For those interested I will take a small Starcraft 2 break and stream my walkthrough on Legend of Grimrock. Starting tonight at 19:00+ GMT, then in the same hours on thirsday, friday, and afternoons this week-end !

My stream: http://www.teamliquid.net/video/streams/Nyast

See ya in Grimrock !

UniversalSnip

9871 Posts

April 11 2012 13:01 GMT

#23

The real time combat is a big turn off for me

Immersion_

United Kingdom794 Posts

April 11 2012 13:46 GMT

#24

Definitely giving this a whirl, been faarrrrr too long since I was a wee lad and played Eye of the Beholder 2

, hopefully a serious dose of nostalgia inc!

Aylear

Norway3988 Posts

April 11 2012 13:56 GMT

#25

I checked out TB's video of it and watched him play it for a few minutes. It looks like a faithful throwback to the old school games in this style, and I'd love to try it out. The videos I've seen, however, don't do the game justice. Immersion is so important for games like these, and you really don't get that when you're critically analyzing the limited movement and combat. I won't be able to make up my mind about it until I try it myself.

Hopefully they market it right. It would be great to see it do well.

stenole

Norway868 Posts

April 11 2012 16:11 GMT

#26

The videos of this game bring back many good memories of eye of the beholder 1 and 2. I am still on the fence when it comes to buying though. Hopefully there will be a demo or something. I won't watch any streams because I don't want to ruin it...

Things that are important to me:
- The game is long enough.
- Slow movement and turning doesn't get annoying.
- Enough puzzles to make it not just a hack'n'slash.
- Hotkeys for spellcasting/using weapons/character management.
- Not too easy.

PassiveAce

United States18076 Posts

April 11 2012 16:24 GMT

#27

-The game is supposed to be about 15 hours long, more if you explore thoroughly
-Can't say for sure, sorry

-The puzzles are supposed to be pretty mind-bending at some parts.
-Cant say for sure

-I think it has a difficulty slider, as well as an "Old School" mode where you don't get an automap and have to plot everything yourself.

RobX

Sweden14 Posts

April 11 2012 21:48 GMT

#28

One word.... awesome!

I've been playing for some hours now. Took me back to the Dungeon Master days.
All core mechanics like combat and spellcasting works pretty much exactly like Dungeon Master.

So far puzzles have not been too taxing but I haven't reached so far down in the dungeons.

Well worth the tiny investment if you ask me.

Endymion

United States3701 Posts

April 11 2012 22:15 GMT

#29

looks a lot like the etrian odyssey series for the ds (which were excellent i might add)

ThaZenith

Canada3116 Posts

April 11 2012 23:47 GMT

#30

Played couple hours, the combat is pretty fun, the 'puzzles' are easy, but I'm not down all that far either. Almost got my party wiped once. Edit:got cornered and wiped by spiders while reading notes... how rude.

The fact that community made dungeons will be an option soon is awesome, this'll be a game that keeps on giving.

Though I'd say the resemblence to etrian oddysey ends at designing your four party members and the grid-based nature of the map. Battles aren't random here, dungeons aren't random, battle is completely different, much more puzzle element inolved, important item conservation, no story here really, etc. Both are fun though.

RogerX

New Zealand3180 Posts

April 11 2012 23:53 GMT

#31

Yup, saw the Totalbiscuit video before it got linked here.

I liked it, I will definitely pick it up, it looks very appealing to me.

Telgor

Scotland4 Posts

April 12 2012 09:01 GMT

#32

This game is just so good. And yeah, they plan to release a map-maker soon so it's going to have lots of replayability when the community starts releasing it's own maps. It's definitely a lot like Dungeon Master in mechanics and gameplay and looks so sweet as well. Highly recommended!

RoyalCheese

Czech Republic745 Posts

April 12 2012 09:41 GMT

#33

I never played this style of games, but i felt like buying the game and supporting developers...only had time to play it for like an hour or so but i quite enjoy it, i will definetly return to it. It is very pretty, combat is fun (esp magic) and it sucks you in pretty well.

Tobberoth

Sweden6375 Posts

April 12 2012 11:44 GMT

#34

Man, thanks for writing this topic. I could NEVER imagine I would like a game like this, I was about to leave the topic as soon as I saw it was an FPS dungeon crawler... but then I saw TBs video and decided to give it a try. Played it for 1 hour now and it's amazingly good, I really hope they keep releasing dungeons.

Telgor

Scotland4 Posts

April 12 2012 12:16 GMT

#35

On April 12 2012 20:44 Tobberoth wrote:
Man, thanks for writing this topic...

No problem

-Archangel-

Croatia7457 Posts

April 12 2012 14:48 GMT

#36

I tried it for a while. What I don't like is that it is not really an RPG, more like a puzzle with monsters and character advancement.

Also I don't dig real time combat in these kind of games. Might & Magic series is still the best of this kind out there.

boppel

140 Posts

April 12 2012 14:53 GMT

#37

so im stupid as fuck it seems, im stuck at the beginning of the game (LOL)

theres a sign on the wall which says "LOOSE ROCK"

i CLICKED EVERY DAMN ROCK for almost 30minutes, then i rage quitted with alt f4..

please help me :D

PassiveAce

United States18076 Posts

April 12 2012 14:58 GMT

#38

On April 12 2012 23:53 boppel wrote:
so im stupid as fuck it seems, im stuck at the beginning of the game (LOL)

theres a sign on the wall which says "LOOSE ROCK"

i CLICKED EVERY DAMN ROCK for almost 30minutes, then i rage quitted with alt f4..

please help me :D

+ Show Spoiler +

if you look at one specific part of the wall near the sign you will notice that one of the rocks is fractured, click on the smaller fractured part, its actually a button.