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Re: Kingdoms of Amalur : Reckoning -- nice little surprise

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From: Peter Huebner
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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From: Peter Huebner <p.w.h...@gmail.com>
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Subject: Re: Kingdoms of Amalur : Reckoning -- nice little surprise
Date: Thu, 16 Apr 2015 10:50:48 +1200
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