I love how this game is the bastard lovechild of DMC, Monster Hunter and D. Souls, especially if you go solo. The sword/shield combo is basically Dante's fucking Rebellion! I was fighting a fucking Monster Hunter boss with fucking Dante! How cool is that!
The Assassin class actually gets Dante's Stinger move.
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I love how this game is the bastard lovechild of DMC, Monster Hunter and D. Souls, especially if you go solo. The sword/shield combo is basically Dante's fucking Rebellion! I was fighting a fucking Monster Hunter boss with fucking Dante! How cool is that!
The Assassin class actually gets Dante's Stinger move.
You can use it in the demo too. It's R1+Square IIRC.
I love how this game is the bastard lovechild of DMC, Monster Hunter and D. Souls, especially if you go solo. The sword/shield combo is basically Dante's fucking Rebellion! I was fighting a fucking Monster Hunter boss with fucking Dante! How cool is that!
The Assassin class actually gets Dante's Stinger move.
You can use it in the demo too. It's R1+Square IIRC.
Ah, I thought the Stinger move was multiple forward jabs, not just one. But you're right!
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Demo was fun, I like how they did the bow controls, where you hit a button to prep the attack, then can aim and RT to fire it. Definitely buying this now.
Perhaps my expectations weren't correct as I was expecting a more Dark Souls "weight" to attacks and animations but I'll keep an eye on it, the option to fix the awful camera being y axis retarded would have gone a long way and maybe all the sounds and camera effects aren't in yet, but it felt extraordinarily wimpy when combat started.
Liked the creator and what I saw of the storytelling style seems good, if only I could get my pawns to shut the fuck up for 3 minutes so the entire lefthand side of my screen isn't inane bullshit.
This game was everything I always hoped Fable would become.
I made a super old dude who looked like Trevor from Aeon Flux, but with a long beard, and he was super skinny and old. His name was Garbanzo, and he was the most agile old man ever.
His pawn is also his wife, the beautiful Lady Garbonzo.
And together they fought a Griffon, and at one point, Lady Garbonzo cried out "I will add flame to your weapon!" or something, and holy shit my swords started on fire.
Sold. Sold. Sold.
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I'm taking everyone else's super positive reactions as demo enough and saving myself for the full game. Wouldn't want to come across these giant monsters in the game proper and go 'oh, these guys again'.
I'm still interested but I felt the demo was pretty lousy for showcasing an open world RPG.
Also, I really hope the release version is optimized a lot better than this old demo because this thing has to be hitting like 15 fps in some of those scenes.
I'm still interested but I felt the demo was pretty lousy for showcasing an open world RPG.
Also, I really hope the release version is optimized a lot better than this old demo because this thing has to be hitting like 15 fps in some of those scenes.
You had framerate drops? What platform did you play the demo on? I don't remember having that, even with all the explosions and fire, on either platform. Did anyone else suffer from a low framerate?
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My one reservation is whether or not it's possible to run out of giant monsters to stab. Skyrim has all the dragons, and I hope this game doesn't stop sending griffins, chimera, and other big bads at you.
My one reservation is whether or not it's possible to run out of giant monsters to stab. Skyrim has all the dragons, and I hope this game doesn't stop sending griffins, chimera, and other big bads at you.
It doesn't.
In one of the OXM videos dude runs into a chimera in the forest and is massacred.
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the demo is like a drug dealer just gave me just the smallest little taste of cocaine. and it left me wanting more.
at least give me a full hit of the stuff... 30minutes of bliss is all im asking, not the 5minutes of awesome that we've been given
Played the demo last night. Played it again this morning before leaving for work. It cemented my feelings on the game. While it is not at an "OMG, I must pre-order this right now!" level, it is at an "If I have $60 on release day, I will be going out of my way to pick up a copy after work" level. I was far more impressed with the game than I expected to be.
Q: What's more badass than knocking a griffon out of the sky with your bow (LB + X, cant remember the ability's name), peppering it with more arrows and then sprinting up a rock and leaping onto it as it angrily shoots back into the air? Then stabbing it over and over, holding on for dear life as it spirals back to the ground in flames?
A: NOTHING
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Thanks to this thread I downloaded the demo last night and gave it a go before going to bed. I'm sold. Like, the only things I hated were the tiny tiny slivers of time they gave you to play around with tiny slivers of the game (want moar!), and the sheer chattiness of the Pawns.
