dead.cell Posted October 8, 2009 Share Posted October 8, 2009 TorchLight :) Wow, and I thought WoW was cartoony... :rofl: Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Shadrack Posted October 10, 2009 Share Posted October 10, 2009 Wow, and I thought WoW was cartoony... :rofl: I think Torchlight could have some potential. I'd rather have a game that is cartoony with good game play than brown graphics striving to look as realistic as possible but still falling short. I think that is a big reason why WoW has stayed so popular all these years. They never strive to look realistic, so their style and themes remain timeless. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
dead.cell Posted October 10, 2009 Share Posted October 10, 2009 Oh, not saying it's a bad thing at all. If it's fun, that's what really counts. I couldn't check out the videos either at the time, but checking on them now, the animation looks wonderful. I may certainly give this a try since Blizzard has apparently made the statement that Diablo III won't even be seen by 2010. This may certainly fill in the gap between now and then, granted the game is as good as it looks. :) Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Shadrack Posted October 12, 2009 Share Posted October 12, 2009 Yup. I'm definitely going to have to pick up Torchlight when it is released in the upcoming weeks. Looks too good to pass by. I downloaded Sacred 2 off of Steam saturday (its huge! 13GB!!). So far I have been having a LOT of fun with it. Once I figured out the basics the game is actually pretty dang cool. To me, it looks like a fusion between Oblivion and Diablo. The gameplay is fast pace like Diablo, but it is in a huge world with lots of characters and decisions of "good and evil" like Oblivion. The game world doesn't feel as void as Oblivion. The classes are really unique too. The only thing that annoys me is the music sometimes goes to this electric guitar rock weirdness when you are fighting mobs and seems really out of place...wtf? The game is also very buggy since the last patch apparently. It is stable for me now. I had to set the executable up in Windows XP SP3 compatibility mode, run as administrator, and disable desktop themes. Compatibility mode on a game that was released in 2008? What a joke. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Lord Ba'al Posted October 13, 2009 Share Posted October 13, 2009 Sacred 2 Fallen Angel; it's ALOT like diablo i have heard, the downside is i have read that the PC version is pretty dismal and the 360 version is the way to go - so unless you have a 360 you are out of luck. Sacred 2 is pretty good indeed. Personally, I didn't have any problems with the PC version, playing it with my 4870 1GB in 1920x1200 HQ textures and 2xAA. Only thing was that the way you had to do updates was a bit of a mishap. They've fixed that later, though, with all-in-one updates. Dungeon Siege I and II. Very underrated games. I remember playing Dungeon Siege and some levels reminded me of playing Zelda. Zelda is probably the ultimate series of RPG's if you have a Wii console. Yes, DS1, the follow-up DS-Legends of Aranna and then DS2 were lots of fun. You needed to deactivate Attack Automation though, otherwise it could get a bit boring. Also, keeping all 8 party members properly equipped could be a bit time consuming. DS1 was very linear, but DS LoA and DS2 improved upon that and other things. I tried Titan's Quest (demo) for a bit, but it didn't catch my fancy. What was the most fun for me out of these kind of games recently was Silverfall: Review: http://worthplaying.com/article/2007/4/24/reviews/41510/ So is Silverfall "worth playing?" Absolutely. It's gorgeous (if you have a high-end system), it's fun, and it has some truly unique features that set it apart from the pack. With time, there might even be some patches that clear up the remaining oversights, like the interface and the auto-save. However, even with these issues in place, I recommend Silverfall. When you think about it, this is the first steampunk title since Arcanum: Of Steamworks and Magick Obscura, and for that reason alone, it deserves all the love it can get!Score: 8.5/10 Wikipedia - Silverfall Silverfall shares many similarities with popular games, Diablo and Diablo 2. It also has strong influences from Sacred. Players choose a character from one of four races (Human, Elf, Troll, Goblin) and develop their "class" (fighter, archer, mage, etc.) by assigning various skills as they level up. Characters can be either male or female, and gameplay will differ slightly based on the selection.Silverfall is a quest-based game which centers around a conflict between nature and technology, allowing players to develop an allegiance to one of these areas, which allows development of additional skills and the ability to use certain alignment-based items. However, there is no 'good' or 'evil' side to aligning with either technology or nature, as both will have quests that require the player to perform dubious and altruistic acts. A 'nature' player may be asked to kill the overseer of a group of workers who no longer want to pollute the world with their factory, and a 'technology' player may be asked to exploit natural resources that will result in a loss of the livelihood of a nearby people. At the same time, either player may be asked to promise a union leader a bribe in order to break up a strike, to the detriment of his fellow workers. Lots of good action, good items, a manageable party etc. It even has a decent story, making you choose several times between Technology and Nature, which also has an impact of the game as you're proceeding. The expansion "Silverfall: Earth Awakening" was even more fun, but sadly a bit short. I'd recommend you to get the "Silverfall Gold Edition", which has the game and the expansion. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Slane Posted October 13, 2009 Share Posted October 13, 2009 Anyone have a problem playing Baulders Gate/Icewind Dale/Neverwinter nights on Vista? Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
