Great game so far. Love the combat and animations!

It’s truly every bit as engrossing and massive as the best of the Elder Scrolls series, albeit with better combat and a more “walled in” feeling world at times.

Oh. My. Goodness. I highly doubt that but I'm sure we'll see 9+ ratings thrown around here once again.

Yup...

Does anyone remember the Onimusha games?

That's all I could think about while playing this--very similar in the presentation of the combat, and the linear exploration (oxymoron, I know).

I wouldn't be bothered by this game at all if the developers hadn't touted "open-world"--that kind of false advertising really gets under my skin.

Ok this game is getting better and better the deeper I get..

The webwood story line is just the right amount of creepy..

and the fatalities are getting better and more frequent too.

" they said I have no music, and so I laughed... "

Originally posted by Isasis

I thought the combat in the game was pretty good, I liked the art style and voice acting...but one huge negative.

 

I don't like Fable-style designed worlds. At least in the demo, everything was so linear...quests...the world layout...everything. It didn't feel like an open world RPG, but more of a linear rpg. Which I guess is fine for those who like that...but there was mostly linear paths and a few open areas in the game. That pretty much made me decide the game wasn't for me. I think if I went in expecting it to be like Witcher or Fable...I would have enjoyed it more. But I went in expecting it to be an open world RPG and was disappointed.

Once past the first village game goes sandbox and really opens up. I took off exploring, I did do some of the webwood quests simply because the whole spider queen story is amazing. However once I got my fill of that moved on skipping past two other villages I found and have moved into new lands with towns.

Will be honest and say I think Im about to restart havent seen a way to respec and not happy with the way I choose my skills : )

Originally posted by Shaydryn

I wouldn't be bothered by this game at all if the developers hadn't touted "open-world"--that kind of false advertising really gets under my skin.

Need to play deeper into the game it is open world once you get outta the tutorial starting areas.
 I am about 12 hours in now and pretty much just left the starter lands.

Head west just keep moving thru maps until you leave the forest.

I dont know about anyone else but I really enjoyed the demo. 

The world was fun to run through, the way the quests are setup similar to how mmos are was very cool, it only left me wanting more.

Having a blast with this game.

Lately I've been playing mostly SWTOR and some Skyrim with a bit of Diablo 3 beta thrown in. All that ended when I tried this demo and then bought it last night.

Played it til 2:30 AM before dragging my butt in to work @ 8 this morning. I'm picking up a wired XBOX360 controller tonight on my way home since this game supports it and is just begging for a better control system than mouse + keyboard.

Some people are knocking the colorful art style but personally I see it as a big plus. I've never been a big fan of oriental RPGs --which tend to be over-the-top colorful--but frankly, I'm a sort of tired of the muted earth tones that seem to be the rage in western RPGs (Skyrim, Fallout, etc.) these days and this bright and colorful (but not too much) world hits the spot. The bright colors and pixie dust work well in the world and doubly so with combat FX. 

Fast paced combat and loot are so plentiful I'm sort of thinking of this game as a cross between the Elder Scrolls and Diablo franchises with a sprinkle of Fable animations thrown in for good measure.

Originally posted by Sorrow

Will be honest and say I think Im about to restart havent seen a way to respec and not happy with the way I choose my skills : )

Find a Soul mender I think they are called. Allow you to respec

I just watched the Sessler's X-Play review and he nails down the reason why I left the demo dissapointed. There is no sense of unity between the function of the play and design of the world. It seems slap-dashed together. I didn't feel tethered to this world. There was no compulsion to invest time in this. I didn't want to find out more about Amalur like I did Azeroth or Norrath or, more recently, Skyrim.

In fact, I was surprised that this was Schilling's game. I had been excited to see what a huge fan of MMOs, who isn't composed of the garden variety geek DNA (e.g. he's a Major League Baseball pitcher), would bring to the table. Particulary so because he's a WoW player. I wanted him to knock one out of the park with this. This game would have been an excellent buffer between the impeccable Skyrim and the promising Guild Wars 2, as there is nothing out recently RPG or MMO wise to bide my time.

game is basically a single player MMO, so TOR players should love it

Originally posted by jdnewell

Originally posted by Sorrow

Will be honest and say I think Im about to restart havent seen a way to respec and not happy with the way I choose my skills : )

Find a Soul mender I think they are called. Allow you to respec

 

... its you're fate man..fate,...the weaves of fate .. (just talk to youre drunken buddy)  ..

" but you can’t just freely bunny hop around the world and it’s a little disappointing.  "

Why is this a problem?

lol Is it just me or is this just one of the silliest complaints in anything ever?

Originally posted by narakuu

Was looking forward to this game until I saw the grahpics style, tried the game anyway with the demo... was "meh" and I will probably not get this until its maybe 50-75% off.

I agree 100%...ill wait till this is like 5-10$ on steam

Originally posted by Lobotomist

Dudes ! Dudes !

- The game has over 200 hours gameplay worth of quests ( and that is mesured during quick play )

- Totally random loot system ala Diablo

- Sandbox gameplay

- RR Salvatore writen the story

 

And you complain about the price ?

 

Alas

What i find discusting is EA marketing comparing the game to Skyrim.

"Its better than Skyrim" the banner on this site says !!!

 

If they were smart , they should write "Its nothing like Skyrim"

Because :

1. Its not better than Skyrim

2. If I like Skyrim , than why should i play any other game ? Dont they know Construction Kit is being released.

 

Man these guys are so clueles

 

Anyway

KOA , great action RPG.

Not as good as Skyrim, but you can not play one game all the time !

 

 

 This ^

 Its not as good a Skyrim. You can only play one game at a time So get Skyrim.

EA advertising lies thats nothing new.

 Great game who cares if its not Skyrim?  Go ask the ps3 players how there Skyrim experience is and see what kinda reviews you get on that great game.Far as G4s review Adam Sessler is a moron/

Played the demo and was completely turned off by the character art style and the running animation. It's like the artists tried to copy WoW's "cartoony" look but didn't copy the charm. Even though I am a bit of an R. A. Salvatore fan, I'll wait until this game is in the bargain bin.

[quote]At level 5, my character is a “Duelist” with six points in both Finesse and Might.  You can spread the wealth to all trees, or focus on one, or just two.[/quote]

Grats on leve 5 Bill.  Is that the highest you ever gotten in any game?  I am always amazed how you can write so much about a game you only play for 30 minutes.  Nice job again, that is a special talent. But one day I would love to see you actually play one of these games you pretend to write about.

ROFL ok I just backstabbed a poor guy that was standing there with his pee pee in his hand taking a whiz in the bushes, running water sound effect and the whole deal. If that doesnt illustrate how cool a game this is nothing does. : )