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Dungeon Siege III Demo for PC out on Steam
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Dezzy
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I think it looks like a decent co-op game for wife and I. I wish we could disable that bloom though!
My monitor is 16:10 1920x1200, but it's forced 16:9 so it gets black bars.
Got my PC plugged into a big 1080p tv via HDMI so, I'm happy to see this supports same screen co-op with multiple controllers, and without black bars! So that easily makes PC>Xbox version.
My monitor is 16:10 1920x1200, but it's forced 16:9 so it gets black bars.
Got my PC plugged into a big 1080p tv via HDMI so, I'm happy to see this supports same screen co-op with multiple controllers, and without black bars! So that easily makes PC>Xbox version.
JrK
Prophet
Played it again. Chose the fighter this time, found him much more enjoyable. Also, disabled Camera Auto-orient or somesuch, camera much more bearable.
Should be awesome to coop, since the combat can be quite hard if you don't use your abilities/blocking/dodging well.
Should be awesome to coop, since the combat can be quite hard if you don't use your abilities/blocking/dodging well.
Prestigious impressions:
Let's start with stuff that sucks:
1. THE CAMERA, OH GOD THE CAMERA.
2. Why is the whole game so blurry? Might be because of the bloom, but the point is, that after playing through the demo I got a massive fucking headache from the blurriness.
3. Fucking animated menus are horrible to navigate through and take too much time to bring up.
Stuff that's ehhh:
1. Character system seems primitive, but functional.
2. Combat at first seems wonky, but you can grow used to it. Same goes for controls.
3. It looks lulzy when people stop talking to you, move aside out of vision and DISAPPEAR
4. The demo areas seem to be long-ass corridors, but I stumbled upon a couple of locked doors, so maybe, just maybe, it's gonna be something more than just a corridor slasher. Still, lack of secret areas that were awesum in DS1 sucks.
Stuff that's gud:
1. Music. I really liked the music.
2. Combat. Seems like a clusterfuck at first, but once you get the hang of it, it can be p. cool, although what kinda sucks is that rollin' around is, once again, the remedy to all your problems. It also kinda blows that it follows the trend of 'TWO-HANDER = SLOW BUT ATTACKS MULTIPLE ENEMIES, LOLOLO' which is dum. Played on highest difficulty, and the last fight against the uberwitch was actually challenging.
3. Stability/performance - apart from the general blurriness, the game runs completely flawlessly and doesn't crash at max settings. Didn't notice any bugs, either.
I guess I'll give it an extended demo when it comes out because there's potential in this game. I just hope it sorta opens up later or, at least, doesn't turn to utter shit.
It's better than 2witcher
Let's start with stuff that sucks:
1. THE CAMERA, OH GOD THE CAMERA.
2. Why is the whole game so blurry? Might be because of the bloom, but the point is, that after playing through the demo I got a massive fucking headache from the blurriness.
3. Fucking animated menus are horrible to navigate through and take too much time to bring up.
Stuff that's ehhh:
1. Character system seems primitive, but functional.
2. Combat at first seems wonky, but you can grow used to it. Same goes for controls.
3. It looks lulzy when people stop talking to you, move aside out of vision and DISAPPEAR
4. The demo areas seem to be long-ass corridors, but I stumbled upon a couple of locked doors, so maybe, just maybe, it's gonna be something more than just a corridor slasher. Still, lack of secret areas that were awesum in DS1 sucks.
Stuff that's gud:
1. Music. I really liked the music.
2. Combat. Seems like a clusterfuck at first, but once you get the hang of it, it can be p. cool, although what kinda sucks is that rollin' around is, once again, the remedy to all your problems. It also kinda blows that it follows the trend of 'TWO-HANDER = SLOW BUT ATTACKS MULTIPLE ENEMIES, LOLOLO' which is dum. Played on highest difficulty, and the last fight against the uberwitch was actually challenging.
3. Stability/performance - apart from the general blurriness, the game runs completely flawlessly and doesn't crash at max settings. Didn't notice any bugs, either.
