Board 8 > Kingdoms of Amalur: Reckoning. The Hype Topic.

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OFFICIAL TRAILERS
Music and Sound Trailer:
Power and Mastery:
A New World to Discover:
Fate and Destiny:
Combat Comes to Life:
Skills and Crafting:
Combat Trailer:
Heroes Guide:
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PREVIEWS
Machinima:
IGN:
Gamespot:
Gametrailers: http://www.gametrailers.com/video/advanced-preview-kingdoms-of/726281

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WHATS IT LIKE?
I'd say, a bit of Fable, a bit of Dragon Age, and a bit of Skyrim. The combat is definitely very Fable-ish. It's action-based, fast-paced, and fun. The emphasis, like fable, is on quickly using several different weapons in combat. You can quickly use your long ranged weapon, then quickly use a short range one with no delay. The exploration is also a bit like Fable in terms of, you have a big open world to explore, but you seem to be kind of constricted to paths, theres lots of ways to go on these paths, but it doesn't appear to be a game where you can wander around random grass or mountains or whatever (which I am fine with personally).

Unlike Fable, you can strike up conversations with people, who dragon age/bioware type conversations. There are lots of random sidequests to find, and, in the vein of Skyrim, there appear to be faction based questlines where you go through the ranks of various groups in the land.

Unlike any of those 3, I'd say there is a serious emphasis on the story as well. The lore is deep and detailed, and the game poses some interesting mysteries right out of the gate.
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THE DREAM TEAM
http://reckoning.amalur.com/en/r/visionaries

R.A. Salvatore
-Famous Sci-Fi and fantasy author, New York Times Bestseller. He wrote this game.

Ken Rolston
-Lead Designer for both Morrowind and Oblivion. Main creative mind behind this game.

Todd McFarlane
-The executive art director for Amalur.

Curt Schilling
-Pitched with a bloody sock. Loves video games and america.
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DEMO?
A demo is currently out on Xbox 360, PSN, and Steam. You get to play through the opening dungeon, then you have 45 minutes to explore and quest (timer is paused during conversations). So yeah, the demo gives you quite a bit of time to form your own impressions.

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RELEASE DATE

February 7th, for the 360, PS3, and PC.

I haven't seen much in the way of offers/deals yet, except for newegg selling it for $45 (though I'm not sure if you get it day of release this way).

So aww yeah, whos pumped.

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The demo really turned me off of this game.

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What about it turned you off?

on a side note, based on the IGN stuff I've read with the complete build, if you do encounter bugs in the demo, they seem to be fixed in the release version.

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The combat seemed really slow and the camera feels bad.

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R.A. Salvatore
-Famous Sci-Fi and fantasy author, New York Times Bestseller. He wrote this game.

ugggggghhhhhhhhhhhhhhh

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"What I like to drink most is wine that belongs to others." - Diogenes the Cynic

hoping game flops because I hate Curt Schilling

hoping game doesn't flop because I don't want to see Curt Schilling flush a giant loan from my home state down the toilet

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ugggggghhhhhhhhhhhhhhh

I've never read any of his stuff, but the writing seemed pretty good early on.

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SORT OF HYPED

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I'm no longer a Nadal supporter. Andy Murray is my new favorite player/person. -Princess Anri

Hybrid classes seem like they'll be fun. I'm excited to play a rogue mage, with poison blink. Mmm.

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Many a false step is made by standing still

I'll buy it when it's 10 bucks on Steam.

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SORT OF HYPED

I feel like every game I've ever seen you say this about, you end up whining about/hating. SEE: BASTION. LA Noire too I think.

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wow way to not pay any attention to my top 10 list

Also, I was never hyped for Bastion. I tried it out because you were saying it was good! I liked the demo alright, but the full game was whatever.

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I'm no longer a Nadal supporter. Andy Murray is my new favorite player/person. -Princess Anri

WHATEVER

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try the demo tbh

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binary domain with as many posts as this what lolol

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also, apparently salvatore did a lot of work to craft the world, but didn't write any of the games actual story, and the side quest storylines. He served as more of an editor from that point on.

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I just played it to get my ME3 stuff.

It's too Fablish for me, personally.

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TheRock ~ Slow dramatic zoom-pan. Doesn't phase the hooded man.

I tried the demo last night. I was kinda into it but the camera was a little wacky. I moved it all over but I just never got a view I liked. Also when trying to adjust it, it swung around all over the place way too fast.

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Something witty while mentioning SuperNiceDog.
Give me a break, I'm not as clever as the Guru Champion.

I dont get whats wrong with it being fableish when it comes to the combat, the combat in Fable is fun. The other RPG stuff, like no conversations and stuff, totally suck, I think this takes the good parts of fable.

I know this demo used some old code for some reason, schilling was pissed about it, hopefully the camera is better in the full game, though I personally don't remember having any major problems with it.

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I played the demo... it was okay. I'll probably get it, but not until a sale. Definitely not a day 1 buy based off the demo.

I definitely didn't like the combat very much. Especially the camera.

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I don't understand the camera problem complaints, I didn't even notice any problems. That or I was just able to get used to it and use it just fine before thinking it was a problem. o.O

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yeah like I said, I've been surprised by them too, I didn't have any real problems with it. It's pretty rare for me to have any problems with a camera I can control. Only camera problems I ever really have are with fixed ones. Like, I'm playing Castlevania: LoS and it has a pretty awful camera. That kinda stuff bothers me, but nothing I've seen in Amalur.

