I personally found it better than skyrim at release, how long it stays that ways seems to be up to 38 studios. But dont take my word for it go read http://www.metacritic.com/game/pc/kingdoms-of-amalur-reckoning .

I just finished the main story line the other night and I would rate it about a 6. Not horrible but it lacks the personality of fable and the depth of Skyrim. Way to many boring quests and the game is far to easy... and then there is the camera angles. 

Who thought of the idea of having the camera pull back in combat? So many times I had to just mash the mouse buttons because I couldn't see a damn thing. As luck would have it mashing is an acceptable form of combat in this game. As long as you have some health regen gems you are never going to die.

The AI on all the mobs is pretty bad. Never had that "oh shit I cant believe the mob just did that" moment. All in all I just felt like the game was really long and got pretty boring at the end.

Originally posted by Rogosh

I personally found it better than skyrim at release, how long it stays that ways seems to be up to 38 studios. But dont take my word for it go read http://www.metacritic.com/game/pc/kingdoms-of-amalur-reckoning .

Yeah... That sure proves it's better alright. Skyrim only scored a full 9 points higher with the Critics and KoA gets a 6 for a User score whereas Skyrim scores a 8.2 with players. I'm not sure what you were trying to prove with that link as Metacritic places Skyrim way above KoA in both Critic and User scores.

Bren

Originally posted by Strap

 

Good to know.

 

I am currently LOVING Skyrim - after several fruitless years of trying to enjoy what MMOs have become - and I am already wondering if there are other games out there like Skyrim.

 

Where could I read more about Bethseda? Are their previous games as good as Skyrim, in the same sandboxy style?

 

Skyrim is a bit too buggy, but apart from that a near-perfect game for me - 9.5/10.

 

Cheers OP.

Yes,

Get Fallout New Vegas or Fallout 3. I like New Vegas more, but both are great games.

Originally posted by fenistil

Originally posted by ShakyMo

from what i hear not as good as witcher 2 either

You heard it right.

Agreed, I was walled in on KOA as soon as I started (once you escape the dungeon) and didn't even have a decent story going to guide me through when compared to Witcher 2.

Open world / freedom = Nothing like Skyrim

And comparing the game to Witcher also = fail for KOA.

Originally posted by Raven322

I'm playing it and I'm enjoying it.

Mostly because I'm not comparing it to anything else, just enjoying it for what it is.

Gotta go like this, if you're going to play it. Too bad the advertisements said something like "better than Skyrim" :D and forced this mess onto players comparing the two!

Originally posted by gbooster

Originally posted by Strap

 

Good to know.

 

I am currently LOVING Skyrim - after several fruitless years of trying to enjoy what MMOs have become - and I am already wondering if there are other games out there like Skyrim.

 

Where could I read more about Bethseda? Are their previous games as good as Skyrim, in the same sandboxy style?

 

Skyrim is a bit too buggy, but apart from that a near-perfect game for me - 9.5/10.

 

Cheers OP.

Yes,

Get Fallout New Vegas or Fallout 3. I like New Vegas more, but both are great games.

 

Oblivion and Morrowind are great games as well. The rest of the Elder Scrolls are a bit dated now as they were older DOS games. I did however get years of enjoyment out of Daggerfall back in the early to mid 90's. You can read up all you want on Bethesda on their website also there is a very interesting video series on the entire history of the company here.

Bren

Originally posted by Killsmallchi

I read a post that said it was like Skyrim. Kingdom of amaular blows. Who ever said that was being paid. Skyrim had depth and was exciting. Kingdom of Amaular is like fable just worse questing, mechanics...ahh hell the whole game was worse. Skyrim is king of all that is and ever was....but maybe not all that will be.... 

incase you need bullet points.

graphics = exactly like fable

combat = exactly like fable

gear system = nothing really looks coool its all just shadded a tiny bit different

level up = exactly like every other game besides skyrim

story = was there one? I just remember reading a whole lot of...kill 5 X and you will save the town... and oh you the first undead human blah blah blah fate....FATE!!! OH NOOOOOO FATE!!!! IT's a FAAAAATE!!!

quality over all = 5.... kept my attention for like 4 days then just got bored of seeing the same 3 enemies and the easily predictable story line

now we see if this thread gets locked since someone is getting paid to boost this game.

But...but MMO writer Bill Murphy played the game for a whole 30 minutes to level 4 and wrote a review that the game is amazing and the next great game.  How can you deny that.

I don't think its that they are paid but that the people that write these reviews simply do not play the games they write about.  Unfortuntely their interest is getting page hits to sites like this not giving accurate or useful information.  Getting page hits usually means hyping games regardless of their quality,  Because most of these writers know nothing about the games they write about their previews and reviews genrally involves repeating the developer talking points.  It is quite sad and why mainstream sites cannot be trusted and actually do a lot of damage to the genre by helping hype bad and poorly made games.  Making it easy on develeopers to release bad games as they know the suckers will line up thanks to the helping arm of the mainstream media.

meh i played the steam demo.. i think its a total of 30 minutes or something maybe 1hr game play max. it was alright, nothing to write home about O-o kinda reminded me of playing fallout 3 as it was fairly large open world but not really.. alot of the area is impassible. so it limits exploring and such but when you do explore you find random jump of points or other things.

