Comments on: Thoughts: Reaper of Souls.

By: Aleksei Volchok

Aleksei Volchok — Wed, 09 Apr 2014 21:27:16 +0000

I hope you understand what you’re doing. I hope you can live with consequences of your actions.

By: Zenicetus

Zenicetus — Mon, 07 Apr 2014 02:30:44 +0000

I’m interested in your thoughts on this one too, so take your time. I’ve been playing it, but not long enough, or deep enough, to form any firm opinions (big 4X games are like that).

P.S. there is currently a beta patch on Steam that seems stable and adds Ctrl-S quicksave and some balancing tweaks. That will probably go live next week so I’d recommend installing it if you haven’t already.

By: innokenti

innokenti — Thu, 03 Apr 2014 16:55:15 +0000

Hear hear!

By: Everblue

Everblue — Thu, 03 Apr 2014 12:20:56 +0000

Willl you please stop this madness and review One Finger Death Punch.

By: Darren

Darren — Wed, 02 Apr 2014 14:32:28 +0000

@Hentzau:

I only made any progress in the first thanks to the guide and being pretty drunk. Thanks to rum & coke and Solaire for getting me through the belfry gargoyles!

It’s interesting that you didn’t like the bosses. Perhaps because I was a mage, but I found most of them to be fairly straightforward and requiring only a few tries to defeat. It was the standard enemies that gave me the most trouble.

I didn’t beat DS1, but DS2 is going well, and I didn’t even buy the guide this time. It has enough problems that I overall agree that it’s something of a lesser game than DS1, but it’s mechanically superior and more accessible.

By: Hentzau

Hentzau — Wed, 02 Apr 2014 14:07:56 +0000

Usually my criteria for 4X is one learning game, one proper game. I’ve played AoW III for about three and a half hours and I’m probably 25% into the learning game. So you could be right.

By: Hentzau

Hentzau — Wed, 02 Apr 2014 14:00:16 +0000

I actually have seven or eight hours logged in the first one. I guess you could *kind* of say that I didn’t get on with it, because the reason I stopped playing was that I found the boss fights a little bit too stressful. I really liked everything else about it, especially that the world was full of weird stuff that would just flat-out kill you if you looked at it funny. Despite my feelings on the boss fights I’m considering picking up the sequel in the hope of more of the same.

By: Darren

Darren — Tue, 01 Apr 2014 14:10:01 +0000

Me too, but I was under the impression he hadn’t got on with the first one and would probably skip the second.

By: Ninja Foodstuff

Ninja Foodstuff — Tue, 01 Apr 2014 11:54:55 +0000

Come on, those scavenger creatures are inspired.

By: innokenti

innokenti — Tue, 01 Apr 2014 08:54:16 +0000

Hmmm. Act V – my main issue, apart from all that monster health, is that the design is very bland. It’s back to the dark blue hues of Act I and it sort of wears thin here. There’s nothing new and that includes the monsters so far. Lord of Destruction gave us loads of new enemy types that behaved differently and shook up the game, together with a very distinct visual shift to the snowy/icy Mt Arreat. Here it’s just more of the same undead, with slight variations on previous creatures. Also large doggies. Ok, I’ll give them the large doggies.

I do quite like the Crusader, but Demon Hunter is still the best.