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STEAM | August 2014 - Everybody loves iDLEM@STER
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I think there's still a loot component; it's just drastically scaled back.
Jawmuncher
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With how Sacred 3 is doing wonder how risen 3 will be received.
Don't know, but after someone here mentioned I should look into the game I lost all interest in Sacred 3. It's a shame, because Sacred 2 was a blast. I still need to replay my steam copy.
NingenJanai
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Sacred 3 is a massive fuck you to fans of the series from the devs, that's why it got such backlash.
As far as I know Risen 3 won't be so different fom Risen 1 and 2, so it will probably do fine.
The Dear Leader
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Ok cool, I'll play some, delete it, then go to work and redownload when I come back home for the optimal Firefall experience lol.
Piranha Bytes has made a big deal about Risen 3 being based around the game design philosophies that drove the Gothic games as well as the original Risen, so assuming it's not all just hot air the game may find a relatively respectable audience. I'd love to dive into the original game, but having to manually sheathe your weapon before interacting with something is such an annoying oversight. It shouldn't bother me as much as it does, I admit, but the situation is what it is.
lashman
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I'm pretty sure you still have to do that in Risen 3 ... sorry
NingenJanai
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lashman
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Oh well, it's not as though I bought the game because I wanted to play it.
I think you might have a serious problem
nooooooooooooooooope
Ah that's also good to hear. it's funny you mention Diablo and Civilization as for me they are both games that I always get the feeling of "Just one more go" or "I'll just do one more quest" before finding out it's 3 in the morning!
Really glad you're enjoying it and here's to the next 50 hours!
Pfft what does Cheddahz know.
It is only controlled with 4 buttons by default.
NingenJanai
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corrosivefrost
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Crypt of the Necromancer is a rythm game?
I thought it was some kind of rogue.
Do you not watch the awesome webms that myself or quiche post?
It's both.
http://robotbrush.com/corrosivefrost/Crypt Of The NecroDancer part 1.webm
http://robotbrush.com/corrosivefrost/Crypt Of The NecroDancer part 2.webm
True... but you can bind the combo buttons to something else... and there's like 6 of those.
I have my controller set up to use d-pad for movement, and the the face buttons are any diagonals (up-left/up-right/down-left/down-right) and I put left-right on LB and up-down on RB.
Trying to press up and down at the same time seems... odd.
billmcdougal
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Crypt of the Necromancer is a rythm game?
I thought it was some kind of rogue.
I believe it is a mash-up of those genres. You have to move to the beat to do well.
From what I played of Sacred 2, it's probably the most average-medicore rpg I ever played.
The game is the opposite of what the previous games were.
It's catching a lot of hate because the old fans can't let it go, even though it was already known that this one would be different from the old games.
I wouldn't call Sacred 3 a Diablo clone. No loot, 2 active skills + an attack and a defensive ability (you can choose between dodge or a shield) and restricted customization make it more like a score brawler. I mean, after playing it I finally understood why every trailer said "victory is our, glory is mine", since at the end of each mission you get scored based on kills, damage etc.
Also I don't have an issue with the UI.
NingenJanai
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Do you not watch the awesome webms that myself or quiche post?
It's both.
http://robotbrush.com/corrosivefrost/Crypt Of The NecroDancer part 1.webm
http://robotbrush.com/corrosivefrost/Crypt Of The NecroDancer part 2.webm
I probably was asleep or away from home when you guys posted them
Thanks for reposting them
PrematureQuiche
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I would repost mine but it was like 49MB lol
I guess I might be able to manage that, eh? Haha.
Frost webms but not on mediafire? Sth seems fishy!
corrosivefrost
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lashman
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precisely ... it's not like they were saying "oh yeah, it'll TOTALLY be a new ARPG loot-fest, you guys should pre-order it right away, it'll be better than Diablo" ... they made it PAINFULLY clear from the very first interview/announcement that it's going to be much more like Sacred Citadel .... so if anything - people can only blame themselves for not reading ANYTHING about the game before they bought/pre-ordered it (Deep Silver was even streaming it, for fuck's sake ... TWICE!!) ...
but would they do that? no, of course not - it's the internet after all ... so now they're just completely butthurt and downvoting the hell out of this game ... which, funnily enough, is a REALLY good game in its own right. It's not broken or unplayable, or ugly, or whatever ... it's just not like the previous ones - that's all
They can be rather CPU-intensive.
That was always my impression as well. It's like the c-category Diablo clone to Titan Quests awesome b-category Diablo clone.
So intensive that an i7 3770K can't handle it? lol
So I just finished Murdered: Soul Suspect. It took me about 10 hours to complete with all achievements.
I really liked the atmosphere especially the ghost-ified images of real people appearing and vanishing did a lot for me personally haha
The lighting and selection of colors was also pretty good imo.
Instantly turned off chromatic aberration and the distortion stuff tho, whoever thought this would add to the game...
The demons you had to stealth-kill with QTEs are crap, random and annoying. Luckily there is an easy config trick to become invisible for them (Yay, PC Gaming!)
Apart from that I liked running through walls looking for evidence and collectibles to uncover ghost stories and the like.
