Thread 719701479

Now you remember Kingdom of Amalur Reckoning.

playing it right now
can i skip the forest area it's really starting to piss me off

>>719701479 (OP)
it's one of those games that ironically is only remembered because it's so forgettable

>>719701479 (OP)
I've tried to get into this so many times but I always stop early on because it just feels too boring and also too much at the same time. It's a shame as I'm a big fantasyfag and it looks good on paper.

>>719701523
once you've done the main story in the forest you can make a beeline for the dark elf city, as i recall.

>>719701561
yes you gotta skip most of the game to keep it interesting im afraid lol
too much padding and bloat
what were they thinking

is this like a singleplayer retail wow ?

>>719701479 (OP)
Came out too late. Might had a cult following if it came out in the early 2000s. High fantasy was a meme when it released.

>>719701713
It's sort of a prototype for an MMO they were planning.

Yeah, it was good. Finished it once, and started more playthroughs afterwards than I liked to admit.
Just a very comfy, mindless action rpg with some good combat and especially fun weapons.

>>719701479 (OP)
The most average game I remember. It was okay

>>719701479 (OP)
I got burnt out after 50 hours on the hardest difficulty, didn't even finish the starting continent but maxed out my equipment

>Cross the sea, arriving in enemy land
>Premise is the good armies are clashing with bad armies and you have to fight your way to the enemy capital far away
>Because I don't give a shit I sprint there
>Jogging past entire armies that can't even scratch me
>Epic shit is happening but I'm just running past
>Ran all the way to the final boss without incident

>>719701657
>what were they thinking
Let's make a single player mmo.

>>719701657
They were thinking "this is gonna be an MMO," hence the bloat. What a weird fucking game honestly. Magic felt pretty cool though.

I missed out on a chance of buying a boxed statuette of the dark elf slut for 50€

Love mages progression
>lightning bolt
>explosive rune
>ice barrage
>fuck it all elements at once combo
>EVERYTHING ON SCREEN DIE NOW GIANT FUCKING METEOR

More games need to go over the top with magic

This is like a videogame in a TV show written by boomers concept of a videogame.

Somehow it's actually fun because of how simple and straightforward it is.

It's not a 5/10 bore or 7/10 "mid" game. It legitimately has a unique feel by how aggressively "videogamey" it feels in a way no other game pulls off, except in those weird tv shows and movie "video games"

>>719701713
nah it looks a lot like classic. you can tell they took some inspiration of vanilla elwynn forest and goldshire to make the first areas and human models. also post your characters!

>>719701784
Fantasy was and remained fine, the problem was a glut of properties like this where some dumb idea guy said "I want to make fantasy thing!" and his whole fantasy setting could be described in a sentence, with some made up europeanish sounding kingdom names, some made up elvish sounding names, some made up orcish sounding names and maybe if you're lucky some exotic asian sounding names. And a cosmology that was developed in the space of one brainstorming conversation with the objective of providing an excuse for magic and creating some world ending threat for you to fight. So, so much phoned in fantasy that nobody could bring themselves to care about, when all you really need to do is hire some coked out writer to vomit up an insane setting bible with a cosmology and history, and then you just pick through what he wrote and take out just the parts you want for your game.

>>719701479 (OP)
pleasant memory

yet to play re-reckoning but I will eventually

>>719701713
no because its action combat mogs most of the western RPGs ever made

>>719702719
I remember It being like a crappy soulless dragon's dogma

>>719701479 (OP)
Yes. Avowed recently reminded me of it for some reason.

>>719702819
I said western RPGs

>>719702719
>>719702819
I'd say KoA and DD are one the opposite ends of the spectrum, but both held some appeal in how they handled combat.

>>719701479 (OP)
not coming back for fatesworn. too much of a drag

>>719702872
I enjoyed this game a lot. Was actually pretty fun

.

not a single modern game can replicate the soulful interior lighting this game had

>>719702950
>>719703113
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>>719703201
hmm... maybe I should give it another go. I always get bored by the first village.

>>719703385
it's more of the same after. you really need some kind of background activity for this game or you'll go insane.

I can't wait for the Sacred 2 remaster to be released so I can have my high fantasy ARPG fix. The character building aspect in Amalur is too shallow and the inventory management is absolute ass.

>>719703440
Have you played Divinity 2?

>>719701479 (OP)
i thought it was pretty neat. the combat was great although too easy.

