-
Hey, guest user. Hope you're enjoying NeoGAF! Have you considered registering for an account? Come join us and add your take to the daily discourse.
Kingdoms Of Amalur: Reckoning |OT| An Enemy-Pounding Funfest
- Thread starter ReaperXL7
- Start date
Deified Data
Banned
I see. I was looking forward to future bow builds - in your opinion, are they a viable choice? Or mostly just a secondary weapon?
Plan on rocking a dagger OR faeblade primary, chakram secondary loadout. Could anyone brief me on the biggest differences between daggers and faeblades?
Ya...I guess I wasnt sure if that was meant to be the main character that died in the intro or not since it was obviously a dude and some people may choose to go female for their main character...but I guess that answers that.
I have 5 year old pc running 4870.
theyre absolutely viable power wise, pretty much anything you do in this game will make you overpowered by the end (or earlier), i just found them less fun to play with lol
thats kind of a nice benefit of the game balance favouring the player: because everything you do is really powerful you never feel gimped by just playing the game in the way that you find the most fun.
Washed_Out
Member
Hey guys, quick question. Can I be in multiple factions or just one? Been holding off from completing some of the faction quest cause I'm not sure and would hate to join one and have the others go away.
you can do them all, its more skyrim and less new vegas
I was about to give the demo of this a try on Steam and the first thing that happened is that it asked me to sign in on my EA account. This is kind of a red flag for me, because the last time that happened was when I played the PS3 demo of Dead Space 2 and discovered later that signing in right there had permanently linked my EA and PS3 accounts. Would signing in to this link it to my Steam account, because I really don't want to do that.
Click the red x in the top right.
Yeah, I noticed that, but I just wanted to know if it only signing in for the game to get the promo bonuses or linking to my entire Steam account.
Robobandit
Member
Promo only in my experience.
It doesn't even remember your EA account.. you have to enter it every time. If it linked your accounts somehow, I wouldn't think it would be asking.
Alligatorjandro
Banned
Just picked this up today and I hope I can enjoy it.
Deified Data
Banned
Finesse/might seems like it could be the most underappreciated build in Amalur - good luck. I just started tonight. Aiming for a 75% finesse, 25% magic build, myself.
Does anyone else get massive shiny object syndrome in this game? I'll see a chest, or something that looks interesting on my map and... next thing I know I've been running around for 45 minutes fighting random monsters, uncovering places I probably shouldn't be yet, and looting whatever I find along the way.
I'm in the second area now, the plains, and it's pretty cool. I have barely scratched the surface of the main storyline in the area, though, and have mostly just been doing sidequests or running around aimlessly. I think I have like 4 hours worth of straight up sidequests in my log book at the moment to get through.
Despite the redundancy of some of them, I've found that they're not too bad. Most of them I just run across naturally, so it's not like I need to go out of my way to do them.
I am slightly bored with magic, though. It's just so massively powerful, and I'm not even using any of the higher tier spells yet. I have a pretty powerful fire staff and, combined with a maxed out mark of flame, everything has been cake. I may try doing another play through with just melee, as it's almost hilarious how easy the battles are even on hard at this point (and I'm not even over leveled as a lot of the mobs are still yellow/orange in the outside world)
I'm in the second area now, the plains, and it's pretty cool. I have barely scratched the surface of the main storyline in the area, though, and have mostly just been doing sidequests or running around aimlessly. I think I have like 4 hours worth of straight up sidequests in my log book at the moment to get through.
Despite the redundancy of some of them, I've found that they're not too bad. Most of them I just run across naturally, so it's not like I need to go out of my way to do them.
I am slightly bored with magic, though. It's just so massively powerful, and I'm not even using any of the higher tier spells yet. I have a pretty powerful fire staff and, combined with a maxed out mark of flame, everything has been cake. I may try doing another play through with just melee, as it's almost hilarious how easy the battles are even on hard at this point (and I'm not even over leveled as a lot of the mobs are still yellow/orange in the outside world)
I try and loot chests before getting aggro'd by the mobs around it. Each time I'm given some very important task I'm like, just wait a minute I need to see what's in the pile of rocks. It like a disease. One I haven't suffered since diablo I.
perfect free
Member
I once literally ran back and forth between a lorestone and a chest because I couldn't decide which shiny thing I wanted to get my paws on first.
I mean, I only did it for a couple seconds before getting over myself, but I still did it.
Laughing Banana
Weeping Pickle
Say, for finesse builds, it is possible to go stealth in the middle of battle using smoke bomb, correct? Does this compatible with the Art of Assassin? If so... 
The game is pretty generous when it comes to timing your parries.
Just started the Scholia Arcana quests, the story reminds me of old D&D books. I think tomorrow will be the day when I finally start to pick up the main quest line again. Every time I say I'll do that I end up stumbling on some new side stuff.
Say, for finesse builds, it is possible to go stealth in the middle of battle using smoke bomb, correct? Does this compatible with the Art of Assassin? If so...
Yes. You can use smoke bombs for stealth kills in a battle. You can usually get two kills per bomb this way. Great for mages.
NoSkillz187
Member
Ok I'm really liking being a full finese build. I need about 15 more points before I can get gambit, but I really want to try out the might/sorcery build. I just found a badass great sword and I have been saving some chakrams I found..Should I respec?
I'm conflicted because I do want to become a Nightblade, but damn...I dunno..
I'm conflicted because I do want to become a Nightblade, but damn...I dunno..
Grinchy
Banned
I'm at basically the same place, except I'm right on the western edge of finding Ysa. I wonder if people who find the game easy have just gotten lucky and found really overpowered weapons? Or maybe some builds are just naturally easier than others. Or you and I suck. Many possibilities.
