must admit i did see this one and wondered, but.. the more i read about it, the less there seemed to be, i really don't see this one comparing to Skyrim at all, it just looks like another 'churn' game, only a really expensive one. I could only see me buying it once it hit the platinum version kind of thing where they sell it cheap on steam for £5 or something..  for the moment though, i just don't have time to play a game with so little actual appeal.

I was stoked enough about this game I took the hour drive to pick it up at the Bellingham, Ma. Gamestop so that Curt Schillings and RA Salvatore would sign them. Ended up buying two copies both signed. 1 for PC and 1 for 360 :P

Wish Todd McFarlane and Ken Rolston were there to have signed it, but it was ok since they gave us a crap ton of free RedBull lol.

woot woot.

There is 1 problem I saw with this game so far.. the story, characters.. they are so incredibly boring. R.A.Salvatore must be overhyped imo... maybe it's better later on.

Originally posted by MarlonB

Originally posted by Sovrath

Originally posted by MarlonB

If this game is meant as a "step up" for the MMO ... wouldn't it be smart to release it for free?

You give your new addicts the goods for free .. untill they depend on it :)

Maybe they would like the additional funding to help them finish their mmo?

 

If they have enough faith in their MMO, they don't need it ;)

At least they can reuse a lot of things.

What the hell does faith have to do with funding? sheesh some people...

i think before buying this game, people should go watch the gameplay vids on youtube..  highly enlightening imo.. and another good reason not to buy (not at its current price at least!) if anything i would call this game 'retro' as the graphics etc, seem a bit 5 years ago at the very least.

Gamespot's review:

The Bad:

Originally posted by kantseeme

Originally posted by MarlonB

Originally posted by Sovrath

Originally posted by MarlonB

If this game is meant as a "step up" for the MMO ... wouldn't it be smart to release it for free?

You give your new addicts the goods for free .. untill they depend on it :)

Maybe they would like the additional funding to help them finish their mmo?

 

If they have enough faith in their MMO, they don't need it ;)

At least they can reuse a lot of things.

What the hell does faith have to do with funding? sheesh some people...

 

You obviously missed the wink.

The demo was ok-ish at best, definately not worth 60 bucks. Funding should not be a problem for a company the size of EA ... so why 60 bucks i ask you?

Gah! I can't play as a dwarf but there are 2 playable elves?

Hmmmm, guess I should have researched before stating I'd pick this up later.

/grumble

/grumble

/grumble

No elves! Dwarfs fo life, yo!

Originally posted by TwilightEdge

There is 1 problem I saw with this game so far.. the story, characters.. they are so incredibly boring. R.A.Salvatore must be overhyped imo... maybe it's better later on.

I haven't read anything of his in recently but in years past Salvatore was an awesome writer. The story for the game however does start out a bit RPG generic but gets a bit better later on, nothing mind blowing though.

Originally posted by MarlonB

Originally posted by kantseeme

Originally posted by MarlonB

Originally posted by Sovrath

Originally posted by MarlonB


If this game is meant as a "step up" for the MMO ... wouldn't it be smart to release it for free?

You give your new addicts the goods for free .. untill they depend on it :)

Maybe they would like the additional funding to help them finish their mmo

 

If they have enough faith in their MMO, they don't need it ;)

At least they can reuse a lot of things.

What the hell does faith have to do with funding? sheesh some people...

You obviously missed the wink.

The demo was ok-ish at best, definately not worth 60 bucks. Funding should not be a problem for a company the size of EA ... so why 60 bucks i ask you?

EA is making copernicus? i thought 38 was doin that? Publisjers and Developers are two totaly different things. And as for 60 bucks.... Its the status quo. What was Skirims release Price?

Originally posted by Kabaal

Originally posted by TwilightEdge

There is 1 problem I saw with this game so far.. the story, characters.. they are so incredibly boring. R.A.Salvatore must be overhyped imo... maybe it's better later on.

I haven't read anything of his in recently but in years past Salvatore was an awesome writer. The story for the game however does start out a bit RPG generic but gets a bit better later on, nothing mind blowing though.

