This game is awsome

Naka · Post by **Naka** » Wed Jul 20, 2005 7:20 am

First of all, i would like to say Hi to all. I am new to this forum.
I am not new to the game tho..

I just klicked around this forum just to see what you guys think of this game

Personaly, i love this game, tho many bugs, unfinished stuff etc.. But it's not making this game the worst game ever. I dont think so.

Let's just hope that next patch, and perhaps patch/es after that will do what must be done, right? And for now, let's enjoy this great, and beutifull game.

I will try to post a pic of my mage

, hehe

Naka

Michalos · Post by **Michalos** » Wed Jul 20, 2005 7:44 am

Yes, D.W.Bradley and his rpg stories were always the TOP !!!
If u remember famous Wizardry saga or wizards & warriors.
This game is one of the best realtime action rpg i've ever play. (If I don't count with mmorpg classics like Asheron's call, Rubies of Eventide and new World of Warcraft and Guild Wars)

mAD sUXx · Post by **mAD sUXx** » Wed Jul 20, 2005 9:55 am

First of all, I have to say, that I enjoyed to play the game and finally I have finished it!
But what now?
The mutiplayergame is so buggy, that I prefer to play on my own ;^(
I have tried several characters in order to get more/other magic spells, but there are ALWAYS the same available.
In my opinion the amount of magic raises the amount of fun!
Ok, after patch V1.3 some spells have been unlocked e.g.: flamethrower, anti magic barrier and spitting shield. But they are not so usefull than I first thought and of course, this are 3 (!) spells out of 30 further LOCKED/HIDDEN spells.
This means, that more than 1/3 of all spells have been REMOVED/LOCKED!

Now, since i have realised that nothing more can be found, I can`t see any reason to play this game again - sad but true!
While frustration grows I thought I should go to the official website and collect more information/suggestions what is about to come.... At this point I was completely disillusioned!
NO PATCH IN SIGHT... Not one simple sentence about it How long can it take to activate functions which are almost there? No developer/coder has ever answered a question in the official forum, so far....very depressing!
If you ask me, they should search for some fan-coders instead of fan-artists.

Ooops.. let´s calm down.... the game is better than the most comparably games, in spite of the bugs! But if I think about, what a mass of functions and spells are`nt available, I could cry

Tarsellis · Post by **Tarsellis** » Wed Jul 20, 2005 5:00 pm

Hey, I agree. This game is very unfinished, but it's still very fun. The concept, basic design, experience system, and gameplay and combat is extremely well done and very thought out. obviously this game is never going to be finished, nor was it really even play tested. But the background is so well done that it is still quite enjoyable in spite of its flaws. The real shame is had they bothered to play test and to finish the game, then it could have been in the running for the game of the year.
I hope they do a sequal, and I hope the sequal comes closer to being finished, and is playtested at least a little. I think they could do a worthwhile sequal in a year. The engine is good, and ideas are solid. They just need to do some smoothing and fine tuning. Graphics are horrendous for the amount of gpu and cpu they consume, and I haven't noticed that lowering quality in options has any affect. But a small team could easily optimize that within a year, and easily improve upon it.

At any rate, I can't give the game a rating in the end. The rating would be too low for the game play value because of the unfinished or less than perfect parts. But I would suggest that somebody pick this game up once it drops to $20 or less.

Soozie · Post by **Soozie** » Wed Jul 20, 2005 8:08 pm

I agree, Naka, it is a darn good game despite all the loose ends not tied down.

mAD, after finishing a game I really like, I wait a while, play a few new ones, then replay it. It is surprising that after a while you will still enjoy it and have as much fun the second time around. I've replayed favorites as much as 1, 2, 3 and 4 years apart.

Adeori · Post by **Adeori** » Thu Jul 21, 2005 10:39 am

I for one, think this game is not that great. I like the idea of it. So I decided to download a demo for it. I put all the settings on easy, so less monster encounters and easy monsters. I created my character, and pushed play. Then I got in, and halfway through reading the how-to-play thing, 5 wolves attacked me, it took 5 minutes to kill the first one. Then, when I did, 5 MORE came and attacked with the remaining 4. 9 monsters before I knew how to play the game. I died and revived, then all 9 came running back to kill me again! That got really annoying.

Naka · Post by **Naka** » Thu Jul 21, 2005 12:27 pm

weird...

bedwine · Post by **bedwine** » Thu Jul 21, 2005 5:13 pm

[QUOTE=Adeori]I for one, think this game is not that great. I like the idea of it. So I decided to download a demo for it. I put all the settings on easy, so less monster encounters and easy monsters. I created my character, and pushed play. Then I got in, and halfway through reading the how-to-play thing, 5 wolves attacked me, it took 5 minutes to kill the first one. Then, when I did, 5 MORE came and attacked with the remaining 4. 9 monsters before I knew how to play the game. I died and revived, then all 9 came running back to kill me again! That got really annoying.[/QUOTE]

In the version 1.3 you will not see wolves in the begining. In fact you won't see any until you do a bunch of stuff in Fargrove and then leave from the other gate. Don't decide this game based on the Demo.

Adeori · Post by **Adeori** » Thu Jul 21, 2005 5:34 pm

Interesting. I figured it was an up to date demo, seeing as most use demos to decide whether or not to buy the full game. But, my next character didn't get attacked by wolves, got attacked by three skeleton guys.

Hounder · Post by **Hounder** » Thu Jul 21, 2005 6:23 pm

Actually, you can get wolves in the beginning. If you enter the area with the shacks in the 1st area and hang around you can run into the following creatures:
giant spiders, wild wolves, hunting wolves, giant scorpians, goblins (both hand-to-hand and archers), thieves (both the hand-to-hand and the knife throwers), black bats, feral rats, pit vipers, and skeletons.

I am thinking I have seen rabid wolves as well, but I won't swear to it. I know this mainly because I use that shack area as a beginning trainer zone for my characters. It is really nice in that if you stay on the porch portion of the shacks, the monsters won't come up to get you, so you can stay away and strike at them at will. The bats are really fun cause they all get stuck in the air and become a nice line to fire at. There is one problem though. Occasionally, a snake will end up under the floor and will be able to strike at you, so you have to be real careful. Also, there are a couple of spots where the monsters can actually get stuck behind rocks, so you have to go and lure them out.

bedwine · Post by **bedwine** » Thu Jul 21, 2005 6:45 pm

I don't think you get the wolves if you have your settings to both less and easy monsters. The last two games I have started the most I ever got was thieves and goblins. I am sure they tweaked some of down the settings in ver 1.3. Version 1 had wolves on the low settings.

MRG · Post by **MRG** » Wed Jul 27, 2005 9:49 pm

Hello all, i'm new as well.

I also like DL. While I have seen a few of the bugs that everyone is complaining about, I was able to get this game for free & AFTER the 1.3 patch came out so my first overall impression of the game is a positive one.

I am curious as to what the next patch will fix....

-MRG