Story wasn't too intriguing for me personally, didn't care too much for the characters.
However I didn't expect the twist in the end so there's that.
For some reason I couldn't use the screenshot button and in general the PC port was rather meh.
Vsync automatically locks to 30fps regardless of what your GPU can push, I experienced severe stuttering when moving around in the open hub and the horribly compressed pre-rendered 720p(?) 30fps cutscenes are awful since you get to see them every five minutes.
Would get it for <10$, worth it if you don't expect too much.
I really liked the atmosphere especially the ghost-ified images of real people appearing and vanishing did a lot for me personally haha
The lighting and selection of colors was also pretty good imo.
Instantly turned off chromatic aberration and the distortion stuff tho, whoever thought this would add to the game...
The demons you had to stealth-kill with QTEs are crap, random and annoying. Luckily there is an easy config trick to become invisible for them
(Yay, PC Gaming!) Apart from that I liked running through walls looking for evidence and collectibles to uncover ghost stories and the like.
Story wasn't too intriguing for me personally, didn't care too much for the characters.
However I didn't expect the twist in the end so there's that.
For some reason I couldn't use the screenshot button and in general the PC port was rather meh.
Vsync automatically locks to 30fps regardless of what your GPU can push, I experienced severe stuttering when moving around in the open hub and the horribly compressed pre-rendered 720p(?) 30fps cutscenes are awful since you get to see them every five minutes.
Would get it for <10$, worth it if you don't expect too much.
NingenJanai
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I have no problem with the game, just the name and the price, calling it Sacred 3 is an insult to fans of the series and a shameless attempt to bank on those same fans, they should have called it something else like they did with Citadel and none of this drama would have ensued. When you buy part 3 or 4 from a series you expect the game to be similar to the previous entries, the fact that they streamed the game is no excuse.
Stallion Free
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The demons were crap, random and annoying. Luckily there is an easy config trick to become invisible for them
Yeah, the demons were atrocious game design. No aspect of evading or killing them was fun or exciting.
Yeah, that's odd. They run fine on my i5 3317.
How is it a cash gab..when they warn and talk about it before? And the naming convention is just like cellphones..nothing to special.
For me they really don't load. Its like twitch.tv buffering forever bad. When they do load they run fine.
Find it funny that I can play D3 in NA with 160ms and get 10mb/s down in steam AND watch yt videos but twitch/webms act like I am on 16k dialup.
For me they really don't load. Its like twitch.tv buffering forever bad. When they do load they run fine.
Find it funny that I can play D3 in NA with 160ms and get 10mb/s down in steam AND watch yt videos but twitch/webms act like I am on 16k dialup.
Considering that the original dev of Sacred went bankrupt and that it was known these people were making a different kind of game that was just being called Sacred 3, I can only conclude that pettiness is the only thing the fans have.
lashman
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IT'S NOT!!!!
precisely!!! I'm sure they went bankrupt because the previous two games were SOOOOOOOOOO amazing ... *sigh*
I was and still am in love with the soundtrack of Papers please
Glory to Arstotzka !
which is only 3 songs .
Glory to Arstotzka !
NingenJanai
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What have game sales to do with its quality? a game can be amazing and sell poorly or be bad and sell very well.
Anyway, I feel we are derailing the thread, no more talk about Sacred 3 from me.
Yea how dare you! btw trading is hard.....the thread here is dead and other means are very slow.
lashman
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well - they were serviceable at best ... they weren't some amazing hidden gem, trust me - I played both of them
Plus them making a blind guardian music video could've been money toward the game itself. I love the band but this is so...what's the word...hammy?
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Jawmuncher
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Ride to hell with DLC is 4.99 on GMG.
I still need to play the copy I have.
I still need to play the copy I have.
Do you not watch the awesome webms that myself or quiche post?
It's both.
http://robotbrush.com/corrosivefrost/Crypt Of The NecroDancer part 1.webm
http://robotbrush.com/corrosivefrost/Crypt Of The NecroDancer part 2.webm
Didn't know about that game, that certainly looks interesting (though nothing for me, I guess). I'm still not sure how that game actually works, even though I watched both webms. What happens when you do not match the rhythm?
This is bullshit and you know it. But tell me more how it is not the publishers fault that marketing a different type of game under a established brand is really the consumers fault.
The publishers knew exactly what they are doing when they decided to call it Sacred 3 instead of creating a new IP.
I liked what I played of Sacred 2, though it was kinda buggy on PS3 and with a lot of slowdowns and I would have loved a new Sacred like 2 with improvements because what's there not to love about an open world action game?
Still it's kinda discomforting to see the hate for Sacred 3 when the game isn't shit, simply because of the name and being different from past entries.
I understand that it hurts fans that Sacred 3 isn't the real sequel to Sacred 2, but it's old news, at this point they should have gotten over it. All the thumbs down in the world aren't going to resurrect Ascaron and place the IP back in their hands to make a Sacred 3.5 that's like the old ones. The IP is in Deep Silver hands and it's clear what direction they decided for it. They could change their mind about the direction for future entries, if there are gonna be future entries, but it's not by acting like this that they'll be swayed.
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