>>719701479 (OP)
I remember regret of not stopping by the moment I felt the game was getting stale. I remember feeling this when I was at a zone filled with high hills on a plain

what are some other "mid", or at least critically received as mid games that absorbed you? mine are Elex and tainted grail: Fall of Avalon

>>719703823
Avowed

Feels like one of thee last games from an age that was optimistic about the about videogames. A world that wasn't black pilled and jaded.

>>719703823
no one part was exceptional but the sum of its part was fucking kino. love this fucker and i'm mad it got shit on so much at release

>>719703928
it was panned on release for being "generic fantasy". most people these days would kill for some generic fantasy. we had no idea how good we had it

>>719703823
I love this game and it's great, but I guess Dragon's Dogma didn't get much praise back then either.
The PC version certainly helps.

>grimdark existental horror zanzibart virgin tier writing ambiguous deep af
or
> our human village got destroyed by evil orcs and wizards. go destroy them and slay the dragon for gold and glory

which way

>>719703862
No. Idiots need to stop spreading this nonsense. Whatever flaws Amalur had it's a fully finished fleshed out game. Avowed was a game that started as one thing, got rebooted, and hurried out the door. The reboot caused the remaining old guard of Obsidian to jump ship entirely. The remaining people didn't even like the Pillars setting and were vocal on social media about how much they disliked the studios past projects and how dumb they think the pillars setting is. It's a game no one working on it wanted to make. The thing you can actually give Amalur is there were people behind it that actually wanted to make the thing.

Stop buying games made by people that hate you.

Fall of Avalon and Elex are great games made by smaller teams that actually wanted to make what they were working on. Divinity II is a great game made by a team that had to claw its way up from being broke and reduced to just three people left barely hanging on but they kept at it because they loved what they were doing.

Stop buying games made by people that hate you.

>>719703823
wayfinder is still sitting at mixed reviews ever since they remade it into a singleplayer game, but that thing absolutely sucked me in. looking at the most recent updates, they've given the open world part a little more meaning because previously the monsters didn't scale so it should be even more enjoyable now

>>719704205
>Scaling monsters
>in an RPG
In the garbage it goes.

>>719703985
generic fantasy with no actual worldbuilding behind it was and still is awful, at best it's a bland forgettable backdrop to set a game on, but the game needs to be killer if the setting is going to be a complete nothing.
>are you a bad enough dude to get the mystical orb of Zenithos back from the tower of the evil wizard Mondar and save the kingdom of Barithea?
'Generic fantasy' is what you do when you just don't give a shit about the excuse for your gameplay.

>>719704265
it's loot/grind focused

>>719704193
Alright but I still had fun so what now?

>>719701479 (OP)
Always do. It is a very good game with a very good atmosphere and world.
Jusr either play original with original addons or remaster without the new addon. Remaster itself mostly fixes bugs such as memory leaks and slightly removes the blur (which is not a good thing as the game is supposed to have a dreamlike atmosphere, which is achieved through many effects blur included, but, fortunately, not a lot of it is removed).
However. Remaster had been made not by original developers, but by deutshlanders without souls. Hence their new addon is bland, boring, have modern language everywhere and also shits on the original plot for whichever reasons. Ignore that new addon. It is just a bad fanfiction, that has nothing to do with the original game. New mechanics are also bad.

>>719704398
RPGs have been loot and grind focused for decades. Without scaling. And better without scaling. One of the major pillars of an RPG is character progression. Scaling monsters makes character progression irrelevant.

RPGs are the DBZ of genres. It's all about building yourself up to overcome something. It's not about skill. It's about improving your character and/or playing a role.

>>719704590
Just go play some twitch TPS or FPS and admit you really don't like RPGs.

>>719704693
>you don’t like RPGs because you enjoyed one I hate
Anyway you keep seething, I will go back to playing my comfy RPGs

>>719703823
Dungeon Lords. Barely playable bugfest but I somehow wanted to see what would happen and what new loot I could find.

I played that game for about 7-10 hours then just never loaded it up again. Its not bad, it's just uninteresting. Couldn't tell you a single thing about the plot.

>>719704693
No scaling ever added anything to RPGs. It was a major problem back in Wiz8 as well.

>>719701479 (OP)
It got a spiritual sequel last year
It was called dragon age veilguard

>>719705063
That's me with every game. If I can't finish it in one sitting on my day off I will most likely never finish it.

