Current Events > Kingdoms of amalur reckoning is getting a re release

(+) Yeah! (+)

the game that made Curt Schilling broke but wasnt bad at all

The product description on Xbox.com states Re-Reckoning will release on August 11. All the DLC from the original game--including Teeth of Naros and Legend of Dead Kel--is included with the re-release. The game also promises "improved graphical fidelity." You can check out a series of images in the gallery above.

https://bit.ly/2ACrzvr

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After all these years I'm still confused

Was this game good or nah

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AvantgardeAClue posted...

After all these years I'm still confused

Was this game good or nah

It was decent, but not very impressive in any particular way.

Of course, I played it last year -- it may have been better in the time it came out.


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It was good, not great. Didn't play as well as Fable, and didn't have the same personality but was much more expansive and deep.

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Holy shit. This is one of my favorite games.

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it was very much a b-tier game

Kaiganeer posted...

it was very much a b-tier game

It is a national treasure. Nothing anyone says otherwise will change that fact.

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def a b tier game but i enjoyed it will probably buy it when it hits 20.00

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Is it coming to Switch?

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What's a re-release in this context?

A HD release? A remaster? Remake?
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The product description on Xbox.com states Re-Reckoning will release on August 11. All the DLC from the original game--including Teeth of Naros and Legend of Dead Kel--is included with the re-release. The game also promises "improved graphical fidelity." You can check out a series of images in the gallery above.

nothing about consoles hopefully it comes out on everything

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AvantgardeAClue posted...

After all these years I'm still confused

Was this game good or nah

i played like a demo or something of it then proceeded to not get the game and forgot it existed until this thread was made

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https://bit.ly/2ACrzvr

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It's one of those games that was collectively like 40-50 hours but you wanted it to be over by hour 25-30.

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I think I remember some yoyo like weapon that kicked ass, and that's about it.

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Who even owns this IP?

didnt the devs misuse a whole bunch of money from the government to make this?

side note excellent grant Kirkhope score

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TheGoldenEel posted...

Who even owns this IP?

didnt the devs misuse a whole bunch of money from the government to make this?

side note excellent grant Kirkhope score

THQ Nordic owns it now IINM.
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THQ Nordic acquired the rights to Kingdoms of Amalur, the company confirmed to Eurogamer that Electronic Arts continued to hold the publishing rights to the franchise, so a re-release would require their approval. The two companies have now seemingly worked out an arrangement.

AvantgardeAClue posted...

After all these years I'm still confused

Was this game good or nah

It's like it had all the parts to make a great game but they forgot to add a soul

It's too big and repetitive

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Great news, and hopefully this could lead to a sequel.

MabusIncarnate posted...

It was good, not great. Didn't play as well as Fable, and didn't have the same personality but was much more expansive and deep.

What? Fable should be honored to shine Amalur's shoes.

It has one of the most enjoyable console battle systems in a long time, but suffers from other problems. The chief among them being the sidequest content is mostly lame and few quests -- except maybe some guild questlines -- really hit home. Also, early exploration was not encouraged, because as you travelled to new regions, the enemies there would be level-locked and provide garbage XP gains. Combined, the two were pretty pathetic and dragged down the game.

But on the bright side, the DLC was fairly good and the story wasn't too shabby (there are a few kickass moments for sure). Amalur may be kinda infamous due to Schilling's actions, but a second chance could lead to some life in the franchise, so this could be pretty awesome.

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Only Xbox?

These are depressing times.

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Shotgunnova posted...

Great news, and hopefully this could lead to a sequel.

What? Fable should be honored to shine Amalur's shoes.

It has one of the most enjoyable console battle systems in a long time, but suffers from other problems. The chief among them being the sidequest content is mostly lame and few quests -- except maybe some guild questlines -- really hit home. Also, early exploration was not encouraged, because as you travelled to new regions, the enemies there would be level-locked and provide garbage XP gains. Combined, the two were pretty pathetic and dragged down the game.

But on the bright side, the DLC was fairly good and the story wasn't too shabby (there are a few kickass moments for sure). Amalur may be kinda infamous due to Schilling's actions, but a second chance could lead to some life in the franchise, so this could be pretty awesome.

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This is basically my stance, a lot of it was boring and forgettable, I enjoyed a lot of the story that Fable offered, the characters had charm, and it didn't feel like a drag.

There's always been a bit of a divide with this game, and it's often compared to Fable. While neither are perfect, I remember much more of Fable than I do Kingdoms of Amalur. I'd like to see what they could do with it in modern times should they make a sequel.

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Fable is also a series with a lot of missed potential, but I feel Amalur, who's in similar circumstances, fares a little better. Fable has better villains and side cast, though. Sorry, Alyn Shir!

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Shotgunnova posted...