I guess I'll give it an extended demo when it comes out because there's potential in this game. I just hope it sorta opens up later or, at least, doesn't turn to utter shit.
It's better than 2witcher
FatCat
Educated
Jesus what a piece of shit this game is..
Art direction sucks
Design in general sucks
Visuals suck
Story from what you can see sucks
Combat worse than Witcher 1
Music seems fine , but that's about it.
DA2 > DS3 any fucking day of the week.This PoS almost archives Arcania like shittiness.
Art direction sucks
Design in general sucks
Visuals suck
Story from what you can see sucks
Combat worse than Witcher 1
Music seems fine , but that's about it.
DA2 > DS3 any fucking day of the week.This PoS almost archives Arcania like shittiness.
Nevermind, local co-op 
Angthoron
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Played til the Stronhold place thingy, will play more later and see if impressions change but so far:
* Voice acting is tolerable, it's not stellar, but it's not Mr. Meer either. Some of the VAs actually try to display some emotions in their voice.
* Music is, as Darth Roxor said, very good. If nothing else, I'll want the music from this thing.
* Graphics, don't know why people are complaining, maybe stop playing on piece of shit machines? It's good for what it is, though Witcher 2 on full settings it is not. Can't judge about environments or design much yet as I've only seen the "intro" areas.
* Camera: Is traditionally shit. In fact, during the first "named" opponent fight on the bridge, it bugged up and kept spinning, which really fucked things up a bit. Letterbox screen format and bad angle aren't helping.
* Combat: Played Lucas, it works like ARPG of its kind should work, you click, sword is swung, occasional crit lands.
* Writing/story/premise: If I understand correctly, previous game's hero becomes the villain? If so, nice take on Diablo - Diablo 2 transition. Nothing stellar, but does the job well enough. Plus there's the lore books I've not read much yet that seem lengthy enough. Fucking Dialogue Wheel though.
* Dialogue: Fucking dialogue wheel.
* Engine: Not bad considering Obsidian's track record, smooth enough, no sudden slowdowns unlike their previous works.
* Character system works. Is simple. *shrug* What more to say.
Mind, these are just impressions of part of the demo, but so far, it's not really as bad as some folk say it to be.
And to those having issues with slow DLs from Steam - try switching to a different server. My DL completed in 20 minutes.
* Voice acting is tolerable, it's not stellar, but it's not Mr. Meer either. Some of the VAs actually try to display some emotions in their voice.
* Music is, as Darth Roxor said, very good. If nothing else, I'll want the music from this thing.
* Graphics, don't know why people are complaining, maybe stop playing on piece of shit machines? It's good for what it is, though Witcher 2 on full settings it is not. Can't judge about environments or design much yet as I've only seen the "intro" areas.
* Camera: Is traditionally shit. In fact, during the first "named" opponent fight on the bridge, it bugged up and kept spinning, which really fucked things up a bit. Letterbox screen format and bad angle aren't helping.
* Combat: Played Lucas, it works like ARPG of its kind should work, you click, sword is swung, occasional crit lands.
* Writing/story/premise: If I understand correctly, previous game's hero becomes the villain? If so, nice take on Diablo - Diablo 2 transition. Nothing stellar, but does the job well enough. Plus there's the lore books I've not read much yet that seem lengthy enough. Fucking Dialogue Wheel though.
* Dialogue: Fucking dialogue wheel.
* Engine: Not bad considering Obsidian's track record, smooth enough, no sudden slowdowns unlike their previous works.
* Character system works. Is simple. *shrug* What more to say.
Mind, these are just impressions of part of the demo, but so far, it's not really as bad as some folk say it to be.
And to those having issues with slow DLs from Steam - try switching to a different server. My DL completed in 20 minutes.