It really felt like Kingdoms of Amalur + Dark Souls + a more gritty Fable.
Thanks to this thread I downloaded the demo last night and gave it a go before going to bed. I'm sold. Like, the only things I hated were the tiny tiny slivers of time they gave you to play around with tiny slivers of the game (want moar!), and the sheer chattiness of the Pawns.
It really felt like Kingdoms of Amalur + Dark Souls + a more gritty Fable.
Game Options -> Turn off Pawn subtitles
Also, turn off the controller map thing. Makes the screen look 100% better
Everyone has a price. Throw enough gold around and someone will risk disintegration.
I will say - this game manages to capture the "holy shit thats a monster" feel better than, possibly, anything else I've ever played.
I remember in the VERY first Fable, the first time the Kraken showed up, was one moment that I went "holy shit this thing is huge." Managing scale in a videogame is very, very hard I think.
The Sentinel's in most X-Men games always feel big. But thats it. Cameras zoom way out and you're like oh yup, thats big. And then when you fight them, its like punching the boot, and you're like, wow thats tall. But whatever. I cant explain it. There's just no feeling of awe.
When I came around the corner and that Dragon was there, it was like when I saw the Kraken, times ten. It was just like...holy shit. This is massive.
This is easily one of the worst articulations in history.
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I'm taking everyone else's super positive reactions as demo enough and saving myself for the full game. Wouldn't want to come across these giant monsters in the game proper and go 'oh, these guys again'.
The demo is five, maybe ten minutes long. There's part of the Prologue, the character creator, and the "Countryside Quest" (a fight with a handful of goblins and a griffin). The only other creature in the game is the mini-boss at the end of the Prologue Quest.
With only three creatures encountered, I wouldn't worry about overexposing yourself via the demo.
I would like to point out that I spent a good 40 minutes in the character creator. Over all, I would say the demo was a good 50 to 55 minutes long, though most of that is playing with the Character Creator, I'll admit.
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Thanks to this thread I downloaded the demo last night and gave it a go before going to bed. I'm sold. Like, the only things I hated were the tiny tiny slivers of time they gave you to play around with tiny slivers of the game (want moar!), and the sheer chattiness of the Pawns.
It really felt like Kingdoms of Amalur + Dark Souls + a more gritty Fable.
Game Options -> Turn off Pawn subtitles
Also, turn off the controller map thing. Makes the screen look 100% better
Did it make them shut up though? Their incessant prattling really worried me since I'd hate to have them say "Over here, the path's over here, hey Arisen it's over here, HEY, LISTEN" over and over in the release. Although turning off the subtitles and controller map will def help (after I get a grip with the buttons, that is).
Thanks to this thread I downloaded the demo last night and gave it a go before going to bed. I'm sold. Like, the only things I hated were the tiny tiny slivers of time they gave you to play around with tiny slivers of the game (want moar!), and the sheer chattiness of the Pawns.
It really felt like Kingdoms of Amalur + Dark Souls + a more gritty Fable.
Game Options -> Turn off Pawn subtitles
Also, turn off the controller map thing. Makes the screen look 100% better
Did it make them shut up though? Their incessant prattling really worried me since I'd hate to have them say "Over here, the path's over here, hey Arisen it's over here, HEY, LISTEN" over and over in the release. Although turning off the subtitles and controller map will def help (after I get a grip with the buttons, that is).
They do tend to just yell out whatever they want whenever they want, often times all at once and over to of one another. It seems like a good way to miss out on important information, since the big idea on the pawns was that bringing them into your game yields you unique info they may have learned from other players.
I will say - this game manages to capture the "holy shit thats a monster" feel better than, possibly, anything else I've ever played.
I remember in the VERY first Fable, the first time the Kraken showed up, was one moment that I went "holy shit this thing is huge." Managing scale in a videogame is very, very hard I think.
The Sentinel's in most X-Men games always feel big. But thats it. Cameras zoom way out and you're like oh yup, thats big. And then when you fight them, its like punching the boot, and you're like, wow thats tall. But whatever. I cant explain it. There's just no feeling of awe.
When I came around the corner and that Dragon was there, it was like when I saw the Kraken, times ten. It was just like...holy shit. This is massive.
