (Mostly) always my dude!
Thanks for making my afternoon just a little more fun.
And... glad to move on from THE GAME THOU SHALT NOT NAME (unless you like toxic hissy fits and drama that is, then you do you) and back these lesser known games only small number of people will riot and scream about.