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Review Matt Chat 137: Kingdoms of Amalur: Reckoning Review

Discussion in 'RPG Codex News & Content Comments' started by VentilatorOfDoom, Feb 20, 2012.

  1. VentilatorOfDoom RPG Codex Staff Patron

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    24:00 mark -- all you need to know about this game.

  3. Quetzacoatl Learned

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    :x What is the fucking appeal of QTEs?

  4. LeStryfe79 Learned Patron

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    He's clearly going out of his way to pander to an Anti-Bethesda crowd. I like Matt, but come on, let's be a little more realistic here.

  5. Matt7895 Liturgist Patron

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    Can we stop plugging this guy on the Codex now please.

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    You don't like Daggerfall. I now consider you a fag. Please gtfo.

  7. Matt7895 Liturgist Patron

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    Are you comparing KoA: Reckoning to Daggerfall?

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    No. Stop and think. Por favor?

  9. Matt7895 Liturgist Patron

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    No hablo Español.

  10. Matt7895 Liturgist Patron

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    What the hell has happened to the fonts here?

  11. Quetzacoatl Learned

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    你可以阅读这
    Regardless, Matt's a cool bro regardless of his unfortunate taste in today's games.
    Kz3r0 and Matt7895 Brofist this.

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    Not that I agree with his assessment of KoA but, uh...

    :hmmm:

  13. Matt7895 Liturgist Patron

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    One of the very best, at least. Don't let the restraints of the Gamebryo engine fool you into thinking New Vegas isn't anything other than one of the best RPGs.

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    You need to play more RPGs.

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    It makes a huge difference though. New Vegas is like an unholy Frankenstein sewn together from the corpses of Fallout 2 & 3. Exploring the wasteland feels exactly like F3, with the same shitty combat against random groups of enemies and tons of unremarkable locations containing absolutely nothing of note. Then, when you get to a settlement, it starts playing almost exactly like Fallout 2, with various factions pursuing their own interests, and a variety of choices and skill-checks in every quest.

    Thematically, it's much more of a Fallout game than the abomination of F3, but the fact that Fallout was always about civilization rebuilding after a nuclear holocaust, and therefore mostly took place in human settlements, simply does not mesh well with Beth's "explore the wasteland and find cool stuff" approach. Especially since Gamebryo cannot into rendering a lot of NPCs, so towns in New Vegas and F3 are much smaller than they were in, say, Fallout 2.

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    What a bunch of bullshit.

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