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I'm at the second 'continent' (you can see it on the map). I had a lot of fun at the start of the game, and probably did about 8 quest hubs before moving on.
The combat is fun, but after a while it's just more of the same. It's still fun, but more combos would be nice (I play pure Finesse). The God of War-like sequences are pretty cool. Another problem with the combat is you can just chain use potions against really tough enemies + use your fate combo to destroy them.
The questing is very WoW-like. Eventually I just got fed up with kill x/y and started to skip some quests (I first tried to do every quest I encountered). The level/enemy scaling is also pretty weird; sometimes you can very easily kill enemies and sometimes it either takes ages to get them down or they just destroy you (even when the names are yellow; which means it should be ok). When I got fed up with questing I just started doing the main quest, which (after some big event) does make me want to finish this game. I doubt I'll be completing all the quests though.
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Pretty boring game from the start. Played it for about an hour and not impressed. Super console-y and non deep. Will have to play it a bit more to see if it picks up.
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Why is it that I see in here lots of people from around whole Europe playing retail version yet I have to wait till 10th? Did you buy american keys?
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Maybe some kind of non-steam version released earlier? Not sure, but my steam version definitly isn't unlocked yet
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Theres either Steam or Origin versions and I got my Origin key by pre order and it says I have to wait till 10th... Thats bs. Meanwhile US players are haveing fun for 2 days now
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Its like people havnt played a new game in years.
A lot of games dont release globaly on the same day. Normal release day for America is tuesday and thursday for europe. hence the difference.
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On February 09 2012 03:28 trekala wrote:
*cough* pirates *cough*
Not quite, try FlyVPN  - use free trial, select US server. Restart steam -> decrypt game -> play game -> put steam in offline mode - Play. That's how I did it at least. The moment you remove offline mode it does turn it back to "pre-load complete" however. And you can only use FlyVPN 3 times a day so beware.
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Maybe I'm just a scrub but I finished up the House of Ballads questline and I died 3 times in the final fight at the end of the questline. I'm playing on normal too. I mean to each their own, I friggen love the game and plan to play more tonight. Sorry for any typos, posting from my phone.
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On February 09 2012 03:55 Xinder wrote:
Maybe I'm just a scrub but I finished up the House of Ballads questline and I died 3 times in the final fight at the end of the questline. I'm playing on normal too. I mean to each their own, I friggen love the game and plan to play more tonight. Sorry for any typos, posting from my phone.
Yeah the final quest there is pretty tough. I barely made it (although the last boss was ezpz cause I had the fate combo).
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On February 08 2012 21:45 MrCon wrote:Show nested quote +On February 08 2012 20:09 Telcontar wrote:
I guess my fears were not unfounded. An action game masquerading as an RPG. I don't really know why I was so hopeful that Salvatore would flesh out an interesting world. He hasn't written anything good in a good long while. Plus, I knew the game would cater to the casual console gamers. Oh well.... another ship passes. Reading the previews I was hoping it would be a little like Dark Souls or Demon's Souls. After playing those 2 games it's too hard to play another action rpg.
I know man. I finally finished Demon Soulds last month. I had to call professional cleaners to wipe off all the blood, sweat and tears. I guess I should move on to Dark Souls, but I'm a little daunted.
Oh and I hope I don't have to wait until The Witcher 3 for the next good RPG on the PC. I guess I'll have to get by with modded Skyrim and the enhanced edition of The Witcher 2. I don't have much hope for ME3. I expect it to be closer to Uncharted with dialogue options rather than what ME1 was.
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On February 09 2012 04:14 Telcontar wrote:
I guess I should move on to Dark Souls, but I'm a little daunted.
Despite what the media said, Dark Souls is easier than Demon's Souls. Definitely play it.
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On February 09 2012 03:58 Glowbox wrote:Show nested quote +On February 09 2012 03:55 Xinder wrote:
Maybe I'm just a scrub but I finished up the House of Ballads questline and I died 3 times in the final fight at the end of the questline. I'm playing on normal too. I mean to each their own, I friggen love the game and plan to play more tonight. Sorry for any typos, posting from my phone. Yeah the final quest there is pretty tough. I barely made it (although the last boss was ezpz cause I had the fate combo).
I actually finished it twice. The first time I was trying to end the fight there was still a mob alive and it killed me so i had to do it again.
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On February 08 2012 20:24 Advocado wrote:
TB flips out when he had to destroy every grey manually. Too much of an character to judge the game from, watch another stream and make your impressions instead.