I dont know how much of R.A.s voice is apart of the game were getting. You have to remember that this WAS a MMO deleloped by another company. Im sure his presence felt throughout the game though.

All this is to set up there MMO Copernicus and its goin to be in that game where you see Todd and R.A trully shine. But with anything in this genre anymore were all goin to have to wait and see what happens.

38studios did an Amazing job on this release!

Originally posted by elocke

The similarity to "Fable" and how bored I was with the demo  will make me hold off buying this until it's nice and floating in the cheap bin, if I even do that.  That ad on the front page with that quote from the penny arcade guy...what is he smoking saying it's better than Skyrim?  Some people are easily fooled, er, pleased, I guess.

or, you know, they liked it more than skyrim, oh wait i forgot, clearly if anyone likes something different than you they must have something wrong with them, man some people really think highly of themselves.

Originally posted by 77lolmac77
$60 is too much for PC games. I remember 6-8 years ago they were always 50. Then publishers saw console games could sell for 60 and copied that.

If you think $60 is a fair price for a game you are delusional, and probably dont understand why people pirate stuff like this

And if you think that game prices should stay the same forever YOU'R delusional, and clearly dont know much about buisness/economy/inflation.

Originally posted by idragon

Full take over on homepage: check

Paid review: check

Not even a mmo: check

I guess u really cant have enough money mmorpg.com?

clearly if someone likes a game you dont they were paid off, funny, how pretty much every person that posts crap like that acts like they were paid to slam games.

Originally posted by Phry

i think before buying this game, people should go watch the gameplay vids on youtube..  highly enlightening imo.. and another good reason not to buy (not at its current price at least!) if anything i would call this game 'retro' as the graphics etc, seem a bit 5 years ago at the very least.

well clearly if its not the most advanced graphical game out there it must look 5 years old, oh wait, no it doesnt, it looks/runs better than the witcher which is 5 years old, and looked pretty good for its time.

Meh. Still waiting for the game to actually release here (and I purchased mine on steam). Two more days to go before it unlocks...

Uninstalled it 15 mins later because of the camera. I will not play this game again before the camera is fixed. I want to be able to zoom out and I want to be able to control the camera properly. That just destroyed the game for me in 15 minutes.

Originally posted by kantseeme

Originally posted by Kabaal

Originally posted by TwilightEdge

There is 1 problem I saw with this game so far.. the story, characters.. they are so incredibly boring. R.A.Salvatore must be overhyped imo... maybe it's better later on.

I haven't read anything of his in recently but in years past Salvatore was an awesome writer. The story for the game however does start out a bit RPG generic but gets a bit better later on, nothing mind blowing though.

I dont know how much of R.A.s voice is apart of the game were getting. You have to remember that this WAS a MMO deleloped by another company. Im sure his presence felt throughout the game though.

 

All this is to set up there MMO Copernicus and its goin to be in that game where you see Todd and R.A trully shine. But with anything in this genre anymore were all goin to have to wait and see what happens.

If you have hard time making interesting characters and world in single player game you will fail much harder in mmo where you can;t control everything.

in other previews i have read, that this game is pretty linear. so more comparable to games like Dragon Age 2 than an open world like Skyrim.

Originally posted by Lobotomist

You can adjust camera settings and slow it down.

What I allso had to add that i miss ability to zoom closer or further.

Bugs me, too.  Very console-ish.  Can't even zoom in and out, when I feel like I really want to go into first person, because my character is blocking half my view.  

Seems like it'd be the perfect game for a setting, where you can be in 1st person when running around, and then automatically zoom out to 3rd when in combat.. but there are no settings for anything like that at all, not even a mouse zoom.  Or even a way to turn off the extremely excessive motion blur, without turning off all post-processing.

Originally posted by UsulDaNeriak

in other previews i have read, that this game is pretty linear. so more comparable to games like Dragon Age 2 than an open world like Skyrim.

It is linear so far. Haven't played much tho, 3-4 hours in.

My only complain that the game offers close to zero challenge even in the hardest difficulty.

I just hope it gets better later on.