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Dungeon Seige II

Discussion in 'Gaming and PC Discussion' started by Midknight, Sep 20, 2005.

  1. Midknight

    Midknight Middy is SPAI! DLP Supporter Retired Staff

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    Hmm what can I say about this game, other then the review sites that have showered it with praise deserve to take repeated cattle prods to the balls, then handed to Gio and Charlie and be made test subjects for their sick and perverse section.

    -It crashes quite often, for evidentally no apparent reason. Yet before it exits all the way out, it wants to pause the crash, and generate an error report.

    This wouldn't be so bad, except for the fact that the error report consists of opening dxdiag.exe while your system is reeling from a massive crash, and the crash seems to eat up a huge chunk of memory. Running dxdiag while the crash is sucking in memory like a black hole, resulting in a error report that then ALSO crashes and results in your throwing the damned power switch, is NOT good error reporting! I seriously let it sit there for a hour gathering info, watching cachemen display 100% CPU usage and max memory usage. This is not a good damned error reporting system you effing retards.

    -The controls seem to be made worse then the original game, with the camera everyone in the world hated last game due to it's tendancy to get you killed due to inability to see what you need to see, is still freaking there for some inexplicable reason. Only, this time around, you can't download a hack to change the cam.. its HARDCODED IN THE GAME. You'd have to redownload hundreds of megs worth of maps to fix the camera. Small chance in hell.

    The first time you die while trying to hold the right mouse button down to continuosly attack, while holding the middle down to move the camera, while trying to stay in one area, will make you mad. The 20th time you die simply because there was some damned monster hiding a hair out of your camera view who launched a devestating missle attack that has no way of seeing where it's coming from will make you throw the game out the window.

    -The GUI itself is crap. Be ready to accidentally click on all sorts of fun options, while you are trying to keep the mouse held over the A.D.D/Hyper active monsters. The henchmen are borderline retards.. no.. they are the spawn of 2 retarded donkeys, DNA bred with a deaf, mute, blind human, and given birth to by a dyslexic retaded 98 yeard old woman. They are that useless. They serve no point other then to be temporary distractions before the monsters bumrush your ass. Did I mention the game's idea of hard is tossing a ton of things at you at once from off camera??

    One gripe like 1in 1033848 people had the last game was that the companions you could hire were too effective, almost as good as a human player. The developers remedied that by giving them all lobotomies with a rusty spoon. Its thanks to people like that the henchmen are left in the above mentioned state. Heres a tip: DONT USE THEM IF YOU DON"T LIKE THEM!!! put the bastards on passive attack, defend your main char with them using healing magic, and use them as damned pack mules, don't nerf them to the point of retarded smurfdom.

    The story itself is fine, but after the first 10 minutes of hack and slash you'll quickly forget it. This is one to "rent" and enjoy for 2-3 hours on a rainy boring day, not one to pay for and expect to get your monies worth at full price.

    You've also got to be careful how you spent your leveling points on the special skills. Unlike Diablo 2's system where it wasn't damning to waste a few points, here you can really screw yourself over badly.

    Bottom line, this is the old engine with a different, more usless GUI, dumber companions, and utterly no point to play this and expect to get your money out of it. Its the devs sucking more money out of an old engine slightly tweaked, with small changes... like is so common place nowadays =(
     
  2. Dark Syaoran

    Dark Syaoran No. 4 Admin

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    Urgh... I just had a bad day with my computer and this is just blowing my mind. They suspended my internet because I was spreading virus' I think... man.
     
  3. Midknight

    Midknight Middy is SPAI! DLP Supporter Retired Staff

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    Dark Syaoran No. 4 Admin

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    Yup, thanks for that man. The others books were overkill. Typing chapter 2 now.
     
  5. Midknight

    Midknight Middy is SPAI! DLP Supporter Retired Staff

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    Element Seventh Year

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    I don't know if you've heard of the director, Uwe Boll, but hes famous for making videogames into movies ...incredibly badly.
    So far he's made Alone in the Dark, Bloodrayne and House of the Dead. All completely awful. He has a terrible reputation. He's set to make movies for FarCry and other random games that didn't do amazingly well.
    If the game is as bad you say, its movie will be equivalent.
     
  7. Midknight

    Midknight Middy is SPAI! DLP Supporter Retired Staff

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    oh for the love of christ him?!?!

    Effing hell, that guy's a hack who couldn't even direct a good porn movie. pfft.
     
  8. Tinder

    Tinder Seventh Year

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    I quite liked this game. Not exactly Diablo but it never crashed on me and I enjoyed it a fair bit.

    Then again, I downloaded it rather than paying for it and I still haven't finished it, so that probably says something as well.
     
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