[ALL] Kingdoms of Amalur: Reckoning

[Bomberooski]

Just bought it. Started it up with my brother. Going all Mage. Like it so far. Liking the WoW like look

 

[Twigg4075]

Just bought it. Started it up with my brother. Going all Mage. Like it so far. Liking the WoW like look

Funny you should say that because it seems like most people's criticisms of the game are the WoW type aesthetic.

 

[Bomberooski]

Funny you should say that because it seems like most people's criticisms of the game are the WoW type aesthetic.

Weird. I guess I'm not super picky about a real fun game having phenomenal graphics. I kind of like an "arcadey" look to a game like this that feels very hack and slash.

 

[Twigg4075]

Weird. I guess I'm not super picky about a real fun game having phenomenal graphics. I kind of like an "arcadey" look to a game like this that feels very hack and slash.

I thought it looked fine too but it seems all the uber nerds are complaining about the look of the game.

 

[jms493]

i have this game but fuck I started mass effect and now I think I am fucked. KOA will have to wait.

 

[SethMode]

Jeff Gerstmann's review is pretty much spot on to how I feel I think. It's a very fun game with some pretty big issues as well, and at about 25 hours it's starting to lose me a little. I have to say, Gerstmann is right when he says don't worry about the sidequests. They just aren't of the same quality of the main story/factions. It's just really hard not to do them because they're fucking EVERYWHERE.

A couple of other suggestions:

Lockpicking I'm pretty sure is broken, because I never put a single skill point in it and I have no problem at all with the Hard or Very Hard locks. Every lock is basically diagonal left or diagonal right.

This game is an achievement whore's wet dream because money is so abundant and re-specing is so cheap. Level up enough that you can fill up one skill and all you need to do is save before a fateweaver, upgrade blacksmithing/sagecraft/whatever, take the 10 seconds to make whatever you need to make, achievement pops, reload and go again. It kind of makes making new characters pointless. You can 100% the game with a few reloads or re-specs if you're playing on Hard.

 

[Twigg4075]

This game is an achievement whore's wet dream because money is so abundant and re-specing is so cheap. Level up enough that you can fill up one skill and all you need to do is save before a fateweaver, upgrade blacksmithing/sagecraft/whatever, take the 10 seconds to make whatever you need to make, achievement pops, reload and go again. It kind of makes making new characters pointless. You can 100% the game with a few reloads or re-specs if you're playing on Hard.

You had me at "hello".

 

[SethMode]

I don't want to beat a dead horse here, but there are to many fucking sidequests in this game. Pump the breaks next time Big Huge.

 

[SethMode]

So, after 65 hours, I'm done. The ending was okay, the story overall was intriguing but ultimately disappointing. I feel like they shoot themselves in the foot with the whole "you can change your destiny" because your actions literally mean nothing in the larger scale of the world. You are funnelled down a very specific path to a forced endgame.

That being said, I had a lot of fun with it, but probably could have been fine with droping 25 hours off of the playtime and had a better time. I'm 2 achievements from 100%, but both are ones I doubt I'll have the patience to go back through and do (50 successful persuades and beat the game on Hard). At least, not anytime soon.

 

[jms493]

65 fucking hours?
:walker:

 

[SethMode]

65 fucking hours?
:walker:

It happens faster than you'd think with that game. Very MMO style "this quest will take a few minutes, I'll bang that out then go to bed....oh wait, I can do this one in the same town so I'll do it too." and on and on and on.

 

[Handleit_44]

Big Problems Need Huge Solutions

Our heart goes out to the people affected by the unfortunate events surrounding 38 Studios and its subsidiary in Baltimore, Big Huge Games. Through it all, the team stayed together in a way that’s been really heartwarming to see. The team kept working, hoping that there’d be a way to secure last-minute funding and save the company. People brought extra food into the office to help those unable to pay their bills. And last week, in bittersweet irony, Big Huge Games was named to Game Developer’s Top 30 studios in the world list.

You may be wondering why I’m writing all this – and it’s because Epic is going to do something to help them, and we want people to understand why we think it’s the right thing to do.

On Wednesday, the ex-BHG leadership team contacted us. They wanted to start a new company and keep together some of the key talent displaced by the layoff, and hoped that they could use an Epic IP as a starting point for a new game. We loved that they all wanted to keep working together, but it was pretty clear they’d have trouble building a demo and securing funding before their personal savings ran out.

In one of life’s coincidences, Epic’s directors had spent the morning discussing how we’d love to build even more successful projects with our growing team, but that we’d need a dramatic infusion of top talent to do so. Which, we all knew, was impossible.

So now we’re planning to start an impossible studio in Baltimore.

It’ll take a while to find space, set up desks and PCs, purchase sufficient Nerf weaponry and Dr. Pepper, etc. But some of these folks have been going too long without a paycheck to wait for that. So, as soon as we can, we’re going to try to get people working down here at Epic headquarters in Cary, NC as contractors.

There’s a million things to work out. How many of the team can we hire? What will it be called? What will they be working on? We don’t know all the answers yet. Please give us some time to figure it out; we hope to have more to share soon.

The way we see it, there’s been a big storm in Baltimore, and we’re taking in a few of the refugees — as are the awesome folks at Zynga East, Zenimax Online, and other southeastern studios. Epic’s in a situation where we can do this, and it very clearly fits with our company values, so we’re going to give it a whirl.

Dr. Michael Capps

 

[Twigg4075]

Ay yo B-more!

 

[wingsfan77]

Picked this up for free once I traded in a game and used the Best Buy $30 off coupon and I'm having a blast with it. I'm only at level 7 right now but I'm loving it, going straight rogue and I'm doling out some heavy damage already.

 

[Maynard]

i searched high and low for this thread the other day...search feature sucks!

i noticed alot of people picked this game up recently. i figured i might get back into it and finish it up. the combat is amazing!

 

[padman59]

I got through the tutorial level last night, but I think I'm going to finish The Witcher before I throw myself into another fantasy title.

 

[Twigg4075]

i searched high and low for this thread the other day...search feature sucks!

i noticed alot of people picked this game up recently. i figured i might get back into it and finish it up. the combat is amazing!

Oh shit, Maynard is back into gaming? Are you playing on PC?

 

[Maynard]

yeah i have this game for the PC. played quite a bit of it. i forget what level i am on...somewhere in the 20ies i think. its a great game, but i just lost interest. this is one i could get back into though because the combat is so much fun

 

[padman59]

I've done over 100 quests and tasks, and I'm still nowhere near the end. You can't say there aren't enough things to do in this game.

 

[Twigg4075]

I'm still peeved I had to settle for the Xbox version of this game. I prefer third person action games on PS3 and trophies>cheevos.