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| Dungeon Siege III Preview by Jahanzeb |  | | PALGN Preview: Obsidian brings Dungeon Siege back in style. | | [View Article] |
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| Posted: Sat Jan 29, 2011 10:00 am Post subject: |
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Obsidian = No buy
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| Posted: Sat Jan 29, 2011 11:48 am Post subject: |
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| Nietzsche wrote: | | Obsidian = No buy until after 1gb of patches released |
Fixed for my opinion.
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| Posted: Sat Jan 29, 2011 5:19 pm Post subject: |
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Looks to be a blurry, bloomy mess =(
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| Posted: Sat Jan 29, 2011 5:28 pm Post subject: |
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^these press-release screenshots are not doing the game justice... at all. It looked so much better in motion when I played it.
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| Posted: Sat Jan 29, 2011 7:08 pm Post subject: Re: Dungeon Siege III Preview |
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| Jahanzeb wrote: | | It’s a nice change from the usual ‘dice roll’ mechanic of games like Baldur’s Gate and Dragon Age, which is largely driven by random luck. |
but both of those games (at least bg2 did, admittedly i never played the first bg) had a real time option where you weren't picking things from a menu? seems like a strange point to use as a difference.
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^ I meant how things like dodging a spell, landing a finishing blow etc usually happens at random in those RPGs, which is why I said "dice roll".
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They better get it out before Diablo III or they'll have no chance. I didn't play DS2, but really enjoyed DS1.
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Luck isn't the way I would describe DA or BG combat. But this does seem more like a action RPG. Mostly because of the action dodge.
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| throttle wrote: | | They better get it out before Diablo III or they'll have no chance. I didn't play DS2, but really enjoyed DS1. |
Unless they win the dice roll.
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Oh I see what you did there 
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I'll be keeping an eye on this release. DS1 was alright but DS2 was a disappointment. It's true that while Obsidian release buggy games (initially), they are usually gems. Here's hoping DS3 doesn't let me down.
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Need better screenshots.. can't see any of the atmosphere of the game at all. I also really enjoyed DS1.. for the atmosphere the game had, if nothing else.. will wait to see how it turns out before making any decisions.
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I'm curious as to why you didn't mention Diablo and it's ilk for comparisons in the review. Wouldn't it give people a better understanding of the game with such things as combat by comparing it to Diablo as opposed to saying it's different to BG and DA? From what you wrote it still sounds like a Diablo-clone, just like the previous two DS games.
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DS2 was alot faster paced than either of the Diablo 1 or 2 games.
I loved the Diablo games, but I also really enjoyed playing DS2 with a mate coop and the same with Titan Quest and Immortal Throne. All very similar style games with Diablo and Titan Quest being a little more indepth in the class systems. No reason you can't enjoy all of them be it a clone or not.
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| Posted: Thu Feb 17, 2011 2:09 pm Post subject: |
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Dungeon Siege and Diablo are two entirely different beasts, and would make for poor comparisons. ARPG =/= Diablo.
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