Dungeon Siege II Beta

shwaipshwaip bluffin' with my muffin Icrontian
edited May 2005 in Gaming
Anyone else in the public beta?

I've been playing a lot - mindless killing = win. At least when I'm sick. It's way better than the first, and actually quite similar to the good parts of Diablo 2 - not the endless boss/item runs.

http://www.fileplanet.com/

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  • ThraxThrax 🐌 Austin, TX Icrontian
    edited May 2005
    Yeah, apparently my computer doesn't meet the specs. ;D

    Oh well. Their loss. smug.gif
  • TheSmJTheSmJ
    edited May 2005
    I've had it for weeks and have yet to play it once (I'm a FP subscriber). I'll give it a try tonight.

    Dungeon Seige 1 was fun, but it got repetitive after awhile (I made it past the goblin lair, then got sick of it).
  • TheBaronTheBaron Austin, TX
    edited May 2005
    FP Subscribers only? lame
  • shwaipshwaip bluffin' with my muffin Icrontian
    edited May 2005
    you can get it w/ the free account.
  • TheBaronTheBaron Austin, TX
    edited May 2005
    oh! when I clicked on it and I saw the registration and "skip the line, subscribe now" I assumed it was subscribers only
  • CBCB Ƹ̵̡Ӝ̵̨̄Ʒ Der Millionendorf- Icrontian
    edited May 2005
    DS 1 had the worst equipment system. (I mean that literally. I've never seen a worse equipment system)

    Did they improve it?
  • GargGarg Purveyor of Lincoln Nightmares Icrontian
    edited May 2005
    I've been looking forward to DS2. I'll grab it tomorrow night. Jetlag's a bitch. Not doing anything tonight.
  • danball1976danball1976 Wichita Falls, TX
    edited May 2005
    I had Dungeon Siege for a while, but gave up on it after I got stuck in one place and couldn't figure out how to get around it.
  • primesuspectprimesuspect Beepin n' Boopin Detroit, MI Icrontian
    edited May 2005
    hahah -tk called DS1's equip system "playing tetris with your equipment"

    WORST IDEA EVER.

    "oh, you can't pick up this sword. You don't have room. Oh wait, move the shield two spaces to the left and the stack of gold one space to the right and now you can magically hold the sword!"

    I downloaded it, installed it, (the beta), and it has crashed four times on me. I can't play it so I hate it :p
  • CBCB Ƹ̵̡Ӝ̵̨̄Ʒ Der Millionendorf- Icrontian
    edited May 2005
    It wasn't the 'tetris' aspect of the item system that annoyed me... I understand and can cope with that particular inconsistency (Diablo started it...)

    Here's the thing:

    In DS, you could only use certain items at certain levels, right? I don't like that to begin with, but it's not too bad... Diablo and plenty of other games also put level restrictions on items, but DS did it in such a way that made it not fun to search for and find new items.

    They restricted the items based on their strength instead of by their type...

    This is bad...

    I can't remember the actual numbers, but I'll make up some new ones as an example:

    Say these are the base types of shield in the game:

    wooden: ac 2
    Clay: ac 5
    Steel: ac 10
    Tower: ac 13

    Okay, so your character finds a wooden shield and puts it in her hand. Yay. She has an AC of 1 now. Later, still at level one, she finds a Steel shield. The steel shield has a requirement of level 3, so she packs it away to wait for level 3, annoying, but expected.

    Then, she finds a wooden shield +8! Great, now she can have a better AC without waiting!

    Hang on...

    The Wooden shield +8 has a level req. of 3 because it is as powerful as the normal level three shield...

    This was the flaw. No matter how hard you looked, and no matter what you bought, you could never get a sheild better than the wooden one while still on level one, and when you got to level three, you could never use a sheild better than the level three steel shield, cause anything that was higher was reserved for a higher level, even if it was the same item type...

    This was the same for weapons and everything else...

    I found this aggrivating enough to never play again...

    --

    Did they change this system to something that is not stoopid?
  • TheSmJTheSmJ
    edited May 2005
    I don't know CB... that's all a part of the puzzle/choice aspect of the game. Using your example, you'd have to try the sheilds and figure out which one works better for what you use it for.
  • CBCB Ƹ̵̡Ӝ̵̨̄Ʒ Der Millionendorf- Icrontian
    edited May 2005
    No, that's just it. They are exactly the same... All of the equipment that required that level to use had exactly the same stats...
  • TheSmJTheSmJ
    edited May 2005
    Not once you got to the higher level stuff.
  • CBCB Ƹ̵̡Ӝ̵̨̄Ʒ Der Millionendorf- Icrontian
    edited May 2005
    I quit as soon as I noticed the trend...
  • ThraxThrax 🐌 Austin, TX Icrontian
    edited May 2005
    And you quit before the trend stopped.
  • CBCB Ƹ̵̡Ӝ̵̨̄Ʒ Der Millionendorf- Icrontian
    edited May 2005
    Yes, and if the first fifty pages of a book are so bad that you put it down, then it is a bad book, no matter how good the rest of it is...
  • ThraxThrax 🐌 Austin, TX Icrontian
    edited May 2005
    I'm sorry, I disagree. I cite Greg Bear books as evidence.
  • GargGarg Purveyor of Lincoln Nightmares Icrontian
    edited May 2005
    It got better. The variety of equipment is pretty astonishing at the end of the game. Usually, my dilemma was choosing between a strong "normal" set of eqiupment, or a slightly weaker, but magically buffed set. Or something pretty. I'm incredibly amused (after playing console RPGs) by being able to see my equipment.

    Also, choices you make about how many party members you take with you will influence your level at a particular part of the game. If you have less people, more experience goes to your characters. Meaning, there would be fewer instances of not being a high enough level to use a piece of equipment you found. I plan to go back through DS1 with just one character sometime and try that out.
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