Zero Punctuation: Kingdoms of Amalur: Reckoning
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I'd play a Moomin v Wombles games.
And he even used my favourite Womble, Orinoco!
Have a Jaffa Cake on me, Yahtzee!
And he even used my favourite Womble, Orinoco!
Have a Jaffa Cake on me, Yahtzee!
This game is meant to introduce the Franchise. The subsequent games will include, I would imagine most prominently, a MMO. This game introduces core aspects of that future world. Like two distinct sides. And now BOTH sides can resurrect after death so re-spawning "makes sense."superbowlbound said:
KoAtR does suffer from its name i think.!st go threw im 64 hours in an not even half way done.Which one part of the review buged me.Part of KoAtR strength is that you can make your own class... an he avoided it.Right now rocking a paladin like mage with sticky fingers.
Those who skip the story an voice work ( least on pc) are missing out some great story line.Not a Lotr knock off at all.Also wow did not invent characture grafics. Wows grafics is a cross tween gamesworkshop fantasy an disney .Where as KoAtR is more between Guild Wars an Age of Conan .
Those who skip the story an voice work ( least on pc) are missing out some great story line.Not a Lotr knock off at all.Also wow did not invent characture grafics. Wows grafics is a cross tween gamesworkshop fantasy an disney .Where as KoAtR is more between Guild Wars an Age of Conan .
Maybe this is just me, but was anyone else distracted during the whole review wondering what "The Device" might be? I'll have to go back and watch it again. Maybe Yahtzee figured out how to get the Large Hadron Collider working.
I heard some news that said that this was indeed going to be an MMO.
Because there's literally like a tons of writing already done, and you just can't abandon all that without pulling it into an MMO. This doesn't make me sad, because I don't care about this game. Just saying.
Because there's literally like a tons of writing already done, and you just can't abandon all that without pulling it into an MMO. This doesn't make me sad, because I don't care about this game. Just saying.
Medieval fantasy getting boring? I don't know what to really say about that. I guess it would get tiring to always run into those creatures if you happen to play almost every western fantasy game that comes out. But such is the case for the man who decided to never give Japanese fantasy games a try. Those games while also grounded in some typical cliche go through great straits to make themselves cosmetically different. When the light strikes it just right they are very interesting and unique but I guess because of its quirks it's just far too much to deal with.
Personally I'm not bored of medieval fantasy. But then again dragon age and radiata stories are the only medieval fantasies I've played since the mid 2000s. I don't think there's a real option in making fantasy, not medieval fantasy standard other than not buying them anymore and investing in something that is obviously gunning for a different experience.
Personally I'm not bored of medieval fantasy. But then again dragon age and radiata stories are the only medieval fantasies I've played since the mid 2000s. I don't think there's a real option in making fantasy, not medieval fantasy standard other than not buying them anymore and investing in something that is obviously gunning for a different experience.
Well, it was written by RA Salvatore... you have to expect pretty standard fantasy stuff.
Anyway, with the demo all I could think was "meh". Zero motivation from the story, and frankly, I'm not all that attracted to "shinies". Not anymore, my time is more valuable to me than a virtual item. I do like a good story/experience, though... sadly, KoA:R does not provide.
Anyway, with the demo all I could think was "meh". Zero motivation from the story, and frankly, I'm not all that attracted to "shinies". Not anymore, my time is more valuable to me than a virtual item. I do like a good story/experience, though... sadly, KoA:R does not provide.
What, no mention of the atrocious dispel mechanism?! And I was so looking forward to such a comment.
I swear, I almost gave up at the end. I rushed through the last few story quests just to get it over with.
The Tuatha's "god" is an ancient, wait for it, dragon!!! It's like R.A. Salvatore crammed as many fantasy tropes into the plot as he possibly could.
I swear, I almost gave up at the end. I rushed through the last few story quests just to get it over with.
In the demo feedback thread everyone was saying have awful the camera was then a guy came along and said 'Fear not mortals, I am they guy in charge of the camera, and I shall make it my main quest to fix this before release'... and then didn't. And they still haven't patched it either.
its a pretty actuate description actually, i call it 'TES light', for the people who like the general idea of wandering around a small country's worth of game map, but hate TES combat systemOuendanCyrus said:
IE, ME
side note, the gnomes in this game piss me off and I'd love nothing more then to butcher that entire gnomish city :/ if i had the levels and gear to allow it :/
Agreed on most accounts (especially that DAMN camera!), but I must be the only one that actually liked what the setting was doing.
It has thoroughly undisneyfied fair folk, to the point where they better represent what the original legends were about (immortal alien beings play incomprehensible games with mortals and regard them as curiosities at best, and food at worst). In modern times, they were replaced by UFO sightings and abductions (they're essentially the same thing, but for a post-industrial society where nature isn't ominous anymore, but space is), and fairies got demoted into cartoon extras.
I really liked how "fae-physics" worked, especially in the House of Ballads storyline - the fae would take the roles of famous heroes/villains and reenact old legends, which would then come true as a result (e.g. you go looking for a magic sword and it spontaneously appears to you, as does the ogre that you're "fated" to slay with the sword); naturally, a fateless person like the protagonist throws a wrench in that cycle. Also, incorporating finishing moves and class changes into the narrative was a nice touch.
It has thoroughly undisneyfied fair folk, to the point where they better represent what the original legends were about (immortal alien beings play incomprehensible games with mortals and regard them as curiosities at best, and food at worst). In modern times, they were replaced by UFO sightings and abductions (they're essentially the same thing, but for a post-industrial society where nature isn't ominous anymore, but space is), and fairies got demoted into cartoon extras.
I really liked how "fae-physics" worked, especially in the House of Ballads storyline - the fae would take the roles of famous heroes/villains and reenact old legends, which would then come true as a result (e.g. you go looking for a magic sword and it spontaneously appears to you, as does the ogre that you're "fated" to slay with the sword); naturally, a fateless person like the protagonist throws a wrench in that cycle. Also, incorporating finishing moves and class changes into the narrative was a nice touch.
Yahtzee, THANK YOU for your comments on the fantasy genre. I am so sick of the medieval setting! I remember way, way back in middle school I wrote several short stories and the only genre that seemed to fit the stories was fantasy. At the time I didn't know what the fantasy genre was, the word just seemed to fit. I wasn't writing anything about magic or dragons so I was really confused when everyone I talked to kept asking about those things.
Yahtzee, THANK YOU for your comments on the fantasy genre. I am so sick of the medieval setting! I remember way, way back in middle school I wrote several short stories and the only genre that seemed to fit the stories was fantasy. At the time I didn't know what the fantasy genre was, the word just seemed to fit. I wasn't writing anything about magic or dragons so I was really confused when everyone I talked to kept asking about those things.
The part about KoA wanting to be an MMO, but chickening out when it saw all the skulls around WoW's lair, is gold. =D