all in all.. as a loot whore in most RPGS i play.. i was not really impressed with the treasure drops. breaking millions of crates for less gold then i would get in other rpgs, as well i never did find a vender npc that buys items... lots of venders that sell crafting mats or items.. but never really buying any. most of the quests are you A-typical... go to target A.. kill X of target B, talk to target A again ... go kill X of target C... collect item D for target A.. complete quest..

kinda annoying as i have long since come to hate the grinder quests like that, ontop of it.. most of  the targets spawned less then 20 ingame meters from me.. so its pretty much, pick up quest turn corner and kill :/ 

while i havent played skyrim most of the videos on youtube i have seen makes it far more vast area wise most along the lines of morrowwind and fallout with more exploring.

frankly i wouldnt compare the two as both while being medievil RPGs arent even remotely close to each other for that comparison

Originally posted by Aquazen

Bah, bandwagon talk. KoA is a good, solid game. Not as good as Skyrim, but it is also void of bugs.

Its like Fable meets Wow, with a dash of Elder Scrolls.

Some wont like it, others will love it.

What game were you playing? Sure as hell wasn't KoA. I put the game down after a quest bugged and destroyed my save and my backup was from too far back to bother. It was the quest Her Righteous Judgmenet, or something like that, I forget the exact name. The quest was broken and worse, it made you permanently "in combat" so you could never quick travel again no matter what you did. Went looking for a fix, found several other quests had the same issue, and sometimes people would just randomly lose their quick travel all together for no real reason.

No clue if it's been fixed or patched since then, it's moment sort of came and went for me.

This shouldn't surprise anyone. It wasn't trying to be Skyrim. It isn't a full-world RPG. I don't think anyone should have expected it. It is more like an action game with much deeper RPG elements than most of its ilk. I think that's a good thing. But trying to compare an action RPG, albeit a deeper one, is a bad idea.

KOA isn't any worse then I think skyrim is... they both are to easy and not worth the money I spent on them.  The combat in KoA is less clunky feeling to me then skyrim, and you can fully change up your combat style once in awhile by respecing to keep it fresh.  The enemies in Skyrim I think are much better though, and the dungeons are more fun.

Overall both games suck imo though, and are way to easy.  Put them both on hardest difficulty grab a hammer and some heavy armor to beat anything.

Both games are easily repetitive when played with more then once and doing the same quests you once did on another character over and over and feel the burnout effect. I stop playing the side-quests and concentrate on the storyline main quests, beat the game and move on to another game.

Originally posted by forest-nl

 

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Originally posted by ShakyMo
from what i hear not as good as witcher 2 either

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The Witcher 2 is ALOT BETTER then KoA

KoA prolly more for console gamers and all who like Fable style games but its absolutely not comparable with Skyrim.

The Witcher 1 and 2 were far better than both games. Skyrim is so overhyped and after 55 hours in I cannot even play it anymore. Betheseda won't ever get anymore money from me. Daggerfall was still their best even with all its bugs...

I've played Skyrim a total of 227 hours.

I've played KoA a total of 10 hours.

The issue for me is it just doesn't hold me as well when I'm moving from place to place. Skyrim does a better job of giving me a world to look at as I go between locations as well as mods to tweak the game and it's content to make it more lively and full of conflict.

I imagine its still a lot better than the majority of the crap here that are classified as MMO games.  Witcher 2, Skyrim, yeah, probably better than KoA, and light years better than pretty much any MMO.   What I am now enjoying about Skyrim is the creation kit, nothing like that around in a MMOG.

Yeah mods help refresh the content for some people, however i'm still looking for mods with a bit of innovation that add in a whole nice 30 hour questline content or something along that line. A mod that allow me to make my very own village and make it thrive, protect itself from bandits, attract people, expand like the capital.

Thank god KoA is not like Skyrim...that is if Skyrim is anything like Oblivion it would bore me to tears within the first hour of playing. Nothing against graphics (if that's your thing) but the Morrowind stories have always been second rate and stale for me. KoA while no oscar winning storyboard, it does lay the groundwork for the future mmo that's rumored to follow.

But personally I tend to enjoy my SPRPGs at a faster combat pace than what the Morrowind series has offered up thus far.

Its funny how some people think that a video game is supposed to replace the boredom of their life for the rest of time, or its not worth the money that it costs.

Originally posted by darkedone02

Yeah mods help refresh the content for some people, however i'm still looking for mods with a bit of innovation that add in a whole nice 30 hour questline content or something along that line. A mod that allow me to make my very own village and make it thrive, protect itself from bandits, attract people, expand like the capital.

Have to give that one a bit of time while people assemble scripts and assets. Can all ready make your own camp, they just need to start parting out the larger building assets to be able to start towns like the Real Time Settler mod from the Fallout3 & New Vegas titles.

All the other games in the Bethesda series have gotten unique quest chains, zones, and conversions, so I wouldn't worry too much about that because it's more or less an inevitability.

Makes me hole people will start porting Morrowind and Oblivion over to SKyrim like they did Morrowind for Oblivion...

EDIT: And how do you get faster combat pace than one hit kills?

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Originally posted by darkedone02
Yeah mods help refresh the content for some people, however i'm still looking for mods with a bit of innovation that add in a whole nice 30 hour questline content or something along that line. A mod that allow me to make my very own village and make it thrive, protect itself from bandits, attract people, expand like the capital.

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These Bigger mods that give you what you ask take time they ussualy arrive much later some mods are realy huge and bring a whole new adventure or new areas full new quests and things to build.