joeb619 wrote:Only played it once but it seems pretty good. At first its a bit slow cause its just kinda like you click something and they die... No real skill/challenge. Then later on it gets harder.
OK, i did it. The thing Steam is killing me for. The impulse buy. At £7.50, what the hell!
It's fucking great! I played the mage-y type guy and its some damn good fun. Great ideas like the pet that does the basics like attack and pick up loot etc. But they also have an inventory. Now this is brilliant because when your bags start filling up, all the pointless or (useless) crap you don't need, just fill up the pets inventory and click a little button that sends him off to town (takes 30 seconds or something for him to come back, might change depending how far you are) and you can carry on smashing burning and looting. No need to fuck about with those Scroll of Town Portals to sell everything. Other nifty stuff like having a shared stash! Thank god, now if you get a brilliant big fucking axe on your magic guy, stick it in your shared stash and you can change characters and use it on your melee! You can feed your pet fish to turn them into something else for a period of time (120 secs i think). There is apparently a respec potion as well but its a mod, then you can pay 3000gold to an npc vendor and when you use it it resets your skill points. Nice, since everyone knows that spending a talent point wrong in diablo was a major fucking hassle, it was reroll or deal with it. I read that you won't get the cheater label either if you use the mod.
Three skill trees per character and anyone thats played diablo will get the jist of it. Anyone thats played diablo will also know what i mean when i say none of the skills have pre requisites except a level requirement. So I have tended to save up points then put one point into abilities that look pretty cool and see if its worth adding more. You could just struggle all the way through the game then shove a load of points into high level abilities later on (but obviously, you really would
struggle).
Also note, don't be fooled into thinking the chunky guy is the only melee. The magic guy gets a load of defensive spells and dual wield talents. He's designed for duel wielding elemental weapons while using magic shields and stuff by looks of it. Havn't tried the women and the chunked up guy is what i found boring at first (but like joe said, the start is boring anyway, it's just twice as boring when you can't launch magic bolts and you have a boring looking sword).
System specs are madly low, but it does look extremely pretty and charming. It's a damn good game to be honest, it will more than likely suffer from repitition but what games like this don't? I think* it's got Steam Cloud support too. So ideal if you ever on laptop whilst out and about and then just carry no when your home.
I read an interview with the developers as well and they said they did plan on having an mmo type of the same game, but they needed money or something and had to get a game out. So they set their targets as launching a strictly single player game due to time/money and not because they wanted it to be that way.
