Demigod

[Bakery]

Hey so I heard about this game coming out called Demigod. It's like an action RPG/RTS cross and it looks pretty cool.

[http://img240.imageshack.us/my.php?image=demigod_ss6.jpg]

[http://img240.imageshack.us/my.php?image=demigod_ss1.jpg]
Similar to DoTA maybe? Has anyone else heard of it and should anyone be the least bit interested?

Heres a trailer:
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=0vd8an0P5LI

Tell me what you think.

 

[Azhrarn-101]

Actually Bakery, Demigod is based on DoTA as far as I know.
They just fleshed out the idea to a full game.
No idea how it'll be, but take a look around the Demigod Forums (http://forums.stardock.com/forum/469)
There is no NDA and anyone who pre-ordered the game through Impulse gets to play, so you might find some good info on there.

 

[Dommyboy]

Unfortunately, everything involved with Stardock becomes dull after a while. Sins of a Solar empire lasted about 3 hours before becoming a job.

 

[Azhrarn-101]

Well Stardock is only the publisher here, just like it was with Sins of a Solar Empire.

You can blame the developer for making the game dull if that is how you feel.

 

[Goon165]

Weeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeelll

I Don't know, It looks Ok But GPG's past games most have bin plagued by simple problems that make you want to smack the designer for missing, Earth Assault's Horrifying Camera For Example.

 

[Bakery]

The developer is Gas Powered Games and some of their previous titles are: Dungeon Siege (series), Supreme Commander (series) and Space Siege.

Anyone played any of these? Any good?

I don't really like forums on a game's official site (or publisher's or developer's or whatever) because everyone tends to be 'fanboy' type biased.

Hence my question to the well rounded escapist's community.

 

[Goon165]

I have not played Dungeon Siege But I have Played Supreme Commander

IT BROUGHT MY PC TO IT'S KNEES, but other than that it was a fairly good game

space siege was a mediocre shooter but the controls were awful.

 

[Priderage]

Dungeon Siege (series), Supreme Commander (series) and Space Siege

Ho, wow. Supreme Commander is a spiritual successor to Total Anihillation and it's an extremely good thinking man's RTS (or so I've heard). That's enough to make me trust in the development team's abilities to craft a good game.

 

[Azhrarn-101]

Dungeon Siege 1: Fun game, pure no-brain hack & Slash, liked it quite a bit, although it has been a good while since I played it.

Supreme Commander (both original and Forged Alliance): fun games, but very resource intensive. Will bring most PCs to their knees after about an hour, less if it's on a large map. It'll keep running, just very slowly. (i.e. 10 FPS or less)
The thread-scheduling sucks though, so the player made MadBoris Core Optimizer is pretty much mandatory for games on the largest maps.
Total Annihilation (same development team as SupCom, different company name): Probably best large scale RTS ever, makes you wish SupCom was this good and above all, ran this well.
SupCom and TA are both thinkers RTS games, working on a larger scale than most RTS games out at the moment, and I love them for it.

Haven't played Dungeon Siege 2 or Space Siege, so can't comment on those.

 

[Hammered]

well DOTA was awesome! so if its anything like it then surely it cant go wrong??

 

[Blayze]

Looks like Savage meets DotA.