[Silencer]

Mentalist, on 24 June 2011 - 04:48 PM, said:

hey, Silencer, good news:

http://www.plughead....rson-experiment

now, all we need are some lean keys, and that game should be awesome.

EXCELLENT! This pleases me immensely. Good find.

(And hell yes lean keys...if they have those, I will probably be happy. >.<)

[Gothos]

On the subject of Doom 3 floating around (that it's shit), well, here's a little something from the sound division:

[MTS]

Anyone here played Dungeon Siege III? I'm thinking of picking it up, but from what I've read it doesn't sound too promising...

[Gothos]

Honest Admission: After seeing a review and seeing how they changed the game to even more console style, I can only say: don't buy this shit.
Elated Elaboration:DS1 was a brilliant mindless hack'n'slash with a rather original leveling system, fluid gameplay and an awesome soundtrack.
Sad Realization: DS2 was something of a letdown, though I couldn't say why. DS3 is a sequel in name only from what I've seen. Advanced stage of consolitis.

Addendum: Jeremy Soule, who made music for DS1 and DS2, also made music for Morrowind, Oblivion, Dawn of War, Total Annihilation, Neverwinter Nights and Knights of the Old Republic. Quite a record.

This post has been edited by Gothos: 01 July 2011 - 08:47 AM

[Morgoth]

Dungeon Siege was a beautiful game. The graphics too, especially how they'd constructed the scenery.

[POOPOO MCBUMFACE]

I'd honestly never heard anyone have anything good to say about Dungeon Siege until DS3 came out. The more you know.

[Aptorian]

I really liked Dungeon Siege 1 and 2. I would describe them as team based Diablo clones, a newer generation with some great innovations and fun ideas, but unfortunately lacking the same polish and atmosphere that Diablo 2 had. I would certainly recommend trying out DS2 if one liked D2 and wanted to try something in the same vein.

Dungeon Siege 3 how ever is getting shitty reviews all around, all though most of that seems to be based around the controls. I find the gun user class interesting, but I'd never pay anything close to full price for DS3.

[Gothos]

What sets DS apart from Diablo is (apart from 3d graphics, harr harr) that your class really depends on what you use. Of the four categories - melee, ranged, combat magic and nature magic - you can learn everything. And you learn through practice. Kinda like in Elder Scrolls games, really.
Must say I preferred to go at that game solo with no henchmen. Melee, 27 combat magic for triple attack, and nature magic for healing - a pretty self-sufficient one-man army. I sometimes miss the game, I must admit, though I've way too much to play in my limited spare time to go back to it.

DS3 is... gods. I... I just can't describe the half-assedness of that game. And especially the PC port.

[Aptorian]

I would play this game.

[Aptorian]

http://vimeo.com/25620314

[Aptorian]

I've been playing Just Case 2 for 9 hours and I've completed 6% of the game it appears. Oh my.

[Illuyankas]

The Perfectionist achievement is 75%. Just throwing that out there.

[Satan]

You'll get bored long before then.

[Illuyankas]

The faction missions can be completed after you finish all the story missions if you want to speed through that, and I at least recommend finishing them for there are some excellent missions in there.

Also, protip:

Spoiler

Don't bother collecting all the skulls, black boxes and drug drops, there isn't even unique dialogue for getting the last of them let alone a bonus or recognition for it.

This post has been edited by Illuyankas: 02 July 2011 - 02:59 PM

[Aptorian]

Illuyankas, on 02 July 2011 - 02:58 PM, said:

Also, protip:

Spoiler

Don't bother collecting all the skulls, black boxes and drug drops, there isn't even unique dialogue for getting the last of them let alone a bonus or recognition for it.

Spoiler

Really? I've begun collecting Skulls and I think the first comment from the faction guy was that there was powerful magic connected with them. I expected there to be some kind of bonus. Guess it was just superstition then.

[Illuyankas]

Spoiler

The last of the 300 collectibles I got was the final skull, and it was accompanied by the soundbite "Soon you will have found all the precious skulls!" Probably the most annoying thing in the game for me, besides the repetitiveness of blowing up every single little thing in a location and finding out the awesome blackmarket rocket boat tends to flip if you go full speed on anything vaguely wavey, wasting your cash. Feel free to grab any you see that are convenient, just don't go out of your way for the full collection.

However this is a game where I could and did grapple a soldier to a gas cylinder, hit fine aim and shoot it with one bullet and watch them fly off into the distance before it exploded, so the little flaws don't really bother me. Also pick up every minigun turret you see, it saves you so much money on explosives for destroying bases.

[Aptorian]

Yeah, I was floored the first time I realised I could pick up the miniguns. The first thing I do when attacking a base is either hijacking their gunship or stealing a minigun and then I just walk through the compound laying waste to everything. I've done that at least a dozen times now and it still doesn't get old.

[MTS]

Get the Unlimited hooks mod, it makes gameplay that much more fun. Plus you can do shit like this:



and this

[Aptorian]

Unfortunately I couldn't make the game run properly on my laptop so I'm playing it on PS3. No mods for me.

[Illuyankas]

So you miss out on this?



Awww.