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The only time I had camera issues is when I was running by some enemies, the camera zoomed out and kinda focused on the middle of everything.

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I'll probably pick it up, I had a lot of fun with the demo. The story was pretty intriguing and I want to see where they go with it.

The Darkness 2 comes out on the same day, though, so that takes priority over Amalur.

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I think the problem I had with the camera was that it was too close, and maybe I was doing it wrong but I couldn't get it to zoom out.

For a hack-and-slash beat-em-up, I find a distance more like this to be ideal:


This is Amalur:


Just too close of a view. It gives me a good view of my character but a poor view of the overall scene. Kingdom Hearts 1 was a lot like this.

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Something witty while mentioning SuperNiceDog.
Give me a break, I'm not as clever as the Guru Champion.

Kingdom Hearts 1 is fantastic though

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one single image isn't a very good way to show the distance. The camera from that image is from one of the finishing moves dude.



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melee just needs a lock-on but other than that, camera in combat is fine. don't mess with the bloody sock. DON'T.

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where is mankriks wife

can you equip a bloody sock

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Connecticut Huskies

the bloody sock will be dlc for $3, bundled in with a d**** bat

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Maybe that wasn't the best picture to show what I meant, but if you play Bayonetta and you play Amalur I think you'll be able to tell what I mean. I really WANT to like this game, it's just a few technical issues getting in the way. It could have even been the areas I was in, I didn't get past the tunnels you start out in, and those are pretty cramped quarters. They may have affected the camera distance.

And I thought it was pretty widely accepted that KH1 had camera issues which (I was told anyway) KH2 corrected.

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Something witty while mentioning SuperNiceDog.
Give me a break, I'm not as clever as the Guru Champion.

I find bayonetta incredibly boring! Camera was fine though.

and yeah KH1 was awful, camera especially.

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I'm playing the demo at the momento, so far I'd say it's pretty decent. Compared to say, Dragon Age II, it doesn't feel quite as good, but it's also got some stuff that doesn't in the oldschool armor catagory, etc.

Some downsides being a lot of invisible walls, linear dungeon design (based on the first stuff anyway), kind of... just a slight lack of variety in things to do in a dungeon.

I'm expecting with open world RPGness and all that will be where the heart of the game is at, but my preliminary feel is that I won't dig it as much as Dragon Age games, which is what I'd compare it to most probably.

Still, seems solid from the vids I've seen, and plays decent, I'd definitely pick it up sometime if its say 40 bucks.

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its the intro dungeon, I'm sure other dungeons have a bit more paths, but kinda surprised you have that criticism then you love dragon age. I can see Skyrim fans being put off by it, dragon age is pretty similar in that regard imo.

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Super pumped for this game. The Gametrailers preview said that none of the issues and glitches present in the demo are in the final version of the game.

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Now I'm in the wander around talk to people do little things fight stuff 45 mins part. Pretty much, I like a lot of the ideas, and the look of the trees are cool with the class-mixing stuff. Overall though the general feel of the game, the drive to play it I guess, the combat, etc, it's not grabbing me a lot, but it is a bit.

I'll check it out sometime, but not full price, it does have some coolness to it but doesn't rock my face.

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hype

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http://www.newegg.com/Product/Product.aspx?Item=N82E16874105708

Welp, this game is only 45 bucks at NewEgg wih free shipping, I have just ordered it ohhh yes. I mean I've got a month to burn until Mass Effect 3, I'll be done with NeverDead by next week I'm sure.

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NeverDead has looked pretty bad to me tbh

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but i love everyone

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*sees neverdead reviews*

still sure about getting it? lawl

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I only know of NeverDead from the legendary Konami E3 Press Conference of 2010, where the designer or whoever wore a giant coat so he could pretend his head had been cut off.

So I basically imagine it to be Konami E3 Conference 2010: The Videogame. Which kinda makes me want it.

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Give me a break, I'm not as clever as the Guru Champion.

From: Dauntless Hunter | #042
I only know of NeverDead from the legendary Konami E3 Press Conference of 2010, where the designer or whoever wore a giant coat so he could pretend his head had been cut off.

So I basically imagine it to be Konami E3 Conference 2010: The Videogame. Which kinda makes me want it.

Was E3 2010 the one in which I was gonna be sucked by WAN MIRRON TROOPS and Glee?

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Icehawk posted...
*sees neverdead reviews*

still sure about getting it? lawl

You know I'm not a reviews man Hawk, I love Duke Nukem Forever. Ha and for the record NeverDead is very cool according to THIS guy's review. =P

Currently rockin that and Soul Calibur V today, next week lookin forward to this Amalur action. The thing I like the best about it is the trees where you get to do a lot of mixing with warrior/rogue, wizard/rogue, warrior/wizard, etc, and I liked how down at the bottom later on you even get to mix all three, delicious.

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From: Ayuyu | #044
Was E3 2010 the one in which I was gonna be sucked by WAN MIRRON TROOPS and Glee?

You better believe it!

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Give me a break, I'm not as clever as the Guru Champion.

Man I wish this year E3 is only nearly as great.

Last year was kinda crap, well I guess Microsoft conference was funny in a way.

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launch trailer

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Pretty badass.

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yessir

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i hope reviews are coming out soon!

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