Heh, looks like steam is taking home the world record of pissing off the largest number of gamers in the history of video games.

Yo bitches, tell me if the game is good! I've been hearing complaints about long loading times, but also raves about how cool the combat is. What's the beef?

It's pretty cool. I finished my first go-through with a guy who basically was a basher...shield and sword. Chopping off bishes heads and all that. I'm on a second run through as a back-stabber. I'll probably do a third run as a mage. Overall it's pretty linear, but not bad. It looks pretty good (the HDR looks really good) and the combat can be pretty visceral. There's something freakish about being picked up by a cyclops, thrown across the room, then stepped on.

lol. Sounds like fun alright...think I'm gonna try and get my hands on a copy soon. A friend of mine is expecting NWN2 to be delivered at his house today so might borrow that from him too.

There's a patch out for DM which (supposedly) does a lot for the game's overall worth, fixing many of the annoying bugs.

ooh i'll go check it out. Thanks for no link ox *pokes* hehe

hmmm..for anyone that didn't notice, Gamespot gave this game a REALLY bad rating. a 6.7!



I think that's a bit harsh.

Bugs: I ran into a few bugs. My indestructible shield disappeared. I had various issues with loading into the game... at times the video card just wouldn't switch modes or something and I'd be stuck at a black screen and have to hard-boot my box. That was annoying. But otherwise, I didn't run itno anything major.

Character-building: The protagonist is kinda lame, but I like how you can make his ass evil. The story was linear, but your builds are not.. there are major differences between playing a warrior type and a mage or assassin.

Combat: the combat can be pretty visceral. The kicking is pretty over-used. The poison is freakin' annoying. But I love impaling people on spikes, or knocking them down and stabbing them....

Pssh, the indestructible shield thing is fixed in the patch...well, according to the patch readme anyway.

Yea, I know. Until I read the patch notes I had no idea what happened to my shield. It was cool as hell...people hit me and die, basically. (or at least get tore up pretty good). Then I walk into this room, and next thing I know I suddenly don't have a shield.

Anyway...there are definetely problems with the game. Some parts of it are hard. There was one part where I needed a crystal, but I couldn't find it. After googling it (it got that bad) I finally learned it was on a wall...you had to shoot your rope arrow into the ceiling near it, climb up and pluck it out. While zombies endlessly spawn around you.

Other areas are equally frustrating. The "boss battles" can be annoying too... the worm was irritating as hell...lots of reloads. But honestly, the game isnt' bad. The graphics look really nice and it's fun.

Mm, k...I finally got some cash! A huge 100€ But I'm thinking of buying a game now, not sure which though! Gah, choices...might not buy anything just to be able to go longer with the cash. We'll see.

well, if it's down to buying one game, I wouldn't spend it on Dark Messiah. Not with other really good games competing for your cash. But since I haven't played any other games, who knows.

Yeah, it'll prolly be a tossup between Medieval II and NWN2. On the one hand Medieval seems to be the better game (according to many media sources), on the other I'm an RPG dude and it's been so long since I played a good RPG. I'll decide when i'm at the store I suppose.