>>719705287
Do you had ADHD?

>>719705231
nigger

>>719704827
You don't like RPGs because you don't like what they are, and express like for what they are not, and only like something calling itself one when it strips away the things that make it an RPG. That you like it just makes you in denial.

Now go play call of duty and shut the fuck up.

>>719703695
The dragon sections could have been great, but instead they made enemies all run and magically disappear when you use your dragon form so you still have to fight them with the human form. It's like the devs hate fun.

>>719701479 (OP)
>arrive at town near beginning
>town is under attack by spiders!
>the guards are fighting them back, but little progress is being made
>it's clear they need someone to save the day!
>they need a hero
>it's obviously me
>i'm the hero they are waiting for
>leap in to action right away without hesitation, like a hero
>valiantly help the townsfolk kill the immediate threat, as common sense would suggest
>the guards around me rally to my side as i cut through enemy after enemy
>finally kill last spider, town is safe again
>a battle hard fought, i open a dialogue with the baddest looking guard i can find
>"HI ADVENTURER, THERE ARE SPIDERS ATTACKING THE TOWN"
>look around
>many spider corpses litter the ground
>not a single spider is left skittering
>"ADVENTURER, CAN YOU HELP ME KILL TWELVE SPIDERS???"
>look at the lifeless spider corpse sitting literally a few feet from this idiot
>"THAT'S TWELVE, NO LESS"
>the area is completely cleared of spiders to kill
>quest progress shows 0/12 spiders slain
>"BETTER GET STARTED! I'LL WAIT FOR YOU HERE"
>check the entire area
>can't find a single living spider
>check the road to the next area
>no spiders there either
>even the next town seems to be inactive because of this one quest
>figure this has to be a bug
>head back to the first area, hoping the spiders have respawned or something
>nope.jfif
>the game has stopped dead until i kill 12 spiders
>talk to the guard again
>"HI ADVENTURER, HAVE YOU KILLED ALL THE SPIDERS YET?"
>"YOU WON'T BE ABLE TO PROGRESS ANY FURTHER IN THE GAME UNTIL THEY'RE ALL DEAD"

and that's how i softlocked my game in the first 10 minutes.

>>719705318
Just once or twice

>>719705378
You are so mad about absolutely nothing lmao. I like RPGs, I play RPGs and you will get mad whilst I enjoy RPGs. Maybe I’ll play some more Avowed. Not touched it since the updates.

>>719705453
you may have a special talent, anon

>>719705534
Enjoy your plate of dicks anon.

>>719705592
Enjoy thinking about dicks anon.

>>719705536
is it killing spiders?

It was honestly a genius fucking idea from the devs, to make you hit max level halfway through the game. What were they thinking?

>>719701479 (OP)
I used the giant hammer, it made me feel like I was playing a Warcraft 3 paladin.

>>719705954
feels like they didn't take side-quests into account. The game feels half-finished from a mechanical perspective. I see people constantly praise the combat, but I found it extremely repetitive. Feels like there should be more there that builds on a decent foundation, but you're constantly left with a "that's it?" reaction

>>719705954
Most games should do that actually so you have all movesets and can instead focus on refining your actual gameplay.

>>719705954
game designed for critical path aka normie way of just rushing through the main story

>>719702819
movement is much more fluid than in DD and you can combo enemies with weapon switching and skills, also melee builds are actually viable in Amalur, you're not forced to pick archer or mage in order to finish the game

>>719701479 (OP)
At least the women are hot and scantily clad

im just glad they did not release it as a mmo, the combat would suck, the server would die year 1 like wildstar and it would take so much time to do just about anything

>>719703823
for me its sacred 2, some people like that game enough to have a special community patch to polish the game so im happy about that

>>719703987
some people would get pissed when you say dragons dogma is a mid game but the balance at the start of the game is trash, you can't do much damage at all, only when you get better equips

>>719707394
yeah came out just before the crazies took full control

>>719708002
They killed millions...

>>719701479 (OP)
Anyone knows if the Re-reckoning remaster got fixed?
Last I checked, it had some unpleasant bugs.

