Kingdoms of Amalur

I got bored of skyrim because i spent 150 hours doing absolutely nothing!:pac:

As much as i want to get this on release, RPG's have let me down too much in recent times for that sort of investment!

Completionist wrote: »

I got bored of skyrim because i spent 150 hours doing absolutely nothing!:pac:

As much as i want to get this on release, RPG's have let me down too much in recent times for that sort of investment!

Snap out of it man, and live up to your name, and go back and spend another 150 hours and finish Skyrim before this comes out. :pac:

Excellent! Gonna download this later for ma ME3 goodies! Game looks interesting as well so will give it a bash.

Yeah I was gonna say Nunian, Its like if Fable was good. I didnt go to jail but I did a few quests in my 45 minutes as a mage or whatever they call it in this. The combat is really good and I like the spaz out feature or whatever it is when you fill the bar, Might start again and go for a bandit run now.

just downloaded and finished the demo.

First impressions are not good.
ATI card users cant see the game until Post processing in the graphics panel ingame is switched to off.

No mouse sensitivity adjustment option.
Bare minimum of graphical tweaking.
Already feels like a poorly thrown together console port. (i'm sure it plays great on XB or PS3, but on pc its lousy)
Framerates drop in combat upon entering combat and it actually freezes from time to time.
Bear in mind my video card is fairly decent and can play a multitude of recent releases at ultra settings without framerate dropping below 40fps.

played through the tower and out into the open world where you get 45 minutes of playtime doing whatever it is.

On the plus side,
The combat was fun.
The Inventory was easy to navigate
whites greens blues purples and golds loot system ala wow.
Water effects were pretty nice but nowere near skyrim quality.
pretty decent voice acting and quests.
Boss mobs (well, the two trolls i found) hit very hard and require you to use more than your smashysmashy button.

For pc users, grab the demo and see for yourself, its decent but i dunno if i'll pay for it until it goes onto a steam-sale. If the finished product improves/fixes the stuff i've been whingeing about, i might consider buying it. Otherwise.. sales.

Robby91 wrote: »

I'm getting the same issues as degrassinoel (with a 5870 1GB, which hasn't struggled on anything I've thrown at it yet) - intro cinematics/game were black apart from UI prior to fiddling with the settings, momentary freezes during combat. If the problem isn't universal, I suppose it could possibly be a driver issue?

As long as the problems can be resolved, I'll be happy - the game does seem pretty fun (and the dagger kills are pretty damn cool) and it'd be a shame to pass it up because of these issues

same as mine, the issue with the black screen is apparently very common, i found the fix for it (turning off PP) on the steam forums for the game itself, it was the first topic there at the time. http://forums.steampowered.com/forums/showthread.php?t=2489251

@Dcully
the mouse settings - cam sensitivity didnt do anything on my machine, the camera rotation and characters spin at the same rate regardless of what setting its at. It may be too slight for me to notice, but it felt like it did nothing and i ended up just putting up with it. thats actually another annoying thing, the camera acts wierd sometimes when you're in combat and lets your characters run almost offscreen before it tries to centre back on it. Is that a feature or a fcukup? disorienting either way.
I was originally playing in the standard setting for everything, this is where the black screen was, i could see all of the intro movie and menu's but not the actualy game when it cuts through the 5 or 6 cutscenes at the start. Upon changing res and various other options i still had the same problem, restarted steam and tried everything again and its all the same. Card drivers are up to date, as was steam etc.
If the demo worked fine for you first time, fair play.. took me around 45 mins of messing around with it and checking forums/drivers/restarting this that and the other to get it to run anywere near decently.

I had a go of this last night on PC (only got to play until you first get into the open world) and really enjoyed it. Didn't have any of the graphical issues mentioned above, but did find the mouse sensitivity a bit annoying at first (oddly enough I didn't think of looking for an option to change it, and just got used to it).

The controls are very console orientated, but I didn't mind it too much (I might try it later with an xbox controller to see if that's any better). I quite liked how the tutorial let you try out each of the archetypes (warrior, mage thief) instead of making you choose one at the start, as a lot of RPG's do these days. Although I did notice that the Rock Troll at the end of the tutorial was immune to the only spell I had, so I guess it's the kind of game that you can't really specialize as one type of fighter (which is probably a good thing, anyway).

Graphically, it's not amazing, but it's not trying to be. It's really like WoW or Fable 3. In fact, as said above, this is really like a good version of Fable 3.

Combat has the same simplistic feel of Fable, that also allows for some more complex moves. Unfortunately, like the Fabel games, the menu system is a little too layered. Even when using keyboard shortcuts it's annoying to have to go into another menu.

Also, I kind of like the idea they had of playing the demo and unlocking items in the full game and in Mass Effect 3. It's like an almost viable anti-piracy plan. Granted, pirates will be able to get the full game with all the extra items anyway, but I would feel more incentive to buy a game when the publisher is treating me well, instead of assuming I'm a criminal (I'm talking to you Ubisoft!!!).

Da Bounca wrote: »

Character X is in prison. People arrive on the scene to find all the prison guards dead and character X has escaped. You don't really need witnesses to put 2+2 together on that one.

Ah you're being a bit pedantic now. There's no point in having the prison system with the option of breaking out if everyone remains your enemy no matter what you do unless you serve your time or successfully bribe the guards. Like in Oblivion they'd bring up your past crimes if you escaped and were hunted by guards again, but not if you successfully sneak out. You can't sneak out of jail in this tho as there's only one exit and when it loads up the exterior, you're right beside an instantly hostile guard. It's not a dealbreaker, just an odd setup that might be fixed in the final game.