FYI, I believe Gehrig38 is Curt Schilling himself.  That is his twitter username.  He is a regular poster on the Kingdom of Amalur forums.  I'm new over there myself, just because I didn't know they had a forum up yet.

http://reckoning.amalur.com/

Curt posts under the name Ngruk on the forums.

Yep, apologies, this is Curt for whatever that is worth:)

It sounds very good, and I love that they have all those starting areas, they did not have to have as much starter area content imo....If they did it like a lot of other game companies and skimp there...About everything coming out now has 1-2 start areas, even for MMOs.

I may pick this up, I generally don't get single player RPGs, but it does sound good, and I hope it does very good and makes a ton of cash for them, so they can put that towards a good mmo that hopefully isn't a cookie cutter railed clone that everyone makes nowadays.

I ordered mine some time ago from Amazon. I look forward to playing it. Some of the info you wrote is new to me. I am really looking forward to Copernicus.

Anyway the game sounds fun. I love the idea of so many quests and none of you being done yet .

Originally posted by gruntmaster1

As someone who only has a PC and no controller I thank you for being almost the only ones trying the game with mouse and keyboard, were you using that all the time? How was the rest of the ui (inventory, other menues, etc.)? Were there any problems (as in game working against you) during combat, such as targeting?

Yes, I was using only mouse and keyboard. Heh... getting to inventory, skills, quests, etc. pauses the game - use was pretty intuitive though.  No, no problems, which is why I am so impressed. We were warned it wasn't a final build and to please pardon them if we ran into any bugs, but throughout my 2 hours with the new character and rest of the time with the pre-built characters, I didn't have any problems.

I really liked how the camera worked with you when you had many enemies. You have to face your enemy to attack, but generally (in easy mode anyway) as long as you were partially facing them, you could target and attack.

I also liked that the game asked me if I wanted to go to an easier version after I died too many embarrassing times trying to get through a trapped corridor.  :P  Before I found that I had blink.  :P

Carolyn

Originally posted by gehrig38

The UI was very specifically built, with a ton of time and effort, to be as good a game as possible on the PC. It was mandated very early on to NOT be the usual late game port to PC for PC's sake.

I'm as excited for you guys to see the DLC as anything, the implementation and value, I hope, will change the industry or at least the genre in what players expect from DLC.

Given this game is going to debut the Amalur universe, and set up the world for Copernicus, the MMO, I couldn't be prouder of the team and what they accomplished.

FWIW our QA lab has been playing a run through, fast travel, every quest, no other game play, to see who can finish first. At last count it was nearly 200 hours and not over yet.

World and game are huge.

 

Hey Curt,  great to read the positive comments here!  I have to say that ever since I heard of Copernicus (and who was making it) I have been, at the same time, hyped and always looking for the newest tidbits to see how it is progressing.  With so much chaffe being pumped out over the recent years, I am sure I am not the only one absolutely starved for a top-notch MMO to immerse myself in.  Count me in as a future player. 

Could you spare any new info on Copernicus that we might like to hear?

I will be checking out KoA as well to get a preview of what the world will be like, and to see how you guys create your world environments. 

Thanks for stopping in.  Let's hope we see more of you and your other teammates as time goes on.