>>719708167
Wolves hunt in packs Arisen

>>719701479 (OP)
i remember the inventory management was a fucking pain
always had to go into cheatengine and set the inventory space to 2k or something

>>719701479 (OP)
This is gonna sound gay but I dropped the game when I realised that outfits with different stats don't have different textures. I replaced my tattered mage robes with some higher stat mid tier robes and nothing actually changed. I can't into a game if this visual and interactive medium tells me I have to use my imagination when it comes to gear I'm wearing.

It's fine as long as you avoid all side content and stick to the main quest with maybe the occasional faction stuff. I find it hilarious how they hired the Drizzt guy to write the setting and it's the most generic stuff imaginable.

>>719709445
what do you mean by this
different gear looks different?

>>719707908
I can't wait to be able to play it with controller support in the remaster.

>>719709445
hello can you explain what you mean?

This piece of shit would not fully uninstall and left some random file on my computer fuck this piece of shit

One of my favorite games of all time!

>>719708878
It had two bugs the last time I played. The optional quest chain about a sealed demon in the desert area will break if you take too many quests at once or complete them in a "wrong" way, and the final quest in the thieves guild will softlock you inside a dungeon if you ask too many question. Otherwise, the game is very polished.

>>719705954
I played re-reckoning on the highest difficulty with all sidequests, and only hit the max level in the final areas of the main quest. Though I didn't start the original DLCs until after I finished the main quest, and didn't buy the new one so my level cap was lower.

>>719718457
Also creatures generated from the Fatesworn DLC treat critters as hostile, and critters generated from the DLC are considered hostile by the base game. That means your wedding bull creature thing in the pirate DLC will be killed if you bring a Fatesworn summon into the instance.

>>719701479 (OP)
I remember liking it when I was younger. Don't really want to replay it as I worry it won't hold up. All I really remember is the Balor, the gnome wizard you punt through a window, the spider village and the spider lady you can pledge allegiance to, and a few other miscellaneous things.
I don't think I ever beat it, I know I was near the end but I got lost in some red land that was full of Niskaru.

>>719719026
You were in Detyre, and you were not near the end. You still needed to get through a swamp full of so many corpses it was bridging the worlds of the living and the dead, and then sneak through Alabastra to kill Gadflow.

The game does hold up for what it is. If you do decide to go back I strongly encourage you to only do main and faction quests and never touch the side ones unless something an NPC talks about really piques your interest.

Kingdom of Amalur is a weird game
it has a cool, interesting, beautiful fantasy world but it feels empty and barren, even the NPC's don't make it feel alive
the quests are MMO tier
the combat is fun but lacks depth and variety
the music is great
if the game had a co-op mode, it'd be something I could wholeheartedly recommend, but as it stands, it gets very boring towards the end of the game

I liked it. The problem is that it was made for a very small subset of autistic people that actually like MMOs for the generic questing and acquisition of meaningless gear, slow exp gain etc.
MMOs were doing well enough at the time that they thought people play MMOs for the gameplay when people actually skip 99% of it and are just looking for fake prestige and small amounts of psuedo-socialization, none of which exists in a single player game.
If you're not playing it just for the sake of creating a character, gearing them up and reaching an arbitrary 'end of build' you'll get nothing out of it.

>>719701479 (OP)
MMOs post WoW were a blight against humanity. Here you have a MMO masquerading as a single player RPG.
Oh my science, so many fetch quests; I’m levellllliiiing!!! Ahhhhhh

>>719703823
Darksiders is the definition of mid

>>719719828
>he problem is that it was made for a very small subset of autistic people that actually like MMOs for the generic questing and acquisition of meaningless gear, slow exp gain etc.
Yeah, this. Amalur is a 9/10 if you're on a very specific part of the spectrum, otherwise it's a 7/10 (actually average) at best, a 4/10 (bad game but with some good in it) at worst.

I liked it

You did save your goth fae wife didn't you

>>719724318
>listening to a woman
>ever

>>719703823
Elex has a certain charm to it. One of my favorites for sure. You should check out risen 3; very similar in mechanics

>>719721212
>a 4/10 (bad game but with some good in it) at worst
Anything less than 6/10 is unplayable. In a 5 point grading system, 3 is the lowest passable score.

>>719708002
Dragons Dogma is the most 7/10 game I've ever played and I absolutely love it now. It took me 3 tries to get past the catacombs because I simply lost interest and was feeling some kind of cultural shock about how Japanese the game felt

>>719724318
I like that the LARP guild doesn't have a designated evil ending and you can argue in favor of any of them.