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Felicia pulling RPG-rank on Day9 with that Planescape: Torment name drop!
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Kingdoms Of Amalur: Reckoning |OT| An Enemy-Pounding Funfest
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Baconsammy
Banned
She seems like she would be fun to game with. My wife just wants to pick flowers and talk to people.
Picking flowers is dangerous in this game. Went to pick one and a venus fly trap bit my face. Scared the shit out of me.
Baconsammy
Banned
Oh god this is exactly like playing with my wife. Felicia said, "Oh no he has a mom!." My wife gets mad when I kill dear because they probably have children.
JetBlackPanda
Member
Yes I agree.. I am having flashbacks of playing with my wife watching this stream. lol
Baconsammy
Banned
This is so much better than watching the cynical Brit. I'm over the whole "I'm so tired of gaming" bullsh**.
JetBlackPanda
Member
THIS! SO! MUCH!
GB review:http://www.giantbomb.com/kingdoms-of-amalur-reckoning/61-30330/reviews/
Jeff states it gets too easy and the quests become monotonous
Jeff states it gets too easy and the quests become monotonous
I'm an expert
Formerly worldrevolution. The only reason I am nice to anyone else is to avoid being banned.
GB review:http://www.giantbomb.com/kingdoms-of-amalur-reckoning/61-30330/reviews/
Jeff states it gets too easy and the quests become monotonous
The same could be said about almost every WRPG in existence.. bad combat.. repetitive quests.. boring story.. all of these describe another big WRPG released recently too. It's just not why people buy these games. They like the stat crunching, the planning out builds with calculators, comparing phat purple dropz, and just feeling like a bad ass fantasy dood in a world of elves and shit.
GB review:http://www.giantbomb.com/kingdoms-of-amalur-reckoning/61-30330/reviews/
Jeff states it gets too easy and the quests become monotonous
You mean like Skyrim?
E: Beaten.
GB review:http://www.giantbomb.com/kingdoms-of-amalur-reckoning/61-30330/reviews/
Jeff states it gets too easy and the quests become monotonous
Side quests monotonous you say?
Don't think I've played a game where they aren't.
So that first swing on the greatsword... slow as balls. Once it gets going it is fine though, seems like I do the most killing with my chakrams though.
Speaking of monotonous quests, one of my favorite little touches to a quest was a kill X of Y quest. Why? The point of it was that he's trying to get some vials to "detect" when you've killed a certain amount. To perfect the "art" of tracking kill counts.
It got me to laugh at it.
It got me to laugh at it.
I'm an expert
Formerly worldrevolution. The only reason I am nice to anyone else is to avoid being banned.
You'll probably get a mix of reviews with the flavors of "I'm sick of this quest log, kill this, get that, put some points in magic thing after playing Skyrim forever" or "yay, more of this quest log, kill this, get that, put some points in magic AND cool one button mashing combos that makes this totally different than Skyrim!"
JetBlackPanda
Member
suprised me.. Sessler seems to be all about new studios and games but he was pretty down on Amalur.
oh well I AM IN LOVE with it.
So I got my ce about a half an hour ago and all I can say is that it is without question the best ce I have ever purchased for a game. Really dig the lithograph, the map is quality , the dice are fantastic. A deck of all 40 destiny cards , the soundtrack and that damn troll. The packaging is also ace, will post some pictures tomarrow but this beast is a class act. Game is installing but won't be able to play till tomarrow cannot wait.
QisTopTier
XisBannedTier
Wanted to post a screen of what using the FXAA tool and not using the FXAA tool looks like. I had to tweak it a bit around from it's defaults, but it was worth it.
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Wanted to post a screen of what using the FXAA tool and not using the FXAA tool looks like. I had to tweak it a bit around from it's defaults, but it was worth it.
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NVIDIA only? Any AMD tweaks out there?
QisTopTier
XisBannedTier
I don't think it's Nvidia only. Not sure honestly.
http://www.assembla.com/spaces/fxaa-pp-inject/wiki
Is where you can dl it at.
NoSkillz187
Member
Anyone know where to find Delf's stash in Goharth? I did the quest and cant find it.
There's a chest right next to him (in the basement near the sagecrafting table) if that's what you're referring to.