This is easily one of the worst articulations in history.
Pretty nice graphics and the gameplay was solid, didn't care much for the pawn chatter though. But I'm sure I'll get used to it.
Haven't tried the 360 version yet though, but I thought the performance of the PS3 one was pretty good. I didn't notice much slowdown or screen-tear and only hints of pop-in. Hard to focus on stuff like that dangling from the ass-end of a flaming gryphon.
I would like to point out that I spent a good 40 minutes in the character creator. Over all, I would say the demo was a good 50 to 55 minutes long, though most of that is playing with the Character Creator, I'll admit.
I guess I could have said the gameplay of the demo is five or ten minutes long. Sure, you can spend forever in the character creator (just like you can play the griffin fight a dozen times), but you can do a single run through the Prologue Quest and Countryside Quest in ten minutes (taking your time).
I wish I could argue with you (just for the sake of arguing, if nothing else) but I can't, for you truly speak the truth. Take out the character creator and you have 10 or 15 minutes worth of gameplay in the demo. Fun gameplay, yes, but very, very little of it.
I played the game. Did the prologue. It was pretty alright. I made my characters. My pawn is a tiny little redheaded girl with emo scars all over her arms and pigtails with a red and a green eye.
So I do the griffon fight. Thing swoops down, nails one of the suckers. beat on it for a bit. It's swooping around for another go. THe pawn says, 'I'll get you up there' or something to that effect, she kneels down. I run up and she catapults me right into its face mid swoop, I patch onto its leg and climb up and stab the holy shit out of it as it frantically spasms in the air.
..I want this game. I was literally just tossed onto a raging, swooping griffon. I have no words to describe just how satisfying that is to me.
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I disagree, this demo showed me exactly what I needed to see. 1 that the controls do not suck and 2 that the climbing on enemies and the pawns actual AI worked well.
Best of all if a pawn dies you don't have to give a fuck: game continues perfectly well. That pleases me very greatly because running through the prologue by myself was actually a really interesting challenge. Either way the largely very positive reception to the demo and confirmation you can turn off annoying aspects like the pawn chatter subtitles (which flood the screen) suggests this is not a poor demo by any means. It is doing exactly what it should be doing, which is confirming how the game plays and that it's core mechanics are sound.
I love how this game is the bastard lovechild of DMC, Monster Hunter and D. Souls, especially if you go solo. The sword/shield combo is basically Dante's fucking Rebellion! I was fighting a fucking Monster Hunter boss with fucking Dante! How cool is that!
The Assassin class actually gets Dante's Stinger move.
You can use it in the demo too. It's R1+Square IIRC.
Ah, I thought the Stinger move was multiple forward jabs, not just one. But you're right!
That's Million Stab, which can chain off of Stinger
I've done the griffin fight at least a dozen times now, and killing it, whether by simply shooting it untill it lands or leaping on to it and stabbing it repeatedly as it crashes into the earth -on fire- has yet to become even slightly boring...
My problem with the Griffin fight is you can't solo/onepawn it. As it is, it's way too easy. It takes me 5 minutes tops to beat the thing since the fire buff is way too powerful.
Well, thankfully from what we seen it won't be anything like that in the full version so I'm in the clear though I guess. I got the demo pretty much for the character creator anyway.
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The Assassin class actually gets Dante's Stinger move.
You can use it in the demo too. It's R1+Square IIRC.
Ah, I thought the Stinger move was multiple forward jabs, not just one. But you're right!
Riding a flaming griffon down to the ground as you stab it in the gizzards was way funner than anyone should be allowed to have.
Liked the creator and what I saw of the storytelling style seems good, if only I could get my pawns to shut the fuck up for 3 minutes so the entire lefthand side of my screen isn't inane bullshit.
This game was everything I always hoped Fable would become.
I made a super old dude who looked like Trevor from Aeon Flux, but with a long beard, and he was super skinny and old. His name was Garbanzo, and he was the most agile old man ever.
His pawn is also his wife, the beautiful Lady Garbonzo.
And together they fought a Griffon, and at one point, Lady Garbonzo cried out "I will add flame to your weapon!" or something, and holy shit my swords started on fire.
Sold. Sold. Sold.
