Kingdom of Amalur: Re-Reckoning remaster releasing soon

You know how some fantasy books will have sort of a cypher in the beginning? Like these are some old words and this is how to pronounce them?

This game needed something like that. There is A TON of Celtic history that they use but if you aren't familiar with it at all, the speech (ESPECIALLY the elves) turns into white noise during their first sentence.

It's absolutely not your fault that you started skipping dialogue. They also do a similar thing to Bethesda games where they recycle voice actors so even meeting new characters feels like a slog because you've already heard this dude talking before. It starts to sound like the Charlie Brown teacher

Edit: for what it's worth, I DO like the game, but it's going to take a lot more than just updated graphics to get me to buy it

Played and beat this game, was something like 40+ hours. Used the throwing discs the whole time, I am pretty sure like 50% in I realized how empty the game felt but kept going for reasons I can't remember. Likely the combat.

All I remember about this game was (A) having to install Origin to play it. That made me furious. (B) The terrible mountain of MMO-style fetch quests. So godamned boring. (C) All the drama surrounding 38 Studios, which was more entertaining than the game itself. (D) Gameplay was pretty decent but trivial if you sneezed near a zone and level-locked it. (D) RA Salvatore was in some way involved in the lore and story, which was basically decent as a core idea but descended quickly into mumbo-jumbo.

I'm stunned that this game is getting a remaster. There's nothing better out there on the scrap-heap of history than this? Jesus.

Intrinsic said:

Come at me bro!


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Here I come!

Pretty much agree with everyone else, I’m pretty sure I didn’t finish it but I remember it being pretty fun at the start and then just repetitive mmo fetch quest after mmo fetch quest. I remember liking to combat well enough

The throwing discs were sweet.. pretty much the same experience as everyone else. First 20 hours were great, but then it got tedious and thus boring. I never finished it because of that.

I remember the quests being boring MMO fare. Single player games do not lend themselves to collecting 10 bear asses. That only passes in MMOs because multiplayer dungeons are the feature.

Mick said:

To be honest $40 seems a little high if it is just the base game with new textures and graphics options. Does it include the DLC?

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Yesssss

Combat is pretty great. A lot of boring and tired shit after a while though overall. Had potential. Might be a lot of fun as a remaster, though. Maybe not. I guess if you enjoyed it the first time you will probably like it even more. Not sure I can shell out $40 to do it again, we’ll see. Story and world seemed cool at first, but meh. Kinda falls apart IMO.

reminds me I have some Amalur cards signed by Curt Schilling somewhere, lol.

I remember playing the one DLC where you were with the giants or whatever and every single npc as you walk by says something like "You must be the Beckoned"! One of my roommates at the time asked "why the fuck do they keep calling you bacon?" and Ive never been able to unhear it...

Ill probably pick this up, I did enjoy it but like so many others I didnt finish it. I wrapped up the entire first continent and just never picked it back up for the rest.

I thought this was a really great game. Can't wait to replay it.

McFarlane AND Salvatore. Take my fucking money. I had to refund the current steam version as it has UI issues past 1080 res. Roughly 25cad on steam so 15 more for a remaster is decent. The game delivers solid mechanics, good world building, and solid combat, I remember finishing it and not getting around to the DLC.

This could turn it around for Rhode Island?