Wiku's Blog - Not Even The Spambots Like It!

perjantaina, elokuuta 12, 2005

The dog still lives. Apparently we have to wait until tuesday. He has cheered up though, and the tumor isn't bleeding anymore.

In other news, Dungeon Siege 2 review:

This Dungeon Siege 2 is a joke.
Microsoft apparently falls below itself again.
NWN's graphics are way much better.

And then in those GREAT cutscenes the camera always zooms close to the characters or their faces, where you can see how ugly they are and that there's no lipsync.
So it just gets zoomed close to the face so you can watch how the guy just nods and waves in the wind with his mouth closed at the same time when somebody talks the character's lines behind the scenes.
And FUCKING OPENING CUTSCENE because I just cracked up when watching it again. That fucking dragon seriously rapes something which looks like a treasure chest, but is supposed to be somekind of transportation device.
Maybe I should play more so I can REVIEW this game for you.


Doesn't look too good.
Well it seems to have some improvements compared to the first Dungeon Siege.

Like sharing experience.
So some nature mage doesn't have to do the attacking.
And autocasts.

Which means you get two spells per character in the spellbook to cast them whenever needed.
Interesting.
They have made changing skills even harder than what it was in Dungeon Siege 1.
So basically you can put each character only one skill to use, and then you just move somewhere and hope that the skill you chose is actually useful when killing something.
But then all those things you need maybe once in a half of hour they've put to shortcuts. Like those strange powers you can use once in 30 mins, so you really wouldn't need shortcuts for them.
And I bet if I look up a review I'll find out that Microsoft has bought them all and gets full points everywhere.

Surprise.
9 for graphics.
Yeah, no.

Maybe last century.
And the gameplay leaves alot to be desired.
You control one character at a time and the others work "automatically" when you don't control them. But still they don't attack before you attack, even if some monster would rape their legs.

And then you have different strategic commands what you can use to tell your party members should they all attack at one monster at a time, or should one party member to attack one monster.
So if you have one monster on the screen and you have that option on so each party member would search for their own targer or something, so there you whack the monster while the others just stand and watch and don't help you although they wouldn't have anything else to do.
And when you don't have any mana left, and you have a spell selected you simply can't attack. (You have only one attack button, the right button of the mouse and with left mouse button is used only for moving. So you just can't attack with a melee weapon or anything unless you have the weapon selected instead of a spell.)

And of course when I have a mage as a main character and I control it, and if I lose my mana and can't attack, the other party members don't attack either.
But THAT'S NOT ALL. If you move with the selected character, then all the other characters follow you. Which basically means that if you try to move futher with a mage to cast a spell, the other party members will quit fighting and follow the mage with the monsters chasing them and beating their backs.


The voice acting is terrible.
At least five times taller giant prepares to swing the main character with a frikking big sword and then some party member says "Look out." with a very lame and boring tone.

That was a cutscene of course.
And for some reason im still playing this,
I suppose I should give it somekind of chance.
Especially when I have nothing else to play.


Oh my god.
In the beginning of the game you can keep only 2 party members because some WARRIOR'S GUILD is keeping watch all over the world that you can't have more FRIENDS unless you pay them to get a THIRD PARTY MEMBER! And that costs more IF YOU HAVE MORE THAN TWO FRIENDS!
Seriously, can you make up any more retarded excuse for that?
Well it didn't say they watch, but according to the guild's rules you should pay.

But I suppose they watch so nobody goes over two members' groups anywhere unless you have paid 50 million to them.


 
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