Well, at least if you chose Leanna & did that purification ritual you received some badass weapons.

 

Hey guys, is it worth playing the game on Hard as a Mage?

 

I heard it's just plain painful and annoying as a fighter but considering ideally a mage wants to avoid close quarters and getting hurt at all, maybe Hard is good fun for a mage?

Melee becomes trivial as soon as you get the Lightning shield. All enemies will be stunned after a successful block and you can do whatever you want.

 

There's also that overpowered Shield spell that makes your character invulnerable for 20 seconds or so. Overall I found playing a jack-of-all-trades most fun.

 

Not exactly the same genre, but RUNE. UT engine wasn't manly enough, so Human Head added vikings.

Heavy Metal: FAKK 2 is another great game in the same mold.

Edited January 23, 201016 yr by virumor

Well, at least if you chose Leanna & did that purification ritual you received some badass weapons.

I think the spider ate her or something so I never did go down that path.

The voice acting of Sareth is always a good laugh.

 

But not as hilarious as Jack in CoC calmly saying "This is a good place to hide!" while being chased by a Shoggoth.

Heavy Metal: FAKK 2 is another great game in the same mold.

 

I loved that as well, along with the magazine and Julie's boobz.

Yeah Dark Messiah was back then in 2006 a really good game, but for today's standards it's banal and boring. It just didn't age very well.

 

You know, that sounds even more pathetic than your usual drivel.

Kicking a skeleton into a bunch of skeletons and watching them all tumble down a flight of stairs is ageless.

 

Impaling the cyclops was pretty rad as well.

I was contemplating buying it but its not on steam as stated in the OP?

It isn't for me either. I guess Europe got the short end of the stick again.

 

I'm sure you can find it on disc, though. It's really cheap around here at least.

I see it in steam just fine, 9.99€

Are you in Europe?

Yep, in sweet and f***ing cold Finland.

Yep, in sweet and f***ing cold Finland.

 

Funny I never thought you were a fin.

 

Every one of them I know is profoundly asocial and cranky

Edited January 23, 201016 yr by RPGmasterBoo

We could argue about where we live and whether we can or cannot see it all day...

 

... or I could just give you the link: http://store.steampowered.com/app/2100/

Edited January 23, 201016 yr by Krezack

Yeah Dark Messiah was back then in 2006 a really good game, but for today's standards it's banal and boring. It just didn't age very well.

 

You know, that sounds even more pathetic than your usual drivel.

Banal and boring. That's how we know our Krezzy.

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Bastards.

Edited January 23, 201016 yr by RPGmasterBoo

Funny I never thought you were a fin.

 

Every one of them I know is profoundly asocial and cranky

 

Well, you would be asocial and cranky too if the temperature there would be -20C. Goddamn global warming, get a move on!

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Bastards.

 

How odd.

Hey its 40 degrees here in the summer we dont need more heat

*sigh* I just slew like 15 orcs in open combat with my daggers and without a shield and my health didn't drop below 50%. And before that, it was the same but with the black guards trying to storm the ship.

 

There's little incentive to use stealth.

 

Edit: Don't get me wrong - it was fun, but... maybe I should have chosen hard. Hmm.

Edited January 24, 201016 yr by Krezack

Don't get me wrong - it was fun, but... maybe I should have chosen hard. Hmm.

There are meds that can help you with that.

IMHO, this game style is far more suited to free open world exploration than linear plot and advancement.

 

Imagine Oblivion with the HL2 engine + Dark MEssiah's skill and combat framework. Now THAT I would play...

 

... Although it'd also help if they gave Oblivion some sort of story and plot in the process.

Edit: Don't get me wrong - it was fun, but... maybe I should have chosen hard. Hmm.

Yeah, the game can be too easy, especially if you abuse the heal spell. You should use hard or very hard difficulty, I use hard. For very hard you need to be Conan the Barbarian on speed or something.

 

IMHO, this game style is far more suited to free open world exploration than linear plot and advancement.

Arkane's first game Arx Fatalis was about exploration with some combat. Their second game DM is just about the opposite, and I absolutely love them both. If they make a game thats somewhere between them, atmospheric exploration with really fun combat, I think I will build a shrine to Arkane.

I wonder what ever happened with The Crossing. It looked promising.

Probably, couldn't find a publisher, and with EA yanking their other project they didn't have an option to self finance for something which would be risky at the best of times.

Edit: Don't get me wrong - it was fun, but... maybe I should have chosen hard. Hmm.

Yeah, the game can be too easy, especially if you abuse the heal spell. You should use hard or very hard difficulty, I use hard. For very hard you need to be Conan the Barbarian on speed or something.

 

I have decided to stick with being a Thief with the defencive magic tree on normal for now. We'll see what happens.