What are some games with cool magic? Any genre goes.

Avowed

>>11894562
Check what board you're on again

Arx Fatalis for one of the most unique magic systems of any game.

if you can get it working, Magic & Mayhem is very cool
from the creator and dev team of X-COM. models and cutscenes are claymation
you can summon tornadoes and lightning, turn people into stone, summon a ton of monsters, set places on fire with fire propagation. you can create an army of phoenixes to circle an enemy mage, chain electrocute them all to death and have them all explode into a ball of fire, force an enemy to fly and them drop them to their death, all sorts of cool shit

this guy has a custom installer for it
it's abandonware, I think if you get it off an abandonware site all you need to do for it to work is mess with a file (pcgamingwiki page explains it, just a sound file or something), but this is probably easier, haven't tested it yet
https://collectionchamber.blogspot.com/p/magic-mayhem.html
https://mega.nz/folder/1VND1R7S#ZFI1SjWDIbhl1ysMEIXATQ

>>11894559 (OP)
Oblivion is the only one with fireballs ragdolling enemies

>>11894998
Dark Messiah lets you do this too (and it's an actual good game unlike Obshitian)

I liked the rune system of Ultima Underworld but they stupidly block the spell cast if you are less than your character's width away from any NPC, enemy, or wall.

>>11895004
>shart messiah
Lmao doesn't even have spellmaking, what a joke

>>11895019
>spellmaking
Read a book faggot

>>11894569
Already on my list!

>>11894990
This sounds awesome, not sure how I haven't heard of this one before, thanks.

>>11894998
>>11895004
Played both, Dark Messiah is very fun and the only game I know of where using magic staves for melee is any fun.
Never delved deeply into Oblivion's magic, I know it's strong in that game but I already played a spellcaster in Morrowind and it just seems like a watered down version of it.

>>11895017
Sounds clunky

>>11895043
*casts custom fortify intelligence spell on you*
Maybe now you can read one as well

>>11895051
*kicks you into a spiked wall*
gg ez lol

>>11895054
*unharmed because I had custom shield spell active*

Rudra no Hihou

Populous The Beginning
Rts game where you control a shaman of a tribe trying to ascend to godhood with lots of spells to use like lightning strikes, swarms of bees, volcanoes, sink land in to the ocean, etc
https://youtu.be/gwEI4GNkBn0?t=466

Jewel Master is great. You mix and match rings to get different magic effects.