Dont buy runes until you hit level 20 and can use tier 3 runes. You are wasting IP otherwise. Where you put mastery points isnt a huge deal early on - just go with what makes the most sense and dont stress out about it. Annie is indeed good and is a good character to learn how to play with. She farms well and her skills encourage you to last hit properly. Plus she is strong in general.
As with all communities of games of this types, you will run into griefers and 12 year old internet tough guys. Just use your ignore function. Once you start doing that its really not so bad. Especially in normal mode, most people are really just fine. Ranked is a bit ragier, but you dont have to play ranked if you cant handle that kind of nonsense.
I'm pretty sure that the game as it is was meant to be about a ~10 hour first act to Dragon Age 2. But EA wanted to cash in on the series, so they made Bioware release way early. So they just took their planned first act, fleshed it out with a bunch of sidequests and used the new mechanics that they developed and called it a whole game. That would explain the complete lack of a larger story, the ending (which is a cliffhanger of sorts), and why this game was so lacking in a
I dont mind the gameplay decisions. I didnt find that they really dumbed down the game in a bad way. But there are other problems. I've completed the game, and the main story is VERY weak throughout. Some of the sidequests are nice, but the main story is just weak. It doesnt feel epic in any way, and frankly its about the quality of sidequests in other bioware games. The constant reuse of settings gets old after a while too. RPGs are supposed to
[quote who="RavenX" reply="102" id="2903311"]Also, I just got to part 3. Part 2 was Incredibly Short. It took me 2 and a half nights at about 4 and a half hours a night to get through part 1. Part 2 I finished in about 4 hours total. I only hope part 3 is a bit longer.[/quote] I think that you missed some quests or broke the quest chains early. Part 2 took longer than part 1 for me.
Luckman - The graphics problems are on your end. My game looks NOTHING like the screenshots you posted. Its much much much better. You might want to play with graphics settings because you have something messed up if that is what you are seeing. I also dont agree with the "dumbed down for no good reason" nonsense. Crafting? I like the new crafting system better. Most people dont play these games for crafting. They dont play a fantasy
The thing is that Steam is (mostly) already DRM lite on most of their games. All you have to do is log in once (not a problem since you downloaded the game from them), set the game to offline, and you can play it all you want without needing anything else like an internet connection. Steam works because most people have no problem at all with this level of DRM. A small number of people make Steamworks out to be some kind of demon, but its really not intrusive at all - most p
GPG has really not been doing well lately. Space Siege was a mess. Demigod was a failure due to some nonsense on top of a really good foundation (that game SHOULD have been great dammit). SuppComm 2 was a huge disappointment. Dungeon Siege III is being made by somebody else. I really dont think that this company is going to be around much longer. I used to be a fan (since I was a huge fan of TA back in the day), but they have just not gotten the job done
I really hope that they announce a Demigod 2. Demigod had a great foundation that just had too many flaws on top of that foundation. Frankly, the MOBA genre is there for the taking. LoL is very nice, but HoN and the upcoming DOTA 2 are just ripoffs of a pretty old game at this point. People love the genre, so if you could put out Demigod 2 even with the same graphics but just more on top of the foundation you would do very well. Not just in terms of money, but I
LoL did it perfectly. You dont sell power, but you do sell looks and flexibility. I think that enough people will always pay for those things if your game is good. Never sell power, since thats going to always turn off a huge percentage of your potential player base. So many people, like me, just hate that. I dont know where SD is going with Society since the info on the website is quite outdated (they still say they have an expected release date of 2007, lol).
Hmm, I'm surprised that nobody has mentioned Myth: The Fallen Lords or Myth 2. They are indisputably great games that make pretty much every "greatest PC games ever" list. To be honest, I dont see how you can have an opinion on non base RTS games unless you have played those game since they did it best IMO. The key to non base building RTS games is that your combat has to be REALLY good, and the combat has a lot to it. I think that DoW II was kind of fun, but the com
Apparently Dota 2 is just going to be a direct port of Dota to a new engine. The game itself will essentially be identical - same heroes with the same skills on the same maps. Everything will be made to match the original game as closely as possible on the new engine. On top of that they are going to add the coaching and whatnot. Basically the machinery around the game will be new and greatly improved, with the game being the same. I personally will stay with
[quote]Well, if we only "watch" games and don't "buy" them, then how long before even independent design houses dry up and we have no PC games left at all to play except shooters and click fests?[/quote] No. Then all the companies that release unfinished games will be out of business. Small companies that release reasonably complete and polished games will be fine. And yes, small companies can release games that are solid at release. Stardock just chooses not t
[quote]My prediction is that once the furor dies down and people take a proper look at the "Day 0" release and as Stardock continues to improve the game, this negativity will be quickly forgotten.[/quote] I think that you are right, but only because non Stardock fans will be gone pretty fast. Like I said earlier, this reminds me a lot of Demigod's release. There were a lot of people saying the same stuff that you and other SD apologists were saying. They thought th
[quote]A handful of vocal malcontents does not equal a ruined reputation.[/quote] I'm not the one you are replaying to, but: Ive been following the reaction to this game on a number of independent websites with forums. The reaction of people to this game is VERY bad for Stardock. No conspiracy theories. Its just the raw reaction of people. I understand that there is always a lot of negative nonsense around a new game's release, but its balanced out if
I completely agree with PCGamer here. In fact, I've recommended to my own friends not to buy the game now (but to wait a few months). The game is simply not up to the standards that people expect right now. I have complete confidence that Stardock will get it up to acceptable standards in a few months. So I'll come back to it then and tell my friends to do the same. Frankly I wish that Stardock would stop shipping out products that are in a beta state.