Also, I really hope the release version is optimized a lot better than this old demo because this thing has to be hitting like 15 fps in some of those scenes.
You had framerate drops? What platform did you play the demo on? I don't remember having that, even with all the explosions and fire, on either platform. Did anyone else suffer from a low framerate?
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Fighting those goblins and having a fucking GRIFFON just come out of nowhere was pretty damn amazing.
It doesn't.
In one of the OXM videos dude runs into a chimera in the forest and is massacred.
the demo is like a drug dealer just gave me just the smallest little taste of cocaine. and it left me wanting more.
at least give me a full hit of the stuff... 30minutes of bliss is all im asking, not the 5minutes of awesome that we've been given
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A: NOTHING
It really felt like Kingdoms of Amalur + Dark Souls + a more gritty Fable.
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Game Options -> Turn off Pawn subtitles
Also, turn off the controller map thing. Makes the screen look 100% better
I remember in the VERY first Fable, the first time the Kraken showed up, was one moment that I went "holy shit this thing is huge." Managing scale in a videogame is very, very hard I think.
The Sentinel's in most X-Men games always feel big. But thats it. Cameras zoom way out and you're like oh yup, thats big. And then when you fight them, its like punching the boot, and you're like, wow thats tall. But whatever. I cant explain it. There's just no feeling of awe.
When I came around the corner and that Dragon was there, it was like when I saw the Kraken, times ten. It was just like...holy shit. This is massive.
This is easily one of the worst articulations in history.
I would like to point out that I spent a good 40 minutes in the character creator. Over all, I would say the demo was a good 50 to 55 minutes long, though most of that is playing with the Character Creator, I'll admit.
Did it make them shut up though? Their incessant prattling really worried me since I'd hate to have them say "Over here, the path's over here, hey Arisen it's over here, HEY, LISTEN" over and over in the release. Although turning off the subtitles and controller map will def help (after I get a grip with the buttons, that is).
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They do tend to just yell out whatever they want whenever they want, often times all at once and over to of one another. It seems like a good way to miss out on important information, since the big idea on the pawns was that bringing them into your game yields you unique info they may have learned from other players.
sense of scale you say?
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i mute it from now on. I've played the whole game with dialogue on the first time, and i've done my time.
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Pretty nice graphics and the gameplay was solid, didn't care much for the pawn chatter though. But I'm sure I'll get used to it.
Haven't tried the 360 version yet though, but I thought the performance of the PS3 one was pretty good. I didn't notice much slowdown or screen-tear and only hints of pop-in. Hard to focus on stuff like that dangling from the ass-end of a flaming gryphon.
I wish I could argue with you (just for the sake of arguing, if nothing else) but I can't, for you truly speak the truth. Take out the character creator and you have 10 or 15 minutes worth of gameplay in the demo. Fun gameplay, yes, but very, very little of it.
I now know it controls well, and is as awesome, as the videos made it seem.
that + Resident Evil 6 demo = day 1 purchase.
So I do the griffon fight. Thing swoops down, nails one of the suckers. beat on it for a bit. It's swooping around for another go. THe pawn says, 'I'll get you up there' or something to that effect, she kneels down. I run up and she catapults me right into its face mid swoop, I patch onto its leg and climb up and stab the holy shit out of it as it frantically spasms in the air.
..I want this game. I was literally just tossed onto a raging, swooping griffon. I have no words to describe just how satisfying that is to me.
Best of all if a pawn dies you don't have to give a fuck: game continues perfectly well. That pleases me very greatly because running through the prologue by myself was actually a really interesting challenge. Either way the largely very positive reception to the demo and confirmation you can turn off annoying aspects like the pawn chatter subtitles (which flood the screen) suggests this is not a poor demo by any means. It is doing exactly what it should be doing, which is confirming how the game plays and that it's core mechanics are sound.
but I really hope we can get rid of the letterboxing in the full game
That's Million Stab, which can chain off of Stinger
/nerd.
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Putting the character creator in was a great touch, that hour can now be spent actually playing when it comes out!
You can't, the letterboxing is in and I guess they use it cut out screenspace to get more power for other things.
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yeah, I'm getting this.
Well, thankfully from what we seen it won't be anything like that in the full version so I'm in the clear though I guess. I got the demo pretty much for the character creator anyway.