Lactose_Intolerant
Member
Just won a steam key on Tobi's stream, woot. Now just have to download 10gigs of game
As soon as you leave the tutorial dungeon, more or less. Your god choice is, as far as I know, the only permanent decision involving your character creation.
You can actually respec with the first fateweaver guy you run into (the main quest guy who first unlocks your Destiny cards). You might not be able to do this until the second time you meet him at the guy's house, though. Otherwise the nearest one to Gorhart is in the House of Ballads.
I like how skyrim went on sell the same day as this game comes out
They've just released the Creation Kit with Steam integration and high res textures. I doubt Reckoning had anything to do with a price drop.
sneakypete
Member
Hmm, minor glitch on 360. When I made my character it suggested I name her Niah. Now whenever I craft something in Blacksmithing it tries to name the weapon/armor Niah.. there's a yo dawg xzibit joke here somewhere methinks.
Damn what do u gotta do to win?!
Ah, I should go ahead and find that guy the second time, then. Too bad about the god-choice; I hope the Belen pick (+crit chance and damage) works for spells.
Mark of Flame is sweet.
NoSkillz187
Member
Wow I was expecting a better reward for that..oh well off to save this town from spiders.
Word to the wise about 360 version, there's a bug that some (including myself) experienced where the game will freeze and crash in random places either in or around the first village after the tutorial. Disabling auto-save appears to fix it, sucks to have to manually save to avoid freezes, hopefully this gets fixed quickly ><
You have to admit that the timing is a little suspicious If it's completely coincidental, then it's just weird.
You have to admit that the timing is a little suspicious
If it's completely coincidental, then it's just weird.QisTopTier
XisBannedTier
Do you leave Post-Processing on in the game settings when you use this?
Hey I'm in the wilderness, I just did a quest but I wonder what's the closest questarea near me.
Enter questlog.
Select quest.
Go back to game.
Go into map.
"No, that's too far"
Enter questlog.
Select another quest.
Back to the game again
Into the map.
"Still too far"
etc
This sucks. I wish you could track multiple stuff like in Skyrim. I realize most stuff pops up regardless of what you have tracked if you are near the area, but I'd still like to track more than 1 quest, especially if they're far away.
Enter questlog.
Select quest.
Go back to game.
Go into map.
"No, that's too far"
Enter questlog.
Select another quest.
Back to the game again
Into the map.
"Still too far"
etc
This sucks. I wish you could track multiple stuff like in Skyrim. I realize most stuff pops up regardless of what you have tracked if you are near the area, but I'd still like to track more than 1 quest, especially if they're far away.
Lactose_Intolerant
Member
Every hour Soe and Tobi are giving away free keys. They basically ask simple questions about what they have been doing.
I won by saying what the last move that just killed the boss that Tobi just beat.
I've been watching it all day in the background while I'm working. Tobi screams anytime something interesting happens.
Yeah that's my one big complaint, or at least an option to display all quest objectives on the world map at once.
On the same day
You think they timed all of that to take the wind out of Reckonings sail? C'mon man the game has shipped over 10 million.
It's odd that they don't, because all the quest objectives do show up on the mini-map whether they are being tracked or not (they are white instead of yellow if they are not being tracked). Maybe there is a way to turn that on somehow...
Awesome which streams are they and how do I comment to win?
picklecannon
Member
I think Soe's viewer count is the lowest and if she doesn't ask a question she just posts the key into her chat. Also there are no comments, just go into the twitchtv chat.
And I even noticed in Webwood that it showed the direction of all my quests in that area, but nowhere else so not sure what's up.
Lactose_Intolerant
Member
http://www.twitch.tv/team/reckoning
JoinDota and Soembi. I think every streamer there got keys to give away though.
QisTopTier
XisBannedTier
^.^ every tiny bit helps, it's how things work. Toss in reviewers that compare it to skyrim, and overall say skyrim is better and ZING. You get your embargo biting you in the ass, while new and "enhanced" skyrim is sitting there for people on the fence
Nah they have low level epics, if you are having bad luck like I am currently you can just start making gem stuff and making epic quality stuff on your own.
Loot seems to be handled a little differently to other loot-centric type games I'm used to. Usually you won't get blues and purples till way into a game, yet I'm getting them drop smi regularly and I'm not lvl 8 yet. Anyone else experiencing this, or have I just been lucky with the ol' rng?