I love D&D ya'll, I'm a huge ass nerd for rolling random sided pieces of plastic across a table to pretend to fight monsters. I love that shit. Unfortunately there aren't that many games that take advantage of the D&D system or setting that allow me to translate my tabletop love into a video game.
Balder's Gate 3 is looking really promising for the purer type of experience.
But I want a dungeon crawling action game with loots and classes and......well I want Diablo 2 to come out again.
In the meantime I have this cool looking Dungeons and Dragons Dark Alliance game which is a 3rd person action-looty-dungeon crawly-co-op game to play. And holy fuck i wish I didn't.
D&D
A is a broken pile of shit. It's the Avengers game with a D&D skin on it and less character. The game itself reminds me a lot of Minecraft: Dungeons, where the core gameplay is a single hub and just random teleporting into dungeons from there. Except where Minecraft at least had merits in which it worked and was fine if you were okay with a much more basic experience. D&DDA doesn't even work half the time.
Everything about this game is bad and it's hard to know where exactly to start.
Let's talk combat first I guess. Combat doesn't work right. First of the animations are terrible and sometimes non-existent the archer is really bad for this as she has no upper body movement at all. You shoot an arrow and just her arms move to lift the bow, draw an arrow, and fire, all without any adjustments of the main part of her body. She doesn't shift her weight, lean in any direction, literally the only motion is her arms. It's the kind of visual you might expect to see if the game was still in Alpha.
There is no grapple animation. Enemies that have grapple attacks just shove your character model around without any change. They don't actually grab you at all, you just slide over to them really close and then get knocked away without any animation whatsoever. Enemies also have little to no animation warning for attacks, and many times you'll get hit by attacks from unseen sources as if long range spells and arrows are invisible.
Mechanics don't work either. There is a stamina system in place to keep the player from being able to spam attacks without mercy. Yet the Barbarian apparently can spam his attacks and never burn his stamina at all, while the archer blows throw it in like 4 or 5 attacks.
The enemies have no logical consistancy. Many of the bosses summon minions.....LOTS of minions that have more fucking health than they do. Other times your archer can shoot enemies just outside their aggro window and they enemies will never aggro, letting you just pick them off without effort at all. Bosses can be stun locked sometimes. Othertimes they appear to be stun locks only to one shot you from an invisible attack out of nowhere.
The loot is cool though, although it comes from what seems to be a very small pool of possible designs and actual sets. But that might also fix itself if I could be bothered to play deeper into the game at all. Despite that, the loot does have decent stat modifiers from what I've seen and your power level comes directly from your gear much like other RPG's of this style. Every time you level you can upgrade your stats and talent trees, but those things don't affect your power nearly as much as the loot itself. And apparently later on you can get every talent in your tree so it doesn't matter in the long run.
I wont be playing that long to find out. In fact where is my steam refund button?
Don't play this game, don't bother with this. It's fucking broken. Might be fixed in a year or so though. But I doubt it.
Balder's Gate 3 is looking really promising for the purer type of experience.
But I want a dungeon crawling action game with loots and classes and......well I want Diablo 2 to come out again.
In the meantime I have this cool looking Dungeons and Dragons Dark Alliance game which is a 3rd person action-looty-dungeon crawly-co-op game to play. And holy fuck i wish I didn't.
D&D
A is a broken pile of shit. It's the Avengers game with a D&D skin on it and less character. The game itself reminds me a lot of Minecraft: Dungeons, where the core gameplay is a single hub and just random teleporting into dungeons from there. Except where Minecraft at least had merits in which it worked and was fine if you were okay with a much more basic experience. D&DDA doesn't even work half the time. Everything about this game is bad and it's hard to know where exactly to start.
Let's talk combat first I guess. Combat doesn't work right. First of the animations are terrible and sometimes non-existent the archer is really bad for this as she has no upper body movement at all. You shoot an arrow and just her arms move to lift the bow, draw an arrow, and fire, all without any adjustments of the main part of her body. She doesn't shift her weight, lean in any direction, literally the only motion is her arms. It's the kind of visual you might expect to see if the game was still in Alpha.
There is no grapple animation. Enemies that have grapple attacks just shove your character model around without any change. They don't actually grab you at all, you just slide over to them really close and then get knocked away without any animation whatsoever. Enemies also have little to no animation warning for attacks, and many times you'll get hit by attacks from unseen sources as if long range spells and arrows are invisible.
Mechanics don't work either. There is a stamina system in place to keep the player from being able to spam attacks without mercy. Yet the Barbarian apparently can spam his attacks and never burn his stamina at all, while the archer blows throw it in like 4 or 5 attacks.
The enemies have no logical consistancy. Many of the bosses summon minions.....LOTS of minions that have more fucking health than they do. Other times your archer can shoot enemies just outside their aggro window and they enemies will never aggro, letting you just pick them off without effort at all. Bosses can be stun locked sometimes. Othertimes they appear to be stun locks only to one shot you from an invisible attack out of nowhere.
The loot is cool though, although it comes from what seems to be a very small pool of possible designs and actual sets. But that might also fix itself if I could be bothered to play deeper into the game at all. Despite that, the loot does have decent stat modifiers from what I've seen and your power level comes directly from your gear much like other RPG's of this style. Every time you level you can upgrade your stats and talent trees, but those things don't affect your power nearly as much as the loot itself. And apparently later on you can get every talent in your tree so it doesn't matter in the long run.
I wont be playing that long to find out. In fact where is my steam refund button?
Don't play this game, don't bother with this. It's fucking broken. Might be fixed in a year or so though. But I doubt it.