Fable is also a series with a lot of missed potential, but I feel Amalur, who's in similar circumstances, fares a little better. Fable has better villains and side cast, though. Sorry, Alyn Shir!

Agreed, and there were a LOT of big, unseen and unfulfilled promises from Molyneux, it was kind of the original No Man's Sky in that respect. I think what made Kingdoms a lot more appealing for people was that it really wasn't an AAA title that delivered on a lot more than expected. Maybe it was too ambitious in scale that it turned out to be a bit more dull than interesting in the long haul.

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I mean say what you will about the story, but the idea of a Western RPG with actually fun combat is pretty great.

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i really enjoyed this game, but it's biggest flaw was that it was too easy. max out blacksmithing, and you could make armour that would regen health faster than you could lose it.

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TwoDoorPC posted...

i really enjoyed this game, but it's biggest flaw was that it was too easy. max out blacksmithing, and you could make armour that would regen health faster than you could lose it.

I found that playing on hard helps.

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MabusIncarnate posted...

It's one of those games that was collectively like 40-50 hours but you wanted it to be over by hour 25-30.

Honestly this. Sidequests are typical fetch quests and they try to throw a lot of them at you when you don't even need to do em because the levelling/game is pretty easy. I found myself just wanting to rush to the end about halfway in. No memorable characters but gameplay was pretty fun aside from those things

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ssjevot posted...

I found that playing on hard helps.

Yeah, this is what I'd recommend to anyone who's never tried Amalur before. Other difficulties just make the game a farce.

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All I remember about this thing is that it sprung up from nowhere with no pre-built franchise and EA or whoever were pushing pre-orders and collector's doodads and tie-in shit all over the place for it as if it was a new Final Fantasy.
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Gameplay was decent, but the story/characters/quests were about as cookie cutter WRPG as you can get.

Whoo! based

yay

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People saying the plot and characters were generic but I can't think of any other games heavily inspired by Irish mythology

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It was incredibly easy to break that game. Only thing that really sucked is each zone had this level lock thing where if you wanted the best loot you had to have achieved the max level for that individual zone. If you went in lower then that level, even just a step into that zone, the loot sucked.

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Sweet. Loved that game. It was like the ultimate power-fantasy RPG.

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TheGoldenEel posted...

Who even owns this IP?

didnt the devs misuse a whole bunch of money from the government to make this?

side note excellent grant Kirkhope score

Electionic Arts owns it

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Shotgunnova posted...

Yeah, this is what I'd recommend to anyone who's never tried Amalur before. Other difficulties just make the game a farce.

Even on Hard the meteor turns the whole game into a joke.

The game could really benefit from a difficulty mod of some kind

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MabusIncarnate posted...

Agreed, and there were a LOT of big, unseen and unfulfilled promises from Molyneux, it was kind of the original No Man's Sky in that respect. I think what made Kingdoms a lot more appealing for people was that it really wasn't an AAA title that delivered on a lot more than expected. Maybe it was too ambitious in scale that it turned out to be a bit more dull than interesting in the long haul.

I think it's only mistakes were releasing at the same time as Skyrim and being obvious that it was originally going to be an MMO.

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Tyranthraxus posted...

Electionic Arts owns it

THQ Nordic does, I thought.

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dave_is_slick posted...

I think it's only mistakes were releasing at the same time as Skyrim and being obvious that was originally going to be an MMO.

It was never originally an MMO. The game was a prequel to an MMO that never happened. No MMO work had been done.

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dave_is_slick posted...

THQ Nordic does, I thought.

It was published by EA so unless they sold it, that would be rather strange.

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Wow I forgot I had this game till now. Might finish it this time.

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Tyranthraxus posted...

It was published by EA so unless they sold it, that would be rather strange.

I'm pretty sure they did, I remember seeing an article here about them buying a bunch of IPs, with Destroy All Humans and Kingdoms of Amalur being among them.

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mrgoatthief posted...

What is it about this game that makes me want to play it again so badly? I remember fa about it other than the chakras being a cool weapon totodile

Might be the reason right there. Magic is the best class in that game. I'm currently going for a typical rouge and it's just not fun and the warrior skill tree looks even worse.

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THQ Nordic holds it now, they're the ones handling Rereckoning.

dave_is_slick posted...

I'm pretty sure they did, I remember seeing an article here about THQ Nordic buying a bunch of IPs, with Destroy All Humans and Kingdoms of Amalur being among them.

yeah they bought it from ea they werent going t o ever use it

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Tyranthraxus posted...

Even on Hard the meteor turns the whole game into a joke.
The game could really benefit from a difficulty mod of some kind

Meteor's not going to be usable on every build, so I wouldn't be too upset with it. Dropping it on those enemy elves was always fun, though.

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