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Shannow
Waster of Time
So far I've found 2 torrents, both for xbox. Piracy is killing console gaming *g*
Isn't released on amazon.de yet, but the amazon.com page is funny: http://www.amazon.com/Dungeons-Dragons- ... 112&sr=8-1
15$ and 1 copy left. Amazon didn't even bother stocking up.
One review bitching about STEAM and giving 2/5
Isn't released on amazon.de yet, but the amazon.com page is funny: http://www.amazon.com/Dungeons-Dragons- ... 112&sr=8-1
15$ and 1 copy left. Amazon didn't even bother stocking up.
One review bitching about STEAM and giving 2/5
Sordid Jester
Educated
- Joined
- May 15, 2011
- Messages
- 136
You gain two skill-points per level, and skills only have a maximum of four points to put into them. At least for the cleric (which I played when a friend played it over here), you only have to pick from two skills at the start, and then you unlock others one at a time, able to max the new skill out before unlocking the next.
I'm pretty sure it has a glancing blow system. With a damage range of 10-28, I frequently did less than 6 damage. To be honest, I didn't really bother to check, but I never missed an attack so it must be this.
Fireball is a level one spell that can be charged up for a pathetically tiny AoE. Scoff. Every ability I've seen is as underwhelming as this - both in graphical style, and in actual damage - except for the cleric's fourth unlocked ability of something something, which is mechanically effective.
Cleric is easy mode.
Combat is boring. There's no flash, which is alright, because there's no real substance either. There aren't many item properties and finding loot isn't fun. Music is offensively passive and uninspired, as are most sound effects. It's a quiet game, there's nothing captivating about it and there's no real atmosphere.
Experience is only shared between targets you hit, too. Fighters have the best abilities for cleaving through crowds, quickly, so you're usually trying to catch up with them because they kill that much faster, especially minions. Clerics at least get a slither of experience for healing, which is cool.
Abilities are on cooldowns, and they're relatively quick ones too. I also found the cleric incredibly clunky to use, with healing seeming to not respond all of the times that I wanted it. Some abilities were, again, utterly underwhelming - again - with the cleric's shockwave power not always hitting people inside the shockwave animation.
Boring game. Only fun with a friend and taking the piss out of it, really, and even then it wears itself out quite quickly.
Opinion after reading up on nothing at all about this game and just playing it as player two during xbawx session. Would not torrent.
I'm pretty sure it has a glancing blow system. With a damage range of 10-28, I frequently did less than 6 damage. To be honest, I didn't really bother to check, but I never missed an attack so it must be this.
Fireball is a level one spell that can be charged up for a pathetically tiny AoE. Scoff. Every ability I've seen is as underwhelming as this - both in graphical style, and in actual damage - except for the cleric's fourth unlocked ability of something something, which is mechanically effective.
Cleric is easy mode.
Combat is boring. There's no flash, which is alright, because there's no real substance either. There aren't many item properties and finding loot isn't fun. Music is offensively passive and uninspired, as are most sound effects. It's a quiet game, there's nothing captivating about it and there's no real atmosphere.
Experience is only shared between targets you hit, too. Fighters have the best abilities for cleaving through crowds, quickly, so you're usually trying to catch up with them because they kill that much faster, especially minions. Clerics at least get a slither of experience for healing, which is cool.
Abilities are on cooldowns, and they're relatively quick ones too. I also found the cleric incredibly clunky to use, with healing seeming to not respond all of the times that I wanted it. Some abilities were, again, utterly underwhelming - again - with the cleric's shockwave power not always hitting people inside the shockwave animation.
Boring game. Only fun with a friend and taking the piss out of it, really, and even then it wears itself out quite quickly.
Opinion after reading up on nothing at all about this game and just playing it as player two during xbawx session. Would not torrent.
Satori (original)
Arbiter
- Joined
- Feb 19, 2008
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- 6,992
Shannow
Waster of Time
Played perhaps 20 minutes.
Pro:
...
Con:
Bad, but not atrocious controls.
Console interface cannot into PC gaming. Seriously, it's fucked up. Not only huge fonts, the descriptions are not where they should be on screen. That makes them hard to read. No tool-tips. No scrolling in inventory, etc. You can't change the keymapping.
Story is non-existant. UT had more story. So far you go down a corridor and smash barrels. Every 5 barrels there's also an enemy standing around.
No distinct saving. Only Diablo style with the difference that the game tells you to manually save since nothing will be saved if you just exit game...
I'm not even sure if the first character I tried might not be overwritten by the second.
Oh, the graphix are shitty, too, but servicable. If the rest delivered I wouldn't even have mentioned them.
No character creation. Only 4 pre-determined characters that you can choose feats for. Feats are almost completely of the +1 dmg variety.
I'll play until at least one level-up, but so far this makes DA2/Arcania look like awesome aRPGs...
Pro:
...
Con:
Bad, but not atrocious controls.
Console interface cannot into PC gaming. Seriously, it's fucked up. Not only huge fonts, the descriptions are not where they should be on screen. That makes them hard to read. No tool-tips. No scrolling in inventory, etc. You can't change the keymapping.
Story is non-existant. UT had more story. So far you go down a corridor and smash barrels. Every 5 barrels there's also an enemy standing around.
No distinct saving. Only Diablo style with the difference that the game tells you to manually save since nothing will be saved if you just exit game...
I'm not even sure if the first character I tried might not be overwritten by the second.Oh, the graphix are shitty, too, but servicable. If the rest delivered I wouldn't even have mentioned them.
No character creation. Only 4 pre-determined characters that you can choose feats for. Feats are almost completely of the +1 dmg variety.
I'll play until at least one level-up, but so far this makes DA2/Arcania look like awesome aRPGs...
Putting points into a power? lol.
If 4th ed is good for something, then it is for a tactical (TB would be best) game*, probably similar to Jagged Alliance. Just with fantasy, closer range combats and more RPG in the character progression.
But THIS game... oh my god.
*A bit hard to describe, really, but when I played some rounds of D&D 4th ed with friends, all the time I had the feeling of playing a weird mixture of JA and WoW. Not like I was playing an actual Pen and Paper game. It is actually a good system really, just not for PnP, if you ask me.
If 4th ed is good for something, then it is for a tactical (TB would be best) game*, probably similar to Jagged Alliance. Just with fantasy, closer range combats and more RPG in the character progression.
But THIS game... oh my god.
*A bit hard to describe, really, but when I played some rounds of D&D 4th ed with friends, all the time I had the feeling of playing a weird mixture of JA and WoW. Not like I was playing an actual Pen and Paper game. It is actually a good system really, just not for PnP, if you ask me.
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