[Thaluikhain]

http://www.escapistm...gon-Age-Origins

Ouch...very accurate description of the problems of fantasy RPGs.

[David-kyo]

I like the writing, the humour, the characters and interactions thereof and the moral choice-thing about this game. What I do not like is the boring combat system, the truly and well fucked-up difficulty, the atrociously boring dungeons and the characters constantly looking like they'd taken a shower using the contents of abattoir slop buckets after the smallest, most insignificant fisticuffs encounters. Seeing that they promised about 100 hours of gameplay and that the majority of this time is spent exploring boring dungeons I'll probably not finish this.

[AdamM]

You bought the damn thing? What did you expect from the makers of Mass Effect?

[David-kyo]

Jesus Christ, no way. The last game I actually bought was Little Big Adventure 2 about twelve years ago and it was worth every penny.

[Gobbler]

Hah, I had my folks get me that as a present after playing the demo for two minutes back in the days, the last one I actually bought was... ... was...

Fuck.



One of Yahtzee's special editions.

[AdamM]

David-kyo, on 29 November 2009 - 09:56 AM, said:

Jesus Christ, no way.

You torrented the damn thing? What did you expect from the makers of Mass Effect?

[David-kyo]

Something that would hold my interest at least as long as Knights of the Old Republic did.

[Buggaton]

David-kyo, on 19 November 2009 - 02:56 PM, said:

I like the writing, the humour, the characters and interactions thereof and the moral choice-thing about this game. What I do not like is the boring combat system, the truly and well fucked-up difficulty, the atrociously boring dungeons and the characters constantly looking like they'd taken a shower using the contents of abattoir slop buckets after the smallest, most insignificant fisticuffs encounters. Seeing that they promised about 100 hours of gameplay and that the majority of this time is spent exploring boring dungeons I'll probably not finish this.

Change the difficulty to "Easy" and play with 2-3 mages in the party if it's giving you that much bother. I'm playing it on Nightmare WITH the dexterity hotfix and it's fine. Fucking hard and most characters sustain 3-4 injuries per area but I manage (Rogue, Warrior, Warrior, Mage). I tried playing on normal and I barely had to think about the combat it was so easy...

Turn off gore.

I spend about half of my time in fights and half of my time in dialogue/exploration which given that it's an adventure game is reasonabley dialogue heavy AND I'M PLAYING ON NIGHTMARE.

You just hate it because you think Yahtzee did. (he didn't, by the way...)

[David-kyo]

Buggaton, on 07 December 2009 - 09:57 PM, said:

You just hate it because you think Yahtzee did. (he didn't, by the way...)

You can stop being so condescending, Buggerer. I hated it because I found it shit. There are quite a few so-called ADVENTURE games that didn't bore me out of my skull with repetitive gameplay, unnecessary amounts of wall-of-text and virtually no plot development.

This post has been edited by David-kyo: 07 December 2009 - 05:14 PM

[David-kyo]

And another thing. If increased difficulty means that no matter how much I specialize my warriors to be able to HIT an enemy boss they still can't even scratch it while they can still just flick the heads off of regular enemies in a particularly yawn-provoking fashion then fuck difficulty. I've heard they had to release a patch to balance things out. Oh, so you were using a hotfix eh? If a game can't be balanced by default and I have to apply various fixes for it then clearly someone shipped the fucker a bit prematurely.

[Voicebox]

I liked it...quite a bit actually.

We all like different things. No big deal.

[Rockfor Ever]

I played a russian version, and then turn to an english. You know, dialogues not so boring on russian... Yes, soldiers, refugee and other objects of the furnishing, speaks like a retarded drunk monkeys, but who wants to talk to them, anyway? At least, old women talks like an old women, not like a 25 years old virgin. Russian "Morrigan" is more derisive and haughty, and Alister is more like a mellow merrymaker, not a clown with a cucumber in the ass... Of course, it's my own opinion, as a russian, and nothing more, but if main character actors sucks - whole story will suck. Especially, if in this moment they look like an apron of butcer...

[David-kyo]

Rockfor Ever, on 12 December 2009 - 10:56 AM, said:

Russian "Morrigan" is more derisive and haughty

Even moreso? That is difficult to picture, I thought the English one was derisive enough.
Alistair I actually liked.

It's not the actors I had problems with, but the whole pretense of maturity and the boring gameplay.

[Rockfor Ever]

David-kyo, on 12 December 2009 - 04:11 PM, said:

Even moreso? That is difficult to picture, I thought the English one was derisive enough.

You can download the localization files and check it yourself. In this case, your opinion, probably, will be different.

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Alistair I actually liked.

Oh, that's the name... Shame on me...
His personality is amusing, indeed.

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It's not the actors I had problems with, but the whole pretense of maturity and the boring gameplay.

True. But if your companions talking interesting enough, sometimes you can close your eyes on monotonicity.

[David-kyo]

Rockfor Ever, on 12 December 2009 - 01:10 PM, said:

But if your companions talking interesting enough, sometimes you can close your eyes on monotonicity.

For me, that didn't work with World of Warcraft either, and we're talking about actual human beings in this case. Then again, the chances of finding a remotely interesting, non-retarded person on any server are infinitesimal.

This post has been edited by David-kyo: 13 December 2009 - 01:11 PM