BROS LIKE WHAT I WROTE IN THE CONSOLE THREAD THE ACTION SEEMS OKAY BUT THE WORLD SEEMED ALL LINEAR AND SHIT
I WILL HAVE TO WAIT FROM TRUSTED BROS TO SEE IF I EVER WANT TO BUY THIS THE DEMO MAKES IT HARD TO GET A FEEL FOR THE GAME WITH THE INSTA RESPAWN
I WILL HAVE TO WAIT FROM TRUSTED BROS TO SEE IF I EVER WANT TO BUY THIS THE DEMO MAKES IT HARD TO GET A FEEL FOR THE GAME WITH THE INSTA RESPAWN
Demo impressions:
Graphics: the enviroments are gorgeous, but the charactermodells are quite meeh.
Sound: music is good, VA is decent
Story: could be interesting, but you can't tell it from the demo
Gameplay: a good hack and slash, but I think a gamepad is recommended to be truly enjoyable. K
is decent but not the best. I died several times with k+m just because the character didn't do what I wanted. Character development is decent.
Camera: Kind of sucks, I hope it will be better with gamepad.
All in all it seems it will be an enjoyable game, but far from Obsidians best. I hope they raise some money with this title and start making a great cRPG.
Graphics: the enviroments are gorgeous, but the charactermodells are quite meeh.
Sound: music is good, VA is decent
Story: could be interesting, but you can't tell it from the demo
Gameplay: a good hack and slash, but I think a gamepad is recommended to be truly enjoyable. K
is decent but not the best. I died several times with k+m just because the character didn't do what I wanted. Character development is decent.Camera: Kind of sucks, I hope it will be better with gamepad.
All in all it seems it will be an enjoyable game, but far from Obsidians best. I hope they raise some money with this title and start making a great cRPG.
IronicNeurotic
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Crossposting
Obsidian destroyed glorious Dungeon Siege Franchise. This thread proves it.
http://forums.obsidian.net/index.php?showtopic=57534
Dungeon Siege Fans are very angry at Obsidian. Chris Taylor (GasPoweredGames) better than Avellone and Ziets.
Obsidian destroyed glorious Dungeon Siege Franchise. This thread proves it.
http://forums.obsidian.net/index.php?showtopic=57534
Dungeon Siege Fans are very angry at Obsidian. Chris Taylor (GasPoweredGames) better than Avellone and Ziets.
Actually that guy is right. He says that the game is not bad, but it is not like the earlier DS games. It plays a little differently (although still a hack and slash), and they ditched the party based combat.IronicNeurotic said:
IronicNeurotic
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J_C said:
Wasn't talking or quoting that guy.
Oh yeah, btw VA - the bwitish actors trying to imitate potatospeak were amusing to say the least. Especially how they tried speaking the 'hard' way, but at the same time spelt 'ou' as 'eu', if you get my drift.
Demo map looks like it, yeah, but there are a couple of locked doors with 'LOLOLO NOT AVAILABLE IN DEMO' that seem to be sidequests, so maybe that changes slightly in the full version.
Demo map looks like it, yeah, but there are a couple of locked doors with 'LOLOLO NOT AVAILABLE IN DEMO' that seem to be sidequests, so maybe that changes slightly in the full version.
Black_Willow
Arcane
They ditched the party-based combat? Fuck them!
DA2 > DS3 and I haven't played both.
DA2 > DS3 and I haven't played both.
Black_Willow said:
They didn't
Black_Willow
Arcane
So what? Still DA2 > DS3 cuz i say so.
You still get companions, but I'm not entirely sure how they work. A companion is introduced at the very end, when you have nothing left to fight, really, and I'm not sure if they aren't AI-controlled. Still, you control their character progression/gear and stuff. AND THERE'S COMPANION INFLUENCE!!11
flushfire said:
lol-in-fucking-deed.
Sup
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Downloaded, played, looks awful, camera is awful, UI is awful, animations are awful, environments look awful, combat is awful.
Boring, shit, banal etc.
Let's hope Obsidian don't die as a company so Bethesda will let them do Fallout 4. New Vegas was a masterpiece of a game and they need to make more of that quality.
Boring, shit, banal etc.
Let's hope Obsidian don't die as a company so Bethesda will let them do Fallout 4. New Vegas was a masterpiece of a game and they need to make more of that quality.
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