Project Eternity Update #42: Avellone’s Let’s Play Arcanum, Part One

For the forty-second post-funding update for Project Eternity, the one and only Chris Avellone brings us the first installment to his promised “Let’s Play” series for Troika’s Arcanum: Of Steamworks and Magick Obscura. First, the 57-minute video:

And then some of the background text:

Currently I’m playing it without any fan patches, I want to play the release version. Part of me wants to contrast and compare if I do a second modded version (probably doing a tech-focused run). If that ends up being problematic, I’ll add the mods and then do a rush playthrough to get back to the point I was at so you guys don’t have to sit through the second playthrough. Well, unless you want.

Feel free to post suggestions for how you’d like me to play it on our forums or in YouTube’s comments for the video for right now, I’m just playing it as I would normally, which makes it a lot more relaxed. Hopefully, my in-game reactions and critiques should be enough if you’re interested on my RPG takes on any elements in the title.

If you have any questions about how I felt about certain elements (aside from Virgil’s sass), feel free to drop me a tweet at @ChrisAvellone and I’ll do what I can!