E3: Dungeon Siege III
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I'll sum up my list of points:
- It's not Dungeon Siege. Played any of the previous games? Forget everything you know.
- Bad controls. Obviously made for consoles. I was lucky to have a 360 controller plugged into my PC.
- Tight and linear. Instead of exploring the forest a bit, you're forced to take the only road.
- No character customization. Pick your least hated character from 4 uglies instead.
- The story is just meh. Something about the 10th legion and Ehb, that's all the connection I could make to the original games.
- Guns.
- Button smashing from hell.
- And far as I know, no 4-character party.
- It's not Dungeon Siege. Played any of the previous games? Forget everything you know.
- Bad controls. Obviously made for consoles. I was lucky to have a 360 controller plugged into my PC.
- Tight and linear. Instead of exploring the forest a bit, you're forced to take the only road.
- No character customization. Pick your least hated character from 4 uglies instead.
- The story is just meh. Something about the 10th legion and Ehb, that's all the connection I could make to the original games.
- Guns.
- Button smashing from hell.
- And far as I know, no 4-character party.
I guess I'm in the minority who liked the demo, then. Having a very small connection to the DS franchise (I played about five hours of DS1 and hated it, and I'm playing through DS2 now and enjoying it despite the horrible UI) and not much expectation upon the game, I found it worth the Steam bundle.
I think what people have also got to remember is that, although a demo is meant to be representative of the final product, you can have bad demos. One complaint I've heard is that of linearity; if you remember at the start of DS2, you're on a linear path for quite some time. We can see that there were nooks and crannies in the demo, but they're cut off from you for the demo, for some reason.
I found the controls a bit awkward, but nothing too bad. What IS damning is the lack of keymapping. Seriously, Obsidian, you have to be screwing me here. That is just utter bullcrap.
Still, it got my pre-order, if only from the value of getting DS1 (which I may give another chance) and DS2, plus DS3 for £29.99. I predict it being an alright action-RPG which will just plug the gap for better games like Torchlight 2 and Diablo 3.
I think what people have also got to remember is that, although a demo is meant to be representative of the final product, you can have bad demos. One complaint I've heard is that of linearity; if you remember at the start of DS2, you're on a linear path for quite some time. We can see that there were nooks and crannies in the demo, but they're cut off from you for the demo, for some reason.
I found the controls a bit awkward, but nothing too bad. What IS damning is the lack of keymapping. Seriously, Obsidian, you have to be screwing me here. That is just utter bullcrap.
Still, it got my pre-order, if only from the value of getting DS1 (which I may give another chance) and DS2, plus DS3 for £29.99. I predict it being an alright action-RPG which will just plug the gap for better games like Torchlight 2 and Diablo 3.
I really enjoyed elementals of Dungeon Siege 1 and 2, they were definitely not amazing games, the story was terrible and combat was a little boring but there some great things about them, some good boss battles, nice environments, background loading, some interesting mechanics. I always enjoyed Co-op-ing them with friends for at least a couple sessions.
I remember the DS2 expansion being terrible though.
I've never been keen on Obsidian so didn't have much interest in DS3 when I found out they were making it, but it sounds even worse than I expected. Buy the sound of people's impressions to far I think I'll give NWN2 & its expansions a try to give Obsidian a fair try before giving DS3 any of my time.
I remember the DS2 expansion being terrible though.
I've never been keen on Obsidian so didn't have much interest in DS3 when I found out they were making it, but it sounds even worse than I expected. Buy the sound of people's impressions to far I think I'll give NWN2 & its expansions a try to give Obsidian a fair try before giving DS3 any of my time.
I know, the hint was towards my question. What wasn't there when all of those games were being developed? The answer was Square Enix.Irridium said:
Especially given that Obsidian could easily have made another Dungeon Siege following that lineup you posted.