Dark Alliance (Drizzt and co in Icewind Dale)

Targeting / facing and getting animation locked was my issue playing Wulfgar. Cattie Brie was much much easier as a pure ranged class though her 'melee' bow attacks were silly as the animation would have her firing an arrow that collision wise should have hit things but didn't as they were just outside melee range.

Raising stats does the solid of showing you what game stats improve with each point, but this also serves to illustrate how the D&D base stats are not really being used here. Added a point to my Strength and it increased my health more than adding a point to my Constitution did.

Tried all four characters and Drizzt was the easiest by far. Wulfgar and Bruennor are essentially the same character in terms of everything but special moves, but the cooldown' on those is long enough that you very rarely get it use them. Perhaps they get more different after you pay gold to unlock the additional basic moves.

Ok, so will you gentlemen that played, say that it's a definite pickup? Have lasting value, etc?

I probably would not have gotten it were it not for GamePass. That having been said it looks like a blast to play with buds.

I’m gonna check this out via Game Pass for PC

The animation locking and targeting/camera controls are such that you spend most of your time fighting with the UX instead of the monsters. This is especially frustrating in the second level where there is poison everywhere and half the mobs explode on death because 'reasons'

Oh if outriders bothered you I recommend don't even touch this. I

pre load appeared for PC now

Was about to DL the PC version too, but I don't see a Play Anywhere tag on it so I guess it's not worth the bother. Anyone heard that cross-save will actually be a feature? I know it's supposed to support cross-platform coop, but at the moment the game's product listing only mentions "Xbox Live Cross-Gen Multiplayer" so maybe the listing isn't complete yet.

Overall controls are awkward. Combat feels clunky and sluggish. Not intuitive at all or expected standards of the format. Targeting is sorta shitty, but non-target style is worse. Not really an autotarget system and the controls are shit, so gets annoying.

Was hoping for something like the shadows or mordor game that was smooth and reactive and seems the standard these days. Instead, this game your right thumb needs to constantly be on the thumbstick to camera/point/aim, and it's clunky, but also need to hit b button to dodge, or hit x for power strikes. So, your thumb is doing too much work and feels spazzy and like you're constantly needing to do something else. No way my girlfriend could play this as a casual gamer.

Requiring both sticks for basic movement (instead of occasional right stick for camera look or targeting) feels archaic and clunky, but maybe others are used to it?

Graphics are meh. Not good enough or stylized enough to be interesting. To me, look very dated or mobile era in style.

Camp as basically a lobby isn't too off putting, but silly things like you select your destination on the map, but instead of porting there you have to run to a spot in camp where it then ports you. Why? Just lazy and inexplicable game design. Same with mission: Port in, run a little, then a tutorial screen, then run into mission area. Just weird design decisions.

Just feels uninspired overall, but maybe gets good enough to overlook nitpicks. Can't beat free on Game Pass, though.

I'd advise skipping to 13:53 since everything else is pretty irrelevant once you hear what the gameplay is like.

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Welp. Time to cancel the pre-order. Damn.

Well now I want to play the game after listening to this dumb shit gush over it.