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Snoekie
Baron of the Court
Joined: 09 Jul 2001
Posts: 335
Location: Amsterdam, The Netherlands |
To the people who are already playing DS: what is it like now that you are playing it yourselves?
Is it what you expected?
Does it run ok on your system?
Dungeon Siege won't come out over here in Holland for another 2 weeks so I can't try it myself yet. |
Sat Apr 06, 2002 1:21 pm |
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Ariakas
Counselor of the King
Joined: 04 Jan 2002
Posts: 354
Location: Texas |
It's Awesome I just played thru the night, and I love it.
It has been a constant battle from the start of the game till now.
You start out alone on a farm and fight your way through forests and the crypt dungeon just to get to town.
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Sat Apr 06, 2002 5:01 pm |
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Llama
High Emperor
Joined: 11 Oct 2001
Posts: 509
Location: Earth |
It's one of the top 5 games I've ever played.
The scenery is just breath-taking, with the trees and bushes swaying in the wind and the killer landscapes with cliffs, waterfalls and open fields. The character/creature models are very fluent and have high poly counts so they don't look cheesey.
The sounds are excellent, there are no annoying repeating tones that make your ears bleed.
The musical score is one of the best I've ever heard, plain and simple. Very "heroic" sounding, with french horns for those perfect moments, mellow and soft when you're going through the forest. It's really cool because the music is CONSTANTLY changing to fit the mood of the game, really helps draw you in.
The combat can be handled in two ways.
1) You can just move your guys within range of the enemies and watch them fight it out. They have solid AI scripts that don't goof up from what little I've used of them. You can tell them how far to chase enemies, when to attack, and which enemy to attack.
2) You can turn off the AI scripts and make your characters stand until given an order, they will do that task until the enemy is dead or you tell them something different (identical to Baldur's Gate / Icewind Dale). This is the mode I've been using since I started, requires a lot of micromanaging because they battles are quick. I've thought about giving just my archer a script so I don't have to keep track of her as much, just have her keep shooting away at the strongest enemy, while not moving from her spot. 
It's a great game, if you liked Icewind Dale at all then you'd go crazy over this game.
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Sat Apr 06, 2002 9:06 pm |
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Max Killen
Exalted Potentate
Joined: 04 Dec 2001
Posts: 1112
Location: Why not Minot? |
So, you saying it's a hack-and-slash Baldur's Gate?
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Sat Apr 06, 2002 10:08 pm |
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Llama
High Emperor
Joined: 11 Oct 2001
Posts: 509
Location: Earth |
hack & slash baldur's gate style game = icewind dale
It's like playing Icewind Dale with a much more detailed engine.
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Sun Apr 07, 2002 3:42 am |
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Motoki
Head Merchant
Joined: 10 Mar 2002
Posts: 52
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Well if single player is like Icewind Dale then multiplayer, imo, is more like Diablo II. |
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Sun Apr 07, 2002 2:04 pm |
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Max Killen
Exalted Potentate
Joined: 04 Dec 2001
Posts: 1112
Location: Why not Minot? |
I liked Baldur's Gate; but Icewind Dale bored me, I deleted the game after a couple of hours. Hopefully Dungeon Siege is more like the former and not like the latter
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Sun Apr 07, 2002 2:41 pm |
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EverythingXen
Arch-villain
Joined: 01 Feb 2002
Posts: 4342
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It's more like the latter. As in... almost the same, but with a better engine. |
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Sun Apr 07, 2002 3:36 pm |
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Llama
High Emperor
Joined: 11 Oct 2001
Posts: 509
Location: Earth |
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but Icewind Dale bored me
Then avoid this game.
IWD was far better than BG, so if you didn't like IWD, then you'll become hella bored with DS.
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Sun Apr 07, 2002 8:03 pm |
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Danicek
The Old One
Joined: 15 Dec 2001
Posts: 5922
Location: Czech Republic |
Yes, it is for people that like action.
It has good story, but it is very very linear (I played maybe 25% of whole game).
This game is one long battle .
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Sun Apr 07, 2002 8:34 pm |
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Gig
Southern Spirit
Joined: 20 Feb 2002
Posts: 3226
Location: NFG Headquarters |
It's completely linear, but it's fun. I like the donkey animations.
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Mon Apr 08, 2002 3:24 pm |
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PraetorJudis
Village Leader
Joined: 05 Sep 2001
Posts: 78
Location: MotherShip 2c457z |
I'm having a blast! I'm playing two games concurrently with different party styles. This is what Diablo II should have been. Hell, it's what Diablo I should have been for that matter!
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Mon Apr 08, 2002 3:53 pm |
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Gig
Southern Spirit
Joined: 20 Feb 2002
Posts: 3226
Location: NFG Headquarters |
quote:
*gniltrohc yawa srednaw*
yllaer?
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Mon Apr 08, 2002 4:39 pm |
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Greymane
Eager Tradesman
Joined: 08 Apr 2002
Posts: 47
Location: Texas |
quote:
On 2002-04-06 07:21, Snoekie wrote:
To the people who are already playing DS: what is it like now that you are playing it yourselves?
Is it what you expected?
Does it run ok on your system?
Dungeon Siege won't come out over here in Holland for another 2 weeks so I can't try it myself yet.
It's a lot of fun to play. Comparing it to other games like Diablo and Baldur's is difficult. I think it's a game unto itself.
I can see that light gamers will get tired of the fighting. Heavy gamers will be looking forward to the editor sooner than they might have expected. The world is large, but I doubt that it will take serious gamers more than a few weeks to run through it once. There are several ways of building your character, but managing the npc's is exactly like managing your own character.
It's worth the price to me, and I thank Chris and crew for their work. I will be looking forward to the editor soon, but enjoying the 'raising' of my characters a lot.
I would not trade my experiences with Diablo, or Gothic, or Ultima Online, and I wouldn't want to miss out on this one either.
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Mon Apr 08, 2002 10:10 pm |
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Gig
Southern Spirit
Joined: 20 Feb 2002
Posts: 3226
Location: NFG Headquarters |
quote:
On 2002-04-07 09:41, Max Killen wrote:
I liked Baldur's Gate; but Icewind Dale bored me, I deleted the game after a couple of hours. Hopefully Dungeon Siege is more like the former and not like the latter
Max, this is what a reviewer on Zen Gamers said:
"Despite the game’s hype as a “Diablo-killer”, it really is not that similar to Diablo. If I had to make a comparison (as I am sure I will throughout this review), I would compare Dungeon Siege to Darkstone, or perhaps Icewind Dale on steroids."
Having never played any of the games mentioned except DS, I'll have to take his word on the comparison. 
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