"SHONNER" <shonner@hotmail.com> looked up from reading the entrails of
the porn spammer to utter "The Augury is good, the signs say:
>Since Colin opened this rift between newsgroups, I have a question about
>Dungeon Siege. Is it similar to Diablo2 or Diablo 2.5 when Diablo 3 comes
>out? I remember DS being called the Diablo 2 killer. But DS seems to have
>faded away instead.
Think of Diablo2 (since it's outdoors), combined with the "use em to
make em better" skill training system of Daggerfall (or Betrayal at
Krondor).
Now splice in a party, like any average ad&d computer game has, and you
have a fairly good idea of the single player game.
Though the mules are a nice touch to help tote more treasure.
Unlike the Diablos though, you can't go back to previous towns, there
are a lot of one-way exits.
At first glance it looks INCREDIBLE, and plays similarly, since it has
the seamless zone boundaries, it seems like one huge world.
BUT, it's a real pain in the ass to train up skills, since you have to
use them to train them AND if they get out of balance, it becomes much
harder to raise up the lower skills, so getting your mage up to enough
melee skill to wear that awesome armor you found is a SEVERE exercise in
frustration.
The multiplayer game is similar, though there are these weird jump gate
things that let you jump to other places IF you meet the level reqs.
Downside, sometimes it won't let you use the jumpgate in an area you
walked to, to go to a previous area, since you're too small to be in the
area you're in. They put the level req on the gate to stop you jumping
in, but it stops you jumping out too, which is stupid.
It's fun, and it has huge numbers of items, but somehow it just doesn't
have _something_ that the Diablos do, and i'm really not sure what that
something is.
If you can get a copy of it cheaply, buy it, it's worth playing through
once or twice, but it's unlikely you'll still be playing it a year
later.
Xocyll
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I don't particularly want you to FOAD, myself. You'll be more of
a cautionary example if you'll FO And Get Chronically, Incurably,
Painfully, Progressively, Expensively, Debilitatingly Ill. So
FOAGCIPPEDI. -- Mike Andrews responding to an idiot in asr
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