I did, I even edited my post, your just too damn fast!!!
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Kingdoms of Amalur
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I did, I even edited my post, your just too damn fast!!!
Just took a nice little swim in some pretty looking water and found an area that wasn't clearly identified on the map. That's good news. I went into this area, killed some rats, and got some nice loot.
That means exploring is viable and will be rewarded.
This might be the ideal "need to come down off Skyrim withdraw" game because it's completely different but immersive in its own way. At least for me.
I think this is a winner myself.
I'm going to say it definitely is "reasonably good."
The open world is gorgeous. Lots of lush colors without being pastel obscene.
Gameplay feels good. Combat is REALLY satisfying. Menus are good. Deep RPG elements to be had. There's going to be a lot of characters, stories, sidequests, factions...the thing's loaded.
I wouldn't be half surprised if these guys have that in there.
The interviews I've seen with the devs...they "get it."
The deer and other natural wildlife look good and act natural and are bashful when you come near them. Nice details.
I'm kinda the same way. Too open world is not good for me. I think im OCD to a certain extent and I just get too bored when i have too much choice. I'd rather have more fleshed out content than them just letting me wander around aimlessly.
This does have an distinct "indie" flavor about it, despite the big names and money behind it. Specifically referring to the responsiveness of the developers.
All the better. It feels like every major RPG I play is a sequel in some series I first started playing pre-2000. I've always wanted to see 'indie' games taken to large scale.
I'd say no, there is a pretty high level of polish. I agree about them responding to questions though.
You ought to love this game at that rate.
The game is very polished, too. Very impressed with it.
Yeah, a question goes on their FB page and 30 seconds one of them answered me. I can't ask for much better. Just for that alone they've probably earned my money.
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Dark Souls.
Er, well, I did sign the petition for that, so we'll see how that goes, and if I'll get to experience the refreshing experience of being exp fodder for a rat instead of the other way around.
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Indeed. This sort of interaction with their customers should be encouraged.
LeninGHOLA
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Funny though, there is indeed a giant ass rat in that game that will own you.
Anyway, hopefully I get sent home early from work due to snow to check this demo out.
Since I will not be able to try the demo myself until later tonight and if the demo is 3D compatible, I would like to know if anyone here is able to try the game with Nvidia 3D vision and how is it since this game seems like it would be perfect in 3D with all those wonderful colors!
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Like I said, the Europeans kept plugging it, no doubt because it was a "homegrown" German effort. They probably hate getting stuck with localized American games and G3 turned out to be their revenge
And thus, every time a new 3D action RPG comes out, the ghosts of my G3 experience haunt me. I'll give KoA a try, although I wonder if I'll find it more suited to the 360 controller than kb+m.
With the latest community patch, the game is pretty decent.
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Is it not locked camera mouse look with ws=forward back and ad = strafing left and right?
edit: elaborate, kind sir!
Fired up the Game. Cut scenes worked okay and such, but the 'game' didn't. Turned off Post Processing as someone else mentioned. Everything worked okay. Got to the part where you talk to the first dude (3 minutes in) And the game crashed as I was talking to him.
So far extremely let down. Have the latest ATI drivers etc etc. Nothing else crashes. Wanted to try it, but can't even try it due to bugs.
So far extremely let down. Have the latest ATI drivers etc etc. Nothing else crashes. Wanted to try it, but can't even try it due to bugs.
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The main quirk I've run into with the controls is that it makes you hold down "x" (Default) for reckoning mode, which was quite cumbersome. Not sure if that was just a bug for me or that tutorial section, the demo does have some bugs, didn't play beyond that section yet.
One nice touch is it offers you the option to skip the well of souls section on replays.
To expand bugs for me at the moment. I get stutters/hitching occasionally, this is on a GTX 560ti. The other is the games controls will sometimes bug if you are pressing it after entering dialogue/cutscene/loading and get stuck. I assume this would probably be resolved on the release though.
