Spiderweb's first isometric RPG, Nethergate comprises two campaigns that tell a historical fantasy tale from opposing Celtic and Roman perspectives.
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Chapter Intros#
Each chapter is introduced with a title and epigraph. For example, this is how the Roman campaign begins:
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Arrival |
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Forget not, Roman, that it is your special genius to rule the people; to impose the ways of peace, to spare the defeated, and to crush those proud men who will not submit. - Virgil, Aeneid |
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The game's strings include an alternative set of titles and quotations, used as placeholders during development:
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The Joy Begins |
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"I live every moment of every day in unimaginable pain, alternating with brief moments of less pain." - Silas, the Critic4 |
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War of the Wankers |
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"I don't have low self-esteem ... I have low esteem for everyone else." - Daria Morgendorfer |
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Plot Ticket #1 |
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"She says the sex is really good. It's one of the three legs holding up love's stool: sex, liking his brain, and then kind of accepting who he is because you're never going to change him anyway." - Shelly Vincouer, Northern Exposure |
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Plot Ticket #2 |
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"Friends are just enemies who don't have the guts to kill you." - Judy Tenuta |
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Plot Ticket #3 |
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"I've been having a sharp, burning sensation in my Nethergate." - Unofficial motto of the Nethergate development team. |
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Endgame |
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"Figure out what sucks, then don't do that." - Motto of some software company guy on CNN5 |
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Revisions#
Macintosh#
- Version 1.0.2 (12 April 1999) "fixed a variety of problems" and allowed holding the mouse down to walk instead of clicking repeatedly.6
- Version 1.0.3 (15 June 1999)7 resolved a graphics bug reported by some users of Mac OS 8.6 and above.
Windows#
- Version 1.0.1 (25 June 1999) added Windows NT compatibility, and used DirectX (if available) to automatically adjust the display resolution.
- Version 1.0.2 (19 June 2000)8 improved the game's speed and fixed problems with Windows NT and 2000 compatibility.9
References#
- RPG Vault: Nethergate Review↩︎
- Spiderweb Software news page (archived 18 April 1999)↩︎
- GameFAQs: Nethergate for PC↩︎
- Silas B. Manchester was a one-off character in The Critic episode "Marathon Mensch".↩︎
- This was the motto of interactive marketing firm Agency.com (1995–2010).↩︎
- [https://web.archive.org/web/19991113235430/http://www.spidweb.com/nethergate/techsupp.htmlNethergate tech support page (archived 13 November 1999)]↩︎
- Spiderweb Software news page (archived 22 September 1999)↩︎
- Spiderweb Software news page (archived 16 August 2000)↩︎
- Nethergate tech support page (archived 16 August 2000)↩︎