Post by trog @ 05:54pm 07/06/11 | 44 Comments
For centuries legionnaires have protected the nation of Ehb until they were betrayed and all but driven to the brink of extinction. Now that evil has returned to Ehb the people turn to the few remaining Legionnaires for the protection of the past. As an heir to the legion will you accept this plea for help? How it will all be resolved is up to you!Not actually clear exactly what is in the demo just yet but if you're after a taste - fire up Steam and get to downloading!
Dungeon Siege III is an Action RPG that seamlessly blends intuitive fast-paced gameplay, a robust RPG system featuring a large selection of abilities, loot galore and the depth of story Square-Enix and Obsidian Entertainment are known for creating. Players will be able to adventure by themselves, on the couch with friends, or online in a fully multiplayer experience.
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Posted 09:36pm 07/6/11
Char development looks interesting and whilst not deep, different, which is neither a good thing or a bad thing. Just a thing that may or may not work.
All in all you can SEE and FEEL Squenix's hand on this title. Taking it to the larger market is all well and good, but I feel they needed to up the ante a little. PC first, console after not the other way around
Posted 09:55pm 07/6/11
They do the whole Bioware thing with the conversations. Couldn't care less about the story so just skipped through it. Feels quite low budget. Doesn't feel like Dungeon Siege in any way.
Quit after about 15 minutes due to boredom. Won't be playing again.
Posted 10:06pm 07/6/11
Chris Taylor sold his sold to SE with SCS2 and now with anything else... god save AoEO.
Posted 11:27pm 07/6/11
Had one guy left at the end of a fight, put my mouse cursor over him, hit attack and my guy stood still swinging his sword where he was. In a hack and slash like this your character should move to who you want him to attack. At least the girl can do ranged attacks.
Posted 12:20am 08/6/11
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Posted 07:53am 08/6/11
There's much less variety in spells and abilities, and they've gone down the route of more detailed fixed characters, as opposed to customizable generic ones as in the previous DS games.
At the same time, the demo ran smoothly and with no bugs to speak of (though a friend of mine had some issues with the action prompt boxes - showed ??? instead of "e" or whatnot).
The gameplay forces you to use your standard attack combos in order to generate focus (or whatever it's called) so you can use your abilities, and as mentioned by others already you pick up orbs of health/mana instead of carrying/using potions. I don't mind this really, the whole inventory juggling/constantly buying health and MP potions thing has always kind of annoyed me anyway.
All in all, I rather enjoyed it - I didn't find any of the characters annoying, I didn't mind the voice actors or script, and I did want to continue playing once I'd got to the end of the demo.
I found the gameplay slightly more engaging than the previous DS titles due to the standard attack combos/blocking(although the decrease in spell/ability diversity is a little sad), and I thought the conversation wheel/story component of the game was working out pretty well.
I'm rather looking forward to bashing through the game with friends in co-op - which is to say I'm hoping they do include online multiplayer co-op, as opposed to the local co-op only demo.
Posted 09:20am 08/6/11
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Posted 09:32am 08/6/11
What happened to the amazing controls from DS2 ? Point and click with amazing GUI/Interface ??
They can't release it like this surely?
Posted 09:42am 08/6/11
Posted 11:13am 08/6/11
However after enduring the demo for an hour, there are too many points to ignore. As a result I wont be purchasing.
* Voice acting for the narrator wasn't engaging. Felt like he was just reading without understanding. Lacked charisma.
* Lucas as a character was unappealing - boring noble's story. Hard to feel attachment to "your" character when he's just some uppedy fellow with low personal ambitions and no need nor desire to save the world.
* Game tells you what happens and how you feel, disengagingly.
* Performance was chunky for me at 1920x - to be expected with high detail settings. Lower resolutions looked s***e though. Set low shadows and then they looked glitchy.
* Camera view control limiting and annoying to play with.
* Character evolution way simplified. Limited choices for abilities and playstyle.
* Feels like a "for the masses" console run and hack game.
Until Diablo III, I'll be getting my kicks with multiplayer Titan Quest: Immortal Throne.
Posted 11:16pm 08/6/11
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Posted 10:49am 09/6/11
I just checked out this "Titan Quest: Immortal Throne" you talk of... how on earth did I miss this game...
Going to give it a shot asap! Cheers for the recommend.
Posted 11:06am 09/6/11
Got it when steam were having a sale and scored it for an epic $2.50
Posted 12:26pm 09/6/11
Posted 01:16pm 09/6/11
Edit* - Patch and info here http://www.titanquest.net/tq-forum/threads/29712-REL-Bugfix-patch-1.17, most people playing mp will be using it so you'll probably want it gamer
Posted 06:13pm 09/6/11
Posted 09:20pm 09/6/11
Left thread having bought Titan Quest Gold on Steam for $14.99.
Thank you QGL.
Posted 10:39pm 09/6/11
Thanks for the patch link Enska
Posted 01:18am 10/6/11
Posted 06:41am 10/6/11
I did just finish fable 3 not long ago though.
Combat in this was at least 10x more rewarding. Skills can be used to.. well be skillful. Blink forward between shooters, place AOE, blink behind them to make melee run over the fire, shoot + blink and watch my dog attack.
It got a bit easier once a tank was rescued, but boss was quite tough! I actually died twice against her. What a b****! (stood next to her without realising her thingy does damage within radius of her body..)
Posted 08:00am 10/6/11
I also highly recommend Torchlight. Streamlined selling (send your pet home to sell all the loot you dont want so you can continue hacking&slashing) and i even preferred the loot to Titan Quest. No Coop though IIRC.
Posted 10:57pm 10/6/11
Any recommendations on other good RPG's to fill the hole? Shame if DS3 is rubbish.
Posted 11:00pm 10/6/11
Posted 11:09pm 10/6/11
I did like how DA:O had characters talking amongst themselves while you were running around. Really made the whole scenario a whole lot more filled out. Allowed the characters to have character, and between buying s*** at shops and going to the next quest, have a kind of purpose other than mandatory RPG walking.
Still, I hate making obligatory idle chat in games, I don't want to play as myself, I don't want to play the sims, I want to hear a story, so give the story a protagonist.
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Posted 02:39pm 11/6/11
Apparently half the game was broken by maths terms.
Posted 02:53pm 11/6/11
Glad I deleted the demo after playing with each character then.
Posted 09:47pm 11/6/11
Saw that 700mb patch and was like F*** NO and deleted the demo before it was very far into the DL. Thats nearly 1/20th of my peak bandwidth.