I didn't have the bugs you did and some of these controls I still have to get the hang of. The good news is: They're all re-mappable except the primary and secondary weapon mouse buttons, which I wouldn't want to change anyways.
Someone had asked: The camera moves with the mouse but you can not zoom in or back out. I wouldn't mind being able to do that.
Somehow I lost my afternoon to this demo so I guess that's probably a good sign.
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It is based on your EA/Origin account.
The items will be tied to your EA account.
I just got a few minutes to play it so far, but it seems like it will be good.
What was with the green dialogue option with a percentage? I didn't have time to fully explore the game so I may have skipped over something.
The only issue I kept having was my character kept running around randomly like a key was stuck. This also made dialogue a pain since it kept scrolling and I couldn't select an option.
I just got a few minutes to play it so far, but it seems like it will be good.
What was with the green dialogue option with a percentage? I didn't have time to fully explore the game so I may have skipped over something.
The only issue I kept having was my character kept running around randomly like a key was stuck. This also made dialogue a pain since it kept scrolling and I couldn't select an option.
wait a minute...Kingdoms of Amalur is available on Steam?...so Origin is not required to play the full retail game either?...so no ME3 goodies if playing on Steam right?...I hate how certain EA games are Origin exclusives while others are not...if you're going to tie certain titles in then why not do like Valve does with Steam?
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You mean the option with a percentage? I assume it is a persuasion check dialogue option.
This is the same bug I get. I think it is due to holding down the forward key and entering a dialogue/loading situation. If you hold a direction (wasd) it should pause it enough to click on something with the mouse.
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The only Origin exclusive is BF3, in the sense it is completely tied to the Origin program. No other game is tied to the program.
Also Amalur is not exactly an EA game, it is a EA Partners game. Valve for instance is also part of this program. So EA does not have as much direct control as they would compared to a studio/IP owned by them.
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EA is the publisher for retail games. Just like they are for Valve games.
And yes only BF3 requires Origin. Alice requires a one time activation on Origin. ( without installing origin too ). Origin gets to much hate. Its very good app.. and not required by much, ( one game to be exact )
Where as all Valve games require the app to be running. So whats the better DRM?. Origin no questions asked.
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I can't play this because I'm on AMD graphics. Well, that sucks.
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ME3 is not released so there is no sure way to determine how it will function at the moment.
The only information out regarding this is that it -
- it requires Origin (will get to this more in a bit)
- one time activation for single player
- persistent connection for multi-player
Regarding the Origin bit, the actual Origin program is just a component of the service. For instance Alice 2 (like mentioned) also requires a 1 time activation through EA/Origin, but it is done independently of the client. The client itself is not a requirement, which as far as I know only applies to BF3.
Turn off post processing.
but if the ME3 bonus is tied into your Origin account then it only makes sense that those people would definitely need the Origin client to access the bonus gear
It's an early build of the game, and it's well know to be buggy. It is not a representation of the final shipping product, but be sure to give it bad marks not due to gameplay, story, or graphics but to interface bugs.
Trust me, this is not an early build of the game. It's pre-release, but not early by a long shot. Bugs like the ones I found should have been fixed months ago.
the developers clearly stated, this demo is off an older build and THEY did not do the demo. TH eonly reason this demo exists is because they had an EA dev team do the demo and didn't take anyone away from the development team.
They said there are a lot of things in the demo that are fixed because it' smonths old (When the other team started on the demo).
They said there are a lot of things in the demo that are fixed because it' smonths old (When the other team started on the demo).
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Am I correct in that there's no multiplayer component? Either way, I'll probably be picking it up
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60 bucks on PC. That price point seems high for this title that doesn't have the reputation of others. So far, the 60 dollar price point on PC games has been reserved for really big titles, I feel like this game should definitely be starting at 50 and not 60. But I guess that's just EA for you.
Downloading the demo on steam, seems interesting nonetheless. Think I will most likely be waiting for a price drop though.
Downloading the demo on steam, seems interesting nonetheless. Think I will most likely be waiting for a price drop though.