I don't think talking about basic mechanics is a spoiler. I'd much rather know going in whether a specific path is worth it before spending hours realizing I should have been doing something different. Not saying this is the case with crafting, but I'm sort of cold on it right now, but it does seem as if it gets more powerful as you level (which makes sense).Originally Posted by McKnight
Ok, well here's the deal then.
Spoiler: general ability stuff
Anything else you're unsure of just ask (or need clearing up, I'm on my first coffee of the day after all). I'll try to find out about alchemy, from what I've heard from people playing along with me is that it's strong but super micro-managey.
Last edited by McKnight; 02-09-2012 at 07:43 AM.
Still really like Betrayal at Krondor (Raymond E. Feist), though, so it can work.
My nephew's birthday is in a week. He's turning 13 and is psyched he can finally play teen games, though the standard has been slipping over the last year or so, and he's even managing to convince his dad to let him play 'M' shooters sometimes... it's become a slippery slope. Anyway, I know he'd love Amalur, but it's rated M. Can anyone who's played pretty far into it give me a sense of why? Strong language and mildly suggestive sexuality along the lines of what you see on broadcast tv doesn't bother his parents - god of war style blood and guts (especially when perpetrated on other humans) and hard R sexuality do though.
By way of comparison, I passed on getting him Skyrim for Christmas even though he desperately wanted it, because of the violence against other human/oids. Any advice welcome, thanks!
I think theres a intense use of violence (like fatalities, and generally the urge to destroy stuff... ) , theres some sexuality... you know ...oh scandly clad elves womens... *sight*.
Other than that, I have not seen much, but I have not progress further than the starting area... probably there are some scary encounters (Spiders!) and some dead bodies.
Judge for yourself:
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=GP1zNnOhLBY
(Hint: if Skyrim is not okay, Amalur is really not okay.)
Why? I would consider Skyrim to be more "dark" and mature than Amalur. Maybe it's the art style. I think Amalur deserves M as much as Halo 3 did, which is to say I think it technically qualifies, but there's not much there that's objectionable.
Woah!
Thanks much, that easily settles that.
Personally I think that the fateshift kills are unnecessarily gratuitous. This game could easily have been done as a T-rated one (maybe something later in the game will contradict me) without losing too much IMO.
Because in Skyrim, you never hoist someone up, overpowering their struggles, and impale them on a massive spike and watch them grow still as their life drains out of them and they slowly slide down the spike.
Why would I want to play Skyrim then? ;) I LOVE the fate kills.
Unnecessarily? They're totally needed, appreciated and adored, my friend.
No. Without the fatalities people would ask what is the point of the fate mode, turning it into a mere bullet time.
The lore of the fate kill is that you are breaking fate threads, something normally reserved to gods. Its the character using a IC cheat code.
I was thinking that last night as my guy stuck a spike in the ground and picked up some dude and impaled him on it. It seemed like a rather abrupt shift in tone from light fantasy to suddenly dark and grotesque.
You guys are making this really hard to resist, I don't have time for this awesome game!
try the smashing your dagger repeatedly through the head of an enemy lying down fatality then for kicks....
Honestly, I'd turn them off if I could
No, instead you slit people's throats from behind, get hired by a child to murder someone, and make deals with demons and insane gods. I get that the Fateshift kills are over the top, but the impact just seems lessened to me due to the Wow-like art style. There's just something more hard edged and brutal about Skyrim IMO.
Obviously I'm not saying that there's nothing objectionable from a parenting POV with regard to Amalur since that's subjective. I just find the comparison to Skyrim (and the idea that Amalur is more objectionable) to be kind of weird.
Last edited by Telefrog; 02-09-2012 at 09:35 AM.
You may have time for this decent game, though. I really don't get why people are calling it awesome. Combat's great, but the rest of it is distinctly lacking. That said, I'm still playing 30 hours in, so it's not like I'd say it's a bad game. It's just...a game. And there's not much else to play right now.
I think it's awesome. The world is just the right type of colorful for me, I'm loving the combat system, at least mostly focused on magic, and the quests are plentiful.
I am not very far into the game, but there isn't really much light in tone about this other than the graphical style. The first town greeted me with a fae crying out and writhing in pain on the ground after a beating that no one stopped. The next quest had me tracking down a biological weapon that the local alchemist let fall into the wrong hands.
Do the fateshift kills get better in the full game? The ones I saw in the demo were very bland and a lot less exciting than I wanted them to be. Kind of like the art style, world design, and graphics in general.
Of course, my scale might be off because I recently played Space Marine. I could watch the foot stomp execution a hundred times in a row and still guffaw at number 101.
They do seem to get more elaborate, at least that's what I've noticed.
Fair point. That WoW/cartoony style with the goofy gnomes and the faint glow that everything gives off really makes it feel light fantasy-ish even though it isn't really. I mean, the very first scene is your dead body being dropped onto a pile of rotting corpses.
That's basically what led to my question - I had this impression it was a light/cartoony style game, and was surprised to see the 'M' rating.
It's sort of funny, in that I already bought it for myself, it just hasn't arrived yet, and I paid no attention to the rating until I found out it was my nephew's birthday next week. Anyway thanks for the tips, this is not what he's getting for a gift from us ;-)
Humm... I don't know. I think most childrens tales are very hardcore really.
Cinderella is the tale of a prince kissing a dead women (necrophilia). Then theres other tale for a princess kissing a frog (zoophilia). Hamsel and Grettel is about two childrens facing the risk to be eaten by a witch ( canivalism ).
You forgot Pinocchio (pedophilia).
So far I agree with this and it is fulfilling its role in my life as "game I play while I wait for Mass Effect 3".
I don't disagree with any of that, but the world is also empty and oddly constraining, the quests are practically identical to one another, and the story/conversation presentation is like playing an alpha version of Dragon Age. Why does it letterbox down to like half the screen for a conversation? Why don't the voices ever match the lips?
I'm not a huge fantasy guy anyway, but I rarely skip dialogue in games and in Amalur I hammer the X button during conversations like my life depends on it. I just don't care about the tinkly winkly pixie wixie elfy welfy crap they all spout. Additionally, although the "the world is dictated by storytelling but you're outside of fate so you can change stuff at will" thing is a great idea for a videogame due to the very nature of the player character in an RPG, so far the game doesn't reflect that at all in terms of what I'm playing. Sure, NPCs blather on about how "ONLY THE GODS CAN DO THAT OMG" but I just don't feel like what I'm playing is synching up very well with what I'm reading.
On the whole, when it comes to open world action RPGing, I think Divinity II has this beat aside from the excellent combat.
Exactly.
Last edited by MattKeil; 02-09-2012 at 11:03 AM.
For the rest of us that means "work on your backlog instead."
Has anyone figured out how many potions it takes to fill 1 inventory slot? I've definitely seen it go up one slot when picking up a potion, but it doesn't happen every time.
Also, do lockpicks take up slots?
I've only had 10 or so stacked at once, but I know that it distinguishes between items that you stole and items that you made or bought. Stolen items (look for the red hand) take up their own slot.
I believe so.Also, do lockpicks take up slots?
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