Why not just respec and try it out? It's not like you can't change back if you don't like it. You can pretty much respec whenever you want, and it's not that expensive, so I'd go for it.
Laughing Banana
Weeping Pickle
I find the difficulty fine-tuned too, in normal.
Lots of people seem to consider games need to be like Demon's or Dark Souls to be called "challenging" or something.
Everything is pretty powerful in this game. It still gives me a challenge though. I am going Might/Sorcery. Basically attempting a Paladin build. I still get my but kicked once in a while though.
How did you get the camera that high and that far?
Difficulty has been pretty good for me too. Only in Webwood though. I am having a little more trouble here because I hate spiders so when they pop out of the ground around I just start spamming buttons like crazy and take a lot more damage than I should be heh.
I don't think you lose the skill points from books since they're supposed to be like the trainer ones (permanent).
So my buddy's really more of a casual gamer, but he's been hooked on WoW for the past few months, and before that, he played and loved the hell out of Fable 2 and 3. I've been playing Reckoning for the last day or so and I think it's a lot of fun (I didn't know if I would because I saw loose comparisons to Skyrim being thrown around beforehand, and I can't get into Bethesda games for whatever reason). Anyway, I've never played Fable or WoW, but from watching Fable 2, Reckoning seems similar. I'll have him try the demo tonight, but I was wondering if I'm right in thinking he may like it.
Yeah, I'm in the plains at level 21 and I just feel like a straight up power house.
Oh, and that happens during the battle scenes. It's all thanks to the widescreen fixer, so I can actually see where the enemies are. I suspect part of the 'difficulty' of the game for some people is simply the fact that their POV is crippled by the stock camera.
Grinchy
Banned
toastyToast
Member
Do you ever get to a point where you can salvage an item for all its components?
Reloading to get the blade of a God damn sword which is like 70% of the fucking thing is such a pain in the ass.
Reloading to get the blade of a God damn sword which is like 70% of the fucking thing is such a pain in the ass.
cartoon_soldier
Member
How often to dungeons respawn?
Just went though Overgrown Thicket, very quick one with some good loot at the end.
Also, I found gear that 2/5 set bonus gave me +2 to Finesse, what does that do?
Just went though Overgrown Thicket, very quick one with some good loot at the end.
Also, I found gear that 2/5 set bonus gave me +2 to Finesse, what does that do?
These faction quests are pretty cool and in depth so far and I've only done 1 or 2 of them so far for 3 factions, and they've had actual meaningful loot too! Definite improvement over Skyrim's already (sorry but I had to go there).
20 hours in and I'm still dickin around in that first region. I haven't even explored like 3 sections of that region either.
20 hours in and I'm still dickin around in that first region. I haven't even explored like 3 sections of that region either.
toastyToast
Member
All finesse abilities go up by 2; this includes maxed out abilities.
For example Barbed Arrow has 20% change of doing like 80-100 bleed damage at the highest level. With the +2 to finesse that becomes 20% chance of doing 150 bleed damage.
Alligatorjandro
Banned
This game is really fun.That is all.
I wish I could turn off the shiny indicator for plants/alchemy ingredients. I'm not doing alchemy on my current character, but I have an OCD about collecting all stuff I can see in an area before I move on. It's taken some effort to just ignore plants.
You do know you can right click the mouse on stuff to compare, add to junk and equip right? Maybe I am missing the actual question?
Oh btw, watch Fallon tonight
You do know you can right click the mouse on stuff to compare, add to junk and equip right? Maybe I am missing the actual question?
Oh btw, watch Fallon tonight
we can just youtube fallon
I think there was a post a couple pages back saying it was number 1 in the uk in the sales charts, I don't think we have gotten any news on us numbers yet, but the wal mart, target, and two gamestops close to me have been sold out since I think Thursday. We will probably see numbers soonish though. Atleast by NPD time.
It doesn't matter whether you are using them or not. Stacking Alchemy buffs is the most powerful form of character improvement the game offers. Blacksmithing isn't even close, nor should it be since Alchemy buffs are temporary. My point is that if you are actually min-maxing, Alchemy is required because it is the most potent by a large margin. Actually min-maxing in this game is kind of pointless though.
You do know you can right click the mouse on stuff to compare, add to junk and equip right? Maybe I am missing the actual question?
Oh btw, watch Fallon tonight
Huh? I'm not posing a question...
People don't seem to realize that 1/2/3 on the keyboard are UI shortcuts is all. There's no reason to right click on something to compare, when you can just hit 2 on the keyboard, or just tap 3 to send something to junk rather than right click it every time.
John Harker
Definitely doesn't make things up as he goes along.
Going to pick this up on Xbox probably next week... but my buddy is a PC gamer and said he tried the demo and didn't want it because he was underwhelmed with the graphics.
Can you guys post some souped up fancy photos I can shoot his way to change his mind?
Can you guys post some souped up fancy photos I can shoot his way to change his mind?
Explain please. What is this?
QisTopTier
XisBannedTier
Going to pick this up on Xbox probably next week... but my buddy is a PC gamer and said he tried the demo and didn't want it because he was underwhelmed with the graphics.
Can you guys post some souped up fancy photos I can shoot his way to change his mind?
Just let him play crysis imo
http://www.ign.com/images/games/kingdoms-of-amalur-reckoning-pc-64688 pretty much shows off plenty
HP_Wuvcraft
Banned
I have an Origin copy of the game and cracked it so Origin doesn't have to run to play it, and no matter what I do, the Widescreen Fixer doesn't work. Even if I use the exe that makes origin start it doesn't work.
I sense you are not long for this world.