Kingdom of Amalur: Re-Reckoning remaster releasing soon
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popsicledeath
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Never played it, so had been waiting for the remaster to be a reasonable price on series x, but always still over $30. Pricing reserved for great or terrible games.
Tmac
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Yeah, pretty much.
Curt over-promised on Kingdoms of Amalur sales in regards to the loan terms. Essentially, KoA needed to be a blockbuster success for it to work out and even though it was successful, it didn't meet the threshhold. Curt wanted to renegotiate the terms based on KoA's success, but the politicians (who were already getting publicly crucified for the deal) refused and said the game was a failure and that the state got screwed, Curt misled investors, etc.
I think in even a slightly less political environment, 38 Studios would've survived, but Curt was dealing w forces that didn't care about the success of KoA. Rhode Island walking away from the deal and losing millions was more politically expediant than actually making money on the deal, which goes to show how retarded politicians and voters are. The whole thing was a huge failure on Curt's part, given his position on politicians. He bought in to a system he publicly didn't believe in and it cost him everything.
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Tmac
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I'd agree the core game was pretty boring. The whole thing was side quests.
However, the combat was near perfect. It's one of the few games, like Monster Hunter, where you can play just to try out different weapons.
Ambiturner
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Yeah I don't think 38 Studios would have made it if RI didn't back out when they did. Everything would have happened just a little further down the line
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Rajaah
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Just started up Re-Reckoning. Never played this or the original, it's been backlogged since like 2015. I've been told it's like a single-player World of Warcraft and is a bit bland but enjoyable?
Any pro-tips here on how to blast through the game relatively quickly?
Edit: Said the same stuff I said in a post a few months ago that I forgot about
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Rajaah
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Like, pass on it entirely?
Played the first 3 hours, it's certainly average as fuck. Reminds me a lot of Fable, only way more polished. It's absolutely a "single-player WoW". Running a caster and the game is pretty easy that way.
Grizzlebeard
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Yeah, remotely challenging in the early levels then you suddenly can melt everything and the game drops off a cliff.
Hateyou
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You do not need any pro tips to blast through it, it’s not very hard. Skipping some or all side quest will get you through it much quicker. It’s not bad, it’s just an average action fantasy game. Lite but enjoyable enough. It wears out quick due to the easy difficulty and repetitive quests so probably more fun by skipping the side stuff.
Jozu
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It so fucking insane how much energy, time and capital were thrown at this game, not once, but twice, and it is still worse than some indie/Kickstarter games made for 98% less. Just goes to show you that budget and talent arent everything. You also need leadership. Curt Schilling was in so far over his head, and didnt have anyone to hedge against him. He just drove the entire thing into the fucking dirt.
Again, think of all of the full time jobs, loans, money, talent, commitment etc that went into this game.....
Again, think of all of the full time jobs, loans, money, talent, commitment etc that went into this game.....
Rajaah
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I'm playing a caster and I can see where the high level talents are obscenely OP. Most of the good sorcery talents weren't available until 20 points were spent, so I had to waste a few talent points in the teens on things I didn't actually want just to get to that threshold. Brought back some WoW memories. Now that I'm past 20 I can get some really good stuff like improved Storm Bolt, a summoned pet, and the heal (no more buying overpriced potions).
I'm skipping all the side stuff. 3 hours in, probably like 8-10 hours in for a regular player who is taking their time.
It would have been cool if the game had spawned a full-fledged series like they wanted it to. Like I can feel all the hopes and dreams that went into it. Unfortunately, despite all of the desire the devs had to make something great, I don't think the vision was there to do anything beyond a generic game. Just completely derivative. It's like what'd happen if I oversaw a game development project. I'd draw from what I know and what works and I don't know how much I'd be able to innovate.
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minor tip... try not to go into a zone unless you're done with the previous one. the game sets the level of the creatures when you first enter the zone. if you are exploring and /or trying to do a quest that is spread across multiple zones, by the time you are ready to move on, the creatures could end up being gray and no challenge
Rajaah
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Finished the game. As far as leveling goes in the remaster: I breezed through the game, doing minimal sidequests. Eventually hit a roadblock once I reached the final zone of the game (the southeast purple area) which was, I believe, during the second-to-last main quest.
The enemies suddenly became almost impossible to damage, so I'm guessing I somehow got outleveled despite whatever scaling the game has. Went and did side quests / level-grinded from 17 to 20 and then completely rolled the final area. Aside from that hiccup adding a couple extra hours to the game, it was pretty smooth sailing throughout.
Also my character had a fantastic rack.
The enemies suddenly became almost impossible to damage, so I'm guessing I somehow got outleveled despite whatever scaling the game has. Went and did side quests / level-grinded from 17 to 20 and then completely rolled the final area. Aside from that hiccup adding a couple extra hours to the game, it was pretty smooth sailing throughout.
Also my character had a fantastic rack.
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Rajaah
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Being a caster helped a lot. They get some interesting variety.
Also, a shirtless female for half the game.
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Rajaah
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It was like a 6/10, but I did like it yeah. Was able to turn my brain off for 13 hours and just blast things with spells. Felt like speedleveling a new WoW character through classic type content.