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Thoran · 08-02-2005, 09:24 AM

Installed it last night and VERY NEARLY yanked it right back off. The game lacked anything remotely resembling 'fit and finish', I especially like how the save game screen had a box for a screen capture but with no image, and how you have to exit to the MAIN MENU to load a savegame (WTF!!!), and how the load just shows an hourglass on a black screen, and how there was no map (even though the book said there was) and no music, and no atmospheric sounds.

So I shook my head and trolled out to the forums to see if the game was indeed as bad as it seemed after all of 10 minutes of play. I read a half dozen scathing reviews before I found ONE that was somewhat positive. There was also some rumbling about a viruslike anti-piracy tool that Typhoon Games or Dreamcatcher or whichever was using on their titles (luckily not on DL... that would have absolutely been the kiss of death... the game would have been jetisoned like airliner toilet water) Then I noticed there was a patch out. SO... pretty aggrivated but willing to give it another chance I DL'd and installed the patch, and gave the game another try.

It helped a lot, many things that were broken started working (automap for instance), it's still a clunky menu structure, no quicksave, exit to main menu to load, etc, but the gameplay tightened up quite a bit. After an hour or two of gameplay I've decided to hold onto the game, it has the potential to be provide an almost Diablo II type experience, and D2 was a great game. I like the character development system a lot so far, and while the graphics aren't anything to write home about, they're acceptable. There are some atmosphere sounds, and maybe they'll throw in a soundtrack at some point, who knows. Some furnature would be nice too. I just hope they put out a couple more patches to actaully FINISH the game.

08-02-2005, 09:24 AM	#1
Thoran Galvatron Join Date: January 10, 2002 Location: Upstate NY Age: 57 Posts: 2,109	Installed it last night and VERY NEARLY yanked it right back off. The game lacked anything remotely resembling 'fit and finish', I especially like how the save game screen had a box for a screen capture but with no image, and how you have to exit to the MAIN MENU to load a savegame (WTF!!!), and how the load just shows an hourglass on a black screen, and how there was no map (even though the book said there was) and no music, and no atmospheric sounds. So I shook my head and trolled out to the forums to see if the game was indeed as bad as it seemed after all of 10 minutes of play. I read a half dozen scathing reviews before I found ONE that was somewhat positive. There was also some rumbling about a viruslike anti-piracy tool that Typhoon Games or Dreamcatcher or whichever was using on their titles (luckily not on DL... that would have absolutely been the kiss of death... the game would have been jetisoned like airliner toilet water) Then I noticed there was a patch out. SO... pretty aggrivated but willing to give it another chance I DL'd and installed the patch, and gave the game another try. It helped a lot, many things that were broken started working (automap for instance), it's still a clunky menu structure, no quicksave, exit to main menu to load, etc, but the gameplay tightened up quite a bit. After an hour or two of gameplay I've decided to hold onto the game, it has the potential to be provide an almost Diablo II type experience, and D2 was a great game. I like the character development system a lot so far, and while the graphics aren't anything to write home about, they're acceptable. There are some atmosphere sounds, and maybe they'll throw in a soundtrack at some point, who knows. Some furnature would be nice too. I just hope they put out a couple more patches to actaully FINISH the game.