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» The Josh Strife Hayes Ultimate MMO Tier List
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» Best Board Games of 2024!
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I used WordPress as a website platform for 5 years. One of the things I used to like about it was the ability to track data and generate ...
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» The Best Strategy/Tactics RPGs of 2024
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» TAGN Fantasy Critic League 2025 will Draft Tomorrow
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» Quarter 4 2024 - Pt. Who Knows?
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» LOTRO: No Christmas for me! But yes, Christmas!
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» My SWTOR Feature Wishlist Going Into 2025
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» Best of 2024: Survival Crafting Games
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» January 2025 Zone of the Month -- Knight's Court
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» Kluwes’ January 2025 Goals
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» The Recluse Report - December 2024 Part 2
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» Nerd Girl Goals – January 2025
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I’m feeling better after reading this about the game. I’ve been looking forward to it for awhile and have it on my buy list as well. Unfortunately I bought the First Tempar because I was in the mood for some hack ‘n slash, but it’s a big waste of money and I should have just waited for DS3 instead.
For a completely different take, check out Scott’s (of http://pumpingirony.net) comment on Buzz. (https://profiles.google.com/pasmith/posts/DU3FqrxLBxJ)
He hated it. I pretty much 100% disagree with him, though that isn’t news, but opinions are opinions after all.
looking forward to Dungeon Seige 3 as well; but if there is a demo coming out, ill test it first
I just tried out the demo tonight…. it’s a mixed bag for me, which means I’ll pick it up on sale or used a couple months after release. I like DS2 quite a bit, though.
It does seem, at least from the demo, that the game is really on rails. The paths are narrow and exploration is non-existent. If there is a path that doesn’t look like it leads in the right direction for the quest, then it doesn’t: it leads to a loot barrel.
I’m still thinking through my thoughts on the combat though. I do like that it provides a quick way to manage multiple skills… but it seemed more like an action game than a real dungeon crawler. Not that this is a bad thing, it’s just something I wasn’t expecting I suppose.
The overall feel of the game was great though. Exactly what I want! However, with all the voice-over work, I would have liked if they invested a bit more in quality over quantity in this category.
Wow! I think I must have downloaded and played a completely different game. I found the camera very restrictive and hard to maneuver. The zooming was pretty bad since I was unable to see things coming until they were right on top of you. I also chose to play the gal, who could wield a spear or staff, I couldn’t really tell. She had two styles of fighting with the stick, an area attack and a single mob attack. As if that wasn’t enough, you could trigger some kind of specialty where she could fly and shoot fire… very odd, I wasn’t sure if I was playing an adventure game or a super hero game.
Course I did only play maybe 20 minutes before I decided that it just wasn’t the game for me. I think that the original Dungeon Siege was by far the best. I did manage to play the demo of DS2 on the PC and came away with the same feeling as I did with DS3 on the Xbox, it just didn’t have the same feel that I remember.
I guess they will continue to make Dungeon Siege games and eventually they will circle back to what made the first one successful.
I’ve seen a lot of complaints about the camera and I agree it certainly isn’t ideal. I suspect it’s a much bigger issue with a ranged character. I’m a melee guy and so far have no ranged skills so it isn’t that much of an issue for me.
Ajani (??) is some kind of fire elemental or something… so yeah, she doesn’t play like a human character. I dunno though, I can’t see her addition as a fault; if you want traditional hack and slash just pick the traditional hack and slash character (which is what I did).
The original Dungeon Siege was more a tactical RTS than anything; I remember complaints that it “played itself” from folks who were looking for something more Diablo-ish. And it had that great editor that let people make mods and levels and stuff. I agree, it was a great game.
But I got the full version of DS3 yesterday and so far I’m still really enjoying it, but it is what it is: a hack and slash, button-mashing, monster-pinata loot fest.