He even called IGN "corrupt" or that they know nothing about gaming to rate the game highly. To me that's pathetic for such a public figure to say even when he states it's just his opinion. Why would he slander other peoples opinions when stating his own?
Anyway I loved the demo and am definitely going to get this.
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On February 09 2012 04:17 Yacobs wrote:Show nested quote +On February 09 2012 04:14 Telcontar wrote:
I guess I should move on to Dark Souls, but I'm a little daunted.
Despite what the media said, Dark Souls is easier than Demon's Souls. Definitely play it.
Thanks. As much as I enjoyed Demon, it did get unbelievably frustrating at times.
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On February 09 2012 04:17 Yacobs wrote:Show nested quote +On February 09 2012 04:14 Telcontar wrote:
I guess I should move on to Dark Souls, but I'm a little daunted.
Despite what the media said, Dark Souls is easier than Demon's Souls. Definitely play it.
I thought Dark Souls was slightly easier in terms of raw difficulty but a LOT less easy to abuse. Like in Demon Souls, you can kill most bosses just toying with the AI. Could not do that in Dark Souls and seriously, the Ornstein and Smough boss fight was like the hardest thing I have ever done in my life in a video game. But sick sick game anyway, get it, you will not regret it
I really don't mind if all games have an "easy" mode but when it says "hard", I when to sweat from start to finish. Gonna buy the game on Friday anyway but it's always disappointing...
Got a quick question actually for people already playing it. I want to optimise my char as a mage but I'm not too interested in playing an elf guy. When you go to a fateweaver to reset your skills, does that work as well for what you learn during the tutorial as well as the points you get as racial bonus?
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Just finished the game, it took me about 20-25 hours. Wanted to share with some of my thoughts.
Played with the pure sorcerer.
Finished the game @ 29 level. The game is really very easy. Since I got meteor there were only 1-2 kinds of monsters who didn't die from the first shot. This spell is sooo imbalanced. So in the last 7-8 hours of playing the game was the following: enter the room -> strike meteor -> pick loot -> go next. It forced me to change difficulty from normal to hard, and I didn't see much of difference. i think I could've played hard from beginning.
I don't know what were thinking the guys who were speaking about awesome combat system. Imho, THE WITCHER's combat system is way better, and you actually had to micro your hero. Also you defensive abilities (SHIFT/SPACE) have some sort of delay and usually my char was hit while doing them. Game developers could've removed the delay and buff the monster in order to make gameplay much more fun.
About quests. I was trying to do all the quests till level 15-16. Then I just gave up - there're sooo many of them, and you don't get much of experience by doing them after level 15 - just didn't see the point. So I continued with main quests and also did 2 tasks, the last of them was House Of Sorrows task, where I got cool set of items and used it till the very end.
There's not big variation of the monsters and most of monster's skins are used till the very end.
Well, overall the game is not bad, but it's built for casual players who like the story and read dialogs. Hardcore players won't find it interesting.
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On February 09 2012 05:43 Runaground wrote:
Just finished the game, it took me about 20-25 hours. Wanted to share with some of my thoughts.
Thanks for putting to rest the ridiculous rumours that 'KoA QA testers are speed running the game and it's taking 200 hours!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!'. I can't believe anyone believed that.
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On February 09 2012 04:22 Numy wrote:Show nested quote +On February 08 2012 20:24 Advocado wrote:
TB flips out when he had to destroy every grey manually. Too much of an character to judge the game from, watch another stream and make your impressions instead. He even called IGN "corrupt" or that they know nothing about gaming to rate the game highly. To me that's pathetic for such a public figure to say even when he states it's just his opinion. Why would he slander other peoples opinions when stating his own? Anyway I loved the demo and am definitely going to get this.
I'm sure IGN is never biased at all or gets people to pay them for good ratings. *sarcasm*
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On February 09 2012 04:22 Numy wrote:Show nested quote +On February 08 2012 20:24 Advocado wrote:
TB flips out when he had to destroy every grey manually. Too much of an character to judge the game from, watch another stream and make your impressions instead. He even called IGN "corrupt" or that they know nothing about gaming to rate the game highly. To me that's pathetic for such a public figure to say even when he states it's just his opinion. Why would he slander other peoples opinions when stating his own?
Who cares, everyone knows IGN is biased/corrupt/whatever you want to call it.
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