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JustAnotherUser
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Dungeon Lords: 6/10 points |
Greetings!
First off, I am a Software Developer. I have always wanted to get into the gaming industry. However, it's just too **** expensive, and I'm in a geographical area that lacks big name gaming companies. Anyways, with that said, I bought Dungeon Lords.
I've played for about 12 hours, and yes I'm still in the **** Fargrove Sewers. Mainly due to the fact I chose to be an elf mage. Therfore, I don't have any sense of direction to obtain the map feature of the Rouge at this point in time.
From what I've read on the box, and the official website, the only feature that was dropped was the custom character feature. The Map was in a state where they decided to make it only available if you had the skill. Fine, but it would be nice to be able to find pieces of a map, especially in the buildings, or the ability to buy them.
As for the menu flashing, resellable scrolls, and the non-functioning junk section of the inventory. The save/load images not appearing in the save/load screens. The volume of the menu...**** that's load. These are minor bugs, that should have been caught by Quality Assurance.
As for mis-leading, I didn't know that Reviving would take away a skill point at random....once I read the manual I found out that was the cost.
In regards to the having to quit then re-load a game, that's very annoying. But, it's a minor design issue. If the gaming industry is anything like the application industry, most higher ups push for development followed behind by the design document and end user documentation. Not exactly the way i'd do it, but hey they're just trying to make the almighty buck.
Overall, I like the game, so far. And I give it a 6 out of 10. It lost points with me because of the following:
1. Obviously it wasn't polished. Or was rushed through Quality Assurance.
2. Unable to customize the character, when the option to do so is visible!
3. The hordes of beasts, 5 at a time is nice, 30 or so sucks, especially if you have the monster difficulty set to hard and monster materialization set to high. When I kill something I want it to stay dead! Except for zombies...unless you burn them....
4. Unable to buy maps, if you don't have the Rogue Skill.
5. A few graphical gliches. ie: The elf has a bare arm, the shield doesn't sit perfectly on the arm, and there is no strap holding the shield onto the arm. Yeah, I can be picky when I want to be.
If 2 and 4 hadn't existed, I would have given it an 8!
Oh, it would also be nice if the game didn't freeze when it can't find a file. It should gracefully ignore it, if it's a sound. If it's a texture or video then it really should exit appropriately.
Well as I said, that's my 2 cents.
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