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Article #720854Re: Kingdoms of Amalur : Reckoning -- nice little surprise
From: Peter Huebner
Date: Wed, 15 Apr 2015 22:50
Date: Wed, 15 Apr 2015 22:50
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In article <9gi3iat1ihgbenkfa...@4ax.com>, rstow...@nevrhadgmail.com says... > > This was a $10 purchase on Steam I picked up last fall, but I never > loaded it up. I guess because I knew I was setting up a new rig soon > and didn't want to install and get involved in anything on my old rig? > I really don't remember, but I fired it up this weekend and it is > quite a treat, especially at the $10 price point. Very surprised at > the overall polish and fun factor. The graphics are > stylized/cartoonish, but still a very visually appealing world. > > At the moment I'm a bit pissed at the game, because while down in a > dungeon I ended up getting cursed (health drops to almost nothing > until you find a healer), and there's no way I can get past the > obstacles ahead so it's looking like my only option is to back out of > the dungeon and go to a town to find a healer, or load an earlier > save. That sort of shit irks me, but honestly I think I already got > my ten bucks worth even if I stopped playing right now. Indeed, very enjoyable in my opinion also. I played a mage and a thief type across the ocean and some way into the next continent but never finished the game, I should really fire it up again and make some new characters because I will have forgotten way too much by now. Some of the higher end mage spells are just ... WOW. ;-) -P.
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