LightIdea Posted October 13, 2009 Share Posted October 13, 2009 Anyone have a problem playing Baulders Gate/Icewind Dale/Neverwinter nights on Vista? Haven't tried BG but IWD and NWN 1 and 2 work fine for me on Windows 7, so they should work on Vista. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
greenwizard88 Posted October 14, 2009 Share Posted October 14, 2009 Torchlight seems pretty cool Google for it. I'm lazy. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
dead.cell Posted October 14, 2009 Share Posted October 14, 2009 Torchlight seems pretty coolGoogle for it. I'm lazy. Already posted earlier. http://www.torchlightgame.com/ Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
norseman Posted October 14, 2009 Share Posted October 14, 2009 (edited) Torghlight looks awesome. Going to buy a copy! Edited October 14, 2009 by dtomilson Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Neoauld Posted October 14, 2009 Author Share Posted October 14, 2009 torchlights def on my list :) Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Qumahlin Posted October 14, 2009 Share Posted October 14, 2009 Ohhh whats that new game... Sacred 2 Fallen Angel; it's ALOT like diablo i have heard, the downside is i have read that the PC version is pretty dismal and the 360 version is the way to go - so unless you have a 360 you are out of luck. Thats quite wrong, the 360 version pales in comparison...yes its better if you compare it to the 1.0 PC version, but after all the patches, added content, elite texture packs and physx upgrades the PC version is soooooo much better. The PC version even has the christmas islands which are missing from 360 version Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Nagisan Posted October 14, 2009 Share Posted October 14, 2009 torchlights def on my list :) Agreed....never heard about it until just now and it definitely seems very diablo-like.....large in-town stash, three different trees of skills, random dungeons, almost the exact same item slots (okay not unique to Diablo in any way, most RPGs use similar item slots), no monster scaling (something I hate in single-player games.....I don't want the guys right outside of town to take just as long to kill as the ones where I am off questing, if the guys outside of town are annoying my I want to cast 1 spell and be rid of them), continue to play after the main story (just finished The Witcher: EE and I was rather annoyed that once I finished the story that was it, I couldn't go back and tie up some loose quests without reloading an older save), etc etc. Sounds like Diablo with a bunch of good enhancements, such as the pet, being able to run back and sell crap while your out fighting still (hated running out of space in Diablo II, going to town, selling, going back grabbing more, etc), storage that all your characters can access, etc. My only worry is its 300MB doesn't seem that impressive for a game which sounds so great.....granted the graphics are very low-end and dungeons are randomly generated (no models for each dungeon level just a general set of peices that are recycled and re-textured) while game assets are generally the largest part of the game, but I would have figured for as many features as it appears to offer it would have been larger. Will certainly try the demo out before I decide how good/bad it is though. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Neoauld Posted October 14, 2009 Author Share Posted October 14, 2009 Agreed....never heard about it until just now and it definitely seems very diablo-like.....large in-town stash, three different trees of skills, random dungeons, almost the exact same item slots (okay not unique to Diablo in any way, most RPGs use similar item slots), no monster scaling (something I hate in single-player games.....I don't want the guys right outside of town to take just as long to kill as the ones where I am off questing, if the guys outside of town are annoying my I want to cast 1 spell and be rid of them), continue to play after the main story (just finished The Witcher: EE and I was rather annoyed that once I finished the story that was it, I couldn't go back and tie up some loose quests without reloading an older save), etc etc.Sounds like Diablo with a bunch of good enhancements, such as the pet, being able to run back and sell crap while your out fighting still (hated running out of space in Diablo II, going to town, selling, going back grabbing more, etc), storage that all your characters can access, etc. My only worry is its 300MB doesn't seem that impressive for a game which sounds so great.....granted the graphics are very low-end and dungeons are randomly generated (no models for each dungeon level just a general set of peices that are recycled and re-textured) while game assets are generally the largest part of the game, but I would have figured for as many features as it appears to offer it would have been larger. Will certainly try the demo out before I decide how good/bad it is though. well it is only a 20 dollar game, and they are giving it a great amount of modding capability, thats where its value probably lies theyre also making a free MMO based on this Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
mikes923 Posted November 4, 2009 Share Posted November 4, 2009 Sort of an old game but, Nox .....You can download it free at Noxforum.net It would be nice if we could get a nice amount of players back on and some people that would want to host servers, since EA has pretty much forgot about it. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Shadrack Posted November 4, 2009 Share Posted November 4, 2009 After playing Sacred 2 for a few weeks now I can definitely say: don't get it if you are in the US. There are just too many pugs, and something about the publisher going out of business means there won't be any more updates to fix those bugs. Unless you find it for like $15 on the special deals